Category Archives: Accessories
The Psychology of Time Travel
A time travel murder mystery from a brilliantly original new voice. `Genre-defying … Witty and inventive` Guardian. 1967 Four female scientists invent a time travel machine. But then one of them suffers a breakdown and puts the whole project in peril… 2017 Ruby knows her Granny Bee was the scientist who went mad, but they
Why We`re Polarized: The International Bestseller from the Founder of Vox.com
`Powerful [and] intelligent` – Fareed Zakaria, CNN`Superbly researched and written` – Francis Fukuyama, The Washington PostAmerica`s political system isn`t broken. The truth is scarier: it`s working exactly as designed.In Why We`re Polarized, Ezra Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America`s deep political divisions, revealing how a system filled with rational, functional parts can
The Jumping Game: How National Hunt Trainers Work and What Makes Them Tick
As the woman who trained the great Best Mate to win three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups, no one could be better qualified than Henrietta Knight to discover what makes today`s top jumps trainers succeed. From eccentric, outspoken Yorkshireman Mick Easterby, to elegant, aristocratic Venetia Williams, from Irish wizard, Willie Mullins, to perfectionist champion trainer, Paul
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic
An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight`Searing yet beautiful … less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life, as well as in medicine.` Rachel Clarke, author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic and Your Life in My Hands`Well written,
The Hedgehog Handbook
Hedgehogs, with their quiet determination and bristling, bumbling ways, are seen by many of one of life`s most enduring symbols of the countryside and town gardens. This shy, snuffling, enigmatic animal has captured the imagination of children and adults for centuries – from Beatrix Potter`s Mrs Tiggywinkle to Sonic the Hedgehog. Full to the brim
The Unfair Advantage: How You Already Have What It Takes to Succeed
This ground-breaking book exposes the myths behind startup success, illuminates the real forces at work and shows how they can be harnessed in your favour.The world isn`t a level playing field. Meritocracy is a myth. And if you look at those at the top, you realise that behind every success story is an Unfair Advantage.
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring, ageing and everyday acts of love
A Times Best Book for Summer 2021A Guardian Summer Book 2021The i`s 30 Best Books for Summer 2021An Independent Book of the Month An inspiring and heartbreaking story of what it means to care for those we love – by bestselling author Kate Mosse`A brilliant read that celebrates both the fragility and resilience of human
Something Out of Place: Women & Disgust
The blistering non-fiction debut from the author of the critically acclaimed A Girl is a Half-formed Thing`A fearless, interrogative work that speaks so much to structural inequality and misogyny. A fierce and fascinating manifesto in McBride`s persuasive prose` Sinead Gleeson`A satisfying feminist polemic` Susie Orbach`Remarkable` ScotsmanHere, Eimear McBride unpicks the contradictory forces of disgust and
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living. The first generations born after emancipation, their struggle was to live as if they really were free. These women refused to labour
Uncommon Knowledge: Extraordinary Things That Few People Know
The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask:How did carrots become orange? What`s stopping us from having a four-day week? How can we remove all the broken bits of satellite from orbit? If everything is so terrible, why is the global suicide rate falling?The keen minds of the
Windows of Opportunity: How Nations Create Wealth
Is neoclassical economics dead? Why have the biggest industrial economies stagnated since the financial crisis? Is the competitive threat from China a tired metaphor or a genuine danger to our standard of living? Lord David Sainsbury draws on his experience in business and government to assemble the evidence and comes to some startling conclusions. In
Dark and Magical Places: The Neuroscience of How We Navigate
โ€A NATURAL STORYTELLERโ€ Mary Roach โ€BRILLIANT AND BEGUILINGโ€ Matthew Gavin Frank โ€CAPTIVATING … WILL ALTER THE WAY YOU SEE AND MOVE THROUGH THE WORLDโ€ M. R. O`Connor Within our heads, we carry around an infinite and endlessly unfolding map of the world. Navigation is one of the most ancient neural abilities we have – older
What We Need to Do Now: Towards a Green New Deal 6/2/20
The UK has declared a `climate emergency` and pledged to become carbon neutral by 2050. So how do we get there? Drawing on actions, policies and technologies already emerging around the world, Chris Goodall sets out the ways to achieve this. His proposals include: -Building a huge over-capacity of wind and solar energy, storing the
The Human Body
Why do we need to breathe? What happens to food after you eat it? Which grow faster, your toenails or your fingernails? Answer all these questions and more with over 100 incredible facts about your amazing body.
Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind)
`Kind, realistic and genuinely helpful` Observer`Bravo on the publication of this witty, wise guide to solo working` Alice Lascelles`Filled to the brim with advice . . . Such a brilliant book` Emma GannonWhether by choice or circumstance, as a freelancer or a company employee working from home, more of us are becoming solo workers than
The Pink Line: The World`s Queer Frontiers
Guardian`s Best Paperback of the MonthONE OF THE GUARDIAN`S and FINANCIAL TIMES` BOOKS OF 2020`In intimate, often tender prose, Gevisser brings to life the complex movement for queer civil rights and the many people on whom it bears.` Colm Toibin, Guardian `Powerful… meticulously researched` Andrew McMillan, Observer Book of the WeekSix years in the making,
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
All of Mumbai`s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small, forgotten community lives and works.Scouring the dump for whatever can be resold or recycled, waste pickers
Dangerous Animals
How many teeth does a shark have? Which animal is more dangerous to humans: crocodiles or snakes? What creature hunts and eats giant squid? Answer all these questions and more with over 100 fearsome facts about the world`s deadliest creatures.
The Seaweed Collector`s Handbook: From Purple Laver to Peacock`s Tail
Seaweed is so familiar and yet its names – pepper dulse, sea lettuce, bladderwrack – are largely unknown to us. In this short, exquisitely illustrated portrait, the Dutch poet and artist Miek Zwamborn shares her discoveries of its history, culture and use, from the Neolithic people of the Orkney Islands to sushi artisans in modern
A Spot of Folly: Ten Tales of Murder and Mayhem
New and uncollected tales of murder, mischief, magic and madness. Ruth Rendell was an acknowledged master of psychological suspense: these are ten (and a quarter) of her most chillingly compelling short stories, collected here together for the first time. In these tales, a businessman boasts about cheating on his wife, only to find the tables
