A Modern Detective
Poe Edgar Allan
He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of...
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Kapuscinski Ruszard
'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of confli...
The Freedom to Be Free
Arendt Hannah
'People can only be free in relation to one another.' Three exhilarating and inspiring essays in ...
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
Pinker Steven
In the twenty-first century, humanity is re...
Pathogenesis. How Germs Made History
Kennedy Jonathan
In this revelatory book, Dr Jonathan Kennedy argues that germs have shape...
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Maté Gabor
To heal addiction, you have to go back to the start... Dr Gabor Maté is one of the world's most r...
Greek Lessons
Han Kang
In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tri...
Can't We Just Print More Money?
Patel Rupal - Meaning Jack
'If you feel you should understand how economists think but have no idea ...
Femina. A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women
Ramirez Janina
An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the...
The Frolic of the Beasts
Mishima Yukio
The gripping story of an affair gone horribly wrong, from one of Japan's greatest twentieth-century ...
On The Road
Kerouac Jack
Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero, the mystical traveller Dean Moriarty, on a breathles...
Giovanni's Room
Baldwin James
'Until I die there will be those moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth'...
Nausea
Sartre Jean-Paul
Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals,...
Seventh Son
Faulks Sebastian
Tech billionaire Lukas Parn has an ambitious plan. Behind the doors of the IVF clinic in his London ...
History of the Peloponnesian War
Thucydides
'With icy remorselessness, it puts paid to any notion that the horrors of...