Butter
Yuzuki Asako
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent...
Poetry of the First World War
Clapham Marcus (ed.)
The First World War was one of the deadliest conflicts in modern history and produced horrors undrea...
Twilight of Democracy. The Failure of Politics and Parting of Friends
Applebaum Anne
In the years just before and after the fall...
Czech cookery
Enticingly fragrant pork baked with stewed sauerkraut and dumplings, fillet of beef in cream sauce g...
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Pinker Steven
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, ...
Power and Progress. One Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology
Acemoglu Daron - Johnson Simon
A bold new interpretation of why technology...
Checkmate in Berlin
Milton Giles
Berlin was in ruins when Soviet forces fought their way towards the Reichstag in the spring of 1945....
Ceilings
Brabcová Zuzana
Kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zürn, Ceilings is a polyphonic novel that takes plac...
Midnight in Chernobyl
Higginbotham Adam
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Superb, enthralling and necessarily terrifying . . . every step feels...
The Cold War. A World history
Westad Odd Arne
As Germany and then Japan surrendered in 1945 there was a tremendous hope that a new and much better...
The Benefactor
Sontag Susan
The Benefactor is Susan Sontag's first book and first novel. It was originally published in 1963, an...
Dream Count
Adichie Chimamanda Ngozi
A publishing event ten years in the making-a searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and aw...
Under the Sign of Saturn
Sontag Susan
Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 ...
Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Rushdie Salman
A searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his li...
Leviathan
Hobbes Thomas
With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson, Trinity College, Cambridge. Since it's first publica...