From Axolotl to Zebrafish, discover a host of barely imagined beings: real creatures that are often more astonishing than anything dreamt in the pages of a medieval bestiary. Ranging from the depths of the ocean…
Elmer is enjoying his walk: smelling the flowers, watching the clouds, listening to the waterfall. But each time he points out one of these lovely things to the other animals, they all say they don’t…
Lose yourself in the sun-drenched hills of the Amalfi coast with bestselling author of Songs of Love and War, Santa Montefiore… Gianluca has to admit his life is empty so, in search of serenity and…
Fourth Wing is the 1st book in The Empyrean Series. FRIENDS. ENEMIES. LOVERS… EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA Violet Sorrengail expected to live a quiet life surrounded by books, until she was forced onto the world’s…
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2018 ** ** A GUARDIAN SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 ** `Riveting … invites comparison to Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks’ Nature The epic and…
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond’s Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with…
The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite. 1939. Europe teeters on the brink of war….
From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop…
Iron Flame is the 2nd book in The Empyrean Series. (Hardcover Edition) From the Instant Sunday Times Bestselling author, Rebecca Yarros, comes the eagerly anticipated sequel to Fourth Wing … Brutal games, grumpy dragons, sizzling…
A Women’s Prize Futures 10 Finalist A Waterstones Best Book of the Year From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls – most compelling and ambitious novel to date. West…
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art,…
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics…