Explores the astonishing range of activities that go on inside our heads, most of which are entirely beyond our control. Describing about the head and brain, this book demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are.
During the Cultural Revolution Jan Wong studied in Beijing and reported a fellow student to the authorities. Over thirty years later, she returned to China to find out what happened to the woman she betrayed. Chinese Whispers tells her remarkable story. 'Wong points the way for the future of travel writing.' Book of the Week, The Times
The acclaimed second instalment of The John Dee Papers. Tudor intrigue, murder and the dark arts - brooding superstition leaves John Dee isolated in the land of his father...
Follow the adventures of the world's most sought-after postage stamps - from a tropical Indian Ocean island to the hushed atmosphere of the modern auction room - in this dramatic and passionate tale of the first stamp hunters.
Now in paperback: one of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega (?). 'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.' Peter Pesic, TLS
This 'wonderful book' (Jane Stevenson, Daily Telegraph) describes the remarkable lives and times of the John Tradescants, father and son, immortalized in Philippa Gregory's bestselling novels Earthly Joys and Virgin Earth.
Now filmed as INVICTUS directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela. SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2008
The sixth instalment of Robert Fabbri's bestselling Vespasian series. Vespasian's ascent to power continues: sent to defend Rome's interest in the East, Vespasian is imprisoned in the oldest city in the world...
The book of our time is now in paperback: Deception exposes the truth about how the West allowed Pakistan to bring nuclear arms to the very rogue states and terrorist organizations that today threaten to destabilize the entire world.
This A-format paperback of The Saladin Murders, the second Omar Yussef mystery, continues to build a major new crime franchise: 'Morse, Rebus and now Yussef.' Observer
Introducing a world literary figure: Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning is written with the moral clarity of Damon Galgut and the existential power of Albert Camus.
In the tradition of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential comes an insider's look into the cloistered world of classical music. Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.
'Hardy's evident intimacy with and affection for the troubled landscape and people of her novel lend The Wonder House an air of distinction' - The Times
"Seven Kings" is a vivid insight into the daily life of seven average teenagers over the course of a school year. What does their world look and feel like - and how will they shape our country in the future?
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller'Electric... Outstanding.' GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April that year she was sailing south in the vanguard of the Task Force towards the front line of the Falklands War.On 25 May, Coventry was attacked by two Argentine Skyhawks, and hit by three bombs. The explosions tore out most of her port side and killed nineteen of the crew, leaving many others injured. Within twenty minutes she had capsized. In her final moments, after all the survivors had been evacuated, her Captain, David Hart Dyke, himself badly burned, climbed down her starboard side and into a life-raft. This is his compelling and moving story.
Proof that literary fiction and science fiction can be one and the same. An intelligent first novel from the winner of the prestigious 2009 Edge Hill Short Story competition, beating Anne Enright and Ali Smith.
A MANAGEMENT BOOKSHELF IN A BOOK... This essential book distills and summarizes the world's most important, influential and outstanding management books, revealing the wisdom that made them into classics.
The hungrily awaited paperback of Nick McDonell's sensational best-seller. Twelve has been adapted for film by Hollywood director Joel Schumacher starring Chace Crawford,Emma Roberts, and 50 Cent.
'[A] subtle and persuasive account of relationships between men and women from the 19th century through to the new millennium... its sweep is impressive' Economist
Retitled, revised and repackaged in B-format paperback: 'Marvellous... Passionate, intelligent and thrillingly written and, above all, it is true. This is what it feels like to live in Britain today' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
A formidably clever book by a man who clearly knows his way around the world... Of the Hornby-influenced books, it is the best in a long time' Markus Berkmann, Daily Mail
A landmark new account of the twentieth century from one of Europe's most outstanding thinkers.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Dangor's writing, and the world he creates with it, exude a vibrant physicality... Dangor's vivid prose, narrative fluency and facility for literary experiment make Bitter Fruit a considerable achievement.'Shomit Dutta, Daily Telegraph
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