LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025LONGLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2025A Book of the Year 2024 in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement and ObserverRichly imaginative and powerfully empathetic, an intimate portrait of five remarkable Black men, and a meditation on race, estrangement and the search for home'Thrilling and ingenious, propulsive and genre-defying: The Strangers is an outstanding book' Bernardine Evaristo'Luminous and extraordinary.
A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan.
A vivid and visceral portrayal of the most famous naval battle in history, focusing on the human cost of war, by a brilliant military historian'A striking success' The Times'Fresh, original and brilliantly vivid' Telegraph'The best all-round book on the subject yet' SpectatorAt about 1.
Georgian London evokes images of elegant buildings and fine art, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife, houses of ill repute widespread, and many tens of thousands of people dependent in some way or other on the wages of sin.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE WEEK PICK Equal parts investigative reporting and cultural criticism, this is a look at the sex lives of young adults in post-Roe v.
They dragged more than two hundred thousand trees across fifty miles of desert to raise a canyon full of great houses where almost no one seems to have lived.
A Waterstones Best History Book 2024'Compulsively readable' - Times Literary Supplement'An outstanding work' - Philippa Gregory'A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity' - Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence'A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more they are beaten, the better they'll be.
A warning to humankind from one of the world s greatest physicists'What drives these pages is the guilty conscience of my profession, theoretical physics.
'An electric biography' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A masterclass in the possibilities of biography' FINANCIAL TIMESVera Gedroits was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian princess, an ardent supporter of workers' rights who regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery.
On the evening of 30 March, 1982, Commander David Hall, chief engineer of the British nuclear submarine HMS Conqueror received a telephone call giving him the order to 'store for war'.
'THE SUN' EBOOK OF THE WEEKFrom the brilliant author of 'Black Boxes' comes a gritty and heartfelt novella with a twist: 99 Reasons, 11 endings, your pick.
NATIONAL BESTELLER * Named a Best Book of Summer by TIME and Oprah Daily * A LitHub Most Anticipated Book of 2026From the Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Cuba: An American History comes a heartbreaking yet redemptive memoir about migration, separation, and the love of one family forcing its way through the fissures of history.
Wie Vater die Welt pragten - eine Geschichte von Macht, Mannlichkeit und MythosAugustine Sedgewick begibt sich auf eine faszinierende Spurensuche durch die Geschichte der Vaterschaft von den Anfangen menschlicher Gesellschaften uber religiose und politische Ordnungen bis hin zur Gegenwart.
Zwischen Glanz und Krise - mit Siegfried Kracauer durch die Weimarer RepublikTanzpalaste, Kaufhausfenster, Bestsellerlisten der vielleicht scharfste Chronist der Goldenen Zwanziger Siegfried Kracauer sah in den Oberflachen der Weimarer Republik die Tiefe der Gesellschaft.
Alles Wichtige uber die LGBTQIA*-Bewegung und ihren Kampf fur Gleichberechtigung Queerness ladt zu einem offenen Denken ein, das uns nicht einteilt in normal und unnormal , in passend oder unpassend .
Wenige Architekturen sind in Deutschland so mit Bedeutung aufgeladen wie Synagogen - darunter besonders jene, die in den ersten Jahrzehnten nach dem Holocaust errichtet wurden: Judische Neubauten dieser Art gelten zumindest in der BRD als Beleg fur eine geleistete 'Wiedergutmachung' fur die systematische Zerstorung judischen Lebens und judischer Architektur durch den Nationalsozialismus.
Liam O'Callaghan's revelatory Blood and Thunder shows that the rise of Irish rugby is inextricable from the tensions, debates and divisions of politics, religion and class that have defined modern Irish history.
In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system - in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.
The French drink, smoke and eat more fat than anyone in the world, yet they live longer and have fewer heart problems than the English and the Americans.
Winner of the Western Heritage Award for "e;Outstanding Western Novel"e; 2005As the Cheyenne fought that June day in 1876, warrior Comes in Sight faced grave danger.
