Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back.
Economics
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change
What can we really do about the climate emergency?
The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World
SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘If you think the UK isn’t corrupt, you haven’t looked hard enough … This terrifying book follows a global current of dirty money, and the murders and kidnappings required to sustain it’ GEORGE MONBIOT, GUARDIAN
AN ECONOMIST AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
Putin’s People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took on the West
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘An outstanding exposé of Putin and his criminal pals’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ THE TIMES
Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History
’Not just a readable, pacey account of an extraordinary individual and his quixotic quest … but also a troubling exposé of the fragility of our entire financial system … I loved it’Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
The Globalist: Peter Sutherland – His Life and Legacy
Peter Sutherland is probably the most influential Irish person ever and a key figure in world history over the past 25 years.
Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
‘One of the most important books of the decade’ Country Life
Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.
The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND MCKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019
From one of the most important economic thinkers of our time, a brilliant and far-seeing analysis of the current populist backlash against globalization and how revitalising community can save liberal market democracy.
Dangerous Hero
The Sunday Times Bestseller
‘THE BOOK EVERY VOTER MUST READ’ Mail on Sunday
‘Meticulous and highly readable … Funny and devastating’ Daily Telegraph
‘The most compelling in-depth study so far’ Guardian
This Fight is Our Fight: The Battle to Save Working People
‘Nevertheless, she persisted’
has become a rallying cry for millions of those fed up with phony promises and governments that no longer serve their people. In this inspiring #1 New York Times bestseller and inspiring book, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren argues for a fair future for ordinary working people. Join the fight!
Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem
The unmissable inside story of the most dramatic general election campaign in modern history and Theresa May’s battle for a Brexit deal, the greatest challenge for a prime minister since the Second World War.
By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017.
Collins New Naturalist Library – Farming and Birds (Collins New Naturalist Library, Book 135): Limited signed edition
Given the underlying topography, the scenery over most of Britain has been created largely by human activities. Over the centuries, landscapes have been continually modified as human needs and desires have changed.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE
‘A brilliantly original book’ Financial Times
‘One of the masterpieces of modern historical writing’ Daily Telegraph
Paul Kennedy’s international bestseller is a sweeping account of five hundred years of fluctuating economic muscle and military might.
Full Steam Ahead: How the Railways Made Britain
The Age of Railways was an era of extraordinary change which utterly transformed every aspect of British life – from trade and transportation to health and recreation.
Harold Wilson
Reissued with a new foreword to mark the centenary of Harold Wilson’s birth, Ben Pimlott’s classic biography combines scholarship and observation to illuminate the life and career of one of Britain’s most controversial post-war statesmen.
Who Gets What – And Why: Understand the Choices You Have, Improve the Choices You Make
This book shows how our lives are shaped not only by the choices we make, but by the choices we have.From dating, school and university applications to the job market, understand the most important decisions you’ll ever make with insights from a Nobel Prize-winner.