Downfall of a King: Juan Carlos of Spain
A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace.
A riveting and deeply researched account of King Juan Carlos’s epic fall from grace.
No animal better symbolises the desire to get closer and the need to respect distance than the owl.
‘This book is NUTS! – in the best possible way. A relentless roller coaster ride through the heaven and hell of modern Russia’ PETER POMERANZEV
‘Written with all the pace and energy of a John Grisham novel … An incredible true story and a great read!’ BILL BROWDER
‘A rollicking, brilliant book’ GARETH RUSSELL, author of Queen James
‘A very fine piece of biographical work, erudite but accessible’ JOHN STUBBS, author of Jonathan Swift
A rollicking narrative history set during the extraordinary summer of 1726 when Jonathan Swift arrived in London from Dublin, with a draft of Gulliver’s Travels in his bag.
‘Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda Seymour’s genius as a story teller brings this astonishing woman blazing back to life. I shall never forget her’ LADY ANTONIA FRASER
‘Miranda Seymour has written a wonderful and unputdownable book about an astonishing woman’ MEL GIEDROYC
‘This is a book about searching in the best sense – full of ideas, beauty, doubt and adventures’ ELIZABETH KOLBERT
‘Fascinating and masterfully written’ ALICE WINN
From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Islands of Abandonment, comes a new book about our relationship to the natural world.
‘Beautiful, thought-provoking, and compelling’ SUSIE DENT
‘An extremely moving, passionate plea’ CAL FLYN
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‘Prose that is precise and beautiful as northern light … this book is an absolute delight’ MOYA CANNON
Join David Gange on a seabound journey along Atlantic coasts and islands, exploring places and ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.
‘A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you’re too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton
‘Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative and illuminating’ The Spectator
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‘Unflinchingly candid and extraordinarily powerful’ DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘Dominic Gregory hasn’t just delivered a survey of courage and determination – Lifeboat at the End of the World is a hymn to human decency, and that makes it a very timely book indeed’ TIM WINTON
Do you really think all lives are worth saving?
A wonderful insight into the faith of C. S. Lewis – the leading writer on Christianity and author of the Narnia books – offering encouragement for everyone struggling with intellectual questions, personal conflicts, or ethical dilemmas.
We think that our children belong to us, but families are fragile things.
‘The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA
What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.
‘A must-read for anyone curious about how we think.’ Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit and Supercommunicators
‘In a world that often makes people feel invisible or overlooked, Jennifer has written something truly profound, a book that arrives at exactly the right cultural moment […] do yourself a favour and pick this one up. You’ll be glad you did’ ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI
‘The perfect antidote to our modern mental health epidemic’ PROFESSOR TIM SPECTOR
WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement?