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Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.

‘Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOW

What Does Jeremy Think?: Jeremy Heywood and the Making of Modern Britain

The Sunday Times Bestseller

‘Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: “It wouldn’t have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around.” … How could it be that the effectiveness of the once-revered civil service had become reliant on a single man?’ Guardian

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR

WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE

A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

‘Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation’ADAM NICOLSON

‘Wonderful, absolutely beguiling … I learnt a lot and really loved it’RICHARD HOLMES

‘Gloriously evocative’ DAILY MAIL

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.

River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021

‘Astonishing and compelling’ Bernard Cornwell

‘This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely performed’ THE TIMES Books of the Year

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