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Here is the book that is currently missing from our kitchen shelves: a brilliantly intuitive handbook for matching food and wine, from the author of the bestselling How to Drink.
What is transhumanism? Simply put, it is a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are. It's a…
A witty and profound debut novel about a sudden death and a marriage abruptly sundered, that takes a grieving widower from London to Latvia in search of the truth about his late wife.
From world-renowned biologist and primatologist Frans de Waal, a groundbreaking work which challenges everything we think we know about animal intelligence.
A New Map of Wonders charts a course through the realm of the fascinating and awe-inspiring.With the curiosity and enthusiasm of a great explorer, the award-winning Caspar Henderson celebrates and explains the wonder of light and the origins of the universe,…
A unique piece of testimony from the Soviet Gulag - a prison guard's private diary, written between 1935-36.
A rich and involving big-canvas story about three generations of one family as they move between Russia and the US, between Stalin's era and the modern day.
A thrilling true story of espionage and counterespionage between the Soviets and the British during London's Roaring Twenties
From clay tablets to the printing press.From the pencil to the internet.From the Epic of Gilgamesh to Harry Potter.This is the true story of literature -- of how great texts and technologies have shaped cultures and civilizations and altered human history.The…
A haunting and cinematic early masterpiece set in Ceaucescu's Romania from Herta Muller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Since 2009, a spate of Tibetan self-immolations protesting Chinese policies have taken place, bringing the fraught history and relations between Tibet and China to Western attention once again. In Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick journeys to Aba, a small…
Leda, in a plot twist, has been killed by the swan. Her grieving widower travels from London to Latvia to untangle the rest of her story.
A dating dystopia for our modern age, from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.
Ireland is flooded, derelict. It never stops raining. The Kid in Yellow has stolen the babba from the Earlie King. Why? Something to do with the King's daughter, and a talking statue, something godawful. And from every wall the King's Eye watches. And…
An exploration of transhumanism: the philosophical and technological movement that is working on an update of the human machine.
In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled, at what promised to be the dawn of democracy. Each came of age with unprecedented expectations, some as the children or grandchildren of the…
Pulitzer Prize-winner Margo Jefferson takes on the legend and legacy of the King of Pop.
A beautifully illustrated, mesmerising investigation of wonder and its importance to our future.
See the world anew with this unique and beautifully designed infographic atlas.
Twelve stories - each a masterful and compassionate guide to the fluctuations of the human heart - from one of Granta's Best of Young American Novelists.
A book about one of the most important albums of all time, which reinvents music writing in the awesome scope of its exploration.
A masterclass in the art of the short, unnerving novel; a story of forbidden borders, haunted landscapes and bodies in danger.
'Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in cultureIn this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human…
From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian comes a stunning meditation on the colour white; about light, about death and about ritual