Talk to the Hand
A battle-cry for civilised behaviour from the author of the multi-million selling Eats, Shoots and Leaves.
Sociology & anthropology
Bad Food Britain: How A Nation Ruined Its Appetite
Award-winning investigative food journalist, Joanne Blythman turns her attention to the current hot topic – the state of British food.
Bounce: The Myth of Talent and the Power of Practice: Text only edition
From the author of You Are Awesome: Find Your Confidence and Dare to be Brilliant at (Almost) Anything
Essential reading for an astounding summer of sport; If you’ve ever wondered what makes a champion, Bounce has the answer.
This edition does not include illustrations.
Backwards in High Heels: The Impossible Art of Being Female
The world is a fraught place for the contemporary female.
Love Bites: Marital Skirmishes in the Kitchen
Prompted partly by gastronomic curiosity and partly by sheer greed, Mr H entered the kitchen with Mrs H as his guide. The result is perhaps the most honest food book ever written. It is certainly one of the funniest.
Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life
From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism.
Get Her Off the Pitch!: How Sport Took Over My Life: Abridged edition
From the bestselling author of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, a hilarious new book from Lynne Truss about her strange journey through the world of sport and sports journalism.
This Little Britain: How One Small Country Changed the Modern World
Celebratory, witty and incredibly insightful, Harry Bingham explores the eccentricities and customs of the British nation in a bid to answer a question which has everyone debating – Who are we?
Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England
Selected writings from one of the most important commentators of our generation covering the wreckage of Labour’s 10 year love affair with the Right
The Year of Magical Thinking
From one of America’s iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death
From the author of ‘The Prehistory of Sex’ – a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul.
The Healing Land: A Kalahari Journey
A brilliantly written exploration – part travel writing, part personal quest – of Africa’s oldest and most famous population
The Year of Magical Thinking
From one of America’s iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.
The Speckled People: Large type edition
A deeply moving memoir about a young boy growing up in Dublin and his family’s homesickness for a country they can call their own.
The Escape Artist: Life from the Saddle
Matt Seaton’s critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling and how that obsession was tamed.
The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death
From the author THE PREHISTORY OF SEX, a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul