Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world
‘Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking’ Joanna Blythman
Social & cultural history
Black Gold: The Dark History of Coffee
Your morning flat-white helped shape the modern world
‘Elegantly written, witty and so wide in scope, so rich in detail and so thought provoking’ Joanna Blythman
4th Estate Matchbook Classics – Stuart: A Life Backwards (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)
The winner of the Guardian First Book Award that reinvented the biographic form.
One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up our Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret. Perfect for fans of Netflix’s The Crown.
A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich’ Observer
Plot 29: A Memoir: LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD AND WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE
‘When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy. When I don’t want to talk I turn to Plot 29, or to a wilder piece of land by a northern sea. There, among seeds and trees, my breathing slows; my heart rate too. My anxieties slip away.’
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History: Unabridged edition
WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA CBC BOOK OF THE YEAR
The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild Swans
Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum
‘Victorians Undone is the most original history book I have read in a long while’ Daily Mail
A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR • AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR
A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians.
The White Album
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
South and West: From A Notebook: Unabridged edition
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.
Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today
On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, dragging one of Russia’s most illustrious institutions into scandal.
Postcard From The Past
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MARK HADDON
In Postcard From The Past, Tom Jackson has gathered a collection of the funniest, weirdest and most moving real messages from the backs of old postcards.
White Christmas: The Story of a Song
“Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote.” Irving Berlin, 1942
A biography of the single most important record in the history of popular music
South and West: From A Notebook
From one of the most important chroniclers of our time, come two extended excerpts from her never-before-seen notebooks–writings that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer.
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery. Written with his characteristic warmth, respect and humour, Masters asks you to join him in celebrating an unknown and important life left on the scrap heap.