Social & cultural history

Where I Was From

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.

I Know This Much: From Soho to Spandau

‘I Know This Much’ – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet’s prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.

Karl Marx

A major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

‘If the 1960s were a wild weekend and the 1980s a hectic day at the office, the 1970s were a long Sunday evening in winter, with cold leftovers for supper and a power cut expected at any moment.’

A jaw-droppingly brilliant account of how the seventies was defined by mass paranoia told with Francis Wheen’s wonderfully acute sense of the absurd.

Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital

The story of Netley in Southampton – its hospital, its people and the secret history of the 20th-century. Now with a new afterword uncovering astonishing evidence of Netley’s links with Porton Down & experiments with LSD in the 1950s.

Manchester, England

The definitive account of the pop cult capital of the UK by Dave Haslam, one of Manchester’s top DJs and journalists.

Eating Up Italy: Voyages on a Vespa

Italy’s tumultuous history can be traced through its food. In an epic scooter trip from the Ionian Sea to the far north, distiguished food writer Matthew Fort explores the local gastronomy and culinary culture of a country where regional differences are vibrantly alive.

Hopping

The sequel to the bestselling Silvertown, which tells the story of Aunt Daisy, and all the other Aunt Daisys – the locals of the old East End.

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