The Great Divide: Unabridged edition
‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO
‘A master of prose’WASHINGTON POST
‘One of my favourite writers’ ROXANE GAY
‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON
‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN
History of engineering & technology
The Great Divide
‘A gorgeous, sweeping epic’ ANN NAPOLITANO
‘A master of prose’WASHINGTON POST
‘One of my favourite writers’ ROXANE GAY
‘Spectacular’ JOANNE SEFTON
‘I didn’t want it to end’ SARA SHERIDAN
The Evolution of Everything: How Small Changes Transform Our World
‘If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make … it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.’
One Shot, One Kill: A History of the Sniper: Text only edition
Previously published as The Hunting of Man
One shot, one kill: a cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during the battle for Litchfield in the English Civil War, to the present day, when the sniper has become the embodiment of contemporary military strategy and technology.
Longitude: Text only edition
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
Galileo’s Daughter: A Drama of Science, Faith and Love: Text only edition
From the international best-selling author of Longitude, Galileo’s Daughter is the fascinating story of the relationship between the great Italian scientist Galileo and his daughter, Virginia.
Seven Wonders of the Industrial World
The eagerly awaited new book from Deborah Cadbury, released to coincide with her prime-time BBC 2 series. This is the story of how our modern world was forged – in rivets, grease and steam; in blood, sweat and human imagination.