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Phantoms in the Brain: Human Nature and the Architecture of the Mind

‘Phantoms in the Brain’ details a revolutionary new approach to theories of the brain from one of the world’s leading experimental neurologists. As Oliver Sacks notes in his foreword: ‘[A] deeply serious but beautifully readable book, “Phantoms in the Brain” is one of the most original and accessible neurology books of our generation.’

Plain and Normal

Mr Norris wants everyone to know that he is gay. The problem is, no one will believe him. His position isn’t helped by the fact that he is living with his ex-wife and that he has never had sex with a man. Plain and Normal is James Wilcox’s long awaited new novel.

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

The first full-length biography of George Eliot to explore the way in which her painful early life shaped the insight and art which would make her Victorian England’s last great visionary.

Maria Callas: Sacred Monster

The definitive biography of one of the greatest performers of the century by one of her closest friends. Highly illustrated with many previously unseen photographs.

Patti Smith

Patti Smith was a poet, a punk prophet, a feminist icon, a living work of art and the first woman rock-outsider to come from the New York underground and become a star.

The Illustrated Longitude

Longitude, Dava Sobel’s no.1 bestseller, is the elegant biography of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his times.

Morecambe and Wise

Everybody used to watch The Morecambe and Wise Show. When the masses settled down to watch Eric and Ernie, the masses were, for once, massively entertained. Morecambe and Wise is the essential biography of a much-loved comedy duo and the history of one of British television’s best-loved shows from the acclaimed author of Cary Grant: A Class Apart.

Rocket Boys

Three years in the life of Homer ‘Sonny’ Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik satellite overhead in West Virginia to his successful launch of a prizewinning rocket.

New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Ways the Network Economy is Changing Everything

The old rules are broken: this is the survival kit for the new economy. Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine, offers 10 fundamental principles of the connected economy. The traditional wisdom of the industrial age is inverted, leading to surprising wisdom: Seek plentitude, not scarcity. Feed the web first. Let go at the top. Avoid efficiency.

Harvey Nichols, The Fifth Floor Cookbook

A sumptuous collection of imaginative and accessible recipes from Henry Harris, chef at the Fifth Floor restaurant in Harvey Nichols – one of London’s most stylish restaurants.

Cops and Other Robbers

Very strong and gripping hard-boiled police procedural crime novel in the Lynda la Plante vein about the hunt for a paedophile and killer of young girls whose victims are seen getting into a car driven by a policeman.

Kitty and Virgil

A love story set in Romania and England by the author of the Booker short-listed bestseller, Gabriel’s Lament. Paul Bailey’s most ambitious novel yet.

The Giant, O’Brien

From the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, comes the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter.

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