Hungry Eyes
£16.99What happens at your kitchen table can become the blueprint for everything you are. Did you sit alone or with people you loved? Was it fun or tense? Was someone working hard to stop you noticing someone else's mood?
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Fantastic Kingdom
£25.00A respected historian of the British Empire closes the chasm between how the British see themselves and how they are actually seen abroad. The United Kingdom is a country that evokes strong opinions but frequently escapes rigorous definition. Seen from the outside, it is a wildly contradictory place. One of the world’s strongest economies, where inequality is rampant. Famous for its pageantry and traditions, but selective about remembering its imperial past. By diving into its many paradoxes, Helene von Bismarck reveals why the political debate in – and, internationally, about – the United Kingdom has for years been driven by people who talk past, rather than with, each other. This title explores and challenges the way the British see themselves, their political and constitutional system and their role in the world – encouraging readers to leave our echo chambers and look through new eyes at this complex and sometimes bewildering countr
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Lords of the Ring
£25.00Wrestling is at a new peak of popularity, but for years it has operated as an unregulated soap opera with controversial storylines and presentations. In a world where fact and fiction are regularly blurred, ‘Lords of the Ring’ explores the various characters and stereotypes in the wrestling industry, and attempts to get to the heart of what the sport tells us about our society and why it matters.
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Power Play
£25.00Video games are the world’s largest entertainment medium: they are played by billions of people, across all age demographics, and they generate hundreds of billions of dollars of revenue every year. But video games are more than an entertainment product – they are an ecosystem that connects billions of people across the globe. Video games create spaces where people talk, share ideas and build identities that bleed into our reality. And whilst democracies have underestimated the potential for influence in this space, others have seized the opportunity. Supported by the insights of dozens of politicians, academics and industry experts, it’s the vital guide to understanding this new frontier for political influence, and what democracies must do to protect play and harness its immense power before this essential battle for digital influence is lost for good.
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The Book of Magical Living
£16.99You’ve felt it too. A coincidence too perfect to be chance. A knowing that arrives before the facts. A door closing – only to reveal the path you were meant to take. Part of you has always known there’s something more at play. We’ve been trained to dismiss what we can’t measure – to trust logic over intuition, data over energy. But Magic isn’t fantasy; it’s the invisible force shaping everything we see and feel. Quantum research now confirms what mystics and witches have understood for centuries: reality is not as fixed as it seems. It responds. It bends. Combining cutting-edge psychology with ancient wisdom, cognitive scientist Poppy Jamie reveals eight secrets for living magically – showing you how to see beyond the surface, deepen your sense of purpose, and transform your relationships, health and happiness.
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The Romans
£16.99The greatest empire in Western history – told as never been told before. Rome is often remembered for its spectacular collapse. But for over two thousand years – through civil wars, plagues, invasions, and religious upheaval – the Roman state survived, adapted, and reinvented itself. From a muddy settlement on the banks of the Tiber to the glittering court of Constantinople, this is the untold story of a civilisation that endured. Acclaimed historian Edward J. Watts tells a truly complete history of Rome in all its epic sweep: the Punic Wars, the fall of the republic, the coming of Christianity, Alaric’s sack of Rome, the rise of Islam and the onslaught of the Crusaders who would bring about the empire’s end.
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A British Childhood
£14.99A searing account of our failure to look after the nation’s most vulnerable citizens, and a call to arms to all of us to protect the innocence of childhood.
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The Classical World in Bite-Sized Chunks
£9.99An entertaining and accessible introduction to the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history, covering the people, events, art and mythology that have shaped the Western world.
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Happy Retirement
£9.99One-Minute Wisdom: Happy Retirement is your gentle guide to embracing change and stepping into a new season with confidence – one moment at a time.
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Ctrl+Alt+Chaos
£10.99From the BBC’s cyber correspondent and foremost voice on cybercrime, comes the insider exposé of the global rise of teen hackers
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The Seafood Restaurant Cookbook
£35.00A fabulous celebratory cookbook of Rick and Jill Stein's legendary Cornish seafood restaurant.
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Thinking AI
£25.00Can a computer program think like a human? ‘Can machines think?’ Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing’s paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson was actually smarter than Jeopardy! champions, or if ChatGPT really knows what it’s talking about. In ‘Thinking AI’, computer scientist John MacCormick explores Turing’s question from a perspective informed by a detailed understanding of the way modern AI systems work. MacCormick explains, in accessible fashion, the ideas behind the two main pillars of the twenty-first century AI revolution: deep neural networks and reinforcement learning. MacCormick offers a tour of the most famous AI systems, including AlexNet and VGG16.
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The Next China Is Still China
£25.00Both a revelatory, insight-filled playbook for doing business in China and a probing look at why the country, despite the challenges it faces, still possesses unrivalled prospects for growth and entrepreneurial opportunity – by two leaders who, over the course of decades, have taken turns helming McKinsey’s China-based management consulting.
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Heirs and Graces
£12.99There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We’re fascinated by their houses and estates, their lives and loves, their foibles and eccentricities. And we entertain the strong suspicion that, while they may be fellow citizens, they are very far from being people like us. In this book, Eleanor Doughty draws on her unparalleled access to a bewildering range of dukes, duchesses, earls and others to create a vivid picture of who they are and how they tick.
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The Big Hop
£12.99Newfoundland, 1919. Buffeted by winds, an unwieldy aircraft – made mainly from wood and stiff linen – struggled to take off from the North American island’s rocky slopes. Cramped side by side in its open cockpit were two men, freezing cold and barely able to move but resolute. They had a dream: to be the first in human history to fly, non-stop, across the Atlantic Ocean. But there were three other teams competing against them, and as the waves raged a few miles below, memories of wartime crashes resurfaced. Mining letters, diaries and evocative unpublished photographs, David Rooney’s deeply researched account of the audacious contest shows how it was the airmen’s thrilling wartime experiences that ultimately led them to the ‘Big Hop’, and brought old friends together for one more daring adventure.
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A Day in the Life of a Gladiator
£12.99Dressed in armour and clutching a bloody sword, the Roman gladiator is the most iconic figure of the ancient world. Both fascinating and repulsive to us now, he was in his own time a deeply controversial character, by turns hated and idealized – and always at the heart of Roman culture. But what did he really mean to the Romans? What did they see in the gladiator and the spectacle of the games? And what does he reveal to us today about the Roman way of life? Brilliantly written and meticulously researched, this book tells the stories of the gladiators and those who observed them – from grand emperors to lowly slaves – illuminating and analysing the all-consuming passion of the Roman Empire for the spectacle of mortal combat. In doing so, it reveals Roman ideas about everything from freedom and servitude to sex and desire, from courage and cowardice to death and the afterlife.