The Money Trap
£10.99The former President & CFO of SoftBank Group International takes us inside the elite, high-stakes world of tech investment.
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The Rough Guide to Bangkok
£15.99This edition provides details of all the best places to stay, eat and drink in Bangkok, to suit every budget. It contains up-to-date information on excursions around the city, including trips to the grandiose ruins of Ayutthaya and the war sights along the River Kwai. It also looks at Bangkok’s culture and history.
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The Rough Guide to Sardinia
£15.99This is a practical travel guide to Sardinia with a free eBook featuring points-of-interest, structured lists of all sights and off-the-beaten-track treasures. It also features detailed colour-coded maps, and highlights what there is to see and do in Sardinia, how to get around, pre-departure information, as well as top time-saving tips, like a visual list of things not to miss in Sardinia, expert author picks and itineraries to help you plan your trip.
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London Seasons
£10.00‘London Seasons’ is an alternative city handbook, offering a unique lens through which to view what London has to offer. Experience London in a different way with a curated list of the best ways to enjoy the city in every season, whatever the time of year and whatever the weather is doing outside.
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London Moods
£10.00A pocket-sized hardback with a modern design, ‘London Moods’ is an alternative city handbook, offering a unique lens through which to view what London has to offer.
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How to Win the Premier League
£10.99This is an insider account of the data revolution that has swept through the modern football world written by one of its key architects, Ian Graham. Between 2012 and 2023, Ian Graham worked as Liverpool FC’s Director of Research. His tenure coincided with the club’s greatest period of success since the 1980s, including winning the Premier League in 2020 – Liverpool’s first league title after an agonising 29 years. Here, Graham reveals the fascinating data that informed some of the club’s most pivotal moments of the past decade, from the appointment of Jurgen Klopp as manager in 2015 to the signing of Mohamed Salah in 2017.
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Victoria’s Secret
£22.00From the moment John Brown arrived as a servant to Queen Victoria’s household, he became known across the land as her loyal companion, her fierce protector, and her right-hand man, their friendship immortalised in print and later on-screen. But what if there was more to their relationship than we know? And what has history been hiding from us? In this provocative exploration of Victoria’s emotional world, and her passionate midlife, historian Fern Riddell re-examines everything we thought we knew about one of Britain’s most iconic women.
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An African History of Africa
£10.99For too long, Africa’s history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab Badawi guides us through Africa’s spectacular history, from the origins of humanity, through ancient civilisations and medieval empires with powerful queens and kings, to the miseries of conquest and the elation of independence. Seeking out occluded histories from across the continent, meeting with countless historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and local storytellers, and travelling through more than thirty countries, Badawi weaves together a fascinating new account of Africa: an epic, sweeping history of the oldest inhabited continent on the planet, told through the voices of Africans themselves.
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Goliath’s Curse
£25.00A new history of humanity told through the lens of collapse, from Neanderthals to AI, and what it means for our uncertain future.
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Nasser
£10.99Anne Alexander describes the life of Gamal Abdel-Nasser (1918-1970), father of modern, independent Egypt and an icon of Arab nationalism. In the 1950s he was a key figure in the Free Officers revolutionary organization. He is remembered for standing up to the British in the Suez Crisis and building the Aswan Dam.
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Billionaire, Nerd, Saviour, King
£10.99An explosive new biography of Bill Gates that delves behind the façade of his carefully crafted public image, and questions the dominance of billionaires in contemporary society.