Annals

Tacitus; Cynthia Damon (Introduction by, Translator)

A compelling new translation of a vital account of Roman history   With clarity and vivid intensity, Tacitus's Annals recounts the pivotal events in Roman history from the years shortly before the death of Augustus to the death of Nero in 68 AD, including the reign of terror under the corrupt Tiberius...

Hyena

Jude Angelini

"*Soon to be a major US TV series, by the producers of Entourage* Jude Angelini's tales of depravity are uncompromising, brutally honest and shocking. From growing up poor in a factory town outside Detroit to his adult life as a popular radio personality on Sirius XM, Hyena charts Angelini's descent int...

Elon Musk (Young Reader's Edition)

Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk is an inspirational role model for young entrepreneurs, breaking boundaries and revolutionising the tech-world. He is also the real-life inspiration for the Iron Manseries of films, starring Robert Downey Junior. From his humble beginnings in apartheid South Africa, he showed himself to be an ...

The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things

Peter Wohlleben

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Trees Did you know that trees can influence the rotation of the earth? Or that wolves can alter the course of a river? Or that earthworms control wild boar populations? The natural world is a web of intricate connections, many of which go unnoticed by hu...

Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom

Phaidon Editors, Anna Pavord, Shane Connolly

A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture The latest installment in the bestselling Explorer Series takes readers on a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways artists and image-makers have employ...

Piranesi

Susanna Clarke

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls....

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Ritchie, Gina Dent

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism. A powerful work from four activist scholars on the need for our thinking on abolitionism and feminism to intersect. As a politics a...