Society & Essays

Jeffrey Toobin Hardback 432 pages From New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin comes the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of far-right terror...

Margaret Atwood Paperback 528 pages From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to B...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback / softback 144 pages A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Reb...

Rebecca Humphries Paperback 416 pages Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend. But when paparazzi caught him kissing his Strictly Come ...

Annie Lord Softback 400 pages Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse... Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits the past - from the moment she first ...

Tahir Hamut Izgil Paperback 246 pages If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful fr...

Mark O'Connell Paperback 287 pages...

Ariel Levy Paperback 224 pages I wanted what we all want: everything. We want a mate who feels like family and a lover who is exotic, surprising. We want to be youthful adventurers and middle-age...

Ben Judah Paperback 496 pages What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has alway...

Hannah Stowe Hardback 272 pages A heartfelt hymn to the sea and an unforgettable introduction to one of the most gifted nature writers of the new generationThe seas cover over two thirds of our ...

Tim Harford Softback 352 pages Based on the series produced for the BBC World ServiceWho thought up paper money? How did the contraceptive pill change the face of the legal profession? Why was t...

David Omand Hardback 368 pages We never know when a crisis might explode. Some 'sudden impact' events, such as terrorist attacks or natural disasters, blow up out of a clear blue sky. Other...

Anne Glenconner Paperback 288 pages Anne Glenconner's glittering life hasn't always been golden. As she revealed in her astonishing bestselling memoir Lady in Waiting, it has been one of stark co...

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism ...

Scott Shapiro Hardback 432 pages Hacking, espionage, war and cybercrime as you've never read about them beforeFancy Bear was hungry. Looking for embarrassing information about Hillary Clinton,...

Steven Simon Hardback...

Tom Phillips Paperback 384 pages From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, the moon landing to Pizzagate, it's always been human nature to believe we're being lied to by the powers that ...

Hannah Dawson Paperback 720 pages The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing rounds up the voices of women from across history to discuss the meaning and practice of feminism. This is a book that every...

Angela Gallop Paperback 272 pages CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is punishable by lawForensic science is one of the most important aspects of any criminal in...

Robert D. Kaplan hardback 152 pages Some books emerge from a lifetime of hard-won knowledge. Robert D. Kaplan has learned, from a career spent reporting on wars, revolutions, and international po...

Tara Westover Paperback 400 pages Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate unti...

Alex Belser, Clancy Cavnar, Beatriz Caiuby Labate Paperback 256 pages...

William Magnuson Paperback 357 pages We have long been suspicious of corporations recklessly pursuing profit and amassing wealth and power. But the story of the corporation didn't have to be l...

Suzanne Wrack Paperback 256 pages This is the inspirational, agenda-changing story of women's football around the world. A Woman's Game explores the history of women's football from the Vic...