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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

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The Secret Lovers

Major re-launch for Charles McCarry, whom many consider the greatest living writer of spy fiction

Drinking Water: A History

An eye-opening look at the history and future of the water we drink

Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone

A revelatory examination of the sharp increase in people who live alone and its surprising benefits

Night of Triumph

An irresistible comic novella about the royal princesses’ adventures on VE night 1945

Scapegoat: A History of Blaming Other People

"In the beginning there was blame. Adam blamed Eve, Eve blamed the serpent, and we’ve been hard at it ever since"

Young Philby

The master storyteller on the greatest spy scandal of the
20th century

Agent Dmitri

The remarkable rise and fall of the KGB's most daring operative

Gravity

How the most mysterious force in the Universe shapes our lives

A Fatal Debt

A gripping whodunit set in the financial world

I, Hogarth

An exuberant novel told through the eyes of the great satirist

A Curator’s Quest: Building the Museum of Modern Art’s Painting and Sculpture Collection

The landmark memoir of the pioneering curator who built MoMA’s unparalleled collection of modern painting and sculpture in the 70s and 80s

Dead Men

A gripping historical novel inspired by the life and legend of Captain Scott.

People Will Talk

Why others decide how successful your life is – and what you can do about it.

The Yellow Emperor’s Cure

The richly woven, page-turning story of family ties, impossible love, and being a foreigner in a dangerous land.

A Brief Life of The Queen

A short illustrated life of Elizabeth II by her leading biographer for her Diamond Jubilee.

Shock Value

How a few eccentric outsiders gave us nightmares, conquered Hollywood and invented modern horror.

Build Your Own Time Machine

The real science of time travel

Demon Fish

Travels through the Hidden World of Sharks

Epic Win For Anonymous

The first book on the meteoric rise of the anonymous web community that manipulates today’s news.

Genius of Dickens

The ideas and inspiration of Britain's greatest novelist from his leading biographer.
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth.

Houdini and Conan Doyle

How two famous friends became bitter enemies in a battle over life, death – and the afterlife

To download the first chapter of HOUDINI & CONAN DOYLE click here

The Tragedy of Arthur

A ‘lost’ Shakespeare play unearthed by highly acclaimed novelist Arthur Phillips
To download an excerpt from the Introduction of TRAGEDY OF ARTHURclick here

Viva La Madness

The long-awaited sequel to the cult classic Layer Cake

To download the first chapter of VIVA LA MADNESS Click here

City of Ravens: London, the Tower and its Famous Birds

The history of the Black Birds of Doom in the Tower of London

Rules for Ageing

A Guide to Life for Those Who Should Know Better

Stalin’s Romeo Spy

The Remarkable Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Daring Operative

Our Future Earth

An ambitious and already much-acclaimed new book that seeks to change the way we think about climate change

The Edge of Physics: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Cosmology

Dispatches from the frontiers of cosmology.