What do lace makers share with pulmonary surgeons? Saville Row tailors with molecular scientists? Jazz musicians with fighter pilots? Seemingly, they have little in common, other than being skilled at
How many senses do we actually have? What does 'white' smell like? And why do humans like to be covered when they sleep?In this revelatory book pioneering Oxford professor Charles Spence shows how our
'A charming - and sharp - love story about what it means to fall for someone who is your polar opposite' Sunday Telegraph_______________________________________________________Lucy married just the so
This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful wom
＊Shortlisted for Costa 2014 Book Awards 2014! 入圍 2014英國科斯塔圖書獎Nora Webster is the heartbreaking new novel from one of the greatest novelists writing today It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora We
The gripping tale of the campaign that ultimately determined the outcome of the Second World War.The Battle of the Atlantic was crucial to the Allied victory. If the German U--boats had prevailed, the
Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart 'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal an
Translating the speeches of prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez into English, this edition includes his writings that span Marquez's entire life: from his earliest days, speaking as a teenager
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Darkest Hour by Anthony McCarten, read by Sean Barrett.From the prize-winning screenwriter of The Theory of Everything, this is a cinematic, behind-the-sc
Penguin presents the audio CD edition of The Spy and the Traitor written and read by Ben Macintyre. A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain's greatest historiansOn a war
'Timely and fascinating' Amanda Foreman, bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of DevonshireWhat was mothering like in the past?When acclaimed historian Sarah Knott became pregnant, she asked herse
Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink is the long-awaited memoir from Elvis Costello, one of rock and roll's most iconic stars. Born Declan Patrick MacManus, Elvis Costello was raised in London and Li
Winner of the Union of Turkish Writers' Best Novel Prize, Elif Shafak explores what it is to look and be looked at in the humorous and carnivalesque novel The Gaze. An obese woman and her lover, a dwa
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel about a group of individuals who live in the same building and who toget
'For me it all goes back to that night, the dark corroded hinge between before and after, the slipped-in sheet of trick glass that tints everything on one side in its own murky colours and leaves ever
Two Hours by Ed Caesar - the quest to run the impossible marathon 'The marathon tethers runners to their own personal narratives. It is a question of how you grow. Nothing but your own body will susta
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanfor
One of the best books ever written about intelligence analysis and its long-term lessons. Brilliant, lucid and thought-provoking' Christopher Andrew, author of The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized
