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  • Hands of Time

    A Watchmaker's History of Time. 'An exquisite book' - STEPHEN FRY

    by Rebecca Struthers ...
    **'5/5 A true joy. A work of staggering complexity and bewildering economy.' TELEGRAPH'Every page glitters' SPECTATOR'Mesmerising' NEW STATESMAN'An exquisite book, beautifully put together... What a very wonderful book.' STEPHEN FRYA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK______________________In Hands of Time watchmaker and historian Rebecca Struthers welcomes us into t... ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • The Book of Hope

    A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet

    by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams ...
    Series Book 1 - Global Icons Series
    A NEW SCIENTIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A true hero' Greta ThunbergA legendary conservationist. A lifetime spent fighting for nature. An indispensable message of hope.In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?Looking at the headlines?the worsening climate crisis, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval?it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never b... ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Invisible Women

    the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

    by Caroline Criado Perez ...
    *THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER**OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD***Discover the shocking gender bias that affects our everyday lives in this groundbreaking gift of a book.'Nothing delights me more than a well-written and well-researched book that teaches you and never bores you' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie**'HELL YES. This is one of those books that has the potential to change things - a ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • The Age of Diagnosis

    Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far

    by Suzanne O’Sullivan ...
    'Covers so many topics that have been troubling me but I haven't been able to resolve myself - as a parent and a clinician. An absolutely absorbing read from start to finish.' - CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN'A brilliant study of the dangers of overdiagnosis' - GUARDIAN, book of the day'Compassionate and bracingly independent thinking' - THE TIMES, best books of 2025... ... Read more

    £12.99

  • Proof

    The Uncertain Science of Certainty

    by Adam Kucharski ...
    'Profound and utterly absorbing. Kucharski elegantly explores how proof is not just a mathematical concept but a vital tool in decision-making, justice, and survival' CHRIS VAN TULLEKENHow far would you go in your search for certainty? And once you get there, how do you convince others?From the medieval Islamic world to the recent pandemic, scientific progress has relied on different methods of ... Read more

    £12.99

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  • Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation

    by Neil deGrasse Tyson ...
    Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our time–war, politics, religion, truth, beauty, gender, race, and tribalism–in a way that stimulates a deeper sense of unity for us all.In a time when our political and cultural perspectives feel more divisive than ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Code Dependent

    How AI Is Changing Our Lives — Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction

    by Madhumita Murgia ...
    **Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction 2024AI is changing what it means to be human. This is the unrivalled investigation into the impact of AI on how we live now.'The intimate investigation of AI that we’ve been waiting for, and it arrives not a moment too soon.' – Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism**Through the voices of ordinary people in places far ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

    by Cal Flyn ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES’ BESTSELLER AND SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT CONSERVATION AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZEThis is a book about abandoned places: ghost towns and exclusion zones, no man’s lands and ... Read more

    £3.99

  • Four Thousand Weeks

    Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

    by Oliver Burkeman ...
    A life-changing gift of a book: What if you tried to stop doing everything, so you could finally get round to what counts?**The instant Sunday Times bestseller**Rejecting the futile modern obsession with 'getting everything done,' Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing rather than denying their limitations.Drawing on the insights of both ... Read more

    £4.99

  • The Power of Habit

    Why We Do What We Do, and How to Change

    by Charles Duhigg ...
    There's never been a better time to set new habits. This book will change your life.In The Power of Habit, award-winning journalist Charles Duhigg takes us into the thrilling and surprising world of the scientific study of habits.He examines why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. He visits laboratories where ... Read more

    £0.99

  • Enchanted Creatures

    Our Monsters and Their Meanings

    by Natalie Lawrence ...
    The hydra rears its many heads in a flurry of teeth and poisonous fumes. The cyborg lays waste to humanity with a ruthless, expressionless stare.From ancient mythology to modern science fiction, we have had to confront the monsters that lurk in the depths of our collective imagination. They embody our anxieties and our irrational terrors, giving form to what we don't wish to know or understand. ... Read more

    £11.49 £2.99

  • Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

    by Susannah Cahalan ...
    Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden and mysterious illness put her on descent into a madness for which there seemed to be no cure'My first serious blackout marked the line between sanity and insanity. Though I would have moments of lucidity over the coming days and weeks, I would never again be the ... Read more

    £5.99 £0.99

  • Tiny Habits

    The Small Changes That Change Everything

    by BJ Fogg ...
    Improving your life is much easier than you think. Whether it’s losing weight, sleeping more, or restoring your work/life balance – the secret is to start small.For years, we’ve been told that being more healthy and productive is a matter of willpower: that we should follow the latest fad and make constant changes to our lifestyles. But whether in our diets, fitness plans or jobs, radical ... Read more

    £4.99

  • Dark Sun

    The Making Of The Hydrogen Bomb

    by Richard Rhodes ...
    Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the definitive, often shocking story of the politics and the science behind the development of the hydrogen bomb and the birth of the Cold War.Based on secret files in the United States and the former Soviet Union, this monumental work of history discloses how and ... Read more

    £8.99 £0.99

  • Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

    by Annie Worsley ...
    ‘Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas’ ROBERT MACFARLANE‘An instant classic of British nature-writing’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA few years ago, Annie Worsley traded a busy life in academia to take on a small-holding or croft on the west coast of Scotland. It is a land ruled by great elemental forces – light, wind and water – that hold sway ... Read more

    £5.49

  • The Garden Against Time

    The Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

    by Olivia Laing ...
    **The Garden Against Time is the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from acclaimed writer Olivia Laing; a passionate, epic exploration of the power and possibilities of gardens.'What a wonderful book this is' – Nigel Slater**When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long ... Read more

    £9.99 £5.99

  • Cribsheet

    A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

    by Emily Oster ...
    Series series The ParentData Series
    'Emily Oster is the non-judgemental girlfriend holding our hand and guiding us through pregnancy and motherhood. She has done the work to get us the hard facts in a soft, understandable way' Amy SchumerParenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over. There is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet ... Read more

    £6.99

  • British and Irish Wild Flowers and Plants

    A Pocket Guide

    by Rachel Hamilton, Chris Gibson, Robert Still ...
    Series series WILDGuides of Britain & Europe
    A highly illustrated and portable identification guide to the most common wild flowers and other plantsThis innovative photographic guide covers the most common wild flowers and other plants found in Britain and Ireland, as defined by the very latest distribution maps. It is designed so that anyone faced with an unfamiliar wild plant can confidently put a name to the species or recognise that it ... Read more

    £10.99

  • Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know

    Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year

    by Ranulph Fiennes ...
    Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of pounds for charity and been awarded a polar medal and an OBE. He has been an elite soldier, an athlete, a mountaineer, an explorer, a bestselling author and nearly replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.In his autobiography he ... Read more

    £4.99 £0.99

  • Open Throat

    'An instant classic' - The Guardian

    by Henry Hoke ...
    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction'An instant classic' - The Guardian**I’ve never eaten a person but today I might . . .A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign, overlooking the city that humans call ‘ellay’.Lonely and fascinated by humanity’s foibles, the lion spends their days grappling with the complexities ... Read more

    £5.99

  • Because Internet

    Understanding how language is changing

    by Gretchen McCulloch ...
    THE ACCLAIMED NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.Have you ever puzzled over how to punctuate a text message? Wondered where memes came from? Fret no more: Because Internet is the perfect book for understanding how the internet is changing the English language, why that's a good thing, and what our online interactions reveal about who we are.'McCulloch is such a disarming writer - lucid, friendly, ... Read more

    £6.99

  • Killer Cities

    by Nigel Thrift ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is an attempt to navigate out of this mess of planned and unplanned violence towards a world in which cities no longer act as killers ... Read more

    £27.99

  • No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

    by Greta Thunberg ...
    Series Book 1 - Green Ideas
    In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.No One is Too Small to Make a Difference collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the World Economic Forum, and the British Parliament.Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered ... Read more

    £1.99

  • Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19

    by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley ...
    Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind.Determining whether the virus came from nature or from a lab will help us to safeguard against the next pandemic.This disease will forever punctuate modern history. It has led to the deaths of millions, sickened hundreds of millions and affected the lives of almost every person on the planet. We now know ... Read more

    £4.49