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  • The Red Atlas

    How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

    by John Davies, Alexander J. Kent ...
    The “utterly fascinating” untold story of Soviet Russia’s global military mapping program—featuring many of the surprising maps that resulted (Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian).From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have ... Read more

    £14.99 £1.99 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Murder Before Evensong

    The instant no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller

    by Reverend Richard Coles ...
    Series Book 1 - Canon Clement Mystery
    THE INSTANTLY ICONIC NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Devotees of Midsomer Murders and Agatha Christie's Miss Marple stories will feel most at home here' Guardian'I've been waiting for a novel with vicars, rude old ladies, murder and sausage dogs... et voila!' Dawn French'Cosy crime with a cutting edge' Telegraph'Whodunnit fans can give praise and rejoice' Ian Rankin'C... ... Read more

    £5.49 £0.99

  • We Will Not Be Saved

    A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest (Reese Witherspoon's Book Club Pick)

    by Nemonte Nenquimo ...
    **REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK'An unforgettable memoir about fighting for your home and your heart.' - Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club November '24 Pick)**'Full of wisdom, sadness, flourishes of joy and psychedelic visions' GUARDIAN'Astonishing' IPAPER'Beautiful and gripping . . . a fascinating work of cultural anthropology, told from the inside' NEW SCIENTIST'I'm here to tell you my story, which ... Read more

    £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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  • 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

  • A Death on Location

    by Reverend Richard Coles ...
    THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES'The best of the new cosy crime writers'Daily TelegraphIn the spring of 1990, we return to Champton, where the characters we've come to love are all aflutter as a glamorous Hollywood movie takes over Champton House as its set location.As the actors and extras hired from the village don their farthingales, gowns and crowns for a masque set in the 1600s, a ... Read more

    £11.99

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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World

    by Kathryn Hughes ...
    *Shortlisted for the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize*A Times and Sunday Times Book of the YearA Wall Street Journal Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA New Yorker Book of the YearSome called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with ca... ... Read more

    £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

  • Betty

    The International Bestseller

    by Tiffany McDaniel ...
    'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating'Observer, Books of the Year'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it'Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters'A page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age story told in undulating prose that settles right into you'Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times'Vivid and lucid, Be... ... Read more

    £5.49 £2.99

  • A Death in the Parish

    The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller

    by Reverend Richard Coles ...
    Series Book 1 - Canon Clement Mystery
    **THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MURDER BEFORE EVENSONGCANON DANIEL CLEMENT IS BACK...**It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Clement tries to steady his flock, the parish is joined with Upper and Lower Badsaddle, bringing a new tide of unwanted change. But church politics soon become the least of Daniel's problems. His ... 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

  • Superintelligence

    Paths, Dangers, Strategies

    by Nick Bostrom ...
    The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate of ... Read more

    £5.99 £4.99