The campaign that led to the first Battle of Newbury in 1643 represents a vital phase in the English Civil War, yet rarely has it received the attention it deserves. In this compelling and meticulously researched new study, Jon Day shows how the campaign was critical to the outcome of the war and the defeat of Charles I. The late summer 1643 was the military high tide for the king and his armies, yet within two months the opportunity had been squandered. The Royalists failed first to take ...

Cyclogeography is an essay about the bicycle in the cultural imagination and a portrait of London written from the saddle. Informed by his years spent as a bicycle courier, Day reflects on the way bicycles connect people with places. Parasitic on the city, couriers have an intimate knowledge of London, and for those who survive the grinding toughness of the job the bicycle can become the only thing holding them together.

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year**'Rich and joyous ...The book's quiet optimism about our ability to change, and to learn to love small things passionately, will stay with me for a long time' Helen Macdonald 'Big-hearted and quietly gripping' Guardian 'I love Jon Day's writing and ...

'I love Jon Day's writing' OLIVIA LAINGWhat happened in that house?Growing up, Jon Day heard the same stories as everyone else. There was the grand canal house in Amsterdam where, during the Second World War, the exiled German writer Wolfgang Frommel had hidden young Jewish men from the Nazis. It was a place, his family said, of literature and poetry, courage and sacrifice, home to an extraordinary circle of artists and intellectuals known ...

'[Day has] succeeded in making that most familiar of birds seem mysterious, almost magical, and illuminated, brilliantly, the urge towards home' Malachy TallackA feral history of home, and our relationship with that most unloved bird.As a boy, Jon Day was fascinated by pigeons, which he used to rescue from the streets of London. Twenty years later he moved away from the city centre to the suburbs to start a family. But in ...

'I love Jon Day's writing' OLIVIA LAINGWhat happened in that house?Growing up, Jon Day heard the same stories as everyone else. There was the grand canal house in Amsterdam where, during the Second World War, the exiled German writer Wolfgang Frommel had hidden young Jewish men from the Nazis. It was a place, his family said, of literature and poetry, courage and sacrifice, home to an extraordinary circle of artists and intellectuals known ...

Brought to you by Penguin.**BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**'A modern masterpiece' GuardianUncovering the mystery of her mother’s disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her family story.In the autumn of 1929, a small child was kidnapped from a Lincolnshire beach. Five agonising days went by before she was found in a nearby ...

Brought to you by Penguin.WINNER OF THE 2020 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITINGWINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH POST AWARD FOR NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2020WINNER OF THE BOOKS ARE MY BAG READERS AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION 2020SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020Diary of a Young Naturalist chr...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy.A Guardian Best Book of the 21st Century'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip. We try to hold it together. And then we realize that we don't want to hold it together...'Picking up where Things I Don't Want to Know left off, this short, exhilarating memoir shows a writer in radical flux, facing separation and bereavement, and eme...

"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contemptible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also...

'Hugely absorbing. . . the best Strike novel yet' SUNDAY MIRROR'Highly inventive storytelling' GUARDIAN'Outrageously entertaining' FINANCIAL TIMES***'Come for the twists and turns and stay for the beautifully drawn central relationship'***INDEPENDENT'Blistering piece of crime writing' SUNDAY TIMES***'Fans will love it'***HEAT-----Wh...