A literary scholar and a planetary scientist look at the Earth as object, viewed from the outside, and as a singular orb that is a challenge to scale and human self-importance.
The world needs to adapt to climate change – but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? This book reveals all.
A key volumein the National Theatre Backstage series, this book on hair, wigs and make-up for the stage is ideal for anyone keen to understand this side of the creative process.
The business case for recognising and understanding the importance of kindness at work, and the need to use these skills to enhance performance and develop a healthy and sustainable working culture.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together. With a new foreword by Rowan Williams.
The first comprehensive biography of geek and gaming culture's mythic icon, Gary Gygax, and the complete story behind his invention of Dungeons & Dragons.
Humorous and heartbreaking debut novel with the fresh, funny, honest voice of a 14-year-old Geordie lad recounting the trials and tribulations of family life and finding first love.
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Astunning and bloody history of nineteenth-century India and the reign of the Last Mughal by the bestselling author of White Mughals and read by Robert Bathurst
An astounding novel about a girl's coming-of-age interwoven with a real-life murder that rocked turn-of-the-century America. Winner of the Carnegie Medal.
Lullaby meets Little Fires Everywhere in this subtly brutal, suspenseful prize-winning novel inspired by a true story. It asks the question: how can a seemingly normal person commit the most atrocious of crimes? And how well can you ever know someone?
Sports Report is as much a 75-year history of sport as a BBC radio institution and Pat Murphy pays handsome tribute to a programme that is still followed affectionately by millions.
