What if we could improve our ability to predict the future? Everything we do involves forecasts about how the future will unfold. This book offers practical advice on how we can…
Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world''s greatest theoretical physicists, but he was also a man who fell, often jumped, into…
''Compelling and wise and rational.'' - Jon Ronson''A wonderful introduction to neuroscience, and deserves to be widely read.'' - IndependentMotion sickness.Nightmares.Forgetting…
A New York Times bestseller for three years and counting!“A gutsy, candid, and compelling story. It speaks volumes.” —School Library Journal (starred review)“Unflinching and…
The characters in this extraordinary book are often - on the surface - depraved, vicious, cowardly and manipulative, but their essential humanity is never undermined. Two…
Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in south-west Anatolia - a town in which Christian and…
In Azar Nafisi's personal story of growing up in Iran, she shares her memories of a life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's…
''A fictional tour de force which combines erudition with mystery'' PD JamesOxford in the 1660s. Sarah Blundy stands accused of the murder of Robert Grove, a fellow of New College…
Rediscover the classic novel of love, violence and obsessions from Booker prize-winning Sunday Times bestselling author Ian McEwan.Colin and Mary are a couple whose intimacy knows…
Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the…
Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings.Decades after Herbert's original novels, the…
Winner of the Booker Prize''The Hotel du Lac was a dignified building, a house of repute, a traditional establishment, used to welcoming the prudent, the well-to-do, the retired,…
**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**''A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today'' The TimesAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical…
The first publication of Kurt Cobain''s diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and candid, and suprisingly funny, pieces of writing…
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today''s world. Sam Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind''s…