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Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini investigates the bias lurking within data collection and human classification, and interrogates what purpose it truly serves.

The Case for Quitting: How Letting Go Can Help You Build the Life You Want

Quitting gets a bad rap. It’s what the lazy people do. It’s synonymous with giving up. Winners don’t quit.

Except, that’s not really true. This book shakes our perceptions and teaches a hard lesson: according to the research, working hard non-stop and persevering through pain isn’t always the answer to everything.

The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects

Winner of the André Simon Food Book Award

Shortlisted for the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award

‘Extraordinary’ TELEGRAPH ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Delightful’ GUARDIAN

‘Bee Wilson is one of my favourite writers and this may be her best book’ CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN

Beyond Belief

A celebration and exploration of gossip, reclaiming it as a powerful tool for building relationships, sharing vital information and enabling women’s voices to be heard.

Her Name Is Alice: My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

‘Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.’ Sofie Hagen

‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard

‘An intimate, beautifully told memoir’ Elinor Cleghorn

After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order

‘The twenty-first century’s counterpart to Hobbes’s Leviathan.’ EMMANUELE COCCIA

What has happened to the nation-state? From a prizewinning writer, After Nations offers a sweeping history of this most unquestioned of modern structures and a bold speculation about its future.

The Shetland Way: Community and Climate Crisis on my Father's Islands

‘Fascinating… written with clarity and rooted in deep affection’ Observer

‘A timely and balanced book that offers a unique insight into a debate whose relevance is only going to grow’ The Times

A memoir and investigation exploring loss, community and the climate crisis in the Shetland Islands by environmental journalist Marianne Brown.

Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency

A Telegraph Best Book of 2025.

A News Statesman Book of the Year 2025.

‘David Goldblatt is possibly the best football historian there has ever been’. Dominic Sandbrook

‘David Goldblatt is the greatest British sportswriter of the 21st century … Injury Time is an absolute classic.’ James Montague, author of The Billionaires Club and Engulfed

The Ghost Lake

‘Remarkable’OBSERVER

‘Deeply profound… this is no ordinary memoir’ THE TIMES

‘Astounding’ ADAM FARRER

‘Brave and luminous’ SARAH LANGFORD

‘Mesmerising’ POLLY ATKIN

‘Beautifully written’ YORKSHIRE POST

‘Steadfastly honest’ GEOGRAPHICAL

A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire.

Notes to John

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Utterly fascinating’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘A profound, rich document’NEW STATESMAN

‘An act of intimate storytelling’VOGUE

A recently discovered journal from one of America’s most iconic writers, Joan Didion, the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights.

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