Jurisprudence & general issues

Custody: The Secret History of Mothers

Custody is the first book for general readers on the history of child custody, an issue that affects so many lives and a question that seems fundamental to our experience and understanding of family. It’s also an act of dramatic storytelling, blistering polemic and large-scale historical re-evaluation.

The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – A Hidden History

A Waterstones Best History Book 2024

‘Compulsively readable’ – Times Literary Supplement

‘An outstanding work’ – Philippa Gregory

‘A powerful narrative told with frankness and sensitivity’ – Helen Fry, historian and author of Women In Intelligence

Keir Starmer: The Biography

THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER

A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A Daily Mail Book of the Year; A Waterstones Book of the Year

‘Required reading for anyone who has an interest in who governs Britain’ ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell

WINNER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DOUGLAS STEWART PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER’S LITERARY PRIZE

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALKLEY BOOK AWARD

The Restless Republic: Britain without a Crown

THE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022

WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE

Eleven years when Britain had no king.

The Cult of We: WeWork and the Great Start-Up Delusion

‘An amazing portrait of how grifters came to be called visionaries and high finance lost its mind.’ Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit

The definitive inside story of WeWork, its audacious founder, and the company’s epic unravelling from the journalists who first broke the story wide open.

Murder: The Biography

THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW

‘Fascinating’ – Sunday Times

‘Masterful’ – Judith Flanders

‘A page-turning read’ – Prof. David Wilson

Totally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder.

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