Trauma Bonds
A fascinating journalistic exploration into the impact of intergenerational trauma on the descendants of both survivors and perpetrators
History
Sanctuary
Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today? Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner’s Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today’s world of global turmoil.
Then and Now – Perth Then and Now (Then and Now)
Perth Then and Now accurately matches historic photographs of the city with specially commissioned contemporary views that show how each site looks today.
Tinderbox: India’s Slide Towards Turmoil
A devastating critique of India’s failure to fulfil its founding promises.
Three Weeks in July: 7/7, the aftermath and the deadly manhunt
‘A superb book’ – Observer
‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic
‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman
Three Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.
Crown Jewels: Royal Women and their Extraordinary Influence
Globally famous and yet universally misunderstood – these are the complex and utterly engrossing stories of Britain’s royal women behind the public façade.
Then and Now – America Then and Now (Then and Now)
This book offers a window into history: to the most famous conflicts fought on American soil, the triumphant victories of its sporting events and even journeys to race in space which jettisoned from the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands
Ancient trees, some over a thousand years old, are dotted around the British Isles, the last survivors of a lost world. Now, new scientific studies of these trees and of fossilised forests and of our oldest wooden artifacts can help us to understand the many woodlands that have disappeared from our landscapes.
I, Vera: The dangerous life of a radical princess
Princess Vera Giedroytz was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess who habitually wore a man’s suit, played billiards with brilliance, and regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on occasion forcibly ejecting an inquisitive Rasputin from her operating theatre by throwing him down the stairs.
The Cheese Cure: How Comté and Camembert Fed My Soul
‘A wonderful book.’ Cathy Rentzenbrink
‘A remarkable tale’ The Spectator
Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent
This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.
Afloat: Small Boats, Swell & North-Atlantic Seaspray
From Ireland and the Shetlands up to Greenland, across to Baffin Island, Newfoundland, the US, and the Caribbean – prize-winning author David Gange embarks on a seabound journey through North-Atlantic coasts & islands, exploring ways of life that have been built on small rowed or paddled boats.