Books

Architects, artists, film-makers and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical...

In the past three decades, the battle between big tech and big journalism has reshaped how we consume the news. Jason Whittaker delves into how tech giants outmanoeuvered traditional media companies, siphoning off advertising revenue and audience...

From the author of classic picture books Dark Dark Tale and Greyfriars Bobby comes this beautiful picture book about a day in the life of Tick-Tock the cat.Follow Tick-Tock through a noisy and eventful day – from waking up until bedtime. His encounters...

Finalist for the Graphic Medicine Award 2026After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they’ve found themselves in.Yixuan Liu, a 16-year-old Chinese girl, just moved from China to...

Features 12 full color amazing reproductions of key pieces of art by David Nakayama, featuring characters throughout the Marvel Universe. Each print measures 11” x 17” and all plates are collected in a durable plastic portfolio.

Incandescent with illustrations, a history of Britain as told through a remarkable collection of illuminated manuscripts – at once chronicles of their time and works of art.Illumino explores the history of medieval Britain through the biographies of...

New York Times–bestselling author Kate Messner presents a daring game of one-upmanship that pushed the sport of rock climbing to new heights during the Golden Age of Yosemite climbing. Royal Robbins and Warren Harding were two wildly different men...

Faceless foes bookend the stories in Dick Tracy Volume 4, the latest entry in the Clover Press/Library of American Comics reissue of the original six Dick Tracy volumes in the larger format that became the series standard. The intrepid detective and his...

The 1930s give way to the ’40s and Chester Gould makes things personal in this sixth volume of the Dick Tracy series. First comes a story of broken hearts and wilted flowers, as Tess Trueheart jilts her detective boyfriend for an ex-ballplayer who...

One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healingfrom the trauma of a past sexual assaultOne day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara’s watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message,...

An original, artistic mini picture dictionary.Vibrant pictures encourage the child's creativity while they learn to identify objects and words.

Inspired by Oscar Wilde's classic, GRAY tells the story of a dangerous woman on a mission of retribution against a group of powerful and sexually seditious men. In this supernatural revenge thriller and concluding installment from Stoker-Nominated and...

A captivating historical novel set on Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks, perfect for readers of Where the Crawdads Sing and Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping1890s, Cape Cod: Between tides, a man deserts his wife and his post as keeper of the...

This is the inspiring and charming true story of one of the Second World War's most unusual combatants - a 500-pound cigarettesmoking, beer-drinking brown bear. Originally adopted as a mascot by the Polish Army in Iran, Wojtek soon took on a more...

First published in 1929, A Farewell to Arms has endured as one of Hemingway’s most popular works. The novel was his first bestseller, which solidified him as a serious writer and a fixture in the American literary canon. Set against the brutal backdrop...

'Evocative, erudite, and often very funny stories of Bangkok life.' – The GuardianA 'Book to Look Out For' by The Guardian and BuzzFeed, The Sad Part Was offers an oblique reflection of contemporary Bangkok life.In these witty, postmodern stories, Yoon...

In 1970s Switzerland, high up in the Valais mountains, is a village where everyone knows everything, and no one says anything.Jeanne learns from an early age to dodge her father's abuse, but her mother and sister resign themselves to his brutality. One...

People sometimes say, “I will see you on the other side." But how certain can one be of this other plane of existence? Where exactly is that “other side", and how can you be sure you will reach it? Everything begins with a fundamental truth: those whom...

This beautiful gift book contains 365 gems narrated by the beloved of our beloved Prophet ﷺ . These narrations give a wonderful insight into the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad by his closest companion and partner. 

A wild and uncensored glimpse behind the curtain into the mad world of life as a touring stand-up comic.Drawing on countless hours of in-depth interviews with some of the most influential and respected comedians to ever grab a mic, Doing Time offers a...

A raw and lyrical exploration of the confining expectations of womanhood and, if we dare, what lies beyond those limitations, from a writer Roxane Gay calls ‘vibrant and thoughtful.’Across time and location, women were raised to be agreeable and 'good'...

The Kew Gardens Salad Book celebrates the rich possibilities that culinary plants and fungi offer in the kitchen through a diverse selection of tasty and easy salad recipes. Utilising a varied array of plant foods, author Jenny Linford enables and...

Winner of the 2020 Emory Global Health Institute Competition.Here’s a book that provides children honest yet positive information about Coronavirus (Covid-19). COVID-19 HELPERS gives kids the facts of the pandemic, but also offers hope. Mr. Rogers said...

An artist of colour becomes obsessed with a white model in a novel with the glamour of Clarice Lispector and the viscerality of Han Kang.At an otherwise forgettable party in Los Angeles, a queer Korean American painter spots a woman who instantly...

A tale inspired by real events of sisterhood, heartbreak and resilience in a Highland village home front in World War II Scotland.Clova, Scotland, 1942. As World War II roars overseas, sisters Nell and Effie Anderson live together in the old schoolhouse...

Learn from Britain's leading dragonfly expert how to invite dragonflies and damselflies into your garden and help them thrive there.In this compact and accessible wildlife primer, 'Dragonfly Ambassador' Ruary Mackenzie Dodds shows how to set up a...

**Winner, Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2008**A man bets all he has on a horse race to pay for an expensive operation for his dog. A young refugee wants to box her way straight off the boat to the top of the sport. Old friends talk all night after meeting up...

This second edition of the essential reference book for plant identification in winter is updated with new illustrations and fully revised text.To many plant lovers winter seems like lost time, but a glance at the twigs of trees and shrubs shows that...

England has more ancient native oak trees than the rest of Europe combined. How did that come about? The reasons are all historical, and nothing to do with climate or soil factors. This story goes back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066.They...

A celebration of trees with beautiful botanical art at its centre, along with entertaining and informative text. Paintings by botanical artist Masumi Yamanaka illustrate the oldest and finest trees at Kew Gardens, showing flowers, foliage and fruit at...

It's a hot Edinburgh summer, and Roisin’s life is stagnating. She spends her days cancelling plans, skipping work and drinking lukewarm wine in the bathtub with her best friend Eve.When their wealthy mutual friend Claire offers Roisin a significant...

In the shadowy closes of Edinburgh’s Old Town, sixteen people are murdered to feed surgeon Dr Robert Knox’s insatiable need for his anatomy classes. Burke and Hare and their wives, Lucky and Nelly, are all complicit, but only Burke swings for their...

In a poverty-stricken neighbourhood wedged between the city and the sea, a father and son struggle to keep their heads above water. Rather than being discouraged by their difficulties and hardship, their response is to come up with increasingly bizarre...

In Three Fires, award-winning author Denise Mina re-imagines the 'Bonfire of the Vanities', a series of fires lit throughout Florence at the end of the fifteenth century – inspired by the fanatical Girolamo Savonarola.Girolamo Savonarola was a...

**Shortlisted for Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature**Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous...

A new edition of this vitally important political novel from George Orwell. First published in 1945, Animal Farm — the history of a revolution that went wrong — is Orwell’s brilliant satire on the corrupting influence of power. ‘All animals are...

The new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices.Jenni Fagan converses with the poets of the past; through them, she communes with demons and explores a world that is continually at odds with itself.The poet voyages, as ever, on the...

Character Design Quarterly (CDQ) is a lively, creative magazine bringing inspiration, expert insights, and leading techniques from professional illustrators, artists, and character art enthusiasts worldwide.Each issue provides detailed tutorials on...

Stories are living things. They are viral. They enter us through our eyes and our ears and they take up residence inside us. Unriddling the World is a collection of fifty traditional narratives - stories from the winding track that leads from nursery...

Would you like to eat a caterpillar cake? Join a rocket race into space? See crazy crocodiles at the zany zoo or play with a furry, purry cat? Wherever these 16 fun-filled poems lead you, they will brighten your day.

The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies the operation generated and the progress medicine has...

When Mo makes friends with a little wild beast, her family are horrified – wild beasts are dangerous.But could this wild beast save baby Babba from a hungry lynx and become a friend to the whole family?And then what would they call him? DOG!This...

René Stauffer has been closely covering Roger Federer’s career for nearly 25 years. In this comprehensive biography, Stauffer talks at length to the man himself, his family, friends, coaches and rivals to paint an unrivalled picture of the greatest male...

Can two sisters overlook their differences? Mixed is a hilarious yet moving story of family and faith, best served hot (or cold) with a dollop of sour cream. Sisters Ruth and Miriam Green spent most of their childhood loving each other and hating each...

Nikhil and Jay feel sorry for Appa when he falls and hurts his ankle, but they make him feel better by playing Dayan, the Indian Board Game; litter-picking at the Clean and Green Club is great fun when the boys do it in the park with all their friends;...

In this extraordinary memoir, Gwyneth Lewis, the inaugural National Poet of Wales, recounts her toxic upbringing at the hands of her controlling, coercive mother. It is a book that Gwyneth has been preparing to write all her life, keeping diaries since...

Author of International Booker Finalist Not a RiverInternationally acclaimed author of Not a River , Selva Almada tackles the issue of gender violence in this hybrid work that follows in the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood or John...

Part of the Hero Classics series“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”The Prince is generally labeled as a cynical and overly pragmatic account of gaining and retaining political power. It is a significant deviation...