A New York Times Editor's Choice

An Economist Best Book of 2010

A Financial Times Best Book of 2010

A Library Journal Best Book of 2010

The debate is ages old: Where does language come from? Is it an artifact of our culture or written in our very DNA? In recent years, the leading linguists have seemingly settled the issue: all languages are fundamentally the same and the particular language we speak does not shape our thinking in any significant way. Guy Deutscher says they're wrong. From Hom...

The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946-48, WWII and the beginning of the end of the European empires in Asia and the impact the settlement has had on post-war China and Japan, the wider history of East and South Asia and of the world to this day.

Fusing memoir and cultural history, this is an essential exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.

Over the past two decades, our understanding of the ways life functions have been transformed in many ways but the public narratives about biology have not kept up. By drawing on these recent discoveries and insights, this book outlines a new vision of biology for the 21st century.

Raj Patel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing, teams up with physician, activist, and co-founder of the Do No Harm Coalition Rupa Marya to reveal the links between health and structural injustices--and to offer a new deep medicine that can heal our bodies and our world.

The Covid pandemic and the shocking racial disparities in its impact. The surge in inflammatory illnesses such as gastrointestinal disorders and asthma. Mass uprisings around the world in response to...

A Times, Financial Times and Telegraph Book of the Year

'Illuminates some of the great trends of our time' - Gideon Rachman, Financial Times

'Vivid, urgent and unsettling' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion

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What does it now mean to call yourself European? Who makes up this population of some 750 million, sprawled from Ireland to Ukraine, from Sweden to Turkey? Who has always called it home, and who has newly arrived from elsewhere? Who are the people who drive our long-distance lorries, ...

Jhumpa Lahiri, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of &i>Interpreter of Maladies&/i>, comes to Picador with an astonishing work of fiction, set in and around Rome.