‘It is a glorious book: an education and an invitation. There is such life in its pages, and such food!’ Nigella Lawson A culinary expedition celebrating cooking from across the African continent

Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled across Europe, from the Scandinavian shield to the Irish bogs, in order to produce this collection of photographs. It brings together images spanning the years from the late 1920s to the early 1970s, and seeks to capture what it means to be European.

This timely title weighs masculinity's capacity for good against its potential for destruction in the context of contemporary debates on the topic.

An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers

The Sunday Times bestselling manifesto for a twenty-first century understanding of human evolution and variation - and a weapon against scientific racism

A GUARDIAN, ECONOMIST AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A superb book' Simon Sebag Montefiore

'An empowering story of human ingenuity' Economist

'Full of curious facts' The Times

Causes of death have changed irrevocably across time. In the course of a few centuries we have gone from a world where disease or violence were likely to strike anyone at any age, and where famine could be just one bad harvest away, to one where in many countries excess food is more of a problem than a lack of it. Why h...