A riveting and revealing exploration of the world created by computer algorithms and its impact on individuals, from the workers across the globe who feed artificial intelligence systems with data to the impact of algorithms on our own behaviour, as consumers and citizens.

A vivid people's history, based on original source material, of the twelve months leading up to the outbreak of the war nobody wanted in 1939, perfect for fans of Antony Beevor, Max Hastings, Christopher Clark and Margaret Macmillan.

An unputdownable thriller featuring lethal CIA hitman Will Robie by bestselling author, David Baldacci.

A groundbreaking and internationally acclaimed work of environmental history tracing the great climate change of the seventeenth century: the ‘Little Ice Age’.

A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth’s greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.

A dazzling history of that most slippery of emotions: nostalgia, by an acclaimed young historian.

Incredibly moving and warm, &i>The Boy from the Sea&/i> is a love story: of a family, a town, and a boy whose arrival changes everything, for fans of Kate Atkinson, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor.

From the Baillie Gifford and Orwell Prize longlisted author of The Ministry of Truth, an equally original and revealing exploration of one of the central concerns of our times: fantasies and nightmares of the end of the world, from Mary Shelley’s The Last Man to the Manic Street Preachers’ Everything Must Go

What if you have more intelligence than you realize? What if there is a genius inside you, just waiting to be released? And what if the route to better brain power is not hard work or thousands of hours of practice, but to simply swallow a pill?In The Genius Within, bestselling author David Adam explores the ground-breaking neuroscience of cognitive enhancement that is changing the way the brain and the mind works - to make it better, sharper, more focused and, yes, more intelligent. Sharing ...

The remarkable story of the American volunteers who fought in the Spanish Civil War.