Drawing on brand new research, this is an examination of rest and why it matters from Radio 4's voice of psychology

Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics

A provocative and eye-opening book on the science and history of bisexuality, from the internationally bestselling author and co-host of BBC podcast Bad People

James Canton's journey into developing an accessible and everyday approach to rewilding that can be adapted by anyone from the ambitious gardener to casual window-box owner

In January of 1788 the First Fleet arrived in New South Wales and a thousand British men and women encountered the people who will be their new neighbours;

'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattractive person, too .

. .'In the depths of a cellar in St. Petersburg, a retired civil servant spews forth a passionate and furious note on the ills of society.

The underground man's manifesto reveals his erratic, self-contradictory and even sadistic nature. Yet Dostoyevsky's disturbing character causes an uncomfortable flicker of recognition, and we see in him our own human condition.

A hauntingly beautiful hybrid memoir that uses the journey and cultivation of a single fruit - the orange - to reckon with the author's own identity and unpack themes of globalisation, colonialism and migration

The untold story of the beatnik, psychonaut and fugitive who tested the limits of her mind to bring psychedelics into the mainstream - until her audacious exploits forced her into the shadows

Award-winning science and technology journalist Sally Adee reveals the new science of our body's electrome

An original and probing debut work of non-fiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-long quest to study the cultural legacy of the wolf