From internationally bestselling author Simon Winchester, a vibrant history of the collection and dissemination of knowledge.

The Sunday Times bestseller'A monumental, gripping book ... Outstanding' Sunday TimesWherever there is human judgement, there is noise.

The inspiring novels that have left a significant mark on the world of literature and popular culture.

TO LIVE

AND DREAM

IS A WICKED DANCE.

MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE-

A CURSE,

AND A BLESSING.

PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiquitous in the 1990s. Discovered in the stands during a Canadian football game, she was quickly launched into superstardom, becoming Playboy's favourite cover girl and an emblem of Hollywood glamour and sex appeal. Yet the Pamela Anderson we think we know was created through happenstance rather than careful cultivation. Love, Pamela brings forth her true stor...

An urgent study of the history, science and existential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, named by Elon Musk as one of the five books everyone should read about the future.

A sweeping inquiry into how the night sky has shaped what it means to be human.

For tens of thousands of years, the stars were our constant companions. One of our species' most enduring and universal relationships has been with the night sky itself, yet in the glow of today's artificial lighting, we have forgotten this intimacy with the cosmos.

Stargazing has shaped the entire course of human civilization. The rhythm of our ancestors' lives revolved around the stars, from cycles of agricultur...

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic.

A Waterstones Best Book of 2023

'Brilliant - a must read' Tim Spector

'Ravenous is a truly important book ... we need a food revolution to ensure children don't go hungry, eat right, and reach their potential' Tom Kerridge

The food system is no longer simply a means of sustenance. It is one of the most successful, most innovative and most destructive industries on earth. It sustains us, but it is also killing us. Diet-related disease is now the biggest cause of preventable illness and death i...

TO ACHIEVE THE EXTRAORDINARY, FIRST EMBRACE THE UNKNOWN . . .

Discover the definitive guide to our fear of uncertainty, and how we can stop it from holding us back

'Groundbreaking' MARTIN SELIGMAN

'One of my very favorite psychologists in the world' ANGELA DUCKWORTH

'This is the book we've been waiting for' CAROL DWECK, bestselling author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

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Do you fear uncertainty?

Why is the unknown so paralysing?

And how can we use doubt to our advantage?

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A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths

Mathematics shapes almost everything we do. But despite its reputation as the study of fundamental truths, the stories we have been told about it are wrong. In The Secret Lives of Numbers, historian Kate Kitagawa and journalist Timothy Revell introduce readers to the mathematical boundary-smashers who have been erased by history because of their race, gender or nationality.

From the brilliant Arabic scholars of the ...