A highly entertaining voyage of discovery through the world of military inventions ancient and modern many of which have resulted in everyday civilian applications.

From the hugely popular blog, a miscellany of hilarious and peculiar bookshop moments.

The year 2022 marks 2,500 years since Athens, the birthplace of democracy, fought off the mighty Persian empire. Kershaw tells the story of the three epic battles - Marathon, Thermopylae and Salamis - that saved democracy, without which the history of Europe and the West would have been radically different.

Why do we cry? How do we cry? And what does it mean? A scientific, cultural, artistic examination by a young poet on the cusp of motherhood.

David Gemmell's first novel and the first in the Drenai saga - a bestselling classic of heroic fantasy

Asterix is a cultural phenomenon. The last book, Asterix and Obelix All At Sea (1996), achieved all-time record sales in UK and Europe.

When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, she just thinks he has gone off by himself for a few days - as he has done before - and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realises. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were published it would r...

* The definitive and ONLY complete translation of Sappho, by one of the world's greatest living poets

Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century.

A collection of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers, Maya Angelou.