A revolutionary and fun new book that reveals how everything, from beds and bubbles to sleep and signatures, has a history.

A lively and accessible history of humanity's greatest - and strangest - creation: money.

A witty and engaging beginner's guide to the Classics, by the author of Veni, Vidi, Vici and Eureka!

A captivating portrait of contemporary New York City, the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet, told through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages.

From the #1 bestselling author of Too Much and Never Enough: A diagnosis of America's national trauma, and a way to heal.

A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world: science fiction as it ought to be from the winner of the Arthur C. Clarke award, 2013

A highly topical manifesto about what it means to be human in the age of AI by a leading barrister.

The definitive and hilarious New York Times bestselling exposé of a new age of excess in Silicon Valley

Award-winning Steven Strogatz, one of the foremost popularisers of maths, has written a witty and fascinating account of maths' most compelling ideas and how, so often, they are an integral part of everyday life.

A brilliant and insightful history of the special relationship between the UK and the USA, which Ian Buruma argues is now under threat with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.