From one of our leading biographers and critics comes an exhilarating, landmark new look at Muriel Spark.

An urgent and timely manifesto on how digital currencies will win the New Cold War and the struggle for geopolitical supremacy in the twenty-first century.

Comedian and art historian Verity Babbs journeys through 50 of the most important art movements throughout history, answering ten key questions for each movement in just one sentence at a time.

A sweet gift book offering wisdom (and humour) from your dog's perspective to help you live your best and most authentic human life, featuring illustrations from the viral Instagram series.

The world needs to adapt to climate change – but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? This book reveals all.

A brilliant new account of one of the world’s most remote, mysterious and misunderstood places: Easter Island.

A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life

A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications.

However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the...