A ground-breaking exploration of the emerging field of genome writing and its profound implications for healthcare, the environment and the global economy

A compelling and comprehensive account on how Germany, so long the powerhouse of Europe, is crumbling from the inside out

There is a history of humanity that has never been told - the story of how we are born.

Patti Smith's most heartfelt, most heartbreaking memoir, offers an intimate journey through her life, love, and art. telling the story of her childhood, her breakout album Horses and her relationship with husband, Fred.

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule breaks down how the power of ordinary people is under attack by an elite minority - and how we can redirect our energy to the real problem at hand.

When we picture the ancient world, we tend to envision the soaring pyramids of Giza, the Coliseum conquests in Rome and the bustling agora of Athens. Indeed, the classical authors who shape our understanding of the world considered the edges of these ancient civilisations the domain of monstrous humanity. For these writers, from Ovid to Herodotus, the outer reaches of the world was where civilisation, or their conception of civilisation, ceased to exist. But at the borders of the empires we n...

A stunningly written new biography of Alexander the Great, based on a series of important new discoveries and the author's own translations of source material from twelve ancient languages

From the author of the smash-hit Around the World in 80 Trains comes a new globetrotting journey - this time celebrating the peculiar magic and mayhem of the night train.

The inspiring, life-changing new book from global sensation Rutger Bregman, Moral Ambition shows how our world has been shaped by a small group of committed individuals who changed the course of history - and how you can, too.

Discover for the first time the story of the Organisation Todt, a hidden and brutal organisation overseen by Hitler at the heart of the Nazi machine.