One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian…

The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life. With…

'Magnificent' Robert Macfarlane Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the YearOur lives depend on shipping but it is…

'I look at all of Carver's work as just one story, for his stories are all occurences, all about things that just happen to…

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT MACFARLANEDuring the Second World War, John Stewart Collis volunteered to leave his…

• Rok vydání 2001

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.' Philip Hoare, New…

The dramatic story of five key turning points in a thousand years of Western music - discoveries that changed the course of…

Bowen's Court describes the history of one Anglo-Irish family in County Cork from the Cromwellian settlement until 1959,…

One night Mark Cocker followed the roiling, deafening flock of rooks and jackdaws which regularly passed over his Norfolk…

This beautiful record, on fine paper, is Crumley's homage to these noble creatures, but it is also an elegy, a love song to…

With exhilaratingly honest (and often hilarious) dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and…

• Rok vydání 2020

A FRANK, FUNNY AND EMPOWERING CELEBRATION OF FEMALE PLEASUREAn orgasm will help you sleep and keep you looking younger, it…

• Rok vydání 2020

Another beautiful, revelatory country diary from one of the best nature writers in Britain. \'If you\'ve never read Mark…

• Rok vydání 2019

'Essential reading for anybody who cares about the future' Henry Marsh, *New Statesman Books of the Year*A radical…

• Rok vydání 2014

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.…

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite…

Neil Young is one of rock and roll's most important, influential and enigmatic figures, an intensely reticent artist who has…

Starting out as a backing group for Ronnie Hawkins, before being propelled on to the world stage by Bob Dylan, The Band…

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river,…

`An unbelievably inspiring book' Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of TreesDid you know that pigs frequently throw…

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? For parents helping with their children's homework, casual theatre-goers who want to…

From redressing the pay gap through a semi-legal sponsorship scheme to surviving a leadership course where you're forced to…

• Rok vydání 2017

Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in The Times'There is no doubt that Moss's book, with its charming cover and quaint…

Anyone who's ever seen or attended the PDC World Darts Championships knows that darts is no ordinary sport.And then there's…

Alan Root is one of the great wildlife pioneers. In this extraordinary memoir we look at Africa's wonders through the eyes…