Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are essential to our survival but remain largely unknown to us. In Beneath the Skin, f
The definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book A
Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that
'Anyone who wishes to understand why Brexit is so intractable should read this book. I can think of several MPs who ought to.' the Times'Ferriter's judicious book shows that Brexiters' recklessness, s
It's the middle of summer. On Cornish sea-fronts, happy children grip melting ice-creams. In the south of France, sunlight filters through leaves as families picnic in the shade. And in the fashionabl
Over five years covering climate change, Jelmer Mommers has learned that the subject is a great way to ruin a conversation. Most people prefer to look away, which is understandable when we discuss cli
From the man the Wall Street Journal describes as a 'global change guru', more than one hundred of the trends that touch every aspect of our lives. This new and updated edition looks even farther into
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022 他扣下板機，改變的不只是歷史進程。將時光倒回1822年， Fowler以小說筆法描繪布思家族成員—其中一人即是暗殺林肯的約翰布思—間的親密、衝突與糾葛，以及那個種族、政治、文化歧見環伺，動盪不安的19世紀美國。A major new novel from million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves.Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war.Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.
