How a single year turned Chaucer into a poet, and sparked the creation of The Canterbury Tales. Now available in paperback.

The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History.

An accessible introduction to politics from David Runciman, Professor of Politics at Cambridge University

Contains chapters that include Street Life, Earning a Living: Baker, Banker and Garum Maker (who ran the city), and The Pleasure of the Body: Food, Wine, Sex and Baths. This book offers an insight into the workings of a Roman town.

It is middle England, mid-1980s. It is the kind of place where nothing ever happens, except something has happened. A sixteen year old boy called Robert had been killed, down by the pools. And half a dozen lives will come unravelled.

Beautiful hardback edition of a perfectly chilling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black.

Like its wildly popular predecessors 'Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities' and 'Hoard of Mathematical Treasures', this book is a miscellany of over 150 mathematical curios and conundrums, packed with trademark humour and numerous illustrations.

The bestselling Ian Stewart tackles his biggest subject yet: the weird and wonderful world of numbers, from zero to infinity.