A game-changing book on the origins of life, called the most important scientific discovery 'since the Copernican revolution' in The Observer.

A wide-ranging look at the voices in all our heads, examining how we think and what it means for our lives and sense of self, now in paperback.

In 1968, nine men - six Englishmen, two Frenchmen and an Italian - set out to try, a race born of coincidence of their timing. One didn't even know how to sail. This is a true story of the inaugural 1968 Golden Globe sailing race: the first single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world.

One of the great works of European short fiction, by turns funny, reflective and profound

One of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's most loved books, published in the UK for the first time.

London in the aftermath of WW2 is a beaten down, hungry place, so it's no wonder that Regine Milner's Sunday house parties are so popular. Everyone comes to Reggie's on a Sunday: ballet dancers and cabinet ministers, alongside homosexuals like Freddie. And when Freddie turns up dead on the Heath one Sunday night there is no shortage of suspects.

The definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War.

A bold and controversial rethinking of the role of war in human history and how it will shape our future, sure to provoke debate, from the bestselling author of Why the West Rules - For Now.