Non-fiction

Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasa...

Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space. But you'd be wrong. Extreme events are forever unfolding...

From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions - especially those of the East - are being commodified as never befo...

On 8 February 1971, Marxist revolutionaries attacked the gendarmerie outpost at the village of Siyahkal in Iran's Gilan province. Barely two months...

Discussions of the Arab world, particularly the Gulf States, increasingly focus on sectarianism and autocratic rule. These features are often attri...

The EU referendum in the UK and Trump's victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayli...

‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi's Book of the Soul ...

With one famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein proved all matter can be described as energy. It is everywhere and it is everything. In this newly update...

What are the chances?! This exclamation greets the scarcely believable coincidence - you're picked up by the same taxi driver several years and tho...

Everyone knows about DNA, the essence of our being, the molecule where our genes reside. But DNA by itself is useless without a machine to decode t...

A generation gap has emerged between parents and their daughters. Mothers and fathers have little idea about the pressures and expectations they fa...

The heart lies at the centre of life. For cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar it is an obsession. In this fascinating history he interweaves gripping scene...

The Chinese Communist Party is determined to reshape the world in its image. The party is not interested in democracy. It sees only a bitter ideolo...

Jacinda Ardern was swept to office in 2017 on a wave of popular enthusiasm dubbed 'Jacindamania'. In less than three months, she rose from deputy l...

Oil is the lifeblood of the modern world. Without it, there would be no planes, no plastic, no exotic produce, and a global political landscape few...

Racial differences are rooted in biological reality, right? That's certainly what a small group of anthropologists, psychologists and pundits would...

From the authors of New York Times bestseller The Genius of Dogs comes a new popular science book about how ‘friendliness’ is in fact the key facto...

From the author of the bestselling study of the 1948 War of Independence comes an incisive look at the Occupied Territories, picking up the story w...

Can one of the most divided nations on the planet become its next superpower? James Crabtree reveals the titans of politics and industry shaping In...

This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield them from racism. The author explore...

Demagogues and authoritarians are flourishing in this modern age of political myth. They exploit our fears and fantasies. Exposing the fictions tha...

The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling mak...

The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and s...

It's a game you're already playing, whether you like it or not. You can choose to ignore it and remain at the mercy of what others say about you, o...

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bulb. Just a wooden c...

More than meets the eye - the science of how we see and the secrets it reveals about how the brain works. Spotting a familiar face in a crowd is so...

Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions? In this delightful journey of discovery, David Dar...

Even the most enthusiastic of maths students probably at one time wondered when exactly it would all prove useful in 'real life'. Well, maths reach...