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Women & Power

Mary Beard

CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1. BESTSELLER

Worlds of Fear and Wonder

Malcolm Gaskill

How the supernatural unlocks a deeper understanding of the past, from the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches

Billions to Bust – and Beyond (New and Updated Edition)

Thor Bjorgolfsson

A no-holds-barred true story of risk, loss and adventure capitalism

The Daily Stoic: 10th Anniversary Edition

Ryan Holiday

The multi-million-selling phenomenon – in a new luxury format with updated doses of practical, uplifting philosophy

Phrased and Confused

Eli Burnstein

Following Dictionary of Fine Distinctions, a stocking filler and witty guide to humanity's most iconic – and misunderstood – quotes

How to Build a Haunted House

Caitlin Blackwell Baines

A grand tour of the haunted house through art, architecture, ghost stories and more

The Death of Socrates

Emily Wilson

The world-famous translator of Homer investigates the life and afterlife of antiquity’s most influential thinker, in an essential re-issued edition

Wine

Kathleen Burk

The untold story of wine, from the Stone Age to the present

Out of Colditz

David Lascelles

The astonishing true story of the high-profile hostages who survived Colditz – and the man who spared their lives

Boglands

Merritt Turetsky

A world-leading ecologist's grand tour of the strangest and least understood of all Earth's landscapes

The Bookshop

Andrew Pettegree

A magisterial history of bookshops and booksellers by the author of The Library and The Book at war

In the Realm of the Last Man

Francis Fukuyama

A captivating history of the late-twentieth century from the world-renowned political scientist and thinker