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Shifting Sands

Judith Scheele

This is the story of the Sahara as you've never seen it before

Think Like a Mathematician

Junaid Mubeen

How to develop the thinking tools and techniques to understand the maths of modern life

Larry

Michael Haag

A new biography of Lawrence Durrell by the world's foremost expert, covering his time in London, Paris, Corfu and Alexandria

Into the Dream Lab

Michelle Carr

A Dream Engineer's guide to the science of dreaming and nightmares, and the astonishing impact the dreaming brain has on your waking life

These Wild English

Nicola Wilding

A raw, unforgettable account of rural, working-class life that will change how you think about Britain and its divisions

Ausländer

Michael Moritz

From one of the best known names in business: a haunting family memoir from the darkest era in Europe's history

Human Resources

Renay Richardson

For readers of Empireland and Black and British: discover the history you're not taught in school

Unequal

Eugenia Cheng

Award-winning mathematician Eugenia Cheng offers a perspective-shifting exploration of how maths can change your mind

Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea

Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson reflects on the power of language to evolve our understanding of the past

Murder in the Midday Sun

Various

Tensions reach boiling point in this collection of classic summertime crime tales

Hinterlands

Hannah Lucinda Smith

A timely eyewitness account of the overlooked territories where the new Cold War is playing out

Advance Britannia

Alan Allport

A major – and global – history of how the Second World War was won, by the author of Britain at Bay