Talking to Terrorists: How to End an Armed Conflict
by Jonathan Powell

Should governments talk to terrorists? Should they ‘negotiate with evil’? Without communication, argues Powell, we will never end conflict. As violen...

The Sound Book: The Science and Celebration of the Sonic Wonders of the World
by Trevor Cox

Creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, squeaking beaches, groaning waterwheels, frogs that croak in Mexican waves,...

Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity
by Philip Short

As a politician and as a man, from the 1930s until his death in 1996, François Mitterrand was the incarnation of the mercurial, contrarian France...

Just Babies: The Origins of Good and Evil
by Paul Bloom

The human moral sense is fascinating. Putting aside the intriguing case of psychopaths, every normal adult is appalled by acts of cruelty. Every norma...

An Atheist's History of Belief: Understanding Our Most Extraordinary Invention
by Matthew Kneale

What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltering in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived since,...

Serving the Reich: The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
by Philip Ball

Three lives caught between the idealistic goals of science and a tyrannical ideology. Serving the Reich tells the story of three world-renowned physi...

Wounded: From Battlefield to Blighty, 1914-1918
by Emily Mayhew

Wounded traces a journey made by a casualty from the battlefield of the Western Front to a hospital in Britain. It is a story told through the testimo...

The Story of the Jews and the Fate of the World
by Simon Schama

Simon Schama's Story of the Jews will be one of the most discussed books of 2013. It is a landmark history of a culture, a people, a world from the ...

Nelson: The Sword of Albion
by John Sugden

Sugden brilliantly interweaves graphic accounts of Nelson's famous victories at the battles of the Nile, Copenhagen and Trafalgar with his lesser-know...

The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery
by George Johnson

When science-writer George Johnson's wife was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, he plunged himself into a study of the disease and of the people who...