Profile Books
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam
77%
The updated edition of Secret Affairs covers the momentous events of the past year in the Middle…
Lost, Stolen or Shredded: Stories of Missing Works of Art and Literature
79%
Like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the night time, sometimes the true significance of things lies in…
Acts of Union and Disunion
79%
The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different…
Nijinsky: A Life
57%
He achieves the miraculous, the sculptor Auguste Rodin wrote of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. He embodies…
Being Mortal
67%
In Being Mortal, Gawande examines his experiences as a surgeon, as he confronts the realities of…
A Short History of England
76%
This is the definitive concise account of our remarkable past. Which battle was fought 'For…
You Talkin' to Me?: Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama
66%
This is a witty, elegant enquiry into the art of persuasion. Rhetoric is what gives words power.…
Cezanne
56%
This is a remarkable new biography of a cultural icon. Today we view Cezanne as a monumental…
The Decision Book
87%
Most of us face the same questions every day: What do I want? And how can I get it? How can I live…
How Asia Works
85%
Until the catastrophic economic crisis of the late 1990s, East Asia was perceived as a monolithic…
Mood Indigo: Movie Tie-In
68%
The world of Mood Indigo is a stained-glass cartoon kind of a place, where the piano dispenses…
Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling
75%
Why is there an 'h' in ghost? William Caxton, inventor of the printing press and his Flemish…
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
97%
This is a provocative bestseller that explains why the world is divided into nations with wildly…
Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89
69%
In a timely and eye-opening book Rodric Braithwaite examines the Russian experience in that most…
Smut: Two Unseemly Stories
65%
This title features unexpected tales from the master of short fiction. The Shielding of Mrs Forbes.…
Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
65%
She was the last ruler of the Macedonian dynasty of Ptolemies who had ruled Egypt for three…
Half Blood Blues
68%
From Weimar Berlin to the fall of Paris, and on to the present day, danger, jealousy and…
The Story of English in 100 Words
99%
Featuring Latinate and Celtic words, weasel words and nonce-words, ancient word (loaf) to advanced…
Megachange: The World in 2050
57%
Building on the hugely successful annual Economist The World in... publications, this essential…
48 Laws of Power (Concise Edition)
75%
Drawn from 3,000 years of the history of power, this is the definitive guide to help readers…