With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who...View more

An acclaimed historian offers a novel look at Mussolini whose importance, charisma and achievements, according to Hoyt, have been overshadowed by his flagrant personality and...View more

For Nick Flynn, that game we all play—the who-would-play-you-in-the-movie-of-your-life game—has been answered. The Reenactments is the story of adapting Flynn's memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, into...View more

Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Science & Technology (2015) Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet...View more

'Oliver Sacks’s Letters isn’t a book of the year – it’s a book for a lifetime . . . Keep this by your side, dip into it,...View more

For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal...View more

A spellbinding and unorthodox look into the life of Leonard Cohen, and the way his experiences with religion and spirituality produced one of the greatest...View more

In Watching the Nineties, much-loved comedian Josh Widdicombe tells the story of a strange rural childhood, the kind of childhood he only realised was weird...View more

Millions of people climb the grand marble staircase to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art every year. But only a select few have unrestricted access...View more

The First In-Depth Biography of America's Last Five-Star General He was known as "the G.I. General"- humble, self-effacing, hard-working, reflecting the small-town virtues of the...View more

'With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, dutiful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell...View more

In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee Vienna. Desperate, they take out adverts offering their children into the safe keeping of readers of a...View more