New Hardback Books

Paul Anthony Jones / Why Is This a Question?: Everything About the Origins and Oddities of Language You Never Thought to Ask (Hardback)

Why don’t eleven and twelve end in "–teen"?The rest of our counting system sits in neatly arithmetical sets of ten, so why do these two rule-breakers seem so at odds with the numbers that follow them?That’s probably a question that...

Jeannette Walls / The Glass Castle (Hardback)

This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeanette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her...

Gary Cox / How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses (Hardback)

H ow to Be an Existentialist is a witty and entertaining book about the philosophy of existentialism. It is also a genuine self-help book offering clear advice on how to live according to the principles of existentialism formulated by Nietzsche, Sartre,...

Mary Warnock / Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion Out of Politics (Hardback)

Here is a pugnacious book by a philosopher who often hits the headlines. The book reflects on the nature of religion and how it relates or ought to relate to the rest of life.Many people today are totally indifferent to religion but religion is far...

Lee Smolin / Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe (Hardback)

From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos. What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the...

Michael J. Benton / When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Hardback)

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living.Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251...

Jacob Needleman / What Is God? (Hardback)

In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar Needleman cuts a clear path through today?s clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power.I n this new...

Alexa Chung / It (Hardback)

In It, her first book, the global fashion-trendsetter Alexa Chung shares her own very personal inspirations, musings and eclectic sense of style.A truly one-off collection of Alexa's writing, doodles and photographs, It combines stories of early style...

Raymond Tallis / Aping Mankind: Neuromania, Darwinitis and the Misrepresentation of Humanity (Hardback)

In a devastating critique Raymond Tallis exposes the exaggerated claims made for the ability of neuroscience and evolutionary theory to explain human consciousness, behaviour, culture and society.While readily acknowledging the astounding progress...

Colin Tudge / The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor (Hardback)

47 million years old, the fossil Ida rewrites what we've assumed about the earliest primate origins. With exclusive access to the first scientists to study her, Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida and her place in the world.     All of our...

Frank Close / Neutrino (Hardback)

Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed by the billions in stars and pass through us constantly, unseen, at almost the speed of light. Yet half a century after their discovery, we still...

Gretchen Rubin / Outer Order Inner Calm: Declutter & Organize to Make More Room for Happiness (Hardback)

For most of us, outer order contributes to inner calm.And for most of us, a rigid one-size-fits-all solution doesn't work.In the context of a happy life, a messy desk or a crowded wardrobe is a trivial problem -- yet Gretchen Rubin has found that getting...

Robert Sheehan / Playing Dead: How Meditation Brought Me Back to Life (Hardback)

From Hollywood star of Misfits and The Umbrella Academy and host of hit podcast The Earth Locker , Robert Sheehan, comes his heartfelt journey to inner peace.Meditation is a whole dimension without time, a profound reminder of the eternal being of You...

Vic Darkwood / The Lost Art of Travel (Hardback)

Do not dread an occasional night in the open when you are benighted and have no camp. There are few beds more comfortable than a dry ditch in England in June' Frank Tatchell, Vicar of Midhurst, 1923 'Every lady should, to my mind, know how to use a...

Edward Monkton / The Penguin of Death (Hardback)

  suddenly you hear it in a voice so clear and strong, a strange and SUBTLE melody A HAUNTING Penguin song." In this hauntingly nuanced ballad, Edward Monkton takes you on an epic journey to the heart of life . . . and to the strange and wonderful...

Baek Se-hee / I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (Hardback)

Baek Se-Hee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her--what to call it?--depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of...

Mark Driscoll , Gerry Breshears / Vintage Jesus: Timeless Answers to Timely Questions (Hardback)

Some two thousand years after he walked the earth, Jesus Christ is still a hot topic. And for all the ridiculous, twisted, Da Vinci Code-esque conspiracy theories and lies about Jesus that have permeated popular culture and even the academy over the...

Karl Pilkington / An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington (Hardback)

  The companion guide to the hysterical television show of the same name, in which Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force their arrestingly simple pal Karl Pilkington on a global journey "He'd have been happier in medieval...

Anne Lamott / Almost Everything: Notes on Hope (Hardback)

From Anne Lamott, the New York Times-bestselling author of Help, Thanks, Wow, comes the book we need from her now: How to bring hope back into our lives"I am stockpiling antibiotics for the Apocalypse, even as I await the blossoming of...

Sadakat Kadri / Heaven on Earth: A Journey Through Sharia Law (Hardback)

Book Description A timely and eye-opening investigation into one of the most disputed but least understood topics of recent times - the history and reality of shari'a law. Product Description * Almost 1400 years after the Prophet Muhammad first...

Rhiannon Guy / The Moviegoer's Companion (Hardback)

Whether you love film noir or MattLeblanc, "Gone With the Wind" or "Reservoir Dogs," this is the book for you. Discover the strange and wonderful world of movies in all their bizarre and glamorous glory with this incomparable collection of fascinating...

W.S. Norman / Teach Yourself Good Manners (Hardback)

Originally published in 1958, Teach Yourself Good Manners is a fascinating guide, packed full of both timeless advice and tips that demonstrate just how much life has changed in the 60 years since it published.Indeed, the author, W S Norman, would...

Dan Rhodes / Marry Me (Hardback)

MARRY ME by Dan Rhodes is the sequel to his ANTHROPOLOGY AND 100 OTHER STORIES. It's ten years on. Dan still loves love. He still loves very short stories. This time he's married.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get...