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Putting the Women Back into Roman History

Most things you ?know' about science and religion are myths or half-truths that grew up in the last years of the nineteenth century and remain widespread today.The true history of science and religion is a human one. It's about the role of religion in inspiring, and strangling, science before the scientific revolution. It's about the sincere but eccentric faith and the quiet, creeping doubts of the most brilliant scientists in history - Galile...

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of Hannah Masury¿s rousing adventure as one of the most feared and admired sea rovers of all time

One of the most unfathomable mysteries of quantum physics... could the answer be much closer than ever we thought?

A sweeping and tender story set in a decaying mansion on South Africa's eastern coast

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisonsWINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023 'A must-read for anyone concerned with human rights in Iran. A gripping, moving and utterly shocking account.' Kylie Moore-Gilbert Iranian prisons systematically violate human rights. In White Torture, fourteen women, including Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, share their experiences of imprisonment: harassment and beatings b...

In The Iron Cage, Rashid Khalidi, one of the most respected historians and political observers of the Middle East, presents a succinct and insightful history of the Palestinian people and their leadership in the twentieth century. Ranging from the Palestinian struggle against colonial rule and the beginnings of the ¿Iron Cage¿, through the eras of the PLO, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas, this is an unflinching and sobering critique of th...

Can ballet ever be reconciled with feminist ideals?

An unputdownable tale of obsession, jealousy and heartache against the backdrop of WW2

Trang and Quynh: sisters who leave their rural village for the bustling city of Saigon, desperate to find work to help their impoverished parents. When they take jobs as ? bar girls?, paid to flirt with American GIs, they must decide whether they are willing to turn their backs on the people they used to be.   Phong: one of the thousands of mixed-race children abandoned by their American fathers and Vietnamese mothers. Phong grows up surrounde...

Beethoven's life and legacy in 100 recordings

In the dying days of the USSR, battlelines have shifted from spycraft to the cut-throat capitalism and it¿s intellectual property, not state secrets, that are to be bought, sold, stolen and fought over

A high octane thriller, capturing the extraordinary capacity of humans to retain compassion in extreme circumstances

A Defence of Our Intergalactic Common InterestsSilicon for microchips, manganese for batteries, titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth’s supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world’s superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Race begins, A.C. Grayling asks: who, if anyone, owns the moon? Or Mars? Or other bodies in near s...

The four Flattery sisters - Olwen, Nell, Maeve and Rhona - were left to cobble together their own makeshift adolescence after the death of both their parents. Decades later, all four of them have found success in their respective fields, all of them boasting PhDs and, in Nell's case, a healthy clutch of Instagram followers. Still, none of the sisters have come to terms with their parents' deaths, choosing to focus instead on bigger problems - ...

What does love demand of us, and who must pay the price?' Joan Silber

An eerie, compelling psychological thriller of the crumbling of a mother's life

Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow.Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed up on an isolated island called Elmhallow, under the guardianship of a mysterious couple. As the experiment steps up another level, Seb is forced to team up with Eleanor once more.But where is Finn? And what does HappyHead have in store for them next?

They lay... Her heart tore to ribbons. How would she ever let him go now?Japan, 2005. While researching her ancestors, twenty-year-old Isla encounters a vicious typhoon who sends her back in time to 1877, the Satsuma Rebellion. Through a combination of fate and courage, Isla meets her ancestors, as well as Keiichiro Maeda, a samurai she ends up falling for.

Dive in and your whole cultural landscape will be refreshed and reframed.' Adjoa AndohProfessor Farah Karim-Cooper grew up loving the Bard, perhaps because Romeo and Juliet felt Pakistani to her. But why was being white as a ?snowy dove' essential to Juliet's beauty?Combining piercing analysis of race, gender and otherness in beloved plays from Othello to The Tempest with a radical reappraisal of Elizabethan London, The Great White Bard entrea...