Matt Seaton’s critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling and how that obsession was tamed.
Matt Seaton’s critically acclaimed memoir about his obsession for cycling and how that obsession was tamed.
From the author THE PREHISTORY OF SEX, a coruscating, insightful history of the human soul
A powerful and honest insight into what it is to become a mother from the Whitbread Award-winning writer, Rachel Cusk.
Throughout history, from the Ancient Egyptians to medieval saints and the remains of figures like Eva Peron and Lenin, mummies have held a powerful place in our collective imagination. THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a riveting survey of the history, science and popular culture of mummies and of man’s ancient quest for immortality.
A powerful and honest insight into what it is to become a mother from the Whitbread Award-winning writer, Rachel Cusk.
Throughout history, mummies have held apowerful place in our collective imagination. Packed with extraordinary stories and narrated with great humour and verve, THE MUMMY CONGRESS is a compelling and entertaining journey into the world of the everlasting dead.
Francis Wheen’s brilliantly comic portrait of one of the 20th-century’s great characters, Tom Driberg: wit, parliamentarian, serial cottager, alleged communist spy and friend to the Kray brothers.
‘The Prehistory of Sex’ surveys for the first time, the development of human sexual culture in its entirety, from our remote evolutionary origins through to recent times, on the basis of archaeological evidence.
The Prehistory of Sex surveys for the first time, the development of human sexual culture in its entirety, from our remote evolutionary origins through to recent times, on the basis of archaeological evidence.
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