The Fear Index: From the Sunday Times bestselling author

Robert Harris

Meet Alex Hoffmann: among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich, he is something of a legend. Based in Geneva, he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets. Generating billions of dollars, it is a system that thrives on panic - and feeds on fear. And ...

Learning from the Germans: Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil

Susan Neiman

As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward?Susan Neiman's Learning from the Germans delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings. Neiman, who grew up as...

Follow This Thread - A Maze Book to Get Lost In

Henry Eliot; Quibe (Illustrator)

As a rule, we take care not to get lost, so why should we willingly enter a maze? Illustrated with a single red line, Follow This Thread traces dozens of real and historical mazes, and their uses in literature, art and film, from Pac-Man and Picasso to Kubrick and Kafka. Henry Eliot reveals our abiding...

The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen: Selected and Introduced by Tessa Hadley

Elizabeth Bowen

A beautiful paperback edition of Elizabeth Bowen's short stories, selected and introduced by Tessa Hadley.'Bowen's stories are novels that have been split open like rocks and reveal the glitter of the naked crystals which have formed them' VogueSELECTED AND WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY TESSA HADLEYA girl ...