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As well as the '60s heavy-hitters, this book also offers portraits of a whole host of other musicians: everyone from the great jazzman Coleman Hawkins to the folk diva Sandy Denny, Lonnie Johnson to Eric Clapton, The Incredible String Band to Fairport Convention.

A thrilling account of a crime that defined a decade from the bestselling author of The Run of His Life (the book behind The People vs OJ Simpson).

Bestselling author and marketing strategist Ryan Holiday reveals how a classic work - a Perennial Seller - is made and marketed.

Come on, don't be shy: pick up this outstanding cultural history of shyness from the brilliant Joe Moran.

On 17 March 1967, the 26-year-old David Sainsbury wrote out a cheque for ¿5 and established the trust which would become the Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Gatsby's purpose was ambitious: to make the world a better place by taking on some of the social, economic and scientific challenges that face humanity. In recent years, Gatsby has spent around ¿50m annually on charitable activities, and by its 50th anniversary in 2017 it will have spent over ¿1bn on programmes that range from reducing poverty in Africa to raising the standard of technical education, investigating how plants fight disease, and finding out how the brain works. But despite Gatsby's wide reach and the level of its donations, it has always functioned discreetly and out of the public eye. Georgina Ferry's in-depth account reveals its achievements and invites us to question how the super-rich - and even the moderately affluent - might spend their money more wisely and for the common good.

The recent TV award winning adaption The Durrells left its 7 million fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This book has the answers.

The 1783 eruption of Laki led to Europe's year without summer - and it is due again soon.

International writing from the Spanish Civil War, from both behind and at the front line.

In The Ascension Mysteries, David Wilcock unlocked the mysteries mankind have always struggled to answer: who are we, how did we get here and where are we going?

Elaine Morgan forces scientists to question accepted theories of human evolution.

Michael Jenkins's vivid memoir of a summer that changed his life has become a much-loved classic, with its evocative portraits of Tante Yvonne and the other aunts, the raw memories of two world wars that still scar the Flanders plain.

A savagely ironic portrait of a couple's failing marriage set in early 90s Europe, offering fierce and timeless reflections on love, identity and desire.

A savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism and an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age.

All new Harvard-style street smarts from the people who knew, worked with and were influenced by Mark H. McCormack.

Classic and new work from Simon Rich - never before published outside the USA - to tie in with Simon's BBC Radio 4 show of the same name.

Three perspectives - those of a parent, a teacher and a young person living with Asperger's - that offer practical tools and strategies for managing life as a neurodiverse individual.

All the President's Men meets Philomena: the investigation that inspired the Oscar-nominated film Spotlight

One of the world's leading thinkers on truth explains what it is, the different ways of approaching and understanding it, and why it matters.