English Books

'Skillfully mapping a new world order' Evening Standard 'Francoban is a fascinating guide to uncharted territory' The Times The New Silk Roads - Peter Frankopan's follow-up to The Book of Contract, The Silk Roads - takes a fresh look at the web of relationships...

A Sunday Times bestseller and an international bestseller - a sweeping reappraisal of world history in the light of the economic and political renaissance of the resurgent East. Sunday Times "Brilliant" - "Hugely entertaining... Hugely ambitious, enormously detailed, utterly gripping" - The Times. For...

Brought to you by Penguin Books. The best-selling book of all time. British Book Awards, Audiobook of the Year. Winner of the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Winner of the 2020 Audi Award for Biography/Memoir. An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir...

Brought to you by Penguin Books. “Malala is an inspiration to girls and women all over the world.” - J.K. Rowling "I Am Malala" tells the remarkable true story of a girl who knew she wanted to change the world—and did. Growing up in...

The new biography of President Joe Biden by National Book Award winner and New Yorker writer Evan Osnos - Financial Times, Guardian, and Daily Express Book of the Year "An easy-to-read primer" The Guardian "Biden overcame unimaginable adversity, multiple presidential primary humiliations, a potentially...

A portrait of a man who inspired millions around the world with his experiences in prison and presidency of South Africa.

The comprehensive biography of the transformative world leader by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev. When Mikhail Gorbachev took over the leadership of the Soviet Union in 1985, it was one of the world's two superpowers. By 1989, his liberal policies of perestroika and...

In Jared Diamond's follow-up to his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, the author explores how climate change, population explosions, and political discord are setting the stage for civilization's collapse. Environmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, and unwise political choices have...

Finalist for the 2018 Audi Award for Autobiography/Memoir and Excellence in Marketing. “In the past, for reasons I’m trying to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be cautious in public, as if I were on a wire with no net. Now, I let...

The award-winning television adventurer and travel writer recounts a captivating account of his 5,000-mile expedition around the Arabian Peninsula, from Iraq to Lebanon. Following in the footsteps of great explorers such as Lawrence of Arabia and Wilfred Thesiger, in Leveson Wood's Arabia, he recounts...

This book assesses the contradictory nature of modern Saudi Arabia, explaining the clash between contemporary technology and a powerful religious establishment rooted in ancient traditions, exploring events in recent history that have led to current conflicts. From the bestselling author of "The Kingdom."

From Stephen R. Covey, the late, legendary author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, offers a new set of rules for achieving a happy, fulfilling life, filled with greatness. Many of us struggle. We experience chronic problems, dissatisfaction, and disappointment. Although we...

China's story is exceptionally rich and dramatic. Now, Michael Wood, one of Britain's foremost historians, brings it all together in a single volume, A History of China, an essential book for anyone who wants to understand its growing role in the world today. China...

We live in a time of unprecedented transformation, where technology and so-called progress have made us richer but also more uncertain than ever. We have questions about the future, society, work, happiness, family, and money, yet no political party, whether left or right, offers...

A comprehensive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius, and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture. The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791 and culminated twelve years later in the proclamation of the...

2020 Financial Times, Economist, and New Statesman Book of the Year: “The most important nonfiction book of the year” by David Hare. In the years before and after the fall of the Berlin Wall, people from across the political spectrum in Europe and America...

Urgent reading... Karl Popper for the 21st century Robert Phillips, former CEO of Edelman Europe, Middle East and Africa and author of Trust Me, PR is Dead. "Heffernan... a master storyteller. Uncharted... is wise and engagingly human." Tim Harford, Financial Times How can we...

'Smart, accessible and captivating' - Robin Ince 'A fascinating exploration of how we learn what matter really is' - Sean Carroll 'A delightfully fresh and accessible approach to one of science's greatest endeavours' - Graham Farmelo 'It shows not just what we know, but...

Nominated for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction Nominated for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing The Ministry of Truth documents the life of George Orwell in 1984, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, a work of increasing importance in...

Brought to you by Penguin. The classic best-selling business book on the power of relationships, updated with in-depth advice for building relationships in the digital world. Want to get ahead in life? Climb the ladder of success? Relationships expert Keith Ferrazzi says the secret...