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A timely vision and theory of change for the future of humanity. Written with verve and a mordant wit, 'The Wheels of Society' is a vivid, cogent, ground-breaking proposal for us to re-think ourselves in order to steer civilisation back to safety.

A riveting new exploration of G.K. Chesterton's hidden life.

Vivid sketches and anecdotes from the last great independent publisher of his generation.

Newly revised in response to the momentous developments of the last four years, this is the fascinating and thought-provoking life story of one of the UK's most experienced immigration judges

This raucous memoir recounting Manoli's ascent to the pinnacle of international business features a career's worth of thrilling anecdotes from life in the fast lane.

A fascinating collection of testimonies from a unique generation of women, 'Sixty Somethings' looks back over the lives of 67 women in their sixties who lived through the Sixties to explore what it was really like for the so-called 'Baby Boomers'.

An ode to post-war Jewish Brixton and its unique cast of characters, Pomeranski is riotous and profound in equal measure as it recreates a vibrant era deserving of a place in our collective memory.

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A follow-up to Attallah's 2018 collection of interviews, this anthology takes in more of his spectacular encounters with the great, the good and the not so good. As with the previous volume, Naim's subjects are, alas, no longer with us.

Youssef Tigha lives in a makeshift camp in the centre of Paris. He's twelve years old. An Arab. Michael Finistere is a financier with several homes. Chance, or fate, brings the migrant and the multi-millionaire together. For one of them, life will never be the same again...

Through the themes of suicide and liberation, the story of one woman, one village and one people is told. With narratives broken by memories, unspeakable acts and desires are revealed, articulated. Conflicts shaped by cultural, scared and emotional allegiances emerge.

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I grew up in the restaurants of Bayswater and Kensington in the 1970s, not because my parents were restaurateurs but because my mother worked and so we never ate in. I yearn for the noise and fun of those restaurants where bon vivants caroused but foodies now reign, talking in the hushed and analytical whispers of a church congregation...

Published to enormous critical acclaim and commercial success between 2011 and 2012, these classic memoirs from the late great and incendiary art critic Brian Sewell will be reissued in a single volume in response to their continuing popularity.

Who were those women who sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painters? Muses to an exclusively male genius, of tragic stature and uncertain health - were they indeed as passive as their portrait painters and their critics contrived to suggest? Jan Marsh reveals the actual lives behind the myth of the Pre-Raphaelite women.

First published in 1987 and long out of print, this collection of Auberon Waugh's writings while wine correspondent at various times for Tatler, the Spectator and Harper's and Queen is now considered a classic text by a new generation of wine writers and connoisseurs.

An enthralling historical novel based on one man's journey through the upheaval of First-World-War Levant. Only the Dead is part adventure story and part exploration of the moral complexities arising from war, brutality and the desire for revenge.

A Bitter Harvest is the moving story of a family caught up in the dramatic struggle for Irish independence and the search for a better Europe following the horrors of the Great War.

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