'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'

As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it.

In 2006, architectural designer and curator Adam Stech embarked on a photographic project to document the best Modernist architecture around the globe. Twenty-five countries and more than a decade later, the fruits of that monumental project are gathered in this impressive collection covering nearly a century of architectural history.

“It grew dark and a mist spread over the countryside like a curtain. We were at the Bohemian border.

In July 1971, US National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger, made a secret visit to China to meet top Chinese leaders. This inaugurated a new phase not just in US-China relations but in contemporary history.

'History is made up of myths,' writes the renowned Russian dissident journalist Mikhail Zygar. 'Alas, our myths led us to the fascism of 2022.

Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (March) SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien.

This gripping book is the story of Ukraine’s Nazi occupation, told by one ordinary, brave child.
'Rightly hailed a masterpiece' Daily Mail

With diary entries, quotations, poems, essays and extracts, this is an exquisite time capsule of literary London which takes you on a captivating journey through the city. London: An Illustrated Literary Companion, compiled by Rosemary Gray, captures the varying moods of London over recent centuries through great works written in its honour, featuring authors including Charles Dickens, William Wordsworth, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and many more.

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year’ Sunday Telegraph ‘On nearly every page a random passage takes one’s breath away’ The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod.

In a bold and magisterial work of immense scope, Josephine Quinn argues that the real story of the West is much bigger than this established paradigm leads us to believe. So much of our shared history has been lost, drowned out by the concept - developed in the Victorian era - of separate 'civilisations'.

Moving from the Bronze Age to the Age of Exploration, How the World Made the West reveals a new narrative: one that traces the millennia of global encounters and exchange that built what is now called the West, as societies met, tangled and sometimes grew apart.

Our story opens with a cat stuck in a tree, an ordinary-enough occurrence. Fletcher the cat, having run up the tree in a moment of thoughtless abandon, cannot get back down.

From Hafsah Faizal, New York Times-bestselling author of We Hunt the Flame, comes A Tempest of Tea – an intoxicating brew of vampires, secrets and romance, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo's Six of Crows.'A riveting page-turner, A Tempest of Tea is brewed to perfection' – Rebecca Ross, bestselling author of Divine Rivals'Slinky and witty and clever' – Holly Black, bestselling author of The Folk of the Air seriesOn the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by dark, catering to the vampires feared by society.

Poprvé knižně publikovaný soubor Válka za studena je podobenstvím o kroužení kolem jádra nicoty. Fotografie ze základní vojenské služby v Československé lidové armádě obnažují svět mužů zavlečených do pasti, jíž je hra na vojáky.

„V dětství jsem pořád musel přemýšlet o dětech tam (v Evropě). Nesu s sebou břemeno toho, že žiji za ty, kteří museli zemřít.“ Maurice Sendak Výjimečná dětská opera Hanse Krásy a Adolfa Hoffmeistera v originálním zpracování slavného dramatika Tonyho Kushnera a Maurice Sendaka, jednoho z nejvýznamnějších autorů dětské literatury 20. století. Tato kniha je pro čtenáře zásadní jak svým obsahem a poselstvím, tak právě i výrazným výtvarným zpracováním.

Autorem této rozsáhlé studie o význačném českém architektu Adolfu Benšovi je architekt a historik Vladimír Šlapeta, zkušený lektor a kosmopolitní nadšenec pro české moderní meziválečné hnutí, který si první uznání v anglo-americkém světě vysloužil v roce 1987 svou publikací Czech Functionalism v Architectural Association. Benš byl postupně žákem Jana Kotěry a Josefa Gočára, v důsledku toho pak přešel ve dvacátých letech od českého kubismu svého mládí do konstruktivistické dospělosti.

The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. 'A masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches, changing as its readers change, going forward with us into the future' Guardian 'Does it merit another Booker?

Ne každý, kdo tvrdí, že chce pomáhat lidem, říká pravdu... Olivia Rönningová zmizela.

WINNER OF 2016 COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR. "Pitch-perfect, the outstanding novel of the year so far." (Robert McCrum, Observer). "More wrenching and beautiful than anything I've read in a long time." (Aravind Adiga, Guardian Books of the Year). After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War.

A frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs. Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents - artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs - Lisa Brennan-Jobs's childhood unfolded in a rapidly changing Silicon Valley.

Are we in the middle of a generational war? Are Millennials really entitled 'snowflakes'? Are Baby Boomers stealing their children's futures?