How fig trees shaped our history, fed our imaginations and can enrich our future

An anthology celebrating the life of author Alan Garner

An anti-cookbook from Jonathan Meades

10 true stories about growing up in the world's playground

An anthology of the finest of travel literature

The hidden silly side of higher education

Leading authority on Brown publishes long-awaited celebration to mark his 300th anniversary

An Anthology of Writing on Asylum Seekers from Britain and Ireland's Finest Voices edited

Inside the World's Best Classrooms

A new biography of the woman behind Dartington Hall, American heiress Dorothy Elmhirst

A new album - that's a book -

A collection of the world’s finest railway books personally selected by Britain’s leading railway historian

A riotous history of people and things that broke the mould

A unique memoir of creative purpose, sexual discovery, activism - driven by defiance

An adventure through cycling and philosophy

A biography of England's first professional black footballer, who represented Leyton Orient, West Bromwich Albion and became the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid

A biography of Harriet Martineau, the first female journalist

Is texture the new fragrance?

Portraits of Britain's leading comedians and their favourite one liners

Imagine the past in colour? Now you don’t have to…

A unique glimpse into previously unseen sketch books

First collection from the Poet Laureate of Twitter

A biography of the most extraordinary woman in the Roman world

The Vanishing Art of Seizing the Day

Martial arts and misadventure in Japan

The official book of the acclaimed music blog where guests listen to great albums for the first time

A memoir of pop folk and clubbing in the 1980s (Formerly known as Just Got Lucky: My Life in Pop)

Learn how to do activism in a slow, kind and beautiful way using craft

Celebrity culture is rife but the best stories belong to ordinary people.

It's time for a real democracy