How to change lives with words.

Not Speaking is a lively and unusual family memoir, and a slice of social history.

How what scares us, makes us.

In this history of Prefabs, discover why these supposedly temporary ‘people’s palaces’ are still loved and admired.

The new old ways to reclaim Christmas

A personal, passionate and practical guide to the mental health benefits of bird watching.

Why changing your media diet can change the world

Two friends paddle, hike and wade 1300km along Angola's longest river in support of The HALO Trust's demining work.

Want to help unpublished working class writers get into print? Join Kit de Waal and her contributors to give new writers a platform…

The CEO of Unbound spends a week in Cornwall building a wooden surfboard to try and work out how to evolve within his company.

“I was offered the opportunity either to go to Australia or to go with the partisans in Northern Italy. I thought that going to the partisans would keep me nearer to my girlfriend now, my wife” (Bob Clark – IWM interview 2004) A son’s journey to uncover the story of his parents in special forces – war and love in Italy

Gabriel Stewart decided to walk 1,000 miles around the UK on his gap year. This is the story of how it all went spectacularly wrong.

A beautifully illustrated history of bandstands and other pavilions built for music.

Find Your Purpose. But Don’t Lose Your Mind.

A major new critical study of the writings of a giant of the SF genre by a Hugo award-winning critic and historian.

How one woman's road trip became a sexual revolution

Swimming in search of the meaning of motherhood

How poetry can teach us about the things in life that really matter

A guide to killing your monsters

Nineteen years old with freshly dyed blue hair, punk rocker Gail places an advert in a music paper for ‘likeminded friends and weirdos’. Soap the Stamps, Jump the Tube follows her autobiographical journey through the 80s underground music and squatting scene in London

A meandering through our great archetypal myths and a plea for a kinder Brexit

What happens when you move to Tasmania on a hunch, with a husband who aspires to be an alpaca whisperer and a feral cockerel? Can you cook the cockerel for dinner, or has it got rigor mortis?

Retracing her father’s heroic escape across China in World War Two leads his daughter on a gripping voyage of discovery about him, China and, inevitably, herself.

A fresh approach to creating outstanding organisations and successful people so that work is a better place for everyone

A debut poetry collection that asks the age old question: if you throw a pineapple in a pool - would it sink or float?

Over 800 new aphorisms from "our greatest living aphorist.”

A fast, funny, emotive memoir showing how most fans really follow football.

Inspiring the next generation of women in tech

A coming-of-age graphic novel that is a love letter to the silver screen