Erebus, by Michael Palin (Hardback)
£20.00
HMS Erebus was one of the great exploring ships but in 1848 it disappeared in the Arctic. It was found in 2014 and Michael Palin was fascinated sufficiently by the history to bring its story to life.
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Bloody Brilliant Women: by Cathy Newman ( hardback)
£20.00
“A fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t”
Well researched and eloquently written, this is an original history book with something for everyone.
Post Truth : Peak Bullshit - and What we can Do About It, by Evan Davis
£9.99
How did we get to a place where bullshit is not just rife, but apparently so effective that it has become the communications strategy of our times? Written with the generous intelligent and wry humour that admirers of his broadcasting will recognise. Essential reading for anyone involved in communication.
How to Fail, by Elizabeth Day (hardback, March 2019)
£12.99
Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone.If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.
Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Uplifting, inspiring and rich in stories from Elizabeth's own life, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals.
Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.
Underland : A Deep Time Journey, by Robert Macfarlane ( Hardback, May 2019)
£20.00
The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways.
From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart.
'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times'
