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CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Thinking about Christmas already? We’ve got you covered with a selection of books perfect for your 2023 gift guides.
Gifts For Nature Lovers
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Taking Flight
by Lev Parikian
The awe-inspiring evolutionary story of flight through fourteen species and across millions of years – from pterosaurs to dragonflies, butterflies to bats. Look up and drink in the spectacle of these gravity-defying marvels.
HB 4 May 2023
Nature Tales for Winter Nights
edited by Nancy Campbell
A treasure trove of winter tales from across the natural world –rural, wild and urban. Diaries, letters, poems and stories to take you from late autumn, through deepest winter, and into the earliest evenings of spring. HB 12 Oct 2023
Fifty Words for Snow
by Nancy Campbell
In this exquisite exploration, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow. The perfect winter gift. PB 1 Nov 2021
Gifts To Help You See The World Differently
The Future of Geography
by Tim Marshall
The only book you need to understand the new space race; great-power rivalry; technology; economics; war; and what it means for all of us down here on Earth.
HB 27 Apr 2023
The Power of Geography
by Tim Marshall
Delivered with Marshall’s trademark wit and insight, this is a lucid and gripping exploration of the power of geography to shape humanity’s past, present – and future.
PB 1 Oct 2021
And Then What?
by Catherine Ashton
From Serbia to Somalia, Libya to Haiti, Catherine Ashton reveals how modern diplomacy really works, and the tools needed to find our way through the many challenges we face today.
HB 2 Feb 2023
Why Is This a Question?
by Paul Anthony Jones
Linguistic phenomenon Paul Anthony Jones explores the origins and oddities of language – the perfect gift for fans of Countdown and Wordle!
PB 2 Nov 2023
Don’t Stop the Music
by Justin Lewis
The ultimate pop-music trivia book that reveals the often surprising connections between Elvis, The Beatles and Jake Bugg.
HB 2 Nov 2023
Gifts For History Lovers
The Man with Miraculous Hands
by Joseph Kessel
The historical biography of Heinrich Himmler’s reluctant physician Dr Felix Kersten is available for the first time in the UK, with a new foreword by Norman Ohler addressing the historical legacy of Kersten’s story.
HB 9 Mar 2023
Dancing for Stalin
by Christina Ezrahi
The true story of Nina Anisimova, an innocent woman sent to the Gulag in Soviet Russia, and how her passion for dance gave her the will to survive.
PB 16 Mar 2023
A Village in the Third Reich
by Julia Boyd & Angelika Patel
An extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people living through extraordinary times. PB 6 October 2022
Luck of the Draw
by Frank Murphy
The epic true story of an American hero who flew during the Second World War, soon to be featured in the upcoming Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks TV Series, Masters of the Air.
HB 5 October 2023
The Language of Trees
by Katie Holten
A beautifully illustrated international collaboration that gathers together the world’s most exciting writers and artists, ecologists and activists to reveal our indelible connection to trees.
HB 15 June 2023
Road to Surrender
by Evan Thomas
A riveting, immersive account of the agonising decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan –a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history.
HB 8 June 2023
