Bloomsbury Publishing imprint: 244 books
The Archipelago
Italy Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2018
'An enjoyable, highly readable history that manages to bring murky, often fiendishly complex events into the light' Sunday Times
Italy emerged from the Second World War in ruins. Divided, invaded and economically broken, it was a nation that some claimed had ceased to exist. By the 1960s, Italy...
Shadow Network
Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2019
The chilling story of the covert group that masterminds the Radical Right's ongoing assault on America's airwaves, schools, environment, and, ultimately, its democracy.
In 1981, emboldened by Ronald Reagan's election, a group of some fifty Republican operatives, evangelicals, oil barons, and...
Homelands
Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican-American Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
From prizewinning journalist and immigration expert Alfredo Corchado comes the sweeping story of the great Mexican migration from the late 1980s to today.
Homelands is the story of Mexican immigration to the United States over the last three decades. Written by Alfredo Corchado, one of the...
Cybersexism
Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily...
by Eve Ensler
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
From the bestselling author of The Vagina Monologues--a powerful, life-changing examination of abuse and atonement.
“A triumph of artistry and empathy.” --Naomi Klein
“A crucial step forward . . . This is an urgently needed book right now.” --Jane Fonda
“Unflinching...
The Victorian Internet
The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
A new edition of the first book by the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses-the fascinating story of the telegraph, the world's first "Internet," which revolutionized the nineteenth century even more than the Internet has the twentieth and twenty first.
The Victorian...
The Naming of the Shrew
A Curious History of Latin Names
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Latin names – frequently unpronounceable, all too often wrong and always a tiny puzzle to unravel – have been annoying the layman since they first became formalised as scientific terms in the eighteenth century.
Why on earth has the entirely land-loving Eastern Mole been named Scalopus...
Orchid Summer
In Search of the Wildest Flowers of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
A heady celebration of the beauty and history of the wild orchid species of the British Isles, embraced in one glorious and kaleidoscopic summer-long hunt by naturalist Jon Dunn
From the chalk downs of the south coast of England to the heathery moorland of the Shetland Isles, and from the holy...
by James Runcie
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
The captivating prequel to the treasured Grantchester series follows the life, loves, and losses of young Sidney Chambers in postwar London.
It is 1938, and eighteen-year-old Sidney Chambers is dancing the quickstep with Amanda Kendall at her brother Robert's birthday party at the Caledonian...
by Ms Ahlem Mosteghanemi
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
'In a voice as dim as a lighthouse on a rainy night, he said, "Beware of loving a woman who loves bridges.†?'
Once upon a September in Paris…
Still heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring, elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of The Dust of Promises...
The Queen's Embroiderer
A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
From the author of How Paris Became Paris, a sweeping history of high finance, the origins of high fashion, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in 18th-century France.
Paris, 1719. The stock market is surging and the world's first millionaires are buying everything in sight. Against this backdrop,...
A Slow Passion
Snails, My Garden and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
When BBC Radio 4's Material World programmeannounced a search for the UK's top amateur scientist, little did anyone expect that the winning experiment would comprise one of our humblest garden pests. Ruth Brooks posed this question: Do snails have a homing instinct? The nation was gripped by the unexpected...
by Susannah Clapp
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.
Angela Carter sent...
Packing UP
Further Adventures of a Trailing Spouse
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Brigid Keenan was a successful young London fashion journalist when she fell in love with a diplomat and left behind the gilt chairs of the Paris salons for a large chicken shed in Nepal. Her bestselling account of life as a 'trailing spouse', Diplomatic Baggage, won the hearts of thousands in countries...