Profile Books imprint: 206 books
Engel's England
Thirty-nine counties, one capital and one man
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has...
Billions to Bust and Back
How I made, lost and rebuilt a fortune, and what I learned on the way
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Thor Bjorgolfsson is a self-styled adventure capitalist with an addiction to debt and an insatiable appetite for business deals who became Iceland's first billionaire. After 10 years establishing his financial empire with alco-pops and beer in the lawless 'Wild East' of newly-capitalist Russia in...
From Village School to Global Brand
Changing the World through Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Can education be run as a profitable business and still be driven by a humanitarian vision? SABIS® shows the answer is yes. Now with 60 schools in 15 countries and over 60,000 students, SABIS® is a global education company committed to improving lives. The book is a journey through time - tracing...
Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus
The Great Scottish Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is...
The Railways
Nation, Network and People
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2015
Currently filming for BBC programme Full Steam Ahead
Britain's railways have been a vital part of national life for nearly 200 years. Transforming lives and landscapes, they have left their mark on everything from timekeeping to tourism. As...
Movie Lists
397 Ways to Pick a DVD
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Action, African greats, alcohol, Robert Aldrich, aliens, Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Robert Altman, animated, anime, apocalypses, Argentina, art, Asia minor, avant garde...
And that's just A for you. A taste of this fabulously quirky and enjoyable book which is both a celebration of movies...
Bred of Heaven: One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots
One man's quest to reclaim his Welsh roots
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Jasper Rees has always wanted to be Welsh. But despite Welsh grandparents (and a Welsh surname) he is an Englishman: by birth, upbringing and temperament. In this singular, hilarious love letter to a glorious country so often misunderstood, Rees sets out to achieve his goal of becoming a Welshman...
Night Trains
The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling background...
by David Crystal, St Martins Press
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal draws on words that best illustrate the huge variety of sources, influences and events that have helped to shape our vernacular since the first definitively English word was written down in the fifth...
by Simon Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Which battle was fought 'For England, Harry and St George'? Who demanded to be painted 'warts and all'? What - and when - was the Battle of the Bulge?In A Short History of England, bestselling author Simon Jenkins answers all these questions - and many more - as he tells the tumultuous story of a...
Turned Out Nice Again
On Living With the Weather
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
In his trademark style, Richard Mabey weaves together science, art and memoirs (including his own) to show the weather's impact on our culture and national psyche. He rambles through the myths of Golden Summers and our persistent state of denial about the winter; the Impressionists' love affair with...
Empires of the Imagination
Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of power...
Memoirs of a Dervish
Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt...
The Signalman
A Ghost Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
On the 9th of June 1865, Charles Dickens was travelling aboard the Folkestone to London Boat Train with his mistress and her mother, when it derailed while crossing a viaduct near Staplehurst in Kent. The train plunged down a bank into a dry river bed, killing ten passengers, and badly wounding forty.
Dickens...