John Murray: 683 books
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
The Search for the Lost Treasures of Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
The Silk Road, which linked imperial Rome and distant China, was once the greatest thoroughfare on earth. Along it travelled precious cargoes of silk, gold and ivory, as well as revolutionary new ideas. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of Buddhist art and learning.
In time it...
by Kathy Willis
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Our peculiarly British obsession with gardens goes back a long way and Plants: From Roots to Riches takes us back to where it all began. Across 25 vivid episodes, Kathy Willis, Kew's charismatic Head of Science, shows us how the last 250 years transformed our relationship with plants.
Behind...
by Patrick Leigh Fermor
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
From the French Abbey of St Wandrille to the abandoned and awesome Rock Monasteries of Cappadocia in Turkey, the celebrated travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor studies the rigorous contemplative lives of the monks and the timeless beauty of their monastic surroundings. In his occasional retreats, the...
The Moth Snowstorm
Nature and Joy
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
A great, rhapsodic, urgent book full of joy, grief, rage and love . . . A must-read' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk
Nature has many gifts for us, but perhaps the greatest of them all is joy; the intense delight we can take in the natural world, in its beauty, in the wonder it can...
by Justin Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
The history of science is often seen as a story of advancement but nothing could be further from the truth. Science, it is true, has progressed, but rarely in the direction intended and seldom for the reasons given. This has a lot to do with the people responsible.
From the strange to the eccentric,...
Black Box Thinking
The Surprising Truth About Success
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
The Sunday Times No.1 Bestseller
From the Bestselling Author of Bounce
What links the Mercedes Formula One team with Google?
What links Team Sky and the aviation industry?
What connects James Dyson and David Beckham?
They are all Black Box Thinkers.
Black...
Paradise Lost
The Destruction of Islam's City of Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
On Saturday 9th September, 1922, the victorious Turkish cavalry rode into Smyrna, the richest and most cosmopolitan city in the Ottoman Empire. What happened over the next two weeks must rank as one of the most compelling human dramas of the twentieth century. Almost two million people were caught...
The People
The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised...
by Kirsten McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen places and an unknown future.
But being...
by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
All the best armchair travellers are sceptics. Those of the fourteenth century were no exception: for them, there were lies, damned lies, and Ibn Battutah's India.
Born in 1304, Ibn Battutah left his native Tangier as a young scholar of law; over the course of the thirty years that followed...
Big Chief Elizabeth
How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'.
The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive,...
The Blind Giant
How to Survive in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The digital age.
An age of isolation, warped communication, disintegrating community. Where unfiltered and unregulated information pours relentlessly into our lives, destroying what it means to be human.
Or an age of marvels. Where there is a world of wonder at our fingertips. Where...
Alphabetical
How Every Letter Tells a Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever.
How...
Secret Britain
The Hidden Bits of Our History
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2010
Some of our most intriguing history is missing. Perhaps there has been a conspiracy, a cover-up? Or maybe some stories have been lost, forgotten or were just too embarrassing to talk about at the time? But now they are back, revealed in all their glory: secret passages, events, societies, loves, identities...