Bloomsbury Publishing imprint: 244 books
Lamarck's Revenge
How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Epigenetics upends natural selection and genetic mutation as the sole engines of evolution, and offers startling insights into our future heritable traits.
In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory...
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
Travels through England’s Football Provinces
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football.
Watching teams from the Championship (or...
The List
A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The shocking first-draft history of the Trump regime, and its clear authoritarian impulses, based on the viral Internet phenom "The Weekly List".
In the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump's election as president, Amy Siskind, a former Wall Street executive and the founder of The...
National Service
Diary of a Decade at the National Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
During the ten years from 1987 to 1997 that he was Director of the Royal National Theatre, Richard Eyre kept a diary - a record that disarmingly captured a life at the heart of British cultural and political affairs. The powerful and the famous inevitably strut and fret upon its pages, but National...
El Clasico: Barcelona v Real Madrid
Football's Greatest Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Real Madrid versus Barcelona is regarded by many as the most captivating fixture in world football. But it is not only the on-pitch battles that have forged their rivalry. From General Franco and bloody civil war to the Catalan city of Barcelona's lukewarm reaction to Spain's recent World Cup and...
by Sheila Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
It is 1948 and the young and beautiful Marguerite Carter has lost her parents and survived a terrifying war, working for the SOE behind enemy lines. She returns to England to be one of the first women to receive a degree from the University of Cambridge. Now she pins back her unruly auburn curls,...
Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
Rock'n'Roll War Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Allan Jones launched Uncut magazine in 1997 and for 15 years wrote a popular monthly column called Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before, based on his experiences as a music journalist in the 70s and 80s, a gilded time for the music press.
By turns hilarious, cautionary, poignant and powerful,...
King's Cross Kid
A London Childhood between the Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Victor Gregg, born in 1919, has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the scallywag...
A Line in the River
Khartoum, City of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
'A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron' Jim Crace
'A most absorbing and rewarding book' Michael Palin
In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descended into civil war and conflict. When the 1989...
Amir Khan
A Boy From Bolton: My Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2009
Seventeen-year-old Amir Khan became Britain's youngest Olympic boxer since 1976 when he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He turned professional in 2005, winning his first pro fight last summer in 109 seconds, and has remained unbeaten ever since.
His fights are now regularly shown...
by John Niven
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
'I love John Niven's writing – OBVIOUSLY – but came late to his first book, and was blown away by what vivid, delicate time-travel it is. Every The Band fan in the world MUST read it - it's like living in the music. Just smoky, ravishing magic' Caitlin Moran
Timed to coincide with the fiftieth...
by Tor Udall
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
'A masterful exploration of love, loss and the healing power of the natural world. Heartbreaking and uplifting in equal measure' Observer
LONGLISTED FOR THE AUTHORS' CLUB BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2018
Jonah roams Kew Gardens trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life after the...
by Celia Imrie
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
The deliciously effervescent new novel from Celia Imrie, beloved character actress and author of Not Quite Nice, follows the exploits of two women on a cruise ship.
The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty--even for the...
Nightmare Movies
Horror on Screen Since the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2011
Now over twenty years old, the original edition of Nightmare Movies has retained its place as a true classic of cult film criticism. In this new edition, Kim Newman brings his seminal work completely up-to-date, both reassessing his earlier evaluations and adding a second part that assess the last...