John Murray imprint: 305 books
The Last Oil Shock
A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
This may be the most important book you or anyone else will read in the next fifty years. Assuming humanity survives that long. Draining the lifeblood of industrial civilization, the terminal decline of oil and gas production will spark a crisis far more dangerous than international terrorism, and...
by Lisa McInerney
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
The second novel from the author of the Baileys Prize-winning The Glorious Heresies
JOINT WINNER OF THE ENCORE AWARD 2018
'Fast paced, compelling, and thrilling, Lisa McInerney writes the type of fiction that is both beautifully crafted and immensely enjoyable' Louise O'Neill
'The...
by Kirsten McKenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2009
Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married. But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly...
Along the Enchanted Way
A Story of Love and Life in Romania
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world.
There, for many years he lived side by side with the country people, a life ruled by the slow cycle of the seasons, far away from the frantic rush of the modern world. In...
by Pete Paphides
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
This short book, taken from Remembered For A While, tells the stories and circumstances that surround every known recording in Nick Drake's canon (as well as a few unrecorded songs). The result is like a detailed, extended series of liner notes, something to read while sitting in your favourite chair,...
Katherine Howard
The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
'An impressive revisionist biography' The Times
Looming out of the encroaching darkness of the February evening was London Bridge, still ornamented with the severed heads of Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham; the terrible price they had paid for suspected intimacy with the queen.
Katherine...
Tintin: Hergé and His Creation
Hergé and His Creation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herg?©, worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herg?©, of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'.
by Jane Robins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls under his spell, and becomes his wife. But marriage soon turns into a terrifying...
by Fabienne Reynolds
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
Open this book and you will
Communicate creatively
Beat the competition
Create brilliant strategy
Really know your market
The Reluctant Bride
One Woman's Journey (Kicking and Screaming) Down the Aisle
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Will Lucy make it down the aisle? It's going to be an uphill struggle . . .
The bride: A late starter in life, Lucy always swore she'd never get married. But now she has to find a caterer who doesn't charge a fortune for a cupcake, a dressmaker who doesn't make her cry and a way to bring Great-Auntie...
After Hitler
The Last Days of the Second World War in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
On 30 April 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide. The following day, his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels also killed himself and the crumbling Third Reich passed to Admiral Karl Dönitz. The Nazis' position seemed hopeless. Yet remarkably, the war in the rest of Europe went on for another ten...
The Longest Winter
Scott's Other Heroes
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Scott's Northern Party played an integral role in his iconic last expedition, but how did they survive? Through the eyes of the men involved, Meredith Hooper recounts one of the greatest tales of adventure and endurance, which has often been overshadowed by the tragedy which befell Scott. Their tents...
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners
Read for pleasure at your level, expand your vocabulary and learn Italian the fun way!
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners.
"I love Olly's work - and you will too!" - Barbara Oakley, PhD, Author of New York Times bestseller A Mind for Numbers
Short Stories in Italian for Beginners has been written...
Why We Run
A Story of Obsession
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Everyone can run.
It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we do it? Obsessive amateur runner Robin Harvie wants to understand what makes him run mile after mile, venturing far from home into remote places,...