A Very British ChristmasFrom the forensic science that is gift giving 'but what does this really convey about me as a person?' to who sits where at the dining table, the nuances between a roast chicken and roast turkey, and how Boxing Day was probably invented so that people could finish games of Monopoly (if you are, that is, still talking to each other by that point), 'A Very British Christmas' is a wryly hilarious celebration of unbearably awkward Britishness at the most

As the bricks are removed

What will survive

courtesans and she-merchants

One of the world's greatest contemporary thinkers and author of 'The Better Angels of Our Nature' (described by Bill Gates as 'the most inspiring book I have ever read') shows how to think afresh about the human condition and to meet the challenges that confront us

Price includes copy of the book and access to the online event

WELCOME TO THE RAN EMPIRE

When Gareth Harney was first handed a Roman coin by his father as a child

bringing together science

and wants to be let in

family life

The second Shardlake novel in C

an exhilarating joyride