'An urgent, riveting, fabulously entertaining road trip of a novel, Away grabs you by the throat from the first page to the last, breaks your heart and shakes all your senses awake' Emma Donoghue, author of The Rehearsal

In luminous prose, novelist and psychologist Charles Fernyhough explains how children develop from squalling babies into walking, talking toddlers.

The author of The Butterfly Isles turns his wry, affectionate attention to an even more beloved (and controversial) British animal - the badger

The reissue of a searing investigation into white-collar unemployment from the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed.

A refreshed edition of the landmark history of the Balkans.

'Charles McKean's account of the lobbying, wrangling and financial crisis during the construction is as compelling as his account of the courtroom drama ... gripping ... a vivid account' The Times

From Las Vegas to the Blackrock Desert, Vaye Watkins's stories of hardship, violence and redemption take the reader right to the heart

Part memoir, part medical investigation, this is a compelling account of surviving a freak accident, and a fascinating exploration of the science of trauma and recovery

Edward Said's classic treatise on the role of the intellectual and the goal of criticism, which encompasses the great thinkers and writers of the last 200 years.

A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might have written about India

A book that asks - and answers - one of life's most uncomfortable questions: what if I'm wrong?