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Babylon often appears more myth than history. Purportedly the site of the Hanging Gardens and the Tower of Babel, its infamous presence in the Bible has made it a byword for sinful decadence. But Babylon was a real place teeming with life, a bustling mega-city on the Euphrates where schoolteachers...

British history is studded with heroic figures. This dramatic portrayal of the larger-than-life characters who forged Britain’s national institutions is an enjoyable introduction to British history, and a useful chronology of the past.

The first dazzling novel in a sweeping cross-genre romantic fantasy duology from international bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica RothElegy Ahn did not ask for destiny to find her.She is happy with her life as a soldier, defending her small country from the Talusar, a powerful natio...

"A stunning collection that lingers in the mind and heart" Ruth Ozeki"I've been yearning for the whole world to read Kim Choyeop and fall in love with her as I did"Bora Chung, author of Cursed Bunny and The Midnight TimetableMeet the alien species that put the humanity into human beingsDiscover the...

Space opera's sharpest mind to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone fromaward-winning author Ann Leckie.The Temporal Location of the has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa. However, the imperial Radch see it only as an inconvenience, an a...

From the celebrated author of The Topeka School, a collection of poetry that is dazzlingly intelligent, moving and speaks directly to our complex times.a constellation of verse and prose, voice memos and vignettes, songs and silences, that brings the personal and the collective into startling relati...

ONE OF DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 'MUST READ BOOKS FOR 2026'One week to escapeHigh in the mountains, a sudden rockslide traps ten hikers in an abandoned bunker, nicknamed ''. Then it starts to flood.One person will be sacrificedThere is only one chance of survival - in order for the rest of them to escape...

1942, and the battle for Stalingrad is just beginning- this is historical fiction at its finest and most epic by Simon Sebag Montefiore, global bestselling author of Stalin- The Court of the Red Tsar, Jerusalem and The Romanovs.'An epic adventure story set against the most awful war in history. Ridi...

Agatha Christie meets Countdown in the debut mystery novel from the genius of Dictionary Corner, Susie DentTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'KEPT ME READING EAGERLY'Philip Pullman'HUGE FUN AND, AS YOU'D EXPECT, ALSO BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN'Gyles Brandreth'QUITE SIMPLY ONE OF THE FINEST MYSTERIES I HA...

Where I Find Myself is the first major single book retrospective of one of America's leading photographers. It is organized in inverse chronological order and spans the photographer's whole career to date: from Joel Meyerowitz's most recent picture all the way back to the first photograph he ever to...

Throughout her photographic practice, Aotearoa New Zealand artist Elizabeth Corin has consistently attended to the intimate moments that cross-pollinate beauty and meaning throughout everyday life. With her latest project, , she invites us to step with her once more into a world that encourages us t...

Social interaction, sporting competition and all this in the most beautiful natural surroundings and usually without time pressure are the compelling arguments in favour of golf. Golf superstars such as Tiger Woods and celebrities such as Justin Timberlake and Catherine Zeta-Jones have ensured that...

Discover the love affairs that inspired art's greatest masterpieces.Whether in the throes of passion, enduring the pain of unrequited love, or basking in the joy of a wonderfully supportive friendship, explores the myriad ways love has influenced artists, shaped the work they created, and altered th...

A Bigger Book, TASCHEN’s SUMO-sized David Hockney monograph, is as spectacular in format as it is in scope. In it, the artist takes stock of more than 60 years of work, from his teenage days at the Bradford School of Art, through his breakthrough in 1960s Swinging London, life by Los Angeles pools...

Discover the intimate spaces that shaped one of the world’s most iconic artists.reveals how the places she inhabited— and especially the famed Blue House—nurtured her creativity, identity, and extraordinary body of work.This compelling visual biography traces Kahlo’s life through the places...

Available in English for the first time, anthropologist Carlo Severi’s The Chimera Principle breaks new theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among non-literate peoples. Setting himself against a tradition that has long seen the memory of people...

An intimate glimpse into one of the world’s most renowned contemporary art collections and the collector whose vision and passion shaped itStep inside one of the most captivating private art collections in the world - an extraordinary group of modern and contemporary art curated by Glenn Fuhrman...

A vital new collection of papers by Sir Mason Durie (Rangitāne, Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Raukawa) one of Aotearoa’s leading voices in Māori health and wellbeing, Whiti Ora brings together decades of kaupapa Māori research and thought leadership, covering themes such as whānau health, mental hea...

Ngāti Kuia are tangata whenua of Te Tauihu-o-Te-Waka-a-Māui (the northern South Island). Descended from the ancestress Kuia, their whakapapa sits within a rich and complex Māori lineage, connecting with the stories held by neighbouring iwi – particularly the other Kurahaupō waka groups. Their...

First published in 1995, Nga Uruora took the study of New Zealand’s natural environment in radical new directions. Geoff Park’s research focuses on New Zealand’s fertile coastal plains, country of rich opportunity for both Maori and European inhabitants, but a country whose natural character h...

There were two days to Christmas and Lewis felt like everything was spinning out of control. He wondered what he would say to the judge this time. His client, Rikihana, was already on multiple shoplifting charges. What’s a few more? Lewis thought. These supermarkets were still making a killing.It�...

‘The legitimacy of the state is at best questionable and certainly remains legally unsettled.’Legal scholar Claire Charters (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūwharetoa, Ngāpuhi and Tainui) confronts the deeply rooted questions surrounding the legitimacy of the New Zealand state and its sovereignty over Māori...

This landmark collection presents fresh, progressive perspectives on what it means to be ‘Asian’ in Aotearoa.Te Papa curator Grace Gassin draws together journalists, researchers, activists, filmmakers and political commentators to relate experiences of living between cultures and to explore the...

As the effects of climate change intensify across Aotearoa New Zealand, securing home insurance is no longer a sure thing. Nor is it always affordable. In this clear-eyed work, public policy expert Jonathan Boston tackles one of the defining policy challenges of climate change: how can residential p...