Biography & Memoir
Origin Story: The Trials of Charles Darwin
Hardback
A lively account of how Darwin’s work on natural selection transformed science and society and an investigation into the mysterious illness that plagued its author
Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food
Hardback
A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centred on the life of celebrity television chef and cookbook author Fu Pei-mei—the Julia Child of Chinese cuisine
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Empire's Son, Empire's Orphan: The Fantastical Lives of Ikbal and Idries Shah
Hardback
A rollicking story of two literary fabulists who revealed the West’s obsession with a fabricated, exotic East
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative
Hardback
A shockingly frank memoir from a prize-winning economist, reflecting on his remarkable personal odyssey and his changing positions on identity, race and belief
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
Paperback
The riveting tale of two pioneering botanists and their historic boat trip down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon