Biography & Memoir
The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future
Hardback
A biography of Marion King Hubbert, one of the twentieth century’s most influential energy experts, who was dubbed the “father of peak oil”.
Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter
Paperback
An “inspiring” (Time Out) book full of sweat, swearing, bashed thumbs and a deep sense of finding real meaning in work and life.
Is that Kafka?: 99 Finds
Hardback
Out of the massive research for an authoritative 1,500-page biography emerges this wunderkammer of 99 delightfully odd facts about Kafka
Voyage Around My Room
Paperback
A lively and utterly singular travelogue of the intricate curiosities that are directly within one’s own reach
The Brontë Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects
Paperback
An intimate portrait of the lives and writings of the Brontë sisters, drawn from the objects they possessed.