Biography & Memoir
My Father and Atticus Finch: A Lawyer's Fight for Justice in 1930s Alabama
Hardback
A memoir about the author’s father, whose courageous defence of a black man accused of rape calls to mind To Kill a Mockingbird.
"Most Blessed of the Patriarchs": Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
Hardback
A ground-breaking historical work that explicates Thomas Jefferson’s vision of himself, the American Revolution, Christianity, slavery and race.
Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
Paperback
From a thirty-year veteran of The New Yorker comes the most irreverent and helpful book on language since Eats, Shoots & Leaves
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.