Pan Macmillan

A story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars.

A million-copy bestseller, a poignant and thought-provoking Japanese tale that asks what it really is that makes life worth living.

`A political book in the best sense - helping us to imagine a better world, reminding us that ideas shape how we live and plotting a better future for London . . . full of intriguing facts, always beautifully written . . . Rowan Moore should be Mayor' Alain De Botton

`Fiction of the new century' - Neil Gaiman

The gripping third novel by Naomi Wood, author of the award-winning Mrs. Hemingway, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick.

The long-awaited new edition of this prestigious and definitive encyclopaedia

'An epic work of reportage' Guardian

A compellingly readable, critically acclaimed, agenda-setting account of how and why cities function as they do and why so many of us choose to live in them

Buildings are driven by human emotions and desires: hope, power, money, sex, and the idea of home.