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From Pulitzer Prize-winning design critic Alexandra Lange, a beguiling look at the waste-not architecture of the 1970s—and the consequences of leaving it behind. In 1977, Jimmy Carter sat by a fire and urged Americans to lower their thermostats, “live thriftily,” and help their neighbors...

Joining New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky’s groundbreaking, award-winning Cod and Salt—a new classic-in-the-making. When Mark Kurlansky was seventeen, he took his first job as a commercial fisherman in the Atlantic on a forty-five-foot, wooden-hulled, two-man lobster boat...

Bloomsbury presents The Man Who Invented Fiction by William Egginton, read by Matt Fletcher-Macdonald. In the early seventeenth century, a crippled, graying, almost toothless veteran of Spain’s wars against the Ottoman Empire published a book. It was the story of a poor nobleman, his brain...

Bloomsbury presents Gangster Warlords by Ioan Grillo, read by James Cameron Stewart In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps five hundred body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil’s biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit-men to gun down forty-one police officers...

Bloomsbury presents How Paris Became Paris by Joan DeJean, read by Patricia Rodriguez "This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for...

Bloomsbury presents Leningrad by Anna Reid, read by Kristin Atherton. On September 8, 1941, eleven weeks after Hitler launched Operation Barbarossa, his brutal surprise attack on the Soviet Union, Leningrad was surrounded. The siege was not lifted for two and a half years, by which time some...

Bloomsbury presents After Tamerlane by John Darwin, read by Michael Hajiatonis. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book...

Bloomsbury presents The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons, read by Nezar Alerazi. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile...

Bloomsbury presents The Downfall of Money by Frederick Taylor, read by Gordon Griffin A hundred years ago, many theorists believed--just as they did at the beginning of our twenty-first century--that the world had reached a state of economic perfection, a never before seen human interdependence...

Bloomsbury presents Coventry by Frederick Taylor, read by Leighton Pugh On 14 November 1940 the historic city of Coventry was subjected to the longest and most devastating air raid Britain had yet witnessed. After eleven hours of relentless bombardment by the German Luftwaffe, residents emerged...

Bloomsbury presents The Age of Genius by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity...

Bloomsbury presents The Challenge of Things by A. C. Grayling, read by Gordon Griffin A. C. Grayling’s lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier...

Bloomsbury presents If Walls Could Talk by Lucy Worsley, read by Kerry Gilbert From the Joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces and BBC Television series including Lucy Worsley: Mozart’s London Odyssey and Six Wives with Lucy Worsley, available on Netflix. “Worsley is a thoughtful...

Bloomsbury presents Vermeer's Hat by Timothy Brook, read by Nathan Osgood In this critical darling Vermeer's captivating and enigmatic paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought-from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global...

Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong "An Austen lover’s greatest wish is for more of her novels. This intimate guide to the world of her books in the next best thing." —The Atlantic Marking the 250th...

Bloomsbury presents Unknown Enemy by Charles Dick, read by Richard Trinder. The harrowing true story of Organisation Todt, the builders-turned-killers at the center of the Nazi war machine. Whether it was military fortifications or grand cities designed to follow victory, Adolf Hitler turned to...

Bloomsbury presents The Library of Lost Maps by James Cheshire, read by Elliot Chapman. "A beautifully illustrated book." —The Wall Street Journal "An enlightening and lovingly presented tribute to the necessity and wonder of libraries and archives." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) "A...

Bloomsbury presents El Narco by Ioan Grillo, read by Paul Thornley. "Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States. The...

Bloomsbury presents The Golden Road, written and read by William Dalrymple. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half...

Bloomsbury presents Mao's Great Famine by Frank Dikötter, read by Daniel York Loh. WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE ‘A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and...