Best Books to Gift 2024 - Adult NonfictionUnpublished

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From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead.While tech titans bragged they would "move fast and break things," Kara Swisher was moving faster and breaking news....

Part One of a Two Part Memoir from the Iconic Artist and Actor 'A rock 'n' roll memoir like no other' Daily Mail 'A gutsy account of tenacity and perseverance...Cher's voice reverberates with the grit and depth that made her famous' The New York Times THERE IS...

An electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century's greatest unsung power playersWhen Pamela Churchill Harriman died in 1997, the obituaries that followed were scathing - and many downright sexist. Written off as a social climber, her glamorous social life and infamous erotic...

'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIR'Gripping' NYLON'Raw' GUARDIANAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare...

An Independent Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024"A vibrant, multifaceted portrait of a music enigma" Guardian"A powerful portrait of Joni Mitchell" Irish Independent"Displays a bracing rigour and an exhilarating curiosity about its subject, coming closer than most to catching up with Mitchell on her...

WHAT HAVE WE HERE? follows Billy Dee Williams from his childhood growing up in Harlem to his days on Broadway and in Hollywood before landing the role in George Lucas' space opera that would win him everlasting fame. Over a 60-year career spanning Broadway, music, movies, and...

Discover the incredible and revelatory autobiography from one of the most iconic actors in the history of film. *THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2024* ''A 5 ft 7in Hollywood...

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in this scintillating follow-up to Pandora's Jar. Few writers today have reshaped our view of the ancient Greek myths more than revered bestselling author Natalie Haynes. Divine Might...

A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine, i-paper and History Today 'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopaedic and...

The story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world from the #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Sapiens Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies. The internet...

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.

From the bestselling authors of Atlas Obscura and Gastro Obscura comes a nature book like no other--a dazzling, over-the-top collection of the world's most extraordinary wild species that takes you to all seven continents and beyond. It's more than a field...

"teeming with fascinating and enlightening insights" ObserverA narrative investigation into the new science of plant intelligence and sentience, from National Association of Science Writers Award winner and Livingston Award finalist Zoe Schlanger. Look at the green organism across...

The James Webb Space Telescope is transforming the universe right before our eyes--and here, for the first time, is the inside account of how the mission originated, how it performs its miracles of science, and what its revolutionary images are revealing. Pillars...

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE HAY FESTIVAL, SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND iNEWS 'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG'Quietly profound,...

Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed. Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'HANDS DOWN THE GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ABOUT F1.' -Sam Walker, author of The Captain Class'MODERN F1 IS THE SPORTS STORY OF THIS ERA AND NO ONE COULD TELL IT BETTER' -Kevin Clark, ESPN'THE FASTEST READ YOU WILL EVER PICK UP' -A.J. Baime,...

'Full of wisdom and comfort ... a really important book' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN, author of Ultra-Processed People How can we embrace our non-negotiable limitations? Or make good decisions when there's always too much to do? What if purposeful productivity were...

From the global bestselling author of The Power of Habit 'This is not just a riveting read about how to understand others better. It's also a revealing look at how to be understood.' -ADAM GRANT #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The most beautiful cookbook I have ever seen' Drew Barrymore Join actress, activist, and New York Times bestselling author Pamela Anderson for a deeply personal culinary journey that harmonizes style, compassion, and the...