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Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music

1 week ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Al Shipley

(Author) FORMAT Pre-Order Ships 19 August 2025 Bookshop.org has the highest-rated customer service of any bookstore in the world In Tough Breaks: The Story of BaltimoreClub Music, music journalist Al Shipley draws from 18 years’ worth ofinterviews with dozens of DJs, producers, vocalists, party hosts, promoters,and the founders of the clubs, labels and record stores that shaped the genre.
How to Fall in Love with the Future: A Time Traveller’s Guide to Changing the World

1 week ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Rob Hopkins

There are an infinite number of possible futures that lie ahead of us—like threads stretching out into the distance. Rob Hopkins, cofounder of the international Transition Network movement, invites us to travel to future worlds we would actually want to live in. In 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted every aspect of daily life, climate activist and Transition Network cofounder Rob Hopkins responded the way a lot of people did: by starting a podcast. But it wasn’t any ordinary podcast.
The Spy in the Archive: How one man tried to kill the KGB

3 weeks ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Gordon Corera

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West. How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily guarded archive in the world. The answer is to be a librarian. To be so quiet, that no-one knows what you are up to as you toil undercover and deep amongst the files.
The Future of Gardens

1 month ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Alan Trotter |Mark Lane

Gardening is about choices. Which plants to choose for yoursoil type and conditions? Where to place them to maximise their growth? What tofeed them, and when to water them? And how can all of this be done in asustainable way? In The Future of Gardens, broadcaster and designer MarkLane examines present-day considerations alongside those gardeners will need tomake in the future.
Logging Off: The Human Cost of Our Digital World

1 month ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Aye-Aye Books |Adele Walton

'You won't look at your screens in the same way after reading this book' Grace Blakeley, author of VULTURE CAPITALISM 'Logging Off is a life-saving book' Mikaela Loach, author of IT'S NOT THAT RADICAL'A harrowing but important read' Carole CadwalladrWe live in a digital world. In the 30 years since we've been online, we've created connections, crossed boundaries and discovered new worlds. We have done things generations before us could never have imagined. But at what cost?
A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering

2 months ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Claire Fuller |Andrew Murray

Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder . . . A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering is a gripping thriller about what it's like to be young, skilled, unemployed - and on the run. 'A comic delight' Financial Times'A thoroughly entertaining mix of whodunnit, social satire and a cunningly smuggled-in love story. Highly recommended.' Mail on Sunday'Smart, satirical, knowledgable, accurate, punchy, laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking, thought provoking ...
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

2 months ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Rutger Bregman

‘The rare read that might actually help you become a better person’ ADAM GRANT‘A fierce and brilliant call to arms for anyone who has been wondering whether there's more to life.
Why I Care: And Why Care Matters

2 months ago | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Ed Davey

A deeply personal account of life as a carer and a call to support those who care for others ‘It’s a tough job, caring. But the thing about being a carer is you develop these amazing relationships. As I’ve got older and had all those caring responsibilities, seen life through the eyes of my son, I could not be more passionate or determined to sort out caring in this country.’ Care is the thread that runs through Ed’s life. Aged only four, Ed lost his father.
Madame Matisse a book by Sophie Haydock.

Mar 6, 2025 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Sophie Haydock

This is the story of three women - one an orphan and refugee who finds a place in the studio of a famous French artist, the other a wife and mother who has stood by her husband for nearly forty years. The third is his daughter, caught in the crossfire between her mother and a father she adores. Amelie is first drawn to Henri Matisse as a way of escaping the conventional life expected of her. A free spirit, she sees in this budding young artist a glorious future for them both.
Great Expectations: a national US Bestseller

Mar 1, 2025 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Vinson Cunningham

'A phenomenal, transfixing work; Cunningham is a singular, dazzling writer' Bryan Washington'A coming-of-age novel of the richest, most expansive kind, it's a rare debut, one that feels both intimate and revelatory' Megan AbbottA historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man's life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker's rising stars.