Profile Books

year of publicationISBNauthor(s)title
2006978-1-84668-000-7Trustees of the Mass Observation ArchivesNella Last's War: The Second World War Diaries of 'Housewife, 49'
2009978-1-84668-003-8Jenny DiskiThe Sixties (Big Ideas)
2007978-1-84668-007-6Siobhan RobertsKing of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry
  ''978-1-84668-008-3Meredith HooperThe Ferocious Summer: Palmer's Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
2009978-1-84668-009-0Steven LukesMoral Relativism (Big Ideas)
2008978-1-84668-011-3Geremie BarmeThe Forbidden City (Wonders of the World)
2007978-1-84668-012-0Duncan ClarkeThe Battle For Barrels: Peak Oil Myths and World Oil Futures: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures
  ''978-1-84668-016-8N. Goldstein · S. Martin · R. CialdiniYes! 50 Secrets from the Science of Persuasion
2008978-1-84668-017-5Slavoj ZizekViolence (Big Ideas)
  ''978-1-84668-018-2Samuel GoslingSnoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
2009978-1-84668-019-9Susie OrbachBodies (Big Ideas)
  ''978-1-84668-027-4Slavoj ZizekViolence (Big Ideas)
2009978-1-84668-028-1Samuel GoslingSnoop: What Your Stuff Says About You
2008978-1-84668-030-4Daniel EverettDon't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
  ''978-1-84668-031-1Tom KelleyThe Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity
2007978-1-84668-032-8Frances WoodThe First Emperor of China
  ''978-1-84668-033-5Tony GouldCures and Curiosities: Inside the Wellcome Library
  ''978-1-84668-035-9Lynne TrussEats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
  ''978-1-84668-036-6Lynne TrussTalk to the Hand
2007978-1-84668-037-3James Skakoon · W.J. KingThe Unwritten Laws of Business
  ''978-1-84668-039-7Lucy KellawayThe Answers: All the Office Questions You Never Dared to Ask
2009978-1-84668-040-3Daniel EverettDon't Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
2008978-1-84668-041-0Frances WoodThe First Emperor of China
  ''978-1-84668-042-7James Skakoon · W.J. KingThe Unwritten Laws of Business
2007978-1-84668-044-1Mick O'HareHow to Fossilise Your Hamster: And Other Amazing Experiments For The Armchair Scientist
  ''978-1-84668-046-5Duncan ClarkeEmpires of Oil: Corporate Oil in Barbarian Worlds
  ''978-1-84668-048-9John CornwellDarwin's Angel: An Angelic Riposte to "The God Delusion"
2007978-1-84668-049-6Alan BennettThe Uncommon Reader
2009978-1-84668-052-6Joe MoranOn Roads: A Hidden History
  ''978-1-84668-053-3Clair WillsDublin 1916: The Siege of the GPO
2008978-1-84668-055-7Philip CogganGuide to Hedge Funds: What they are, what they do, their risks, their advantages
2010978-1-84668-060-1Joe MoranOn Roads: A Hidden History
2008978-1-84668-064-9Ian StewartProfessor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
2011978-1-84668-071-7Sheila Miyoshi JagerKorea: War Without End
2008978-1-84668-074-8Trustees of the Mass Observation ArchivesNella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49
2007978-1-84668-075-5Susan HillThe Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
2008978-1-84668-077-9Tony GrantMore From Our Own Correspondent
  ''978-1-84668-078-6John SutherlandMagic Moments: Life-changing Encounters with Books, Film, Music...
2007978-1-84668-082-3AQA 63336Any Question Answered
2008978-1-84668-087-8Tony Wolf · Suzanne Franks · Franks/WolfGet Out of My Life: But First Take Me and Alex Into Town
  ''978-1-84668-088-5Sandra Koa WingOur Longest Days: A people's history of the Second World War
  ''978-1-84668-089-2Jane VassDaily Mail Tax Guide 2008/09
2007978-1-84668-090-8The EconomistThe Economist Pocket World in Figures - 2008 Edition
2008978-1-84668-095-3Katherine AshenburgClean: An Unsanitised History of Washing
2008978-1-84668-096-0Wendy WaltonInheritance Tax & Wealth Planning
  ''978-1-84668-097-7Duncan ClarkeCrude Continent: The Struggle for Africa's Oil Prize
2009978-1-84668-101-1Katherine AshenburgClean: An Unsanitised History of Washing
2008978-1-84668-102-8Luca Turin · Tania SanchezPerfumes: The A-Z Guide: The Guide
2007978-1-84668-105-9Mick O'HareHow to Fossilise your Hamster
2008978-1-84668-107-3Ann Wroe · Keith ColquhounThe Economist Book of Obituaries (Economist Books)
  ''978-1-84668-108-0Tim HindleGuide to Management Ideas and Gurus (Economist)
  ''978-1-84668-109-7Jim HoltStop Me If You've Heard This: A History and Philosophy of Jokes
  ''978-1-84668-111-0Michael Blastland · Andrew DilnotThe Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
2008978-1-84668-112-7Timothy BrookVermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
2009978-1-84668-119-6Rita CliftonBrands and Branding
  ''978-1-84668-120-2Timothy BrookVermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
  ''978-1-84668-121-9Bob VauseGuide To Analysing Companies
2008978-1-84668-122-6Graham Friend · Stefan ZehleGuide To Business Planning (Economist)
  ''978-1-84668-123-3The EconomistPocket World in Figures 2009
2009978-1-84668-127-1Luca Turin · Tania SanchezPerfumes: The A-Z Guide
2008978-1-84668-130-1New ScientistDo Polar Bears Get Lonely?: And 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
  ''978-1-84668-131-8New ScientistDo Polar Bears Get Lonely and 101 Other Intriguing Science Questions
2008978-1-84668-132-5Atul GawandeComplications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
  ''978-1-84668-133-2Alan BennettThe Uncommon Reader
  ''978-1-84668-134-9Susan HillThe Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story
  ''978-1-84668-137-0Marshall GoldsmithWhat Got You Here Won't Get You There: How successful people become even more successful
  ''978-1-84668-139-4Carol Mack · Dinah MackA Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels and Other Subversive Spirits
2007978-1-84668-142-4Alan JohnstonKidnapped: And Other Dispatches
2010978-1-84668-146-2Marshall GoldsmithMojo: How to Get It, How to Keep It, How to Get It Back When You Lose It
2008978-1-84668-148-6Michael HaagTemplars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
2009978-1-84668-153-0Michael HaagTemplars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons
2008978-1-84668-155-4Charles DumasChina And America: A Time of Reckoning: A Time for Reckoning
2008978-1-84668-162-2Lafley/CharanThe Game Changer: How Every Leader Can Drive Everyday Innovation
2009978-1-84668-178-3Thomas BuergenthalA Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
2010978-1-84668-185-1Thomas & Peggy BuergenthalA Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy
2009978-1-84668-189-9Jane RentonCoaching and Mentoring
2008978-1-84668-197-4Miles KingtonHow Shall I Tell The Dog?: Last Laughs from the Master
2009978-1-84668-204-9Professor Margaret MacMillanThe Uses and Abuses of History
  ''978-1-84668-206-3Esther Freud · David Park · Heri Kunzu · Zoe Heller · Michel Faber · William Boyd · Giles Foden · Michael MorpurgoOx-Tales:Water
2010978-1-84668-210-0Professor Margaret MacMillanUses And Abuses Of History
2008978-1-84668-216-2AQABrilliant Answers
2009978-1-84668-223-0Chris MullinA View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
  ''978-1-84668-225-4Richard HolmesChurchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory (Imperial War Museum)
  ''978-1-84668-227-8Jane VassDaily Mail Tax Guide 2009/10
2010978-1-84668-230-8Chris MullinA View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin
  ''978-1-84668-231-5Richard HolmesChurchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory
2009978-1-84668-234-6Adam RobertsThe Wonga Coup: Simon Mann's Plot to Seize Oil Billions in Africa
2009978-1-84668-237-7Robert Rowland SmithBreakfast With Socrates: The philosophy of everyday life: The Philosophy of Everday Life
2010978-1-84668-241-4   ''Breakfast With Socrates: The philosophy of everyday life
2009978-1-84668-249-0Colin RobinsonArthur Seldon: A Life For Liberty
  ''978-1-84668-250-6Raja ShehadehStrangers in the House
  ''978-1-84668-258-2Rose Tremain · Jonathan Coe · Marti Leimbach · Kate Atkinson · Ian Rankin · Marina Lewycka · Hanif Kureishi · Jonathan BuckleyOx-Tales:Earth
  ''978-1-84668-259-9Mark Haddon · Geoff Dyer · Victoria Hislop · Sebastian Faulks · John Le Carre · Xiaoulu Guo · William Sutcliffe · Ali SmithOx-Tales:Fire (Ox Tales)
978-1-84668-260-5Ox-Tales:Water (Ox Tales)
2009978-1-84668-261-2Alexander McCall Smith · Helen Simpson · DBC Pierre · AL Kennedy · Kamila Shamsie · Beryl Bainbridge · Louise Welsh · Diran AdebayoOx-Tales:Air (Ox Tales)
2008978-1-84668-262-9Benoit B. Mandelbrot · Richard L. HudsonThe (Mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin and Reward
  ''978-1-84668-263-6David SmithFree Lunch: Easily Digestible Economics
2009978-1-84668-269-8David LaneInto the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South
2009978-1-84668-275-9David PeaceRed Riding
  ''978-1-84668-284-1Christopher McDougallBorn to Run: The Rise of Ultra-running and the Super-athlete Tribe
  ''978-1-84668-285-8Richard WranghamCatching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
  ''978-1-84668-287-2New ScientistHow to Make a Tornado: The strange and wonderful things that happen when scientists break free (New Scientist)
  ''978-1-84668-292-6Ian StewartProfessor Stewart's Hoard of Mathematical Treasures
2009978-1-84668-304-6Ian BlairPolicing Controversy
2010978-1-84668-305-3Robert Rowland SmithDriving With Plato
2011978-1-84668-306-0   ''Driving With Plato
2009978-1-84668-312-1Duncan FallowellGoing as Far as I Can: The Ultimate Travel Book
2011978-1-84668-319-0Stephen O'SheaVoice of Outrage: Friar Bernard Délicieux, the Man Who Shouted Down the inquisition
  ''978-1-84668-324-4Natalie HaynesThe Ancient Guide to Modern Life
2010978-1-84668-330-5Raja ShehadehThe Ottoman Empire
2011978-1-84668-338-1Stephen O'SheaVoice of Outrage: Friar Bernard Délicieux, the Man Who Shouted Down the Inquisition
  ''978-1-84668-342-8Peter EnglundThe Beauty And The Sorrow
2010978-1-84668-350-3Robert and Patricia MalcolmsonNella Last's Fifties
2011978-1-84668-361-9Norman StoneBlood and Fire
2007978-1-84668-630-6Jeremy ScahillBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
2008978-1-84668-631-3Adrian McKintyThe Bloomsday Dead
  ''978-1-84668-632-0Alain MabanckouAfrican Psycho
  ''978-1-84668-633-7Mehmet Murat SomerThe Prophet Murders: A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller
2008978-1-84668-635-1Jonathan TrigellCham
  ''978-1-84668-639-9Mary GaitskillVeronica
  ''978-1-84668-640-5Cathi UnsworthThe Singer
2009978-1-84668-641-2Alain MabanckouAfrican Psycho
  ''978-1-84668-642-9Virginie DespentesKing Kong Theory
  ''978-1-84668-643-6Dave ZeltsermanPariah
2009978-1-84668-650-4Elizabeth WilsonWar Damage
2008978-1-84668-652-8Jeremy ScahillBlackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
  ''978-1-84668-653-5Paul RambaliBarefoot Runner: The Life of Marathon Champion Abebe Bikila
2009978-1-84668-655-9Tania GlydeCleaning Up: How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived
  ''978-1-84668-657-3Alex WheatleThe Dirty South
  ''978-1-84668-659-7Daniel DaviesThe Isle of Dogs
  ''978-1-84668-660-3Adrian McKintyThe Bloomsday Dead: DEAD Trilogy (Dead Trilogy 3)
2007978-1-84668-662-7Jonathan TrigellBoy A
2008978-1-84668-664-1Del LaGrace VolcanoFemmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities: Exploding Queer Feminities
2008978-1-84668-665-8Bethan RobertsThe Good Plain Cook
  ''978-1-84668-666-5Elfriede JelinekGreed
  ''978-1-84668-667-2Manuel Vázquez MontalbánTattoo (A Pepe Carvalho Mystery)
  ''978-1-84668-671-9Mia CoutoA River Called Time
  ''978-1-84668-672-6Manuel Vázquez MontalbánAn Olympic Death (Pepe Carvalho Mystery)
2010978-1-84668-675-7Alain MabanckouBroken Glass
2008978-1-84668-676-4Mia CoutoUnder the Frangipani
2009978-1-84668-686-3Jean HatzfeldThe Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide
2008978-1-84668-688-7Eli GottliebNow You See Him
2009978-1-84668-693-1Mehmet Murat SomerThe Kiss Murder: A Hop-ciki-yaya Thriller
2009978-1-84668-694-8Mehmet Murat SomerThe Gigolo Murder: A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller
2011978-1-84668-695-5   ''The Wig Murders: A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller
2009978-1-84668-696-2Amanda SmythBlack Rock
2008978-1-84668-697-9Lee SiegelAgainst The Machine: Being Human in the Era of the Electronic Mob
2009978-1-84668-701-3Danny KingBlue Collar
2010978-1-84668-702-0Amanda SmythBlack Rock
2008978-1-84668-705-1David PeaceRed Riding Nineteen Seventy Four (Red Riding Quartet)
  ''978-1-84668-706-8   ''Red Riding Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding Quartet)
2008978-1-84668-707-5David PeaceRed Riding Nineteen Eighty (Red Riding Quartet)
  ''978-1-84668-708-2   ''Red Riding Nineteen Eighty Three: Red Riding Quartet
2009978-1-84668-718-1Catherine MilletJealousy: The Other Life of Catherine M
  ''978-1-84668-728-0Tiziano ScarpaVenice is a Fish: A Cultural Guide
2010978-1-84668-738-9Chester Himes · HimesIf He Hollers Let Him Go
2009978-1-84668-742-6Eduardo GaleanoOpen Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
2010978-1-84668-746-4Anne PeileRepeat It Today With Tears
2008978-1-84668-860-7Robert Kunzig · Wallace S. BroeckerFixing Climate: The story of climate science - and how to stop global warming
  ''978-1-84668-868-3Chris GoodallTen Technologies To Save The Planet
  ''978-1-84668-872-0Paul SimpsonMovie Lists: 397 Ways to Pick a DVD
2009978-1-84668-873-7Jeremy LeggettThe Solar Century: The Past, Present and World-changing Future of Solar Energy