Books from Sceptre

  • Oraciones y devociones
    By James Socias

    Oraciones y devociones

  • The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
    The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
    By Noreena Hertz

    *** THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *** 'If we could issue a reading list to 10 Downing Street, I'd put this book near the top.

  • Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
    Ashes and Stones: A Scottish Journey in Search of Witches and Witness
    By Allyson Shaw

    Her elegant and lucid prose weaves together threads of history and feminist reclamation to create a vibrant memorial. This is the untold story of the witches' monuments of Scotland and the women's lives they mark.

  • Essential Bushcraft
    Essential Bushcraft
    By Raymond Mears

    The essentials of Ray Mears' bestselling BUSHCRAFT in an accessible and portable format.

  • Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
    Burn: A Story of Fire, Woods and Healing
    By Ben Short

    Exquisitely written and deeply honest, Burn is a hopeful story of transformation, a celebration of manual work and craft, and a love letter to the English countryside.

  • Lives of the Monster Dogs
    By Kirsten Bakis

    Lives of the Monster Dogs

  • The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
    The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World
    By Bob Gilbert

    ... Marshall, J.F., The British Mosquitoes (British Museum, 1938) Mourier, Henri and Winding, Ove, Collins Guide to Wild ... John, Creeping Jenny (Macmillan, 1993) Shute, P.G., 'Culex Molestus' (Transactions of the Royal Entomological ...

  • He Kills Coppers
    He Kills Coppers
    By Jake Arnott

    August 1966: the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is suddenly shattered by a brutal crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself.

  • The Language of Birds
    The Language of Birds
    By Jill Dawson

    Drawing on the infamous Lord Lucan affair, this compelling novel explores the roots of a shocking murder from a fresh perspective and brings to vivid life an era when women's voices all too often went unheard.

  • The Offering
    The Offering
    By Grace McCleen

    But as Dr Lucas unearths the past, it becomes apparent that she was seriously misguided - and that he is treading on very dangerous ground.Lyrically evoking the rhythms and beauty of the natural world, The Offering is a novel taut with ...

  • Mister Roberts
    Mister Roberts
    By Alexei Sayle

    Critically acclaimed author Alexei Sayle introduces the curious tale of MISTER ROBERTS in his most funny and poignant novel yet.

  • Scarp
    Scarp
    By Nick Papadimitriou

    'THE MOST VITAL DOCUMENT ABOUT LONDON IN YEARS' - TIMEOUT *****

  • In: the Graphic Novel
    In: the Graphic Novel
    By WILL. MCPHAIL

    I loved this one. ' David Nicholls 'Beautiful, bittersweet portrait of modern life . . . his tragicomedy will also make the heart swell.' Guardian 'Brilliant.' Candice Carty-Williams 'This is a miraculous book.

  • Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
    Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
    By Clare Hunter

    In this eloquent cultural biography, Clare Hunter exquisitely blends history, politics and memoir to tell the story of a queen in her own voice.

  • Fidel & Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
    Fidel & Che: A Revolutionary Friendship
    By Simon Reid-Henry

    The story of the peasant s son, scholar, and rebel Fidel Castro, and his fateful meeting with the itinerant doctor Ernesto (Che) Guevara. Not yet thirty, and both in exile,...

  • How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
    How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love
    By Bernardine Evaristo, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Carys Bray

    In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love.

  • Private Faces and Public Places: The Autobiography
    Private Faces and Public Places: The Autobiography
    By Sian Phillips

    ... secret bouts of crying in bed, there was nothing but contentment in my life for the time being. I could, however, see ... places' – where people gathered each week in different villages and towns to sing, compose music, write poetry and ...

  • Talk of the Town
    Talk of the Town
    By Ardal O'Hanlon

    Patrick Scully is special.

  • The Ecstasy Club
    The Ecstasy Club
    By Douglas Rushkoff

    Part techie heaven, part 24-hour rave, the Ecstasy Club is an electronic playground where young hackers and esoteric spiritualists strive to create a new utopia.

  • The Hired Man
    The Hired Man
    By Melvyn Bragg

    Set in Cumbria and covering the period from 1898 to the early twenties, this is the powerful saga of John Tallentire, first farm labourer, then coal miner, and his wife Emily.