Bosphorus
A Journey
ISBN: HB: 9781805266709,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2027
408 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
408 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
Crossroads of trade and culture, boundary between East and West - the Bosphorus is a waterway like no other. This evocative portrait brings it to life.
Right at the heart of Istanbul, separating its European and Asian shores, the Bosphorus is not ju...
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25.00 GBP
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Bitter Sweet
The Story of West Africa Through the Kola Nut
ISBN: HB: 9781805266686,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
248 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
The beautifully written history of a uniquely West African nut with a truly global story.
The kola nut is a seed indigenous to West Africa, a seed that ancient caravan travellers chewed to survive their harsh desert journeys, the "Cola" in Coca-Cola...
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20.00 GBP
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Italy in a Wineglass
The Taste of History
ISBN: PB: 9781911723462,
ISBN: HB: 9781911723073,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2026
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
424 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A lively, page-turning history of Italy and its wines, from the Roman Empire to climate change.
The world is enamoured with Italy: its culture, art, food and fashion, its beautiful landscapes and famous cities - and, of course, its wine.
From the a...
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12.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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World Run Aground
Reflections from The Ideas Letter
ISBN: PB: 9781805266822,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
288 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A discomfiting, heterodox response to our era of polycrisis, seeking to inspire questions and deepen our understanding of world affairs.
Have we returned to a world where states have primacy, where ethnicity and ethnonationalism hold significant swa...
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17.99 GBP
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A History of Lesbian Fashion
ISBN: PB: 9781805266051,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260967,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2026
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 colour illus.
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 36 colour illus.
Longlisted for the 2025 Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing
From Sappho and Suffragettes to t-shirts and TikTok, a fascinating journey through the history and politics of lesbian clothing.
The way we dress can show or hide who we are; mak...
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12.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Future
A User's Guide
ISBN: HB: 9781805265610,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2026
248 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
248 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
A guide for both everyday readers and policymakers on using creativity and knowledge to imagine the best, prepare for the worst and live with surprise.
Widespread pessimism and fear of the future are everywhere. With times to come often seeming thre...
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18.99 GBP
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Rigby's Encyclopaedia of the Herring
Adventures with the King of Fishes
ISBN: HB: 9781805264163,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2025
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 107 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 107 colour illus.
An all-in-one deep dive into the Atlantic herring and its far-reaching dominions.
This book contains almost everything you didn't know you needed to know about Atlantic herrings. (Pacific and Baltic varieties are in there too.) Herrings make the wor...
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25.00 GBP
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Information Animal
Humans, Technology and the Competition for Reality
ISBN: HB: 9781805262886,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2025
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Humanity has always craved, and feared, information. How should we understand our enduring, ever-changing relationships with technology and knowledge?
Depending on the news you read, new tools like AI will either save or destroy us. But our response...
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27.50 GBP
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Abortion
A History
ISBN: HB: 9781805262756,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
288 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
From classical Greece to Roe v. Wade, a long-overdue history of abortion.
An ancient entertainer unable to work while pregnant; a medieval holy woman performing a "miraculous termination"; a Reformation-era abortion provider prosecuted as a witch; a...
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25.00 GBP
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Holy Men of the Electromagnetic Age
A Forgotten History of the Occult
ISBN: HB: 9781805262749,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Exploring death, religion, science and social crisis, a startling history of the occult between the world wars, when Spiritualism was truly an international obsession.
The interwar period was a golden age of the uncanny. Clairvoyants, fakirs, Theoso...
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25.00 GBP
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