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Duckworth nurtures a rounded world view through accessible and stimulating works of popular science, psychology, memoir, history and historical fiction. Founded by the family of Virginia Woolf in 1898, we have published incredible authors including D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and Beryl Bainbridge, Oliver Sacks and Ray Kurzweil.

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World War Z

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Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl

Jeannie Vanasco

Can a good person commit a terrible act? Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl is Jeannie’s story of her friendship with a man that ended in rape when she was nineteen. With the election of Trump and the rise of the #MeToo movement, rec…

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Every Breath You Take

Mark Broomfield

A fascinating journey through the atmosphere that will leave readers breathless. We breathe in and out every few seconds. But what’s really in the air all around us? From the atmosphere on distant planets to the stuff that gets into our lungs,…

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Popular Science

The Secret Life of Bones

One Kiss or Two?

Cosmosapiens

The Singularity Is Near

Psychology

The Friendship Cure

Floating

Why Won’t You Apologize?

The Divided Mind

Memoir & Biography

The Life and Loves of E Nesbit

Eleanor Fitzsimons

A Wood of One’s Own

Churchill and Orwell

Thomas E. Ricks

Angela Merkel

Matthew Qvortrup

History

Empire of Guns

The Royal Art of Poison

The Nine Lives of John Ogilby

David Bowie Made Me Gay

Darryl W. Bullock

Historical Fiction

The Butcher’s Daughter

Victoria Glendinning

Ike and Kay

The Optickal Illusion

Rachel Halliburton

Stanley and Elsie