Profile Books imprint: 206 books
Human Relations and Other Difficulties
Pieces from the LRB and Elsewhere
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2018
Mary-Kay Wilmers has been a giant of the English literary world for decades. She was integral in the founding of LRB in 1979 during the year-long lock-out at The Times and has served as its editor in chief since 1992. Under her leadership, the magazine has pulled no punches and faced the inevitable...
by Various
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
In 2010 thousands of people submitted ghost stories to The Daily Telegraph's first ghost story competition. Standards were chillingly high and only the spookiest went through to the shortlist of six. Presented here are short stories from Gill Baconnier, Justin Crozier, Ceri Hughes, Pat Black, Craig...
by Susan Hill
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010
Returning home from a visit to a client late one summer's evening, antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow takes a wrong turning and stumbles across the derelict old White House. Compelled by curiosity, he approaches the door, and, standing before the entrance feels the unmistakeable sensation of a small...
by Professor Keith Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2011
The Colosseum was Imperial Rome's monument to warfare. Like a cathedral of death it towered over the city and invited its citizens, 50,000 at a time, to watch murderous gladiatorial games. It is now visited by two million visitors a year (Hitler was among them). Award winning classicist, Mary Beard...
Scorn
The Wittiest and Wickedest Insults in Human History
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
'He's 100% political herpes. Back in six months whatever you do. Or three days, like last time.' Camilla Long on Nigel Farage
'You're as ugly as a salad.' Bulgarian insult
'I'm going to beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.' Muhammed Ali
There's no pleasure like a perfectly...
That's The Way It Crumbles
The American Conquest of the English Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Are we tired of hearing that fall is a season, sick of being offered fries and told about the latest movie? Yeah. Have we noticed the sly interpolation of Americanisms into our everyday speech? You betcha. And are we outraged? Hell, yes. But do we do anything? Too much hassle. Until now.
In...
Puzzled
Secrets and clues from a life in words
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
As a child, David Astle's hero was the Riddler. Figuring out brainteasers like 'Where is a man drowned but still not wet?' (quicksand) and 'How many sides has a circle?' (two - the inside and the outside) became an obsession and, eventually, his life: his cryptic crosswords now appear in The Age and...
Fans! Not Customers: Revised Edition
How to Create Growth Companies in a No Growth World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Most companies plod along doing things as everyone always has. So there are huge opportunities for people trying to break the mould, even in old-fashioned businesses like banking or insurance. Of course it happens all the time in the digital world, but it can happen anywhere - so long as you turn...
The Answers
All the office questions you never dared to ask
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Should I tell my boss what I think of him?"How can I be more political and still be myself?"I have to sack my friend or fire someone better."I am a foreigner and my views are ignoredTypical conundrums faced by many of us, and just a few of the hundreds sent every week to Lucy Kellaway's...
Decline & Fall
Diaries 2005-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as a minister by Tony ('The Man') Blair in 2005 to the fall of New Labour in May 2010. Here is politics as it really is: entertaining encounters with constituents and conspirators, tantalising glimpses...
Lessons from the Top
The three universal stories that all successful leaders tell
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012
Great leaders have always understood the power of stories. Through the stories they tell, the most successful leaders educate, persuade and bring about change, but we rarely have the background knowledge to explore how they do so. In this hugely insightful guide to getting to the top, leading journalist...
Events, Dear Boy, Events
A Political Diary of Britain 1921-2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Ruth Winstone retells Britain's history through the great diarists of the last century, drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes, their doubts, ambitions, and emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it, showing the elation, anger, doubts, jealousy, joys and fears of...
A Walk-On Part
Diaries 1994-1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
The third and final volume of Chris Mullin's acclaimed diaries begins on the night John Smith died in May 1994, and continues until the moment of Mullin's assumption into government in July 1999. Together with the bestselling A View from the Foothills and Decline & Fall, the complete trilogy covers...
by Alan Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed his father, death had always come easily. He died promptly, painlessly and without a struggle. Looking back, Midgley could see that even in these imagined deaths...