Books published by Profile Books Ltd

The heartbreaking, liberating truth about what racism has cost all of us.

Companion to the BBC series CIVILISATIONS. screening on SBS from December 2018.

The defining master-work of the Man Booker International winner's spectacular career.

An overview of post-Covid economics and the possible future of decarbonisation.

A haunting and vivid novel which excavates an Australia rarely seen in literature.New Year''s Eve, 1990, small-town Australia. The mysterious death of the family dog pushes Jack, a Vietnam veteran suffering from severe PTSD, into one of his periodic vanishing acts. His eccentric brother Les remains next door, a gentle fixer-upper, whose loyalties are increasingly torn between Jack and his wife Evelyn. This time, Evelyn lets Jack stay gone. She is rapidly disappearing herself, lost in recollections of a vibrant youth as her eldest daughter Lani seems intent on misspending her own. And at the heart of it all is Lani''s little sister Ru, who sees everything and yet is overlooked. A Loving, Faithful Animal is an unforgettable interrogation of ruins, redemption and reasons why.

A bestselling author tries to rehabillitate a much-maligned field.

Another bestselling collection of astonishing explainers from The Economist.

In the bleak midwinter ... murder awaits.The halls might be decked, and the mistletoe hung, but in these ten classic crime stories you're more likely to come across a corpse under the Christmas tree than a present. From a Santa Claus with a secret to a violent theft that snowballs into something quite unexpected, pull up a chair, throw another log on the fire ... and let history's greatest crime writers surprise, delight and chill you to the bone.

An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful and downright baffling words from the origins of English.

The latest comprehensive overview of the forces at work in the world of commodities.

A masterful fictional contribution to the #MeToo debate, set to be the most fiercely debated book of the season.

The international bestseller that offers an alternative to chucking your most irksome idiot out a window.

A full-colour, delicious guide to artisanal and farmhouse cheeses from the bestselling author of A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles.

Twice-voted poem of the year, Warning is an uplifting poem about growing older.

Poems about horses by the world's greatest poets.

A kaleidoscopic compendium of colour cultures and meanings that will change the way you see the spectrum.

An account of Noah Strycker's record-breaking year when he spotted 6,042 of the world's 10,000 species of birds. Traveling to 41 countries, on all seven continents, with a backpack, binoculars and a series of one-way tickets, it was the greatest adventure in birding.