English Non-fiction

Maggie Nelson Paperback 304 pages What can freedom really mean? In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think

Paperback 288 pages This rich history of Antwerp was a Times Book of the Year and Radio 4 Book of the WeekEven before Amsterdam there was a dazzli

Tom Standage Paperback 272 pages The product of deep research, great intelligence and burnished prose . . . It is rare that I encounter a non

Ellen Swandiak - Katelijne De Backer Paperback 264 pages, 80 Illustrations, color This one-of-a-kind guide takes you to New York's best-kept

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 560 pages The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saskia Naafs Paperback 256 pages The 500 Hidden Secrets of Amsterdam reveals 500 off-the- beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone

Paperback James Clear Transform your life with tiny changes in behaviour, starting now. People think that when you want to change your life, you ne

PaperbackPeter Kropotkin 'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice

HardbackThomas More In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order bas

HardbackSeneca - Introduction by Robin Campbell Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays

SoftbackBenjamin Dreyer An indispensable, New York Times-bestselling guide to the craft of writing from Random House's long-time copy chief and one of

PaperbackAlbert Camus 'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieve

PaperbackSimone de Beauvoir 'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? Th

PaperbackSojourner Truth 'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am

SoftbackErling Kagge 'After having put my shoes on and let my thoughts wander, I am sure of one thing - to put one foot in front of the other is one o

PaperbackPatti Smith A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion

PaperbackDaniel Klein - Thomas Cathcart Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on w

Jonathan HaidtPaperback In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships:

SoftbackAC Grayling The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known

Hardback Many people are intimidated at the idea of cooking Japanese food at home. But in JapanEasy, Tim Anderson reveals that many Japanese recipes r

Hardback Oats in the North, Wheat from the South is Regula Ysewijn's evocative, meticulously researched and beautifully photographed love letter to t

Paperback Do you ever think you're the only one making any sense? Or tried to reason with your partner with disastrous results? Do long, rambling answ