English Non-fiction

Steven Hahn Hardback...

Jonn Elledge Paperback People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines migh...

Paperback 256 pages In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that pr...

Charles Holland Hardback 192 pages Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is ...

Lisa Kaltenegger Hardback 288 pages For thousands of years, humans have wondered whether we're alone in the cosmos. Now, for the first time, we have the technology to investigate. The question...

Zeinab Badawi Paperback For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In th...

Hardback 224 pages On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keepin...

Christopher Phillips Hardback 320 pages The essential guide to geopolitics in the modern Middle East The Middle East is in crisis. The shocking events of the war in Gaza have rocked the entire ...

Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Jonathan Healey Paperback 512 pages The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collaps...

CLR James - Illustrated by: Sakina Karimjee, Nic Watts Paperback 272 pages The end of slavery started in what was then San Domingo. In 1791, the enslaved people of the most prized French suga...

Pierre-Joseph Redouté Hardback 192 pages The revered tradition of botanical illustration dates back to the Renaissance. It emerged from the desire to catalog nature in its unpredictable splendor...

Andy Warhol Hardback 192 pages Andy Warhol was a relentless chronicler of life and its encounters. Carrying a Polaroid camera from the late 1950s until his death in 1987, he amassed a huge collec...

Plato Hardback 560 pages The Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practit...

Anouchka Grose Paperback What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well - patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of m...

Anna Jones Hardback 352 pages A brand new and essential book from award-winning and bestselling cook Anna Jones. Anna Jones gives her golden rules for easy wins in the kitchen with super-simple r...

Chris Lintott Hardback 272 pages Our view of the Universe is changing. The timeless heavens, turning ceaselessly above us, have been revealed to be dynamic and ever-changing, requiring a new kind...

Lucy Lovell Series: The 500 Hidden Secrets Paperback 264 pages Lucy Lovell is a travel writer originally from the UK but based in Valencia, where she spends her time weaving through the narr...

Lucy Davies Hardback 160 pages, 160 Illustrations, unspecified Women painters have changed the way we see the world – even though, throughout history, many remained unseen. This short but hi...

Nisha Katona Hardback 224 pages Make your friends and family say WOW! without having to spend hours in the kitchen or a fortune at the supermarket. Bold is all about big flavours, surprising ing...

Radhi Devlukia-Shetty Hardback 288 pages The much awaited debut cookery book from Radhi Devlukia-Shetty. “What you eat—along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think—has the abili...

Naoise Mac Sweeney Paperback 448 pages A radical new account of how the idea of the West has shaped our history, told through the stories of fourteen fascinating lives. We tend to imagine W...

Emma Gannon Paperback 336 pages OUR OBSESSION WITH ACHIEVEMENT IS A TRAP. THIS IS HOW TO BREAK FREE. Emma Gannon was thriving in her portfolio career, enjoying a happy personal life and to any...

Marcus Aurelius Hardback 448 pages Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war. Marcus Aurelius (AD 121–180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his g...