English Non-fiction

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 dazzling North Sea port at the hub of the known world: t...

Simone Weil Paperback 128 pages 'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good'The philosopher and activist Sim...

David van Reybrouck Paperback 656 pages Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Rob...

PaperbackStephen Hawking The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time leaves us with his final thoughts on the universe's biggest questions in this brilliant post...

PaperbackPatti Smith A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists--Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a ch...

PaperbackAlex Bellos The Language Lover's Puzzle Book : Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You ...

SoftbackMarcus Aurelius The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a stoic philosopher, have for centuries been praised for their wisdom, insi...

Jonathan HaidtPaperback In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships:Why can it sometimes feel as though half the populat...

Author: Gewen Adshead, Cover: Softback, Pages: 128...

Author: Tim Spector, Cover: Softback...

Author: David A. Kessler , Cover: Hardback, Pages: 384...

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Author: Maarten Asscher, Cover: Softback, Pages: 176...

Author: Richard Flanagan, Cover: Softback, Pages: 256...

Author: Andrea Dworkin , Cover: Softback, Pages: 336...

For (the poor girlfriend of) that friend who “has the confidence of a much taller man.”...

Albert Camus Paperback 192 pages The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics. In this profound and moving philosophical statement, ...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 528 pages One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would ha...

Marcus Aurelius Hardback 192 pages A deluxe special edition of the ancient classic written by the Roman Emperor known as "The Philosopher" Meditations is a series of personal journals written by...

Silvia Federici Paperback 400 pages A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to ca...

Natasha Lunn Paperback 320 pages After years of feeling that love was always out of reach, journalist Natasha Lunn set out to understand how relationships work and evolve over a lifetime. She tur...

PaperbackEsther Perel Mating in Captivity : How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it different?...

SoftbackOlivia Laing When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experience...

Hardback New York Times Bestseller In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can tr...