English Non-fiction

Chris Broad Paperback 320 pages When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he'd made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teachi...

Alain de Botton Paperback 224 pages A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really e...

David Graeber Paperback 208 pages The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was...

Russell Norman Hardback 320 pages Brutto ma buono - ugly but good. This is the food of Florence - rigorously simple, few ingredients, exceptionally good. Anchovy with cold butter and sourdou...

Softback John Stuart Mill 480 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays-On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)-that illustrate Mill's l...

Kirsty Loehr Paperback 208 pages No, they weren't 'just friends'!Queer women have been written out of history since, well, forever. 'But historians famously care about women!', said no one. Fro...

Randall Munroe Paperback 368 pages WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to ...

Patrick Radden Keefe Paperback 368 pages From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue by on...

John Green Paperback 336 pages A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green Th...

Katherine Rundell Paperback 352 pages John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable o...

Brenda Froyen Paperback 213 pagina's In dit boek vertelt Brenda wat een tuin en tuinieren voor haar maar misschien ook voor jou en de natuur kan betekenen. Als je niet kijkt door de ogen van d...

Sally Hayden Paperback 512 pages The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a...

Randall Munroe Paperback 336 pages From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit ...

Thomas Cirotteau, Jennifer Kerner & Eric Pincas Paperback 240 pages 45,000 years ago, rare and precious statues of faceless women with hourglass figures, sturdy hips and generous breasts surfaced...

Peter Robison Paperback 336 pages The definitive expose of how Boeing put profit before passengers, leading to the devastating loss of life in the 737 MAX crashes and the downfall of an American...

Elinor Cleghorn Paperback 496 pages Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of...

Mary Hollingsworth Paperback 480 pages, 1x24pp colour plates Wealthy bankers, wise politicians, patrons of the arts, glittering dukes... so runs the traditional telling of the story of the Med...

Daniel Kahneman - Olivier Sibony - Cass R. Sunstein Paperback 464 pages From the world-leaders in strategic thinking and the multi-million copy bestselling authors of Thinking Fast and Slow and ...

David Graeber - David Wengrow Paperback 720 pages For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilizatio...

PaperbackW. E. B. Du Bois When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America - and it remains both a touchstone in the l...

PaperbackFlorence Given Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. Women Don't Owe You Pretty is for anyone who wants to challenge...

PaperbackChris Gosden Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we have a connection with the universe - has develop...

PaperbackDale Carnegie Perfect your social skills and master any conversationThe most famous confidence-boosting book ever published, with sales of over 16 million copies worldwideMillions of people ...

PaperbackNaomi Wolf Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In ...