English Non-fiction

The School of Life Hardback 176 pages Great stories are often universal: our very souls shine with new ideas when we read them. Books can be so powerful, helping us through tricky times, offerin...

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...

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...

Jo Teeuwisse Paperback Fake news about the past is fake history. Did Hugo Boss design the Nazi uniforms? Did medieval people think the world was flat? Did Napoleon shoot the nose off the Sp...

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...

David Grann Paperback 368 pages a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth.  On 28th January 1742, a ramshackle ves...

Hardback 264 pages Fresh off of his #1 New York Times bestseller,Joshua Weissman: An Unapologetic Cookbook, Joshua Weissman is back with a bold and exciting new cookbook that will take your cook...

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...

Nancy Singleton Hachisu Hardback 464 pages More than 400 authentic Japanese recipes for the home cook from bestselling author Nancy Singleton HachisuJapan, The Cookbook has more than 400 sumptuou...

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 ...

Frederic Gros Paperback 272 pages By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being an...

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...

Joshua Boissy Hardback 272 pages A delightful, imaginative, and thoroughly original cocktail compendium and bartending manual with 90 drink recipes from the popular and influential Brooklyn bar ...

Ellie Walker-Arnott Paperback 264 pagina's This alternative guidebook is a personal ode to the stunning and always intriguing country that is England. A source of inspiration for those travelling...

Anna-Carin Nordin Paperback 256 pagina's The 500 Hidden Secrets of Madrid reveals 500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore the city’s best-kept...

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...

Janina Ramirez Paperback 464 pages An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written ...

Derek Blyth Paperback New fully updated edition - March 2022 - This revised and updated guide is journalist Derek Blyth’s personal ode to the most beautiful and intriguing spots in what he ca...

Elizabeth Stamp Hardcover 256 pages After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards, now also 150 Bookstores you need to visit before you die. These bookstores...

Sinéad Gleeson and Kim Gordon Paperback 272 pages This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly,...

Paperback 368 pages Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences...

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...

Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton Paperback 464 pages Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Sta...