English Non-fiction

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...

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...

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...

Paulo Coelho Hardback 224 pages An essential companion to the inspirational classic The Alchemist, filled with timeless stories of reflection and rediscovery. From one of the greatest writers of...

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...

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...

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...

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...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

Rashid I. Khalidi Paperback / softback 336 pages, Maps and b&w photos The twentieth century for Palestine and the Palestinians has been a century of denial: denial of statehood, denial of natio...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Tim Anderson Hardback 224 pages "There's nothing in this book I wouldn't be ecstatic to share... I return to his books again and again; his recipes have become part of my life." - Nigella Laws...

Kate Hawkings Hardback 96 pages The Little Book of Aperitifs offers 50 recipes for everything from the perfect Gin and Tonic, classic Martini, effervescent Bellini, refreshing Spritz, to the bel...

Elizabeth Hinton Paperback 416 pages A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America's past and present, by one of the country's leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration Bet...

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...

Austin Sailsbury Paperback 256 pagina's Where are the best places in Copenhagen to experience New Nordic cuisine? What are the best places to shop for Scandinavian furniture, fashion, and design...

Ralph Emerson Paperback 128 pages Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson'...

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...