English Non-fiction

James Cahill Hardback 160 pages David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in t...

PaperbackKatherine May Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows u...

PaperbackBill Bryson 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the...

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...

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PaperbackPeter Kropotkin 'Everywhere you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor'Fuelled by anger at injustice and optimism about humankind's ability to make a b...

HardbackRukmini Iyer From the bestselling author of The Roasting Tin series, comes seventy-five easy and delicious one-tin bakes in one sweet package. From crave-worthy cakes and brownies to moreish ...

HardbackFriedrich Engels - Karl Marx A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Ste...

SoftbackValerie Hansen When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale professor Valerie Hansen shows, it was the year 1...

PaperbackRyan Holiday - Stephen Hanselman Daily doses of practical, uplifting philosophy from the bestselling author of The Obstacle is the WayWhere can you find joy? What's the true measure of succe...

HardbackSteve Brouwers In Creatives for Creativity Steve Brouwers (creative director at SBS) interviews 42 makers - painters, photographers, graphic designers, conceptual artists, furniture designers...

HardbackEmma Baxter-Wright Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An enigmatic, daring and astonishingly cre...

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 ...

SoftbackFrancesca Wade 'I like this London life...the street-sauntering and square-haunting.' Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 Mecklenburgh Square, on the radical fringes of interwar Bloomsbury, was ho...

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...

PaperbackKarl Marx - Friedrich Engels Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war a...

PaperbackPeter Singer 'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?'One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching questions about how we should li...

PaperbackEpictetus - Seneca - Marcus Aurelius 'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen'How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our c...

PaperbackAristotle 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good pers...

PaperbackFriedrich Nietzsche 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of ...

HardbackEddie S.Glaude Jr. The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White H...

PaperbackBetty Friedan When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up soci...

SoftbackErling Kagge 'After having put my shoes on and let my thoughts wander, I am sure of one thing - to put one foot in front of the other is one of the most important things we do.' From those pe...