English Non-fiction

Mark Hanson & Lucy Green Paperback 200 pages Ever wondered why your life and health can sometimes be so hard to control? Or why it seems so easy for other people? Mark Hanson and Lucy Green draw...

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...

Ellen Swandiak - Katelijne De Backer Paperback 264 pages, 80 Illustrations, color This one-of-a-kind guide takes you to New York's best-kept secrets, like vintage shops packed with unique co...

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...

Miguel Júdice - Manuel Gomes da Costa Paperback 251 pages A new and fully updated edition, 2022. The 500 Hidden Secrets of Lisbon reveals 500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting detai...

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...

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...

PaperbackRuth Goodman We know what life was like for Victoria and Albert. But what was it like for a commoner - like you or me? How did it feel to cook with coal and wash with tea leaves? Drink bee...

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...

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...

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Sarah Bakewell Paperback 448 pages Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue M...