English Non-fiction

Plato Hardback 656 pages The Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practit...

Anouchka Grose Paperback What makes a good listener? There are a number of commonsensical ideas about what constitutes doing it well - patience, tolerance, availability, responsiveness, lack of m...

Softback Sofia Coppola "The 488-page tome is a treasure trove for anyone with even a passing interest in the filmmaker's work, featuring hundreds of never-before-seen photographs shot by Coppola ...

Amy Key Paperback 240 pages When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when yo...

Timothy Garton Ash Paperback 384 pages Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then faltered. Timothy Garton As...

Aristotle Hardback 688 pages Antiquity’s most influential account of life’s Supreme Good. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, wa...

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 Van Reybrouck Paperback On a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of tired people raised a homemade cotton flag and on behalf of 68 million compatriots announced the birth of a new...

Courtney Daniella Boateng & Renee Kapuku Paperback 240 pages From the hosts of the hit podcast, To My Sisters, comes this frank, funny, and essential guide to sisterhood – for fans of Keep Th...

Charles Freeman Hardback 400 pages The remarkable story of how Greek-speaking writers and thinkers sustained and developed the intellectual legacy of Classical Greece under the rule of Rome. In...

Kyle Chayka Paperback 304 pages The early promise of a free Internet is long gone. Now, rather than allowing us a meaningful relationship with a range of content of our choosing, algorithms have...

Lyndsey Stonebridge Hardback 304 pages The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy...

Roxy Pope & Ben Pook Hardback 224 pages Get your hands on the must-have guide for all things, QUICK, EASY AND VEGAN'These speedy, fuss-free plant-based dinners use ingredients already in your c...

Dhan Tamang Hardback 128 pages Take your coffee art to the next level with 50 spectacular-yet-simple latte art designs to impress family and friends. From the comfort of your own kitchen you can ...

David Shrier Paperback 240 pages In Basic AI, leading futurist David L. Shrier delves deep into the rapidly advancing world of artificial intelligence, delivering fascinating insights and explori...

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...

Christopher Wilson Paperback 272 pages It is the year of our Lord 1349 and it is the season of the Plague. Brothor Diggory's life is about to change. The sickness is creeping ever closer and the ...

Sarah Ditum Paperback Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, Jen. Nine iconic women whose fame in the early internet years of the century came at a price. In Toxic: Women, Fame...

Nicholas Royle Paperback 256 pages In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His ex...

Philippa Gregory Paperback Did you know that there are more penises than women in the Bayeux Tapestry?That the Peasant's Revolt was started and propelled by women, protesting a tax on women?Or th...

Roger E Backhouse Paperback 496 pages The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the st...

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...

Neil McKenna Paperback 416 pages London, April 1870: Fanny and Stella were no ordinary Victorian women. They were young men who liked to dress as women: Frederick Park and Ernest Boulton. Stella...

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...