English Non-fiction

Uri Gneezy Paperback 320 pages Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentiv...

Roger Hampson & Nigel Shadbolt Hardback 272 pages A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being I...

Softback 324 pages Boobs. Knockers. Jugs. Cans. Baps. Melons. Puppies. Fun bags. Bosoms. Hooters. In the English language there are over 700 expressions for female mammary glands – th...

Elizabeth Kolbert Hardback 160 pages Climate change resists narrative – and yet we must see clearly what’s happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million sp...

Dana Mattioli Paperback From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating expose of Amazon's endless strategic greed, its pursuit of tot...

Jean Menzies Paperback 96 pages For a period in time that gave us Sappho and the love affair of Achilles and Patroclus, the Ancient Greek relationship with queer folk is more complicated that at...

Softback Alain de Botton From one of our greatest voices in modern philosophy, author of The Course of Love, The Consolations of Philosophy, The Art of Travel and The School of Life'A serious and ...

Charles Holland Hardback 192 pages Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture Architecture is ...

Ali A. Allawi Hardback 688 pages A landmark history of the world economic order, exploring how developing countries have fought to escape impoverishment Over the past two decades, experiments ...

Zeinab Badawi Paperback For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, or simply ignored. Now, Zeinab Badawi sets the record straight. In th...

Peter Burke Paperback 336 pages A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day Throughout history, every age has thought of itself as more knowle...

Gillian Dooley Hardback 344 pages Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her bo...

Quentin Tarantino Paperback 400 pages A unique cocktail of personal memoir, cultural criticism and Hollywood history by the one and only Quentin Tarantino. The long-awaited first work of nonficti...

Jonathan Healey Paperback 512 pages The seventeenth century began as the English found themselves ruled by a Scotsman, and ended in the shadow of a Dutch invasion. Midway through, society collaps...

Mark Tuitert Hardback 144 pages Discover how the ancient wisdom of the Stoics provides the essential tools you need to navigate the modern world. 'Relatable and inspiring ... Get ready to be mot...

Nigel Townson Paperback 608 pages SA revelatory new history of Spain, from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first'Spain is different,' proclaimed the Franco regime in the 1940s, keen to...

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...

Jimmy Callaway Hardback 112 pages Cult Sando brings 30 recipes for the showstopping Japanese sandwich. 'Sando' are sandwiches that – in typical Japanese creativity – have undergone ...

Venki Ramakrishnan Paperback How can science help us live better and longer? We are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why...

Sebastiao Salgado Hardback 192 pages Sebastião Salgado’s haunting black-and-white photographs from the GENESIS project record landscapes and people unchanged in the devastating onslaught of mo...

Annie Jacobsen Paperback There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. It could start in as little as 26 minut...

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...

Andrea Richards Hardback 520 pages From the beginning of human history, individuals across cultures and belief systems have looked to the sky for meaning. The movement of celestial bodies and th...

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...