English Non-fiction

Roberto Conte Hardback 200 pages Containing over 140 exclusive photographs – ranging from private homes to football stadia – across every region of the country, Brutalist Italy is ...

Emily Timberlake Hardback 160 pages, 30 PHOTOGRAPHS...

Hannah Arendt Paperback 80 pages Violence can destroy power; it is utterly incapable of creating it'Why has violence played such a significant role in human history? Written in 1970, with the Ho...

Robert Skidelsky 384 pages A sweeping history of and meditation on humanity's relationship with machines, showing how we got here and what happens nextFaith in technological fixes for our proble...

John Gray Paperback 256 pages Ballard From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings ...

Stanley Tucci Paperback 320 pages From award-winning actor and food obsessive Stanley Tucci comes an intimate and charming memoir of life in and out of the kitchen - the perfect accompaniment ...

Paperback 320 pages From the Sunday Times bestselling author of A History of the Bible, this is the story of how the Bible has been translated, and why it mattersThe Bible is held to be both unive...

Serhii Plokhy Paperback 416 pages Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times On 24 February 2022, Ru...

John Gribbin Hardback 160 pages Obvious questions do not always have obvious answers. John Gribbin is known for giving us simple explanations of big concepts in science. But there is another way...

Softback John Stuart Mill 480 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: Three major essays-On Liberty (1859), Utilitarianism (1861), and The Subjection of Women (1869)-that illustrate Mill's l...

Philippa Perry Paperback 224 pages Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, partners, friends, colleagues or most importantly yourself. I...

Murray Pittock Paperback / softback 528 pages, 64 b-w illus. An engaging and authoritative history of Scotland's influence in the world and the world's on Scotland, from the Thirty Years' War to...

G.T. Karber Paperback 384 pages, b/w icons and illustrations Deductive Logico is back on the scene to investigate muders most foul in Murdle: More Killer Puzzles. These fiendishly compulsive mi...

Dan Jones Paperback 288 pages Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian, 'Summer of Blood' breaks new ground in its portrayal of the personalities and politi...

Tim Flannery & Emma Flannery Hardback 208 pages Imagine a ferocious marine hunter up to twenty metres long, weighing twice as much as a humpback whale and ten times more than Tyrannosaurus rex. ...

Jeffrey Toobin Hardback 432 pages From New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin comes the definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of far-right terror...

Ryan Holiday Paperback 352 pages To master anything, we must first master ourselves: our emotions, thoughts and actions. This ancient virtue of self-control is more essential than ever. In this b...

Steven Novella Paperback 432 pages Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish le...

Robert Greene Paperback 464 pages Over the last 25 years, Robert Greene has provided insights into every aspect of being human: whether that be getting what you want, understanding others' motiva...

Randall Munroe Paperback 368 pages WHAT IF you still had so many more strange questions about the universe?And WHAT IF Randall Munroe, former NASA roboticist and xkcd creator, were prepared to ...

Irene Vallejo Softback 464 pages An enthralling 2,000-year journey through the history of books and readingLong before books were mass-produced, scrolls hand copied on reeds pulled from the Nile ...

Tahir Hamut Izgil Paperback 246 pages If you took an Uber in Washington DC a few years ago, there's a chance your driver was one of the greatest living Uyghur poets, and one of only a handful fr...

Orlando Figes Paperback 368 pages From the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the stories that have shaped the country's past - and how they can inform its present. No other c...

Simon Sebag Montefiore Paperback 1344 pages From the master storyteller and internationally bestselling author - the story of humanity from prehistory to the present day, told through the one thi...