English Non-fiction

G.T. Karber Paperback 384 pages Our tireless detective is ready to unwind on a long-awaited vacation ... until a series of fiendishmurders require his particular expertise in this third instalmen...

Helen Joyce Paperback 352 pages Biological sex is no longer accepted as a basic fact of life. It is forbidden to admit that female people sometimes need protection and privacy from male ones. In ...

Andrea Komlosy Paperback 272 pages Andrea Komlosy argues in this important intervention that, when we examine it closely, work changes its meanings according to different historical and region...

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 ...

Jason Roberts Paperback The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. In the 18th century, two men dedicated their ...

Mike Jay Paperback 384 pages A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind Until the twent...

Alice Vincent Paperback 304 pages Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a quest to change that: to understand what encourages women to g...

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 ...

Marilynne Robinson Paperback For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different factional interests, with borrowi...

Michael Norton Paperback In this ground-breaking and inspiring guide, a renowned Harvard psychologist demonstrates how turning everyday habits into rituals can improve our work, our relationships...

Norman Ohler Hardback 240 pages Berlin, 1945. Following the fall of the Third Reich, drug use - long kept under control by the Nazis' strict anti-drug laws - is rampant throughout the city. In...

Elisabeth Braw Hardback 336 pages A bold new account of the state of globalization today—and what its collapse might mean for the world economy After the Cold War, globalization accelerated ...

Kayla Ihrig Paperback 248 pages You don't need to sacrifice your career to travel the world. Join the 35 million digital nomads who are living, working and exploring to the fullest. With this bo...

Paul Oyer Paperback 216 pages An engaging look at the ways economic thinking can help us understand how sports work both on and off the field “Mr. Oyer writes clearly and ranges across all sor...

Ryan Hopkins Paperback 264 pages There's one thing that's more important than productivity and promotion: your wellbeing. Discover how you can lead a fulfilling work life with 52 inspiring insigh...

Hannah Proctor Paperback 272 pages In the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the fro...

Nicky Hayes Hardback 288 pages A rich and engaging guide to psychology, the science devoted to understanding human nature What really drives our decisions? Where do language and memory come fr...

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...

Andrew Monaghan Paperback 224 pages This illuminating book explains how and why Russia’s relations with the west have deteriorated to the point of initiating a new era of ‘great power competi...

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...

Ben Ware Hardback 192 pages On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocal...