English Non-fiction

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...

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...

Softback Mike Duncan Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of the Age of Revolution, he fought courageously on bo...

For your friend who loves animals, and cannot get enough facts about how weird some of them are....

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...

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 ...

Rebecca Solnit Paperback / softback 144 pages A landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today. Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Reb...

Frederic Gros Paperback 272 pages By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to have a name and a history ... The freedom in walking lies in not being an...

Nicholas Guyatt Paperback 432 pages Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race. It's 1812 - Britain and America are at war. British redcoats to...

Katherine Rundell Paperback 352 pages John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable o...

Janina Ramirez Paperback 464 pages An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of medieval women who have been written ...

Elizabeth Stamp Hardcover 256 pages After 150 Bars, Restaurants, Hotels, Houses, Gardens, Golf Courses and Vineyards, now also 150 Bookstores you need to visit before you die. These bookstores...

Brenda Froyen Paperback 213 pagina's In dit boek vertelt Brenda wat een tuin en tuinieren voor haar maar misschien ook voor jou en de natuur kan betekenen. Als je niet kijkt door de ogen van d...

Sally Hayden Paperback 512 pages The Western world has turned its back on refugees, fuelling one of the most devastating human rights disasters in history. In August 2018, Sally Hayden received a...

Susan Sontag Paperback 336 pages A series of provocative discussions on everything from individual authors to contemporary religious thinking, Against Interpretation and Other Essays is the def...

Randall Munroe Paperback 336 pages From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit ...

Luisa Grigoletto Paperback 264 pages New & fully updated edition 2023 The 500 Hidden Secrets of Rome reveals 500 off-the-beaten track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to...

Thomas Halliday Paperback 416 pages This is the past as we've never seen it before. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the w...

Gyles Brandreth Hardback 576 pages Gyles Brandreth first met the Queen in 1968, when he was twenty. Over the next fifty years he met her many times, both at public and at private events. Thro...

John Goodlad Hardback 272 pages This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom and inspired artists, writers ...

Kate Hawkings Hardback 96 pages The Little Book of Aperitifs offers 50 recipes for everything from the perfect Gin and Tonic, classic Martini, effervescent Bellini, refreshing Spritz, to the bel...

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...

Hardback 272 pages A deluxe, high-quality edition of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work Beyond Good and Evil is one of the final books by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. This landmark wor...

Suzanne Wrack Paperback 256 pages This is the inspirational, agenda-changing story of women's football around the world. A Woman's Game explores the history of women's football from the Vic...