English Non-fiction

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...

Jurgen Lijcops Hardback 256 pages, 10 Illustrations, black and white; 190 Illustrations, color Jurgen Lijcops, author of the bestseller 150 Bars You Need to Visit Before You Die, selected the 15...

Jacob Mikanowski Hardback 400 pages Eastern Europe is more than the sum total of its annexations, invasions and independence declarations. From the Baltics to the Balkans, from Prague to Kiev, t...

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...

Rebecca Fogg Hardback 272 pages Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but the journey to recovery is a slow one. A...

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...

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...

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...

Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton Paperback 464 pages Now an eight-part docuseries on Apple TV+ featuring Kim Kardashian, Amy Schumer, Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson, Wanda Sykes, Megan Thee Sta...

Anna Lembke Paperback 304 pages We are a wired generation. In these fast-paced times we are constantly bombarded by high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli. From texting to social media, food to drugs...

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...

Ralph Emerson Paperback 128 pages Originally published anonymously, Nature was the first modern essay to recommend the appreciation of the outdoors as an all-encompassing positive force. Emerson'...

Saskia Naafs Paperback 256 pages The 500 Hidden Secrets of Amsterdam reveals 500 off-the- beaten-track places and interesting details for anyone who’s keen to explore Amsterdam’s best-kept se...

Miguel Júdice - Manuel Gomes da Costa Paperback 251 pages A new and fully updated edition, 2022. The 500 Hidden Secrets of Lisbon reveals 500 off-the-beaten-track places and interesting detai...

HardbackFlorence Given...

PaperbackEsther Perel Mating in Captivity : How to keep desire and passion alive in long-term relationships When you love someone, how does it feel? And when you desire someone, how is it differ...

HardbackArthur Schopenhauer One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and...

PaperbackEdward W. Said The seminal work that has redefined our understanding of colonialism and empire, with a preface by the author'Stimulating, elegant and pugnacious' Observer'Magisterial' Terry ...

HardbackSeneca - Introduction by Robin Campbell Selected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful phil...

PaperbackNaomi Wolf Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In ...

PaperbackAristotle 'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy'What does it mean to be a good pers...

SoftbackCaroline Criado Perez Imagine a world where... *Your phone is too big for your hand *Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body *In a car accident you are 47% more lik...

SoftbackRutger Bregman Human beings, we re taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume that ...

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