English Non-fiction

Eric Williams Paperback 304 pages Arguing that the slave trade was at the heart of Britain's economic progress, Eric Williams's landmark 1944 study revealed the connections between capitalism ...

John Green Paperback 336 pages A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green Th...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Elinor Cleghorn Paperback 496 pages Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of...

Ellen Swandiak - Katelijne De Backer Paperback 264 pages, 80 Illustrations, color This one-of-a-kind guide takes you to New York's best-kept secrets, like vintage shops packed with unique co...

by Saigyo (Author) , Kamo no Chomei (Author) , Yoshida Kenko (Author) Paperback 112 pages 'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty ...

Soren Kierkegaard Paperback 160 pages Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, w...

David Graeber - David Wengrow Paperback 720 pages For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilizatio...

Marie Farman - Joram Van Holen - Tino Van den Berg Paperback 251 pages New and fully updated edition 2022 The 500 Hidden Secrets of Paris reveals 500 off-the-beaten- track places and interes...

Ollivier Pourriol Paperback 208 pages Sick of striving? Giving up on grit? Had enough of hustle culture? Daunted by the 10,000-hour rule? Relax: As the French know, it's the best way to be better...

PaperbackKatherine May Wintering is a poignant and comforting meditation on the fallow periods of life, times when we must retreat to care for and repair ourselves. Katherine May thoughtfully shows...

PaperbackBill Bryson 'We spend our whole lives in one body and yet most of us have practically no idea how it works and what goes on inside it. The idea of the book is simply to try to understand the...

PaperbackW. E. B. Du Bois When The Souls of Black Folk was first published in 1903, it had a galvanizing effect on the conversation about race in America - and it remains both a touchstone in the l...

PaperbackFlorence Given Bringing you the record-breaking, bestselling Women Don't Owe You Pretty as a black and white modern classic. Women Don't Owe You Pretty is for anyone who wants to challenge...

HardbackTim Anderson In Your Home Izakaya, chef Tim Anderson explores the 'anything goes' concept of izakaya by showcasing over 100 flavour-packed recipes. Izakaya began as sake stores that allowed t...

HardbackThomas More In Utopia, Thomas More gives us a traveller's account of a newly discovered island where the inhabitants enjoy a social order based on natural reason and justice, and human fulfil...