English Non-fiction

Marcus Aurelius Hardback 448 pages Stoic musings of a philosopher-emperor at war. Marcus Aurelius (AD 121–180), Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, born at Rome, received training under his g...

David Graeber Paperback 208 pages The Enlightenment did not begin in Europe. Its true origins lie thousands of miles away on the island of Madagascar, in the late seventeenth century, when it was...

Lyndsey Stonebridge Hardback 304 pages The violent unease of today's world would have been all too familiar to Hannah Arendt. Tyranny, occupation, disenchantment, post-truth politics, conspiracy...

Satya Doyle Byock Paperback 256 pages Why do I feel lost? What's wrong with me? Is this all there is?Satya Doyle Byock hears these questions regularly in her psychotherapy practice, where she wo...

Robert Tuesley Anderson Hardback 176 pages Ever wondered what Lembas Bread, Cram, or Beorn's Honey Cakes might taste like?From Crickhollow Apple Loaf, Pippin's Minas Tirith Lunch, and Brandywine...

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 ...

Roger E Backhouse Paperback 496 pages The definitive guide to the history of economic thought, fully revised twenty years after first publicationRoger Backhouse's definitive guide takes the st...

Maggie Nelson Paperback 224 pages Selected as a Book of the Year 2017 in the Guardian'Maggie Nelson's short, singular books feel pretty light in the hand... But in the head and the heart, they se...

Lol Tolhurst Paperback Goth is an entertaining and evocative personal history of Goth music and culture, told by a true insider. Lol Tolhurst explores the godfathers of goth who established the ...

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. ...

Michael Sheridan Paperback 480 pages A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule. The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule a...

Nancy Singleton Hachisu Hardback 464 pages More than 400 authentic Japanese recipes for the home cook from bestselling author Nancy Singleton HachisuJapan, The Cookbook has more than 400 sumptuou...

Jim Leary Hardback 288 pages On paths, roads, seas, in the air, and in space - there has never been so much human movement. In contrast we think of the past as static, 'frozen in time'. But archa...

Lucy Cooke Paperback 400 pages What does it mean to be female? Mother, carer, the weaker sex? Think again. In the last few decades a revolution has been brewing in zoology and evolutionary biolo...

Koa Beck Paperback 320 pages 'Don't judge this book by its cover. Koa Beck knows that feminism includes all women and girls by definition, and is writing to overcome anti-feminist divisions t...

Nick Hornby Paperback 256 pages The Twentieth Anniversary Edition*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football cl...

Lori Gottlieb Paperback 432 pages Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb takes us behind the scenes of...

Paperback 352 pages What does it mean to be out walking in the world? From pilgrimages to protest marches, mountaineering to meandering, this modern classic weaves together numerous histories to t...

Felicity Cloake Paperback 352 pages The nation's 'taster in chief' cycles 2,300 km across France in search of the definitive versions of classic French dishes. A green bike drunkenly weaves its ...

Kate Lister Paperback 464 pages, Color illustrations throughout An eye-opening exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm, b...

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 u...

PaperbackFriedrich Nietzsche 'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!'Nietzsche's devastating demolition of re...

PaperbackEckhart Tolle To make the journey into The Power of Now we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart To...

SoftbackAC Grayling The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But since the long-popular classic B...