English Non-fiction

Hanno Sauer Hardback 416 pages For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing and reinventing the concepts of 'Good' and 'Evil', and weaving the...

Author: Dan Toombs, Cover: Hardback, Pages: 176...

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 and...

Anna Bogutskaya Hardback 256 pages Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Horror has been embraced by mainstream pop culture more tha...

Nathan Thrall Paperback 272 pages A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collisionMilad is five years old ...

Anthony Bale Paperback 464 pages _From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel ...

Sophie Wyburd Hardback 256 pages Simple, hearty recipes from the queen of comfort food Good food does not mean complicated food. Whether it’s a bowl of something warming on a Tuesday night, ...

Ray Kurzweil Paperback 352 pages From the world's preeminent AI futurist: a fascinating account of how mapping the human mind leads to ever more intelligent machinesRay Kurzweil, described by Bi...

Team WSIGT Hardback No idea where to go in Amsterdam? We do! Dive into the heart of Amsterdam, with savvy tips on where to stay, eat and explore without breaking the bank. It might be hard to g...

Paperback 256 pages In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that pr...

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...

Michael Taylor Paperback In 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred...

Ian Mortimer Paperback 256 pages The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval EnglandWe tend to think of the Middle Ages as...

Alain de Botton Paperback 224 pages A unique love story and a classic work of philosophy, rooted in the mysterious workings of the human heart and mind. Perhaps it is true that we do not really e...

Russell Norman Hardback 320 pages Brutto ma buono - ugly but good. This is the food of Florence - rigorously simple, few ingredients, exceptionally good. Anchovy with cold butter and sourdou...

Caroline Moorehead Paperback Edda Mussolini was Benito's favourite daughter: spoilt, venal, uneducated but clever, faithless but flamboyant, a brilliant diplomat, wild but brave, and ultimately st...

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...

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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...

PaperbackSimone de Beauvoir Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNES When this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Nev...

PaperbackKarl Marx - Friedrich Engels Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war a...

PaperbackOscar Wilde 'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profo...

SoftbackOlivia Laing When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experience...

Jonathan HaidtPaperback In The Righteous Mind, psychologist Jonathan Haidt answers some of the most compelling questions about human relationships:Why can it sometimes feel as though half the populat...