Non-Fiction Books

Most of us want to make a difference. We donate to charity, buy Fairtrade coffee, or try to cut down on our carbon emissions. Rarely do we know if ...

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR Humanity's embrace of openness is the key to our success. The freedom to explore and exchange - whether it's goods, ...

The British did not take to water like ducks, for centuries doing little but cling to coastal waters. The Romans and Vikings knocked spots of us as...

A history of the twentieth century which covers all the ideas, people, great events, literary and artistic movements, scientific discoveries which ...

Now a major Netflix original film called 22 JULY - directed by Paul Greengrass On 22 July 2011 Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 of his fellow Norw...

The skills of Critical Thinking are important whatever subject you are studying. They enable you to assess what's been said or written by asking th...

Polish exiles in the West after 1939 were in the vanguard of the movement for European integration and rank with the so-called founding fathers of ...

This book is an inspirational exploration of the signs and symbols of a wealth of global cultures from ancient times to the present day. It brings ...

Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume o...

London, Paris and New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce and money, art and intellectual lif...

Like its acclaimed predecessors, RESTORATION LONDON and DR JOHNSON'S LONDON, this book is the result of the author's passionate interest in the pra...

In YOU CAN, YOU WILL, Joel Osteen shares eight undeniable qualities of winners that can help you to reach your potential and achieve new levels of ...

"Introducing Aristotle" guides the reader through an explosion of theories, from the establishment of systematic logic to the earliest rules of sci...

Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true na...

The works of French philosopher Alain Badiou range from novels, poems, "romanoperas" and popular political treatises to elaborate philosophical arg...

Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art. Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural hi...

In May and June 1940 almost four million people fled Paris and its suburbs in anticipation of a German invasion. On June 14, the German Army tentat...

The seven-year campaign that saved Europe from Napoleon told by those who were there. What made Arthur Duke of Wellington the military genius who w...

Britain in the 1980s was a polarized nation. Determined to take the country in a radically different direction was the most dominant, commanding an...

The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which has seen the principal threats to the earth as issuing from int...

France, early summer 1794. The French Revolution has been hijacked by the extreme Jacobins and is in the grip of The Terror. While the guillotine r...

The definitive and fascinating account of the many German plots to kill Hitler. PLOTTING HITLER'S DEATH brings the full story of German resistance...

Presents more than three hundred portraits, artifacts, photographs, prints, letters, and other visual records to document the fates of the eight pe...

As an RAF medical officer, Aidan had served in France, survived Dunkirk, and was plunged into adventures in the Japanese-American arena comparable ...

It is not a book about having space, but about being the space that includes all, the space of awareness that you are. Can we be the space for the ...

Product Description Nearly 300 spectacular photographs of Londons lost buildings from the London Metropolitan Archive in Panoramic format. Tudor, ...

Product Description On the afternoon of 9 September 2015 Her Majesty The Queen becomes the longest reigning British monarch. She will surpass the ...

Fifteen years since it was originally published, Grub Street is proud to present the re-issue of Poles in Defence of Britain. To the Polish volunte...

With the introduction of female pilots to the RAF in 1994, the Tornado was among the first aircraft to be flown by both men and women. This is ackn...

The sequel to the global bestseller The Courage To Be Disliked, the Japanese phenomenon in applying twentieth-century psychology to contemporary di...

'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph O...

Spies, bed-hopping, treachery and executions - this story of espionage in wartime Bordeaux is told for the first time. Game ...

One of the most popular and beloved introductions to the concept of faith ever written, `Mere Christianity' has sold millions of copies worldwide. ...

From the author of 'Britain BC', 'Britain AD' and 'Britain in the Middle Ages' comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on ...

After World War II the Royal Air Force went through a considerable downsizing, but retained an essential maritime reconnaissance role for the prote...

Disagreements about the morality of markets, and about self-interested behavior within markets, run deep. They arise from perspectives within econo...

Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, OCR & WJEC Level: A-level Subject: History First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Give your students t...

Mistresses and wives, mothers and daughters - Antonia Fraser brilliantly explores the relationships which existed between The Sun King and the wome...

'Journalism is an ephemeral business, but Stanford is one of those journalists whose output, as this collection demonstrates, stands the test of ti...

God's presence permeates our lives and activities, reverberating throughout all he has created. As we open our lives to that presence, we hear the ...

A vivid blend of history and travel and a sweeping story of collaboration and resistance, fear and heroism, pacifism and sacrifice all set against ...

Published to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day (May 2020) and Victory in Japan Day (August 2020), this is an outstanding co...

From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at its height, many of Britain's best and brightest young men went out to India to work as administrat...

'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg Jenner This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we'v...

Strawser examines several possible ethical justifications for the killing of Osama bin Laden and finds nearly all of them wanting. One, however, he...

Leading philosopher's guide to the ideas that will shape the 21st century 'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half wa...

D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and he...