Non-Fiction Books

Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: 2014, First Exam: 2015 CfE Higher Modern Studies Success Guide pr...

Hundreds of exercises to get you to the next level Collins Work on your Grammar - Elementary (A1) is a new practice book that covers th...

A workbook that introduces the most frequently used idioms in English and shows you how to use them effectively. Collins Work on your Idioms is a n...

By turns tragic and hopeful, the history of Israel and Palestine through the lens of the world's most popular sport. Football has never been shy o...

"This beautifully presented Little Book is an excellent introduction to the world of Irish whiskey. It includes descriptions of more than 100 Irish...

Earth Condensed is a conveniently sized reference atlas that is ideal for the home, school, library, college, university, and workplace. It is comp...

A pocket-sized Times Atlas of the World packed with the essentials, fully revised and improved to take account of all recent changes from around th...

This curious collection of maps explores the unique personalities of 28 cities around the world, shedding light on the strange and marvelous ways i...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without des...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Do tough times create tougher people? Can humanity handle the power of its weapons without des...

Experience at first hand the spectacular, brutal life and savage death of the most iconic figure of ancient Rome.This manual will take the reader f...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time a...

Jonathan Black examines the end of the world and the coming of the Antichrist - or is he already here? How will he make himself known and what will...

The spellbinding world of Middle-earth is full of beasts and battles, heroes and heroines, and the struggle between good and evil. In this diction...

The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause ...

The Collins Cobuild Pocket English-English-Hindi Dictionary is a brand new, illustrated dictionary aimed at learners of English. This dictionary co...

Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects...

The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights from the last 50 years w...

'Peter G. Tsouras does an excellent job ...Readers will marvel at just how close Germany came to winning a key event in World War II.' Air & Sp...

All around the world, from the dry dessert to the wet jungle, from the sleeping city to the icy pole, baby animals and thair parents are sharing th...

The Ritz, the Savoy, the Dorchester and Claridge's - during the Second World War they teemed with spies, con-artists, deposed royals and the exiled...

When the married Isabella Robinson was introduced to the dashing Edward Lane at a party in 1850, she was utterly enchanted. He was 'fascinating', s...

Thanks to his diary - Samuel Pepys is one of the most interesting characters in history. His life encompassed happenings of huge historical and hum...

England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto turbulent nation out from the Da...

A grisly and gruesome guide to history's most shocking and macabre moments. Horrible, spine-chilling and deeply fascinating, this book details the...

Archaeologists date the Bronze Age in Europe from about the 5th to the last millennium BC. That span of time saw dramatic changes in civilizations ...

Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Cam...

On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in the town of Garmsir...

Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head over control of central Asia - from the...

In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmitie...

In viewing the Great War through the portraits of those involved, Paul Moorhouse looks at the bitter-sweet nature of a conflict in which valour and...

Winner of both the Queen's Gold Medal and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry, James Fenton has given readers some of the most memorable lyric verse o...

Product Description 'Set in a desolate motel room on the edge of the Mojave desert, the play has something of the timeless universality of a Greek...

When first published in 1982, A LITERATURE OF THEIR OWN quickly set the stage for the creative explosion of feminist literary studies that transfor...

For Colm Toibin and Carmen Callil there is no difference between literary and commercial writing - there is only the good novel: engrossing, inspir...

POETRY BOOK SOCIETY CHOICE The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, Alice Oswald's first collection of poems, announced the arrival of a distinctive new v...

John Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit and melancho...

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. "The Judas Kiss" describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in Engla...

From the north-west midlands, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight dates from the second half of the 14th century.Gawain,a knight in Arthur's court,take...

The collected poems of the Pulitzer Prize winning author of THE COLOR PURPLE. 'I am the woman offering two flowers whose roots are twin. Justice an...

Propertius' fourth book is his most challenging and innovative. It disrupts genre; dislocates time and order; and meditates on gender, perception a...

John Stammers has a poetic mind original enough to read the most mundane and familiar events as great portents and wonders, and an eye clear enough...

While Jacob Polley's first collection, "The Brink", announced a poet of great promise, few readers will be prepared for a work of the mature and sl...

Jacket incorporates a photo of THomas Hardy and his second wife Florence, at Aldeburgh 1915

This book advances a new cultural reading of the formation of the British novel. Rejecting a teleological narrative of the genre's 'rise' and throu...

The unsentimental but sympathetic portrayal of the working class in such novels as Germinal and L'Assommoir confirmed Zola's social and political i...