Non-Fiction Books

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Develop your students' knowledge of ...

This introduction to fashion is aimed at students of fashion design across the world. By following the design process, from historical and commerci...

The S.E.5a became known as the `mount of aces' - the aircraft in which the most successful fighter pilots of Britain and her Empire went to war thr...

Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists...

Dramatic, illustrated account of the biggest naval battle of the First World War. On 31 May, 1916, the great battle fleets of Britain and Germany ...

A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends. Marytn Whittock provid...

An instructive and accessible account of the psychological development of children aged 0-2 years and how it can be supported by social relationshi...

Exam Board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Sociology First teaching: September 2015 First exam: June 2017 Suitable for the 2020 exams Need...

Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. ...

Why is Christmas the way it is? How did we get from the birth of Jesus to everyone pushing their credit card and their belts to their maximum exten...

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently f...

This volume tells the story of Christianity through the individual men and women who shaped it. It is a story of colossal undertakings and spectacu...

Popular uprisings in Poland and Hungary shake Moscow's hold on its eastern European empire. Across the American South, and in the Union of South Af...

'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan Snow 'Truly revelatory. The SAS at their very finest in WWII, and after, hunting down the Naz...

Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History Winner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History Prize...

The birth pangs of Nazism grew out of the death agony of the Kaiser's Germany. Defeat in World War I and a narrow escape from Communist revolution ...

The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet the...

This new edition of Teach EFL is the ultimate practical reference guide to becoming an EFL teacher. "Riddell's book is a classic - it answers all t...

This book is a fascinating narrative history of the last year of the First World War. For the weary Allies 1918 was truly a year of victory. First ...

Crossing the Water and Winter Trees contain the poems written during the exceptionally creative period of the last years of Sylvia Plath's life. Pu...

"District and Circle offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground." In this powerful collection, Nobel Laureate S...

Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Dylan Thomas as 'a play for voices', UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account o...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FEEL TRULY ALIVE? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no way to go on livi...

WINNER OF THE FELIX DENNIS PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST COLLECTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2020 A startlingly radical and surreal...

A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ...

A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy Science fiction and fantasy reign o...

Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off the most linguistically savvy Westerners... until now. Breaking down the Great Wall ...

Learn German - Instantly. No books. No writing. No memorizing. Join the millions of people worldwide who have learned a new language with the Mic...

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is crea...

Soon to be a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the film A Private War, based o...

After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had survived those terr...

This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both...

'Fascinating' LA Times '[Keyes] has carried it off brilliantly, bringing not only a fine clarity but a special warmth and empathy' Washington Post...

'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music...

In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at ...

At the heart of the "Memoir" is a son's unembarrassed tribute to his mother. His memory of walks with her through the narrow lanes to the country s...

On 29 January 2008 Philip Gould was told he had cancer. He was stoical, and set about his treatment, determined to fight his illness. In the face o...

THE GRIPPING TRUE STORY OF A MURDER WHICH HAUNTED CANADA AND BECAME A RALLYING CRY FOR JUSTICE 'If you were hooked on the Serial podcast, then you...

A Radio 4 Book of the Week 'See Naples and die', said Goethe. But Katherine Wilson saw Naples and started to live. Katherine is fresh out of col...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: with a new bonus chapter WINNER of the GoodReads Choice Awards 2017 for Humour In this collection of personal essays...

'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s...

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama of the expe...

It was June 10th, Barnacle Day. He saw her in Nassau Street and they stopped to talk. She thought his blue eyes were those of a Norseman. He was tw...

Who was the first king of England? Did Henry I assassinate his brother? How did 'Bloody Mary' reinstate Roman Catholicism? For more than 1,000 yea...

The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless fascination. Their secrets, r...

In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy intersection...

The most senior and best respected member of any royal family in history, she did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This affectionate ...

In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Se...