Non-Fiction Books

Beyond Goodbye guides you through your darkest days of suffering and offers hope for your future... Grief can leave us feeling alone and lost in...

Like many women, Clare Pooley found the juggle of a stressful career and family life a struggle so she left her successful role as a Managing Partn...

Swapping his beret for a chef's hat, Neil Sinclair, author of the bestselling Commando Dad: Basic Training, is back. Bursting with simple, healthy ...

The Danes may have their hygge and the Norwegians their back to the land culture, but the Swedes have 'lagom': an even-keeled approach to a life o...

'This is by far the best resource I have found as the parent of two dyslexic children. Out of all the documentaries, websites, seminars, podcasts a...

Forget unrealistic childcare manuals - this is the book you really need to help you cope brilliantly with those first chaotic days and months ahead...

Master your yoga asanas with confidence and ease! Explore the physiology of 30 key yoga poses, in-depth and from every angle. Scientific and medic...

Freud revolutionized the way we think about ourselves. His psychoanalytic terms such as Id, Ego, libido, neurosis and Oedipus Complex have become a...

The Raspberry Pi Manual is the perfect introduction to the affordable small computer. This new edition covers the Rasberry Pi 2 (model B) and is pr...

Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us. Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION War-torn, unstable and virtually bankrupt, revolutionary Russia tried to light its way t...

Half a century of research has resulted in machines capable of beating the best human chess players and humanoid robots that can interact. But can ...

Trigonometry: A Complete Introduction is the most comprehensive yet easy-to-use introduction to Trigonometry. Written by a leading expert, this boo...

'In the same light-heartedly informative spirit as his previous Elemental, Tim James gives us an entertaining gallop through light years of space s...

This is the perfect introduction for those who have a lingering fear of maths. If you think that maths is difficult, confusing, dull or just plain ...

All of the titles in the Stahl's Illustrated Series are designed to be fun. Concepts are illustrated by full-color images that will be familiar to ...

Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume. The culmin...

Let the real world show you how maths works. Maths is often cited as the `most difficult' or `complex' subject to study, many people admitting to ...

This is an innovative and engaging account of the debates underpinning criminal law in England and Wales and how they have shaped legal events and ...

An updated edition of the international bestseller with inspirational stories and new resources to transform your life. Imagine a workplace where e...

In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mi...

The men of the SBS are the maritime equivalent of their counterparts in the SAS; they are the elite of the British Special Forces and also the most...

From curfews and cliques to sex and drugs,bestselling authors Faber and Mazlish give parents and teens the tools they need to communicate and navig...

Our knowledge comes primarily from experience - what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems? The experimental breakthroughs in ...

In this fascinating and enlightening collection of essays, one of the most important historians of our time reflects on the ways our understanding ...

On 10 May 1940 the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), under the command of Lord Gort, moved forward from the Franco-Belgian border and took up posi...

Blood and Steel 3, The Wehrmacht Archive: The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 to January 1945 is an extensive and colourful collection of transla...

Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment viole...

An abridged edition of Edward Gibbon's THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, which compresses thirteen turbulent centuries into ...

'Hugely inspiring . . . A unique tribute to the power of books and the unquenchable human spirit' MICHAEL PALIN 'An inspiring read - humanity at i...

The Vikings famously took no prisoners, relished cruel retribution, and prided themselves on their blood-thirsty skills as warriors. But their prow...

For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unw...

Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really lik...

The new instalment in T&H's successful myths series (after The Greek and Roman Myths and The Egyptian Myths) introduces the world of the Celts,...

This book examines how the Royal Navy protected our shores and wider interests through the First World War and the one that was to follow, from the...

Product Description Islam is one of the world's great monotheistic religions. Islamic culture, spanning 1,500 years, has produced some of the fine...

I go down to the shore in the morning and depending on the hour the waves are rolling in or moving out, and I say, oh, I am miserable, what shall-...

The classic collection of poetry from the author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal w...

T.S. Eliot - editor, poet, critic and publisher - was the greatest poet of his generation. The winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize for Literature, virtu...

From the world-famous author of THE NAME OF THE ROSE, an illuminating and humorous study on the pleasures and pitfalls of translation. 'Translatio...

If you are an absolute beginner or simply looking for a solid foundation to your language studies for school, work or travel, this engaging course ...

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' mod...

This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the work of one of the ...

In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class carriage on the 9.45p...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year After the success of his memoir, Telling Stories, Tim set himself a quest. He got in touch with people he admires, ...

When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the most recognisable and iconoclastic figures...

The quintessential suave hero, Roger Moore has had an extraordinary career that has spanned seven decades, from early television to the golden age ...