Non-Fiction Books
Edexcel A level Economics A Book 1
Exam Board: Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: Economics First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: June 2016 Develop your students' knowledge of ...
View full detailsFashion Design: A Guide to the Industry and the Creative Process
This introduction to fashion is aimed at students of fashion design across the world. By following the design process, from historical and commerci...
View full detailsHaynes Manual: Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5
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...
View full detailsRape: A History From 1860 To The Present
Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists...
View full detailsJutland, 1916
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 ...
View full detailsA Brief Guide to Celtic Myths and Legends (Brief Histories)
A very readable guide which fills the gap between academic analysis and less critical retellings of the myths and legends. Marytn Whittock provid...
View full detailsThe Psychology of Babies: How relationships support development from birth to two years
An instructive and accessible account of the psychological development of children aged 0-2 years and how it can be supported by social relationshi...
View full detailsLetts A-level Revision Success – AQA A-level Sociology Practice Test Papers
Exam Board: AQA Level: A-level Subject: Sociology First teaching: September 2015 First exam: June 2017 Suitable for the 2020 exams Need...
View full detailsCamera Lucida
Barthes shares his passionate, in-depth knowledge and understanding of photography. ...
View full detailsChristmas: Tradition, Truth and Total Baubles
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...
View full detailsThe Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently f...
View full detailsBrief History of Christianity
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...
View full details1956, The World in Revolt
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...
View full detailsSAS Band of Brothers
'Riveting. Extraordinary. A real-life thriller.' Dan Snow 'Truly revelatory. The SAS at their very finest in WWII, and after, hunting down the Naz...
View full detailsThe Earth is Weeping
Sunday Times' Best History Books of 2017 Winner of the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History Winner of the 2017 Caroline Bancroft History Prize...
View full detailsBrief History of the Birth of the Nazis
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 ...
View full detailsImages of War: Battle for Kharkov 1941-1943
The four battles fought for Kharkov during the Second World War are often overshadowed by the battles for Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, yet the...
View full detailsTeach Yourself: Teach English as a Foreign Language
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...
View full detailsTo Win a War
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 ...
View full detailsCrossing the Water (Faber Poetry)
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...
View full detailsDistrict and Circle
"District and Circle offers resistance as the poet gathers his staying powers and stands his ground." In this powerful collection, Nobel Laureate S...
View full detailsUnder Milk Wood: The Definitive Edition
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...
View full detailsReasons to Stay Alive
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...
View full detailsRendang
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...
View full detailsVoices of History: Speeches that Changed the World
A new, updated edition including new speeches from Queen Elizabeth II and John Boyega in the year 2020. This collection of extraordinary speeches ...
View full detailsLost Transmissions: The Secret History of Science Fiction & Fantasy
A fascinating illustrated history of lost, overlooked, and uncompleted works of science fiction and fantasy Science fiction and fantasy reign o...
View full detailsChineasy™: The New Way to Read Chinese
Learning Chinese is notoriously difficult and has long put off the most linguistically savvy Westerners... until now. Breaking down the Great Wall ...
View full detailsTotal German Course: Learn German with the Michel Thomas Method): Beginner German Audio Course
Learn German - Instantly. No books. No writing. No memorizing. Join the millions of people worldwide who have learned a new language with the Mic...
View full detailsHaig: Notes On A Nervous Planet
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...
View full detailsPrivate War: Marie Colvin & Other Tales of Heroes, Scoundrels & Renegades
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...
View full detailsLetters to Sarah
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...
View full detailsSomething Sensational to Read in the Train
This is a diary packed with famous names and extraordinary stories. It is also rich in incidental detail and wonderful observation, providing both...
View full detailsThe Minds of Billy Milligan
'Fascinating' LA Times '[Keyes] has carried it off brilliantly, bringing not only a fine clarity but a special warmth and empathy' Washington Post...
View full detailsDave Grohl: This Is A Call
'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...
View full detailsGhost Boy
In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound, being cared for at ...
View full detailsMemoir
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...
View full detailsWhen I Die: Lessons from the Death Zone
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...
View full detailsRed River Girl
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...
View full detailsOnly in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia
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...
View full detailsTalking As Fast As I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls, and Everything in Between
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...
View full detailsJourneys to the Other Side of the World
'With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s...
View full detailsLong Walk To Freedom
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...
View full detailsJames and Nora
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...
View full detailsKings & Queens of Britain
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...
View full detailsCults
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...
View full detailsAfterlife of Billy Fingers
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...
View full detailsBehind Palace Doors- My Years with the Queen Mother
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 ...
View full detailsServing The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
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...
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