Non-Fiction

Synopsis Since before Hadrian built the wall, the Scots have been a race apart - fighters, builders, thinkers and drinkers, poets, players and peda...

Synopsis National Benzole (A Petrol Company) then ran a series of books from 1954 to 1962 entitled Our National Heritage. (Published with The Natio...

Synopsis Pears Cyclopedia was a perennial bestseller. This 2001-2002 edition has a wealth of material including Russia under Putin, cult films, dia...

Synopsis In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-yea...

Synopsis Need to know which digital camera to buy? Want to take better photographs and retouch images? Ready to achieve professional results? The D...

Synopsis Amazon revolutionized the way the world buys books. And now, after having toppled the bookselling giants (and mostly everyone else) on-lin...

Synopsis Meet the man who has met everyone. All Michael Parkinson really wanted to do was play cricket for Yorkshire and England. However, he soon ...

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...

Synopsis After revealing his incredible achievements in the bestselling Cold, Sir Ranulph Fiennes reveals what it's like to live - and survive - in...

Synopsis At its zenith, the Royal Bank of Scotland was the world's biggest bank. It had assets of $3 trillion, employed over 200,000 people, had br...

Synopsis This updated guidebook is packed with information on the culture, history, architecture, and art of the continent, in addition to the best...

Synopsis The Rough Guide to Kenya is the ultimate guide to East Africa's best known destination. From the live music in Nairobi to the Turkana over...

Synopsis A highly innovative book that will appeal to experienced climbers and beginners alike. The author, who has unrivalled knowledge of the Sco...

Synopsis Two of Scotland's leading political voices vivisect Scotland's psyche. Tom Brown and Henry McLeish demand that a country in crisis take ra...

Synopsis The Pocket Encyclopedia series is a highly practical mini-reference library that covers every aspect of a wide range of popular topics. Al...

Synopsis This work embraces half a lifetime of travelling around the world by train: steaming down the Khyber Pass on the train's front buffers; an...

Synopsis The Million Copy Bestseller. 100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the whole of the earth. Today there is just one. Us. ...

Synopsis “Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.” Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part o...

Synopsis The No' 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and adven...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with the Dalai Lama. This book records the first time the Dalai Lama has spoken at length about the story of Tib...

Synopsis Rising in the mountains of the Tibetan border, the Yangtze River, the symbolic heart of China pierces 3,900 miles of rugged country before...

Synopsis Subtitled : Why the world looks the way it does. Maps fascinate us. They chart our understanding of the world and they log our progress, b...

Synopsis The beginning of the twentieth century saw human civilisation at its most enlightened, well-educated, globalised and wealthy. What turned ...

Synopsis 'No Logo' was a book that defined a generation when it was first published in 1999. For it’s 10th anniversary Naomi Klein has updated this...