Non-Fiction

Synopsis Isadora Tattlin was accustomed to relocating often for her husband's work. But when he accepted a post in Cuba in the early 1990's, she re...

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

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 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 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 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 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...

Synopsis The definitive work of Arthur C. Clarke’s brilliant career - a pageant of dozens of futuristic pieces that anticipated many of this centur...

Synopsis Subtitled : A People's Passion. This is an excellent account of the history of one of world football's most famous clubs, FC Barcelona. In...

Synopsis Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Les...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Journey with a Pilot. Sunday Times Bestseller. Book of the Week on Radio 4. A 2015 Book of the Year - The Economist, The New...

Synopsis Hailed as `authoritative' and `essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable biography of the 45th president of the United States. Just ...