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Non-Fiction (Non-Fiction). "Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing." - Joan Didion. All of our Non-Fiction books in one place. No minimum order.

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Anthony Adolph - Tracing Your Scottish Family History (2nd Hand Hardback)

Synopsis Immensely detailed and fully illustrated guide to genealogy in Scotland - a thorough guide to researching your Scottish family tree. Durin...

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Bill Bryson - At Home (2nd Hand Paperback)

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...

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Cal Flyn - Islands of Abandonment (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Subtitled : Life in The Post-Human Landscape. Shortlisted for The Ballie Gifford Prize & The Wainwright Prize. In Chernobyl, following...

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Christian Wolmar - Blood, Iron & Gold (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a decade, trac...

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Deborah Orr - Motherwell (A Girlhood) (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller & Radio 4 Book of The Week. Just shy of 18, Deborah Orr left Motherwell - the town she both loved and hated - ...

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Ferdinand Mount - Full Circle (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Subtitled : How the Classical World Came Back to Us. So much about the society that is now emerging in the twenty-first century bears an a...

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Francis Fukuyama - The Great Disruption (2nd Hand Hardback)

Synopsis Subtitled : Human Nature and the Reconstitution of the Social Order. Just as the Industrial Revolution brought about momentous changes in ...

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Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes (A Memoir) (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Angela's Ashes (Series of 3) #1 Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humour and compassion, is a glorious ...

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George Orwell - Seeing Things As They Are (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Subtitled : Selected Journalism and Other Writings. First collected in this volume 2014. Edited with an introduction by Peter Davison. Geo...

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Gillian Mawson - Guernsey Evacuees (2nd Hand Softback)

Synopsis Subtitled : The forgotten evacuees of the Second World War. In June 1940, 17,000 people fled Guernsey to England, including 5,000 school c...

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Jessica Bruder - Nomadland (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis The inspiration for the film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, winner of the Best Picture Oscar & the BAFTA for Best Film. From th...

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Noam Chomsky - On Anarchism (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis A Penguin Special. On Anarchism is an essential introduction to the Noam Chomsky's political theory. On Anarchism sheds a much needed ligh...

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Noam Chomsky - Power Systems (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations With David Barsamian on Global Democratic Uprisings & The Challenges To US Empire. This book explores immedi...

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Patricia Nicol - Sucking Eggs (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Patricia Nicol - Sucking Eggs . . . What your wartime granny could teach you about diet, thrift & going green. In our age of globalisa...

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Pete Brown - Shakespeare's Local (2nd Hand Hardback)

Synopsis Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-panelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yo...

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Peter Ackroyd - Venice (Pure City) (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Ita...

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Robert Arp (Ed.) - 1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think (2nd Hand Softback)

Synopsis Drawing on a wide spectrum of topics - including politics, cosmology, the arts, philosophy and religious beliefs - 1001 Ideas That Changed...

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Simon Loftus - The Invention of Memory (2nd Hand Softback)

Synopsis Subtitled : An Irish Family Scrapbook (1560-1934). From the arrival of his first ancestor in Dublin in 1560, Simon Loftus traces the fasci...

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Simon Thompson - Unjustifiable Risk? (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis Subtitled : The Story of British Climbing. Unjustifiable Risk was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker prize in 2011. To the impartial obse...

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Simon Winchester - The Map That Changed The World (2nd Hand Paperback)

Synopsis This is the extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology and his contribution to society. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stai...

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Thomas Toughill - The Ripper Code (2nd Hand Hardback)

Synopsis The Ripper Code is a fascinating combination of literary and conventional detective work, which is as original as it is enthralling. Thoma...

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Tristram Hunt - Building Jerusalem (2nd Hand Hardback)

Synopsis Subtitled : The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City. Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are n...

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