Non-Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

Synopsis Subtitled : A life of post-war Scotland 1945-1975. Kenneth Roy's panorama of post-war Scottish life begins with the VE night celebration...

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

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

Synopsis In a world of Google Earth, in which it is easy to believe that every discovery has been made and every adventure already had, Off the M...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

Synopsis The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the ...

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

Synopsis International Bestseller. The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study...

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

Synopsis The book is the 2nd autobiography of a Glaswegian called Robert Douglas. In the first Night Song of The Last Tram we left Robert a long wa...

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

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...

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 “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...