Non-Fiction

Synopsis Obliquity: Why our goals are best achieved indirectly is a book by economist John Kay. It was inspired by an observation of the success...

Synopsis Astronomy Lab for Kids teaches children the wonders of the galaxy through hands-on activities that can be done right in your own home. 5...

Synopsis When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and glori...

Synopsis Everything you wanted to know but were too embarrassed to ask - a guide to pregnancy and birth straight from the midwife's mouth. Winne...

Synopsis This is a collection of the author's thoughts on a wide range of subjects from poverty and unemployment to disco dancing and dog racing,...

Synopsis Delve into this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown as renowned biographer and the show's historical consultan...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2015. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize 2016. A Radio 4 Book of the Week. In the spring of 1993,...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award. In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestse...

Synopsis So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a 2015 book by British journalist Jon Ronson about online shaming and its historical antecedents. The bo...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Original Plan for Safe & Lasting Weight Loss. Leading cardiologist Dr Arthur Agatston originally tailored this diet ...

Synopsis Author : W.H. Murray. The Scottish Mountaineering Club's definitive guidebook to Scotland's Mountains written by one of Scotland's foremos...

Synopsis Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Essential Book of Car Facts & Trivia. At last: A book packed with addictive automotive trivia aimed at every car fan...

Synopsis In the spring of 2007, hard on the heels of the worst winter in the history of Juneau, Alaska, Lynn Schooler finds himself facing the fa...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Vikings From Scandinavia to The Silk Roads. A Sunday Times Bestseller & The Times History Book of The Year 2021. Fol...

Synopsis Ever accidentally used your thumb as a hammer cushion while partaking in a spot of DIY? Do you become enraged at the uncontrollable bobb...

Synopsis In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current ...

Synopsis Edited by W. Gordon Smith. A collection of paintings by Scottish artist Jack Vettriano, whose style calls to mind the days of Bogart's H...

Synopsis The turn of the Nineteenth Century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles e...

Synopsis Subtitled : Pancakes from around the World. Everyone loves pancakes and with Flipping Good! you can make them a regular occurrence, with...

Synopsis Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive. The Comfort Book is a collection of consolations learned in hard tim...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of The British Isles. A magisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day...

Synopsis Subtitled : Scienc-y Stuff Staring You In The Face. Let the brains behind the hugely successful Festival of the Spoken Nerd take you on ...

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of ...