Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Ambitious and groundbreaking, Electric Shock tells the story of popular music, from the birth of recording in the 1890s to the...

So how did such this extraordinary man get erased by history? Why are there no statues of 'Monsieur Humanity' as his troops...

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number...

When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but ‘a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day’. As...

Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms...

In the past, Hugh Thomson has written acclaimed books about Peru, Mexico and the Indian Himalaya. Now he returns to the most...

How does the novel represent human consciousness on the page?
In eleven sparkling essays on some of the great novelists of the...

William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was...

In this absorbing volume, David Lodge turns his incisive critical skills onto his own profession, salutes the great writers who...

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...

Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.

One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir...

The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left...

When she was a child, people wondered why Lorna Byrne didn't seem present in the world around her.
They never knew she was...

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in...

Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of northern Italy in 1999. She arrived as a stranger but...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

A nostalgic and very funny celebration of the slightly slapdash place we call home: Great Britain

Would you cheer if they sent...

One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian...

The essential crime book of our times, from the author of the bestselling McMafia.

Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012

We...

The New Machiavelli is a gripping account of life inside 'the bunker' of Number 10. In his twenty-first century reworking of...