Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Think back to when you first flew. When you first left the Earth, and travelled high and fast above its turning arc. When you...

A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.

Writing about real lives takes...

Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday Times

What is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us?...

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his...

Husband.
This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and...

In 1981 Tim Parks moved from England to Italy and spent the next thirty years alongside hundreds of thousands of Italians on his...

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria....

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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'Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains' is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published in 1762. Quoted...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

How does a genius see the world? Where and how does inspiration strike?

Cedric Villani takes us on a mesmerising adventure as...

In an age when a storm was evidence of God's wrath, pioneering meteorologists had to fight against convention and religious dogma...

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...

A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power from the Costa Award...

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small...

The definitive account of North Korea - its veiled past and uncertain future - from former White House adviser and Korea expert...

Cave... , Rowell...

An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our...

A new re-issue of the cult swimming classic, a beautiful read filled with detailed description and powerful prose.

Haunts of...

"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"

A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a...

If the world as we know it ended tomorrow, how would you survive?

A nuclear war, viral pandemic or asteroid strike. The world...

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic...

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...

LOST
1972. A plane has crashed in the Andes mountains. The passengers are hopelessly lost in one of the most isolated places on...

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

As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises – echoes in concert halls, clamour in...