Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape.

'An extraordinary, dreamlike...

A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain.

'When every day of your life you have been...

Czechoslovakia, October 1937. Vast crowds have gathered to watch the Grand Pardubice steeplechase, Europe's most blood-curdling...

One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk...

When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul,...

Rose Tremain (or Rosie as she was then) grew up in post-war London – a city still partly in ruins, where both food and affection...

If you open that suitcase you'll never close it again.

Ten years ago, Frances Stonor Saunders was handed an old suitcase...

Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but...

From the beginning of their lives, the Olivier sisters stood out: surprisingly emancipated, strikingly beautiful, markedly...

How have feelings come to shape the world around us? Why has politics become so fractious and warlike? What might the future...

Collingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession. As a young man, he travelled to Japan and...

Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north.

'We are...

The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.

Under the guiding...

Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also a story of...

An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is...

‘A wonderful and important book, that from its first pages draws the reader along on a fascinating, gripping, often funny...

Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central...

Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies...

Lockdown has been hard on relationships. Put your relationship first in 2021 with this powerful and nuanced guide to new ways of...

The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and...

Understand how our immune system fights disease and enables the body to heal itself.

'Thrilling... Reads like the best kind of...

Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a...

A radical examination of Britain's relationship with the land by one of our greatest nature writers.

The British love their...

From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and...

Mahatma Gandhi became a legend in his own time.

A tireless fighter for human rights and for Indian independence, his strategy...

From her first life-changing solo trip to Australia as a young graduate, Rosita Boland was enthralled by travel. In the last...

Mother to five children, Clover Stroud has navigated family life across two decades, both losing and finding herself. In her...

At sixty-four, Jenni Murray's weight had become a disability. She avoided the scales, she wore a uniform of baggy black clothes,...

Are you ready to be your best self at work?

Packed with advice, tips and decades of business experience from Mary Portas, this...

How does our diet affect our skin? What makes the skin age? And why can't we tickle ourselves?

Providing a cover for our...

What do our possessions say about us? Why do we project such meaning onto them? What becomes of the things we leave...