Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

A ground-breaking new study brings us a very different picture of the Second World War, asking fundamental questions about...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church in south Wales and then south-east England. It...

Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of...

In this heartfelt memoir, Yan Lianke brings the reader into his boyhood home in Song County, Henan Province, painting a richly...

Why was there a Turkish mosque adorning Britain's most famous botanic garden in in the eighteenth century? And more importantly,...

Politicians claim social mobility is real - a just reward for ambition and hard work. This book proves otherwise.

From...

At the age of sixteen, Marc Hamer left home with only a rucksack and started walking. By day, he observed the animals and birds....

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...

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...

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...

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...