Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Rome was first ruled by kings, then became a republic. But in the end, after conquering the world, the Republic collapsed. Rome...

Travel back to the prehistoric world and discover the most fascinating parts of the lives of Earth's most awe-inspiring creatures...

The gripping account of how the royal family really operates. Valentine Low, royal correspondent for The Times, asks the...

From the white noise of what-ifs to the white-hot terror of a full-blown crisis, 'Anti-guru' Sarah Knight is on hand to help you...

Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...

What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, are a testament to the talents and...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?

Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she...

The memoir from the writer and music PR legend, Barbara Charone

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers...

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a...

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish...

In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She was Britain's longest reigning...

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma...

This book documents the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 on, when women s lives and manner of dress changed...

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful...

What is the most personal thing you've asked the Internet? Illustrator Hazel Mead turns to Google to uncover what we secretly ask...

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur...

This first biography of the Kettle's Yard artists reveals the life of a visionary who helped shape twentieth-century British art...

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative...

Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

We're told that universities are our greatest driver of social mobility. But it's a lie.

The Inequality Machine is a damning...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

For better or worse. For richer or poorer. Till death us do part…
We've always done it, we're still doing it. Straight, queer,...

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions:...

'This book is a little bit about me and a little bit about you.'
Having an organisation business, you might think I have...