Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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

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

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...

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...

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

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 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...

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...

If blockbusters make money no matter how bad they are, then why not make a good one for a change?

How can 3-D be the future of...

In his first book since the acclaimed The Running Sky Tim Dee tells the story of four green fields. Four fields spread around the...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

This is the archetypal story of the American West. Whether it is cast as a tale of unmatched bravery in the face of impossible...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...