Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

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

'Lightning makes no sound until it strikes'

This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most...

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

Where the Stress Falls is divided into three sections: the first, 'Reading', includes ardent pieces on writers from Sontag's own...

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...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

"Occasionally, you and the team come within read of perfection, up there in the rarefied air of the skies. You never know when...

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...

Ross Emma, Moffat Baz

Understand your body to empower yourself for life.
This book will help you create healthy habits that consider all aspects of...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...

'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'.
So Virginia Woolf described...

Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant...

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...

Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent,...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until...

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

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up...

Let Jamie show you how to save money, time and resources in the kitchen with wholesome and delicious recipes in Save with...

A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected...

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,...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...