Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan making anything of her life. When...

A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.

Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the...

In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn't enough to change our behaviour to avert environmental...

Matt Rowland Hill grew up the son of a minister in an evangelical Christian church. It was a childhood fraught with bitter family...

The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you will ever be asked is 'But what...

Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...

Our early years at home are when we lay down the blueprint for being a partner, parent, sibling, friend, colleague, neighbour,...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot

Small...

Now adapted as the Netflix documentary Skandal!, this is the stranger-than-fiction story of Wirecard, once a $30 billion tech...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

Since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has come to define our national identity; it even topped the "what makes Britain great"...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they're stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're...

In her bestselling follow-up to Grief Works and This Too Shall Pass, much-loved psychotherapist Julia Samuel invites us into her...

March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

Part manifesto, part artistic joke, Fillippo Marinetti's Futurist Cookbook is a provocative work about art disguised as an...

With such varied correspondents as T. S. Eliot, Stephen Spender and Anthony Powell, for nearly forty years George Orwell wrote...

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet -...

An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything...

We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the...

'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.'

Holidaying by the sea, and taking inspiration...

The authoratitive text

'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all'

Both a...

The definitive biography of Jurgen Klopp.

Jurgen Klopp was confirmed as manager of Liverpool FC in October 2015 to a rapturous...

Mouth-watering vegan and vegetarian recipes that can be cooked either outdoors or indoors. Discover the BBQ book for everybody...

Will we ever truly understand our cosmic home? This is the story of the technologies that allow us to look up, to learn and to...