Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation...

Throughout the twentieth century, Berlin stood at the centre of a convulsing world. This history is often viewed as separate...

The real Molly-Mae, in her own words
Molly-Mae Hague is no stranger to the limelight, having found fame on TV and online. But...

We are not OK...

I've been fortunate enough to meet many remarkable people over the last decade of making documentaries -...

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil...

Over two thousand years ago, one man changed the way we see the world.

Since the dawn of civilization, humans had believed in...

Asser's Life of King Alfred, written in 893, is a revealing account of one of the greatest of medieval kings. Composed by a monk...

Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism...

We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:

But the monarchy is good for tourism..
It isn't! Evidence points...

Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers

'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme...

Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...

A Moment of War is the powerful and harrowing final book in Laurie Lee's acclaimed trilogy that began with Cider with Rosie...

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her...

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird

The bestselling author of Crow Country and writer of The Guardian's...

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...

The prequel to The Crown: the first truly candid portrait of George V and Mary, the Queen's grandparents and creators of 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...

It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .

This is the story of a home...

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...