Collection: Adult non-fiction

On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach in Hawaii, Cook was killed - beaten and stabbed in a conflict with the indigenous population. Renowned for hi...

Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But wh...

Reverse the inflammation that's making you sick, bloated and tired in just seven days - and reprogram your body for healthy weight loss and optimum wellness.

Warm, relatable and moving, 'What A Girl Wants' is a gorgeous, nostalgia-drenched, coming-of-age memoir by the editor of Diva, the world's biggest magazine for LGBTQ+ women and non-binary folk. Think Dolly Alderton's 'Everything I Know About Love' with a gloriously queer twist.

Who are the white working class and why are they so misunderstood? Economist journalist Joel Budd has spent five years investigating their stories. This is what they have to say.

Florence, August 1944. Fifteen miles south-east of the city, a unit of German soldiers arrive at Il Focardo, the home of Robert Einstein, first cousin of the famous scientist Albert Einstein. Nearby, Robert is hiding out in the Tuscan countryside, while his wife and daughters remain in the villa....

In 2010, two decades after the Cold War, ten Russian spies were arrested in the US following a ten-year FBI operation. Among them were three couples who had lived as Americans for years, and one agent who had nearly forgotten Russian. They had hidden their true identities from their children, nei...

Award-winning classicist and historian Emily Hauser takes readers on an epic journey to uncover the astonishing true story of the real women behind ancient Greece's greatest legends, and the real heroes of those ancient epics, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.

Published for the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, this book examines the inspirations and individuals behind our statue-studded country to rediscover war-torn Britain in 100 monuments. Historian Tessa Dunlop travels the length and breadth of the British Isles on a quest to uncover a...

For thousands of years, humans have been the architects of the environment. Our activities leave an indelible mark on the places we inhabit - for good and for bad. 'Nature's Ghosts' examines how the earth would have looked before humans scrubbed away its diversity, from the primeval forests that ...