Collection: Adult Non Fiction

Rebecca Fraser presents a dramatic narrative which forms a refreshing introduction to the traditional history of Great Britain. It is packed with anecdotes about the men and women who created turning points in history, about scientists, explorers, soldiers, traders, writers and artists.

This introductory volume shows the best of Francis Bacon's work. The artist said of his work, 'I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed through them ...'.

One of the most famous of twentieth century painters, Jackson Pollock first came to public notice at the age of 30. His artistic shifts between abstraction and figuration set new parameters in modern art.

This work, the first volume of a planned trilogy, is the memoir of Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez. It contains details of people, places, events, family, work, politics, books and music, his beloved Columbia and parts of history and incidents that later appeared in his fiction.

With unprecedented access to Sassoon's complete papers and the support of his family, and after conversations with Sassoon's lover Stephen Tennant, Egremont has produced an insightful and engaging book that is as much a vivid portrait of an era as it is an elegant and fascinating biography of a c...

This volume forms part of the 'Life & Times' series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical figures. This title is about the life and work of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Passionate, affectionate and indefatigably curious, this book joins a tradition of writing, from William Cobbett to J.B. Priestley, that makes a journey around the English countryside and character. Hattersley celebrates crumbling churches and serene Victorian architecture, magnificent hills and ...

Of Italian origin, and born into a family of fishermen in Canada, Michael Buble� was largely raised by his grandfather, whom he credited with introducing him to the kind of music he would make his own. This biography charts the singer's success story.

This concise book from internationally renowned historian Tzvetan Todorov establishes the Enlightenment as the philosophical cornerstone of the modern world and argues that the wisdom of those times is just as relevant today.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling: short storywriter, author and poet, but also imperialist, racist, misogynist, and sexually confused? This biography sheds light on the man and places him in context as a sensitive artist of his time.