Collection: Books - Adult Non-Fiction

'Planting for Colour' explores what colour can add to your garden and how to achieve the effect you require. It discusses the multitude of ways to put colour together, demonstrates how colour can change the sense of space, suggest coolness and warmth, and create different moods.

Covering every aspect of the world's trees, this guide demonstrates how to identify over 500 species of tree, with essential information on leaf, bark, flower and fruit types.

As well as authoritative and informative text, the book contains superb black and white photographs, and provides detailed directions for many routes.

Arranged geographically, this book assesses the medium in every major area of the world, discussing the history of the genre, the comics and characters, the publishers, creators and artists.

Patrick Leigh Fermor was only 18 when he set off to walk from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople, and it was during these early wanderings that he started to pick up languages and develop his lifelong passion for travel. This volume ranges from drawing portraits in Vienna to watching voodoo in...

Doris Stokes was a celebrated medium who confounded sceptics with the accuracy of her readings. This book brings together two of her popular books, Voices in My Ear and More Voices in My Ear.

A history of the most famous football battles in history, this book presents an unapologetic account of life in the front line of football violence by Cass Pennant, the leader of the Inter City Firm - West Ham's notorious gang of football hooligans.

Following in the Holts' series of battlefield guides comes this guide to some of the First World War's most significant battles of the Western Front. Each battlefield has a brief summary of the battle, the opening moves, a description of what happened, accompanied by a map and photos of the battl...

This text aims to make Shakespeare accessible to a new generation of students as well as general readers interested in the subject. It makes no assumptions about prior knowledge of the plays and poems and places them in their historical context.