Collection: Adult Non Fiction

A new history of the Tudor world, told by uncovering ordinary people's grizzly fatal accidents. There is untold history of Tudor England - the history of the several million subjects of their famous kings and queens. What did ordinary people do all day, in their homes, their work, their leisure a...

Picking up where his memoir left off 15 years ago, Ned Boulting's love for the greatest cycling race on earth has deepened, his fascination has been sporadically rewarded, his fitness has slowly declined and his hairline has receded. Bringing the story up to the present day, Ned reflects on how t...

Discover a clever new way to approach watercolour painting. Begin by building up the muscle memory of the stroke pattern, then put brush to paper, and create a little animal watercolour with ease and confidence. Once you've mastered the stroke patterns, each animal project takes just 10 minutes t...

'The Artist's Way' provides a twelve-week course that guides you through the process of recovering your creative self. It aims to dispel the 'I'm not talented enough' conditioning that holds many people back and helps you to unleash your own inner artist. Its step-by-step approach enables you to ...

The son of Chinese immigrants in Washington, DC, Edward Wong grew up among family secrets. His father toiled in restaurants and rarely spoke of his native land or his years in the People's Liberation Army under Mao. Yook Kearn Wong came of age during the Japanese occupation in World War II and th...

What does it mean to live in a world that punishes distraction, but profits from our attention? Why do so many ADHD individuals not feel at home at school or in the workplace? What does it really feel like to grow up, learn, work and exist in a world that wasn't built for your brain? Why are so m...

Through the vivid, true stories of five people who journeyed into and out of addiction, a renowned neuroscientist explains why the 'disease model' of addiction is wrong and illuminates the path to recovery.

At home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest. Elsewhere, he was thieving, lying, swearing, fighting and rarely out of trouble. In this memoir, Dexys' iconic frontman takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the ea...

For over 20 years, Jo Bell has travelled the waterways of England (and sometimes Wales) meeting extraordinary people in an extraordinary environment. It's a journey that's taught her about human nature, including her own; about rope and Brasso and bravery; about ducks and locks, and above all, ab...

Vegetarian recipes celebrating the food of Palestine, from the co-author of 'Falastin, Jerusalem and Ottolenghi'. A homage to Palestinian food and culture, Boustany, is a solo cookbook from Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi co-founder and champion of Palestinian food and culture. Boustany translates from A...