Collection: Adult Non Fiction

Craft in harmony with the changing seasons; create 17 projects designed to connect you with the natural world and aid your magical practice. Discover a range of crafts, including knitting, crochet and macramé, and work with natural materials including pinecones, flowers and twigs. The turning of...

Tanks are the ultimate embodiment of industrial age warfare. In the popular imagination, they represent both a terrifying beast of destruction and a potent symbol of liberation. The technology behind these war machines has evolved relentlessly, and yet the coming of the information age has led ma...

We rely on our intuition, even though we don't fully understand what it is, how it works, or if we can even trust it. In this fresh, mind-opening book, Elizabeth Greenwood takes us on a sweeping investigation into the subject, exploring how, in our data-driven world, we can harness intuition in o...

Why do famous musicians mean so much to us? How does the pop culture industry both mirror and magnify the worst aspects of human nature? Why is it so hard to accept that the people we love, famous or not, can be capable of doing terrible things? As conversations about abuse perpetrated by public ...

Drawing together the many influences which shaped his life and thinking, 'The Many Lives of James Lovelock' is a unique biography of one of the most important scientists of the modern age and the father of Gaia theory. Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented acces...

Peter's mother is dying. Born in England, and having spent most of her adult life as a doctor in Zimbabwe, she now lies on a hospital bed in the partitioned living room of his sister's London house, her accent having overnight become posher than the Queen's. Peter has spent his life missing his Z...

We all know the same ghosts: it's simply a question of how doggedly they haunt us. Part-chilling tale, part-memoir, part-cultural exploration, 'Haunted' takes us through some of the most chilling and enduring ghost stories, and discusses what they reveal about the listener, the teller and the tim...

For more than thirty years Francesco Lotoro, an Italian pianist and composer has been on an odyssey to recover music written by the inmates of Adolf Hitler's concentration camps and the gulags of Stalin's Soviet Union. Between 1933, the year of the opening of the Dachau Lager in Germany, to Stali...

With the amount of conflicting information on menopause, navigating this journey can be overwhelming. It's been framed in some quarters as the panacea - the more hormones you take, the better you'll feel. But there are also a lot of GPs concerned that women are being over-promised a positive meno...