Collection: Books - Adult Non-Fiction

Denny plunges the reader into the heart of the ruthless intrigues of the Tudor court - and gives a sympathetic portrait of a beautiful young girl trapped and betrayed by her own family.

'The Moon's A Balloon' takes readers back to David Niven's childhood days, his expulsion from school and to his army years and wartime service. After the war, he returned to America and there came his Hollywood success in films such as 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Around the World in 80 Days'.

Into The Wild is a disturbing true-life story and one that is uncomfortably fascinating: we'll never really know what it was that provoked Chris McCandless to abandon the well-trodden paths of civilization and to peer into the void.

More and more people today want to organise at least part of a funeral for themselves, without depending on funeral directors. This text shows the reader how to do everything from ordering a coffin to hiring a horse-drawn hearse to finding a woodland burial ground.

In a bid to uncover the unique spirit of the single malt whisky, author Iain Banks has decided to undertake a tour of the distilleries of his homeland. His tour of Scotland combines history, literature and landscape in an entertaining and informative account.

With its origins in the Manchester & Leeds Railway, the Lancashire & Yorkshire straddled the backbone of England. This book provides a history of those lines that were built and operated by the 'Lanky'.

Full of revelations, dark humour and cliff hanging suspense, this biography of Alfred Hitchcock follows his life from humble beginnings as the son of an East End greengrocer, through an extraordinary career in which his films set new standards for cinematic invention, to his death as a Hollywood ...

The First World War produced some of the most haunting and memorable poetry of our age. In this anthology, the Poet Laureate Andrew Motion guides us through both the horror and the pity of that conflict, from the trenches of the Western Front to reflections from our own age.

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High priest of art? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse - their activities.

The Collins edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare, edited by the late Professor Peter Alexander, has long been established as authoritative. This reset edition also includes two specially written articles on Shakespeare.