Collection: Adult Non Fiction

Perhaps it's a long journey, or you want to get them off their screens? Perhaps it's a group of restless children and you wish you could catch, hold and reward their attention? You can, and, as you magic from thin air a gripping story, that face-to-face engagement does as good as it feels, boosti...

'The Vintage Tea Party Book' embraces the style and class of Angel Strawbridge's trendy London store and illustrates how to beautifully recreate the tasty treats and classic styles at home.

An easy to understand guide on research terminology, with the distinct advantage of having an entire action research project to portray key principles of research. It depicts how research can be transformative to teaching pedagogy in the 21st century, with central themes explored such as peer col...

Not everything that glitters is gold - which is why Ben gave London the cold shoulder and went to Preston instead. Hailing from Portsmouth, Ben knew from experience that unfashionable places could be quietly brilliant. So, over the course of a year he visited 12 of the least popular spots in the ...

By the age of fifteen Rebecca Achieng Ajulu-Bushell was world number one in the 50m breaststroke. Over the next three years, she would go on to become a double British champion, sports personality of the year in Kenya and make the GBR Olympic team. She was the first Black woman to do so. But this...

Mitch Albom writes for the Detroit Free Press and has been voted America's number one sports columnist 10 times. In this book, Mitch describes how he rediscovered his mentor, his former college professor Morrie Schwartz.

Sports journalist and ultra-athlete Vassos Alexander takes the plunge and explores the delights and rewards of wild and open water swimming.

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Victoria Amelina was busy writing a novel, taking part in the country's literary scene, and parenting her son. Now she became someone new: a war crimes researcher and the chronicler of extraordinary women like herself who joined the resistance. Th...

Is your toddler eating strange foods, refusing to sleep, throwing tantrums and addicted to their screen? You're not alone, and Nanny Amies is here to help. Laura Amies - the expert toddler tamer from the TV show Toddlers Behaving (Very) Badly - shares her essential toolkit of tried-and-tested tec...