Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Hardback

On a warm night in December 1977, David Holden, chief foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times, landed in Cairo to report on crucial peace talks between Egypt and Israel, an epochalmoment in global politics. Shortly after dawn, his body was found dumped on adusty roadside. He had been shot with...

'Nature Needs You' tells the compelling story of how Hannah, without campaigning experience, funding or contacts, set out to save swifts from extinction in the UK. Her mission is to change the law and make 'swift bricks' mandatory so that the birds who nest in our walls will have a future in Brit...

Across the entire span of human civilisation, certain people and groups have been identified as being responsible for the ills of the world, and have remained hated for it. In his continuing desire to separate out the facts from the fiction of history, Otto English looks at how these legacies wer...

A deliciously fascinating, expertly written global tour of cooking, eating and drinking, told through objects in the collections of the British Museum. Our insatiable appetite for creativity in the kitchen - or around the open fire - is reflected in the fascinating array of objects explored in th...

In 'Sussex Modernism', Hope Wolf explores a breadth of work by over 70 artists associated with different modernist movements who either visited or resided in Sussex. Well-known figures, including Virginia Woolf, Jacob Epstein, David Jones, Gluck, Edward Burra and Lee Miller, are joined by counter...

The poignant and previously untold story of the first children - mostly refugees -cared for by the Pestalozzi Children's Village in the United Kingdom.

'Modern Art Movements' explore five movements that revolutionized art: impressionism, expressionism, surrealism, abstract expressionism and pop art. From Monet's shimmering water lilies and the wild dreams of Dali to Lichtenstein's high-impact comic-book aesthetics, this collection unpacks the re...

Spanish cooking is characterised by deep flavours, vibrant colour and minimal ingredients. With the expert teaching of Omar Allibhoy, the chef behind the Tapas Revolution restaurants, you will learn to make a paella that packs a punch without spending hours in the kitchen, cook up a tapas feast f...

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...

Edited by two of the most exciting British poets in a generation, 'Something New' is an anthology of one hundred fresh and exciting poems reflecting the weddings of today.