Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Hardback

The idea of giving birth can be daunting - if not outright terrifying. So many of the stories we hear about birth are negative or frightening, but in fact many women and birthing people feel positive and satisfied after their birth, however their births have unfolded. What's more, reading positiv...

We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older - but David Gentleman kept going. For over 90 years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain's best-known and most loved artists. His watercolours have fi...

They say you eat with the eyes. But we now know that smell, texture, temperature, colour and even atmosphere - down to the background music - influence how we perceive flavour. As anyone who has lost their sense of taste will know, flavourless food is dull and monochrome - it is flavour that brin...

Three days after Russian tanks roll into Ukraine, President Volodymr Zelensky issues a desperate appeal for foreign military volunteers to help defend his country. Thousands answer the call from all over the world: some of them experienced soldiers, others novices who've never held a gun before. ...

Entwining practical, empathetic suggestions with intimate memoir, 'No Lost Causes Club' is an intrinsically vulnerable and brutally honest exploration of what living a full life after you get clean looks like. From delving into the social complexities that often leave people hopelessly dependent ...

Stuck in a never-ending loop of washing up, Grace decided enough was enough. In this cookbook, she brings us quick and tasty family food that can be made in one pot. And when Grace says one pot, she means it. This isn't a case of using a frying pan first, then transferring everything to a slow co...

All of us have - to a greater or lesser extent - suffered from traumas in our lives. The less we address these traumas, the more they have a habit of manifesting as difficulties in the form of broken relationships, anxieties, depression, or even physical symptoms like insomnia and digestive issue...

From working sixty-hour weeks in windowless kitchens and being the only woman in the changing room to the pure thrill of a busy service, falling in love with other chefs and cycling home through a city bubbling over with potential, Slutty Cheff's misadventures in food and sex are about experienci...

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

Follow Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog, Red, as they truck from Wigan to the other side of the world, adventuring through continents and finding love along the way.