Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Hardback

The most important thing you can do is become a better dad. We get it. You're busy. You're distracted. You're under pressure. But you do love your kids more than anything. You want them to have really good lives. You're doing the best you can. But you know what, you can do better. The ideas in th...

'100 Poems to Help You Heal' is a soothing anthology of hopeful and therapeutic poems to reach for in moments of grief and sadness for a helping hand in processing difficult emotions.

1945 - one of the most important years in modern history. Encompassing not only the celebration of peace and an end to the Second World War, but also the devastating first use of nuclear weapons and the long shadow cast by both this and the legacy of the worldwide conflagration. In this landmark ...

As the fate of the world is decided, so too is that of the British, Dutch and French empires. In India a generation committed to independence must decide whether to support 'the Raj' or fight alongside the Japanese. One military family is bitterly divided. Will it be the brother who fights under ...

The mid-seventies were dense with extraordinarily sophisticated, mature rock music made by singers, songwriters and musicians who had no problem calling themselves artists. And the records they made aspired to artistic status: everyone was trying to make their own masterpiece, and the sense of co...

Fashion writer Emma Baxter examines 50 of the most influential fashion designers. From Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, this book provides a fascinating history of the designers, along with their most celebrated pieces, who have shaped the history of fashion.

A new history of the Tudor world, told by uncovering ordinary people's grizzly fatal accidents. There is untold history of Tudor England - the history of the several million subjects of their famous kings and queens. What did ordinary people do all day, in their homes, their work, their leisure a...

Owain Mulligan was never what you'd call a career soldier. Nor even a particularly good one. At weekends he trained with the Territorial Army and dreamt of swapping the mayhem of teaching in a tough school for the adventure of service in Iraq. At least they'd let him wear a helmet in Iraq. But wh...

Real diversity isn't skin deep. Over the past 100,000 years, as humans expanded into every biome on the planet, our bodies and our cultures have been fine-tuned to our local environments. Our ability to adapt is at the heart of being human and the engine of our diversity. As an evolutionary anthr...

Even in the third decade of the 21st century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than men. Two centuries ago, however, at the beginning of the 19th century, when science as we know it was just getting started, the situation was far worse. Then, the very notion of a female sc...