Collection: Adult Non-Fiction Paperback

Three confessions. Two liars. One killer. Three friends have had their lives ripped apart. Their pasts haunt them. They are consumed by guilt. And they don't trust anyone. Not even themselves. But in their small, isolated, island community, trust is the only way to survive. Now a child has gone m...

Understanding pain is a very good way of relieving it. This engaging, funny, and highly original research-based graphic book explains the nature of pain and how you can effectively relieve pain by changing your mind's habits.

Newhaven Fort and Newhaven Garrison during the Great War 1914-1918.

In 1216, Prince Louis of France and his army invaded England and allied with English rebels. The prize was the crown of England. Within months Louis had seized control of one-third of the country, including London. This book covers the events of the invasion, one of the most overlooked episodes i...

'The Good Spy' is Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kai Bird's compelling portrait of the remarkable life and death of Robert Ames, one of the most important spies in CIA history - a man who, had he lived, might have helped heal the rift between Arabs and the West.

Since 2002, Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered to be released by a federal judge, the US government fought that decision, and there is no sign that...

The author is turning 65, and he's not happy about it. In this book, he outlines the absurdities and challenges that come with growing old, from insomnia to memory loss to leaving dinners with half your meal on your shirt.

In wartime Berlin, Schonhaus discovered a way of turning his talent for graphic design to good use: he forged documents which helped save hundreds of Jewish lives. This title presents his astonishing story of wartime survival.