Nonfiction

'History clings tight but it also kicks loose,' writes Simon Schama at the outset of At the Edge of the World?, the first book in his three-volume journey into Britain's...

Explore the fascinating world of flags! Find intriguing stories and factoids on the design of country, province, state and special flags. Read how these flags are used as heraldic symbols,...

Gaelic culture is famous all over the world - but what is it? This book is an engaging view of the story of music, language and the arts in Ireland...

Elizabeth Burton Phillips is a teacher, an ordinary middle-class mother who had always tried to do the best for her children; she never imagined that her identical twin sons, who...

An indispensable guide to Greenland-why it matters, who covets it and why this wilderness of 56,000 inhabitants could become the next global flashpoint.Greenland is no ordinary island. From its discovery...

Tim O'Brien once said of Raymond Carver, 'he uses the English language like a whittler's knife, carving stark and unadorned prose-objects, paring away everything but the very core of human...

Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of women. One extraordinary year.Amber has fierce bad indigestion and the sambucas aren't getting rid of it. Lorraine attacks a customer...

Fast-paced, compelling and meticulously researched, this saga of American, Irish, British and Australian history is the first full telling of the voyage of the Catalpa. Setting out from New Bedford...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECTFROM THE AUTHOR...

China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country's rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the...

On November 7, 1993, Marion Woodman was diagnosed with uterine cancer. Here, in journal form, is the story of her illness, her healing process, and her acceptance of life and...

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack. Written by a...

One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book...

Help your Dad win his next dinner table debate this Father's day with Fantasyland.You don't have to be mad to live here, but it helpsIf you want to understand Trump's...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Excellent book... skilful and meticulous' David Aaronovitch, The Times Hailed as 'authoritative' and 'essential', Trump Revealed is the indispensable and updated biography of the 45th president...

The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. A group of young people, most of them from solid, middle-class backgrounds,...

Updated edition of this popular book introducing human growth and development from conception to old age, with reference to an Irish context. New to this edition: Updated for the Human...

Making your money work for you ... automaticallyIn The Automatic Millionaire David Bach unlocks the secret to getting rich. Cutting through the jargon, it's full of common-sense advice and practical...

In January 1953, the newly-elected Senator John F. Kennedy hired a young Nebraskan lawyer named, Theodore Sorensen as his legislative assistant. Sorensen quickly rose up the ranks in JFK's senate...

In The Origin of Capitalism, a now-classic work of history, Ellen Meiksins Wood offers readers a clear and accessible introduction to the theories and debates concerning the birth of capitalism,...

The world needs to adapt to climate change - but how? What are the key problems and hard choices that lie ahead for the global community? This book reveals all....

'The friendly introduction to all things bi' MEG-JOHN BARKER'A masterfully crafted guide to all things bisexual' THE PSYCHOLOGIST'Excellent and much-needed' GSCENE MAGAZINEWhether you are openly bisexual, still figuring things out...

THE BRAND GAP is the first book to present a unified theory of brand-building. Whereas most books on branding are weighted toward either a strategic or creative approach, this book...

The money-saving gardener, Anya Lautenbach, shows you how to create beautiful displays in pots all year round for less, no matter your space. With arrangements for spring, summer, autumn, and...

Kim Philby was the most notorious British defector and Soviet mole in history. Agent, double agent, traitor and enigma, he betrayed every secret of Allied operations to the Russians in...

Get in tune with the rhythms of nature with this month-by-month guide to foraging.Learn how to identify wild plants correctly, harvest them at their prime, and use them in delicious...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. Now we clung to a battered little boat, 'alone, alone - all, all alone; alone on a wide, wide...

Of all the great movements of population to and from the United States, the least heralded is the migration, in the depths of the Depression of the nineteen-thirties, of thousands...

An almost mythical narrative has grown up around Sean Lemass and his career as taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland from 1959 to 1966. This scholarly and accessible new perspective contains...