Non-Fiction

Usborne Spotters Guides are perfect companions for enthusiasts of the natural world. Each title includes detailed full-colour illustrations of 100-200 species, plus short descriptions and essential details. Includes links to...

This autobiography of boxer George Foreman covers his childhood, his boxing days and his religious conversion after leaving boxing a defeated man. Events include the famous "Rumble in the Jungle"...

An unparalleled collection of the timeless writings of one of sciences most beloved and original thinkers.. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out is a magnificent treasury of the best short...

A mesmerising novel of love, freedom, and retribution set in the Caribbean. It is 1952 on the Caribbean island of Bimshire. Mary-Mathilda - mistress of plantation manager Mr Bellfeels and...

Wheat, milk and eggs are regular and essential parts of many people's nutrition, but they are also probably the most common food allergens in the Western diet today. This updated...

This is the thrilling history of the turning point of the Second World War, when Hitler's armies were halted on the Eastern Front. At the moment of crisis in 1941...

James Connolly was born at 107 Cowgate, Edinburgh in 1868. At fourteen he joined the King's Liverpool Regiment and served seven years in Ireland. Returning to Scotland in 1889, he...

Walking Ireland is the most lavish and beautifully produced guide to the Irish hills currently available. The book consists of 30 routes, each divided into linked stages of between eight...

This is Patrick Touher's sequel to "Fear of the Collar", his memoir of boyhood in Artane Industrial School. The book opens with his leaving of Artane. It then traces his...

The development of theology in recent times has been marked not only by diversity but also by division. With the aim of interpreting new information from philosophy and the sciences...

What makes entrepreneurs different from the rest of us? Even when they are rich they keep on working. What drives them? Money? Power? Applause? In this book, a companion volume...

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne. The attack on Lindisfarne was a characteristically violent harbinger of...

Today most of us accept the consensus that madness is a medical condition - an illness that can be identified, classified and treated with drugs like any other. In this...

Who's Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usage to make differences crystal-clear. The...