Non-Fiction

As the end of the millennium approaches, many ordinary people are confused and perplexed. On the one hand there are fundamentalists who believe that they have found the one and...

True to the tradition of the series, Metal Gear Solid 4 is a game full of imaginative secrets bound up in a complex narrative. The secrets include hidden areas, Easter...

The 100% complete guide to Final Fantasy XIII-2. The dedicated Walkthrough charts the critical path through the main narrative. It also provides regular prompts and tips to direct players to...

He began his career as a court cleric and rose to become bishop of Autun, a position he retained until his involvement in the radical reorganization of the church during...

''Early previews are juicer than [Gwyneth''s] viral-for-the-wrong-reasons bonebrothdiet...For someone who stands on business micromanaging herimage...this might be the first time we see behind Hollywood''s mostaspirational curtain'' theSkimm''The new Gwyneth Paltrow...

This groundbreaking study reveals the fascinating international dimension of the Irish Revolution (1919-1923), exploring how a small nation's fight for independence reverberated across the globe. The Irish republican counter-state strategy...

A survey of American literature from its 16th-century origins to its flourishing present, this sixth edition offers the work of 242 writers - 30 newly included - representing the extraordinary...

Homemaker. Virgin. Warrior. Witch. Madwoman. Monster.The labels applied to mythological women echo throughout history. These archetypes, created in the Ancient World, still resonate today.From the stories of the virgin goddesses...

What does it mean for us all when death is treated as a glitch and Silicon Valley invests in the "science" of eternal life?'A fascinating, deeply reported adventure' OLIVER BURKEMAN'An...

'Few historians write with Serhii Plokhy's authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book' Peter FrankopanFrom the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the...

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZEA TIME, NEW YORKER, FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST, IRISH TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF...

A Globe & Mail 100 Selection Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long...

Blood and Treasure is the story of the economics of conflict from the Viking Age to the war in Ukraine.'Absolutely fascinating and totally absorbing' JAMES HOLLAND'A brilliant book' MARTIN WOLF,...

*Revised and updated for the twenty-first century*In this updated, illustrated companion volume to Merlin's Tour of the Universe, we visit again with Merlin, a timeless space traveler from Planet Omniscia,...

The universe was supposed to be all there was - the whole of existence. For centuries the size of the universe and whether or not it is finite fascinated scientists...

Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph \ 'Perfect for...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and THE TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. The exhilarating and startlingly honest autobiography of the living legend.'Glorious, exuberant, chatty and candid, a 970-page victory...

From the internationally bestselling author of Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop comes a warm and reflective collection of essays about reading, language and life.Why do we read? What is it...

In "Dynasties", award-winning historian, David Landes scrutinizes powerful family businesses in Europe, Japan and America to determine what factors can cause a dynasty to flourish or fail. Drawing on his...

From the author of the 2023 bestselling Cocaine Cowboys, murder and deception and the underworld of Irish gangland intertwine in a deadly dance of power and survival.A murder in Belfast...

Shortlisted for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Prize 2008 The Snowball is the first and will be the only biography of the world's richest...

In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, faith in the rationality of markets has lost ground to a new faith in their irrationality. The problem,...

Bringing together fifty years of exciting modernisms, The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volume 2 includes over 600 poems by sixty-five American poets writing in the period between 1900 and...

THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER'Grim, forensic and often eye-opening ... meticulously researched and soberly written' Sunday Independent'A fascinating book' Pat Kenny, Newstalk---Kinahan Assassins is the extraordinary story of how the killers...

'Railways are complex organic creatures, amounting to much more than the sum of their individual components, and they depended on the diverse skills of all the people who worked on...

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare' (THE TIMES) 'Very funny and deeply sympathetic. Really excellent'...

'A breathtakingly hilarious and absorbing portrait of one of the most brilliant, dotty, dippy delirious yet ultimately inspiring eccentrics in British history . . . A remarkable story of cultural...

In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone lived undercover with the Mafia....

An esthetician and single mother with no connections, Anastasia Soare risked her life escaping communist Romania to come to America. Raising Brows tells the remarkable story of how she built...

The Irish weather. Subject of endless conversations, the saviour of small talk and famously unreliable. We all know it well, as a constant, if capricious, backdrop to our lives. But...