Non Fiction (Other) Books

By: Robert MacfarlaneBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZEThe original bestseller from the beloved author of UNDERLAND, LANDMARKS and THE LOST WORDS - Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, underappreciated landscape'The Old...

By Peter Ross (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 432 pagesPublisher: Headline Publishing GroupImprint: Headline Book PublishingISBN: 9781472281951Published: 1 Feb 2024Weight: 384g Churches are all around us. Their steeples remain landmarks in our towns, villages and cities, even as their influence and authority has waned.They contain...

By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackA TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of...

Lust for Life is the classic fictional re-telling of the incredible life of Vincent Van Gogh. "Vincent is not dead. He will never die. His love, his genius, the great beauty he has created will go on forever, enriching the world. He was a...

By Grainne Lyons (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 248 pagesPublisher: New Island BooksImprint: New Island BooksISBN: 9781848409286Published: 9 Feb 2024Classifications: Western Continental Europe, Biography: literary, Memoirs, Natural history, Walking, hiking, trekking, Travel writingWeight: 236gDimensions: 129 x 198 x 20 (mm) At a crossroads in her life,...

By: Peter RossBinding: **WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal...

By: Gavin (author) PlumleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Charming - a love-letter to home, history, and nature.'LEAH BROAD, Author of Quartet'A tender and illuminating history of an overlooked world.'HORATIO CLARE'Truly a revelation on every page.'PETROC TRELAWNY'A richly textured book, replete with illuminating discoveries and observations.' COUNTRY...

By: Eleanor ParkerBinding: Now available in paperback, Winters in the World is a beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo-Saxon England, exploring the festivals, customs and traditions linked to the different seasons. Drawing on a wide variety of source material,...

By: Amy JeffsBinding: Paperback / softbackBy the bestselling author of Storyland. Sheer cliffs, salt spray, explosive sea spume, thunderous clouds, icy waves, whales with mountains on their backs, sleet, bitter winds, bleak, impenetrable marshes, howling wolves, forests, the unceasing cries of birds and the...

By: Eamon DuffyBinding: Paperback / softbackThis prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on...

By: Janina RamirezBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'Revelatory' GUARDIAN'A firecracker somehow captured between two covers' LUCY WORSLEYAn instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of...

By: Chris GosdenBinding: Paperback / softbackA Telegraph Book of the Year A remarkable, unprecedented account of the role of magic in cultures both ancient and modern -- from the first known horoscope to the power of tattoos. 'Fascinating, original, excellent' Simon Sebag Montefiore______________________Three great...

By: Nicholas OrmeBinding: Paperback / softbackAn engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century....

Format :Paperback / softback 448 pages, 3x8pp colPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: ApolloISBN:9781789545067Published: 9 Nov 2023Weight:336gDimensions:215 x 356 x 35 (mm) Everything about Venice, observed Lord Byron, is, or was, extraordinary. Her aspect is like a dream, and her history is like a romance. Dream and...

By: Dee Dee ChaineyBinding: HardbackAn entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is...

By Helena Attlee (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 272 pagesPublisher: Penguin Books LtdImprint: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241952573Weight:240gDimensions:196 x 132 x 21 (mm) Image for The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus FruitClick to enlargeThe Land Where Lemons Grow :...

By: Christopher HadleyBinding: Paperback / softback'Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year' Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire...

By: Simon JenkinsBinding: HardbackSimon Jenkins has travelled the length and breadth of England to select his thousand best churches. Organised by county, each church is described - often with delightful asides - and given a star-rating from one to five. All of the county...

By: Weird WalkBinding: In this book is a radical idea. By walking the ancient landscape of Britain and following the wheel of the year, we can reconnect to our shared folklore, to the seasons and to nature. Let this hauntological gazetteer guide you through...

By Oliver Smith (Author)Format: Hardback 256 pages, 10 black and white interior photosPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury ContinuumISBN: 9781399409032Published: 28 Mar 2024Weight: 446gDimensions: 242 x 162 x 29 (mm) Acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith sets out to radically reframe our idea of ‘pilgrimage’ in...

By: Anthony SeldonBinding: Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month'A formidable achievement... a moving enactment of a modern pilgrimage' Rory Stewart'Thoughtful [and] heartfelt' Observer'Profound [and] compelling' Spectator'A noble endeavour' New Statesman***A WATERSTONES BEST BOOKS OF 2022 PICK***Without a permanent home, a wife or a job,...

By: Anna KeayBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 WINNER OF THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE Eleven years when Britain had no king. In 1649 Britain was engulfed by revolution....

By: Francis PryorBinding: Paperback / softbackA BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland...

Format: Paperback / softback 560 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780007255573Published: 9 Nov 2023Weight: 402gDimensions: 130 x 199 x 38 (mm) "An absolute gem" - Sunday Times "A mouthwatering history" - The Guardian In this delicious history of Britain's food traditions, Diane Purkiss invites...

By: Thomas WilliamsBinding: Paperback / softbackA new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones and ship burials, settlements and battlefields. To many, the word 'Viking' brings to mind...

By: Marc MorrisBinding: Paperback / softbackTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] clever, lively ... splendid new book'DAN JONES, SUNDAY TIMES'A big gold bar of delight'SPECTATORSixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign...

By: Christian LewisBinding: Paperback / softbackThe Sunday Times Bestseller and featured on Ben Fogle's New Lives in the Wild. Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK - his dog Jet in tow - and rebuilds his life, step by...

By Cat Jarman (Author)Format: Paperback / softback 352 pagesPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersImprint: William CollinsISBN: 9780008353117Published: 2 Sep 2021Classifications: United Kingdom, Great Britain, Northern Europe, Scandinavia, c 500 CE to c 1000 CE, c 1000 CE to c 1500, British & Irish history, Medieval European archaeologyWeight:...

Edited by: John MillerSeries: British Library Tales of the WeirdFormat: Paperback / softback 288 pagesPublisher: British Library PublishingImprint: British Library PublishingISBN:9780712353427Published: 27 Aug 2020Weight:210gDimensions:129 x 189 x 24 (mm) Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird....

By: James FoxBinding: Paperback / softback'Extraordinary. An intellectual feast as well as a visual one'Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber EyesThe world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings,...