Biography and non-fiction prose

A glorious companion volume to Robinson's world-wide bestselling trilogy.

Paulo's writing is a visionary blend of spirituality, magical realism and folklore.

The complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.

Torey Hayden returns with this deeply-moving sequel to her first book, One Child (the Sunday Times bestseller).

Ben Goldacre's wise and witty bestseller, shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, lifts the lid on quack doctors, flaky statistics, scaremongering journalists and evil pharmaceutical corporations.

The first ever intimate portrait of Britain's best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer.

The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.

Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature.

Walter Pater's European Imagination addresses Pater's literary cosmopolitanism as the first in-depth study of his fiction in dialogue with European literature.

Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the shocking and deeply moving true story of a young girl with severe behavioural problems.

*THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year**Economist Book of the Year* 'A political epic' - Guardian'This is the book Trump fears most.

'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON'Beautiful .

'Squirm-inducing, excruciatingly honest and painfully funny' Joseph O'ConnorWe all went to school with friends who've turned out more successful than ourselves.

As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist told by experts in the field.

In The Challenge of Joseph H.

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Sculptor and architect Bernini was the virtual creator and greatest exponent of Baroque in 17th century Italy.

The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement.

During World War II the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain cemented the alliance that won the war.

James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.

Although the public most often associates dementia with Alzheimers disease, the medical profession continues to advance distinctions of various types of other dementias.

The Uncommercial Traveller is a remarkable display of creative journalism from Dickens's final decade, balancing Sketches by Boz at the beginning of his career.

The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom BowerAs one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo DurA!

Is Christianity really a white man's religion?

Journey through legendary moments in football history with this unique clash of comic art and iconic players, from Maradona to Messi and beyond.

This masterful biography of a giant of American industry--the first full life of Andrew Carnegie in more than a generation--triumphantly reveals every aspect of the man's complex personality and fabulous career.

From USA Today bestselling author Heidi Rice, Stealing His Heart contains three irresistible romances of forbidden desire, powerful men and the shocking secrets that make walking away completely impossible.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Graham Greene adopted the yearly habit of touring Spain and Portugal in the company of his Spanish friend, the priest and university professor Leopoldo DurA!

The book is about the journey of an ambitious young man who grew up in poverty and tried, to the best of his abilities to overcome his poverty and find a suitable career that could support him and his family.

Stewie McKay: Rusted, Busted, but Still FightingA Memoir of Family, Work, Parkinson's, and Refusing to QuitStewie McKay never set out to live an extraordinary life.

Sturmhöhe, Jane Eyre, Die Herrin von Wildfell Hall – die einst skandalträchtigen Romane der Schwestern Brontë sind heute Weltliteratur.

Das Unternehmerehepaar Monika und Bernd Faulhaber sagt über sich: : Wir wuchsen beide als Nachkriegskinder im Erzgebige auf.

The first comprehensive study of five feminist publications - Room of One's Own, Contemporary Verse 2, Fireweed, Tessera, and (f).

The first comprehensive study of five feminist publications - Room of One's Own, Contemporary Verse 2, Fireweed, Tessera, and (f).

The Dominion of Shoppers is a concise introduction to the long history of Canadian consumption.

A young man searching for a life that demanded everything from him.

The Dominion of Shoppers is a concise introduction to the long history of Canadian consumption.

How do we spark new scientific discoveries?

Why is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson?

A storied friendship between two of America's founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it.

Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, black and mixed-race women from across the globe came together in Paris and New York to engage in an artistic, sexual, intellectual, and political revolution -the ultimate flapper girls, they molded and shaped Western avant-garde thought and nascent ideas about race, sexuality, and left-wing politics, as well as the rapidly changing, increasingly visible role of women in modern life.

The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis ArmstrongHow did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong?

Little known today, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain.

The revelatory origin story of one of America's most beloved musicians, Louis ArmstrongHow did Louis Armstrong become Louis Armstrong?

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A storied friendship between two of America's founders--one that endured for fifty years--and the roadtrip that forged it.

The first biography of a great American composer of the cinema ageJohn Williams is one of the most important film composers of all time, having almost singlehandedly revived the Hollywood symphonic scoring tradition and helped restore the livelihood of American orchestras through the popularity of film music programming.

The woman scientist who saved Americans from thalidomideIn the early 1960s, Dr.

From the late 19th to the early 21st centuries, female impersonation was a hugely popular performance genre.