Our Non-Fiction Bestsellers
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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jager traces how pub lic life has become infused with…
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An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda - now available in English for the first time'Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them...'Ezo spruce,…
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The global bestselling superstar 'poet of physics' returns with a dazzling philosophical exploration of our place in the universeWhat can we really know about the world around us? Or is there beauty in daring not to know?With clarity and…
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Translated by Jack HargreavesA witty and humane account of one man, multiple jobs and what it means to liveHu AnYan has held nineteen different jobs since he graduated. He’s been a convenience store clerk, a bicycle salesman, a…
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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION WINNER OF THE PALESTINE BOOK AWARDS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live…
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How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here,…
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Translated by Richard Dixon and Alastair McEwenWe are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that 'they' must never do it again. But who are 'they'?HOW TO SPOT A FASCIST is a selection of three thought-provoking essays on…
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In Golden Crumbs, Mary Ruefle, a master of the absurd aphorism and philosophical curio, shows us ancient anchovies, poets aspiring to be birds, a cryalogue, powdered glass for dinner, friends who don't read your poems, lovers, big houses,…
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Vittles #3: The Influencers IssueA magazine about who influences the way we eatWith the talented contributions of:Stephen Buranyi, Hester van Hensbergen, Vaughn Tan, Ozoz Sokoh, Nigel Slater, Jonathan Lovekin, Rob Martinez, Helen Cho,…
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The story of a hotel. The story of a nation.BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekLonglisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionA sweeping and immersive history of modern Afghanistan – the first book from one of the…
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