Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
Category: Non Fiction: General
From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of On Chapel Sands, a stunning new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'No one writes art like Laura Cumming' Philip Hoare, author of Albert and the Whale 'I shall never look at any painting in th ...Show more
Alan Turing - The Enigma Man by Nigel Cawthorne
Category: Sale Book
According the Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory against Nazi Germany with his code-breaking machine. The world is also indebted to Turing's genius for the modern computer. However, in 1954, he was found dead, poisoned by an apple laced by cyanide. ...Show more
First in Last Out - The Post-War Organisation, Employment and Training of Royal Marines Commandos by Paul Winter
Category: Sale Book
The official document Amphibious Warfare Handbook No. 10a: The Organisation, Employment and Training of Commandos is a unique piece of postwar Royal Marines Commando doctrine, never before published, or quoted at length.Prepared in 1951 at the height of the Korean War by the Chief of Amphibious Warfare ...Show more
The Truck Book: The Definitive Visual History by DK
Category: Non Fiction: General
Keep on trucking with this definitive visual history of lorries, trucks, vans, and everything in between A lavishly illustrated celebration of trucks and trucking, from the first motorized wagons to the advent of driverless freight vehicles. Charting decade after decade of innovation and change, The Tru ...Show more
Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
Category: Non Fiction: General
Through history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism, Deep Water invites you to explore the deepest recesses of our natural world. 'Teeming with mysteries, wonders and heartbreaking facts, this beautiful, lucid hymn to the sea is a reminder of what we still have, what we stand to lose, and why ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
Category: Non Fiction: General
A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy awaits- his bus is involved in a horrific accident. ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
Category: Non Fiction: General
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
The Everything War: Amazon's Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power by Dana Mattioli
Category: New Arrivals
"Riveting and explosive." - Christopher Leonard From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Everything War is the first untold, devastating exposé of Amazon's endless strategic greed, from destroying Main Street to remaking corporate power, in pursuit of total domination, by any me ...Show more
Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
Category: Non Fiction: General
The essential Artist's Way programme on guiding ourselves back to creativity 'Without The Artist's Way, there would be no Eat, Pray, Love' - ELIZABETH GILBERT WATKINS TOP 100 MOST SPIRITUALLY INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE OF 2023 How can we tap into the wisdom inside ourselves? LIVING THE ARTIST'S WAY is a Six-Wee ...Show more
The Rare Metals War The dark side of clean energy and digital technologies by Guillaume Pitron
Category: Non Fiction: General
The resources race is on. Powering our digital lives and green technologies are some of the Earth's most precious metals - but they are running out. And what will happen when they do? The green-tech revolution has been lauded as the silver bullet to a new world. One that is at last free of oil, pollutio ...Show more
Oscar Piastri The Rookie: In the Driver's Seat with the Next F1 Legend by Andrew van Leeuwen
Category: Non Fiction: General
A riveting account of motorsport phenom Oscar Piastri's first season in Formula 1, The Rookie charts his meteoric rise through the ranks to become McLaren's chosen young gun and takes us behind the scenes in his mission to triumph in the do-or-die world of the Fastest Show on Earth. The meteoric rise of ...Show more
Antiquities Sticker, Color & Activity Book: Over 500 Unique Stickers by Editors of Chartwell
Category: Non Fiction: General
Immerse yourself in the intrigue and elegance of the Victorian era with this treasure trove of ephemera-with 500+ stickers, 90+ activity and coloring pages, and calling cards with envelopes. Peer inside the Victorian era with Antiquities Sticker, Color & Activity Book-with more than 500 fanciful sti ...Show more