Collection: Nonfiction

Your future is not guaranteed. And isn't that fucking freeing? If you found out you had less time to live than the average bear, how might you spend it? That's a question comedian Michelle Brasier has been asking herself since her dad died of cancer, then her brother, and she was told there's a h...

Why are women so ashamed of certain parts of their bodies? And why are our feelings about our midsections so hard to navigate? These are the questions that animate My Belly, an unflinching and funny portrait of one woman's obsession with a seemingly innocent body part. Hilde Øtsby is a critic, a ...

A picture book is a book with pictures, but it's so much more than that! This A to Z guide helps you level up your picture book reading experiences, empowering yourself and the young readers in your world to dive deeper into what makes a great picture book great. With histories, insights and hand...

Here is the updated essential guide to computers, an authoritative reference book and timeline about the most powerful tools ever devised. Computing has been the sharp end of cutting-edge technology for a generation and it now permeates all our lives. But to many computer science remains somethin...

AI is coming fast and will affect every part of a business, including the role of the leader. And up until now, leaders have largely ceded their role in the transformation-pushing determination of strategy out to tech teams and leaving investment decisions with groups that don't have a full view ...

Who are currently the best players in world football in the women's game? Is Aitana Bonmati - winner of the Champions League, World Cup, and Ballon d'Or in the same year - the game's biggest star in 2025? Or can Chelsea and Australian star Sam Kerr return to the top now that she's back from injur...

Lavish 3D digital illustrations and an interactive question-and-answer format together create an engaging and accessible insight into a number of key topics. Why? Encyclopedia focuses on the subjects children really want to know about. It covers all of the areas you would expect in a kids' encycl...

Informal, raucous and sometimes scandalous, the heroes of classical music are often far from the composed images they're portrayed as. Take a walk in the shoes of 20 original rock stars from the last millennium and find out what it really takes to write a timeless classical hit.

Become a time-traveller and go back 4 billion years to explore our amazing prehistoric planet! See volcanoes, asteroids and the fiery beginnings of our Earth. Witness the explosion of life on our planet. Get close up to Titlaalik, the very first creature to crawl on land and Rhizodont, the monst...

Hold your horses, the cat is out the bag! Discover all the amazing and awful facts about barmy beasts and cagey creatures across time with history's most horrible headlines: Animals edition. The master of making history fun, Terry Deary, turns his attention to animals across time. From gory stori...