Collection: Nonfiction

This series looks at the history behind some favourite classic novels, exploring the relevant historical background and offering a literary analysis of the novel.

Alison introduces applique methods with simple instructions and useful illustrations that let you begin using these techniques right away. She gets you drawing, cutting, snipping, turning and stitching to express your own personality through each layer.

The perfect gift for readers of New Scientist and anyone who enjoys QI. The Things that Nobody Knows is a fascinating and unputdownable exploration of the limits of human knowledge of our planet, its history and culture, and the universe beyond.

How is China managed? How are its relationships with its neighbours? How does the Party function? What do we need to know about Chinese nationalism? Will the Chinese economy provide huge new opportunities for trade.....

A fact by fact look at our world from a physical, geological, astronomical and political perspective.

Examines the life, death, and legacy of African American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

A provocateur, radical thinker and instigator of the most important sartorial statements of the twenthieth and twenty-first centuries, Vivienne Westwood is a fearless nonconformist with a relentless passion for tradition.

Throughout the 1950s, as the Cuban people laboured under a repressive regime, the Mob-financed revelry in Havana never stopped. Led by Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano – with the compliance of President Batista – the Mob set out to create a financial empire