Item category 1: Adult Non-Fiction

Affordable, efficient and easy, air fryers are a must-have gadget for your home. These handy appliances use less energy, less oil and take less time than conventional ovens, helping you prepare fuss-free versions of all your favourite dishes. Perfect for vegetarians and vegans, this cookbook cont...

Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world's great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material world. What did Jane Austen wear? Acclaimed dress historian and Austen expert Hilary Davidson reveals the wardrobe of one of the world's most cel...

It's 1671, and the charismatic and unpredictable Colonel Blood is planning the greatest heist of all time: stealing - in plain sight - the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. With an audacious plan and a gang of misfits by his side, can he possibly pull it off? And is King Charles II in any mo...

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

This is a book about how being a woman gets in the way of people's expectation of what autism should look like and, equally, how being autistic gets in the way of people's expectations of what a woman should look like. 'Strong Female Character' is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversi...

Christian Lewis had hit rock bottom, suffering with depression so severe he would shut himself in his bedroom for weeks. In August 2017, while surfing - his only respite - he cast his eyes along the coastline and realised it was the only place he really wanted to be. Making an impulsive decision ...

'Unstressable' applies Mo Gawdat's brilliant engineering mind and Alice Law's psychology and stress-management expertise to the 'stress pandemic'. This follow up to 'Solve For Happy' will show you that chronic stress is not an unavoidable part of modern life, but a predictable - and therefore pre...

Best known - and beloved - for her highly popular novels including 'Pride and Prejudice', 'Emma' and 'Sense and Sensibility', Jane Austen was also an accomplished, and often witty, poet: 'I am going to have my dinner, after which I shan't be thinner'. This collection, which also includes poems by...

On 21 November 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, finally succumbed to the crushing ice. Its crew watched in silence as the stern rose twenty feet in the air and then, it was gone. The miraculous escape and survival of all 28 men on board have entered legend. And yet, the iconic ship ...