Non-fiction

Informed and energized by a lifetime of painting, drawing and making images with cameras, David Hockney, in collaboration with the art critic Marti...

For nearly thirty years, during which it has been continuously in print, Jeffrey Russell's A History of Witchcraft has been the one authoritative c...

In the last few decades, the world of contemporary art has become more globalized and visible than ever before. And yet this world has long been pe...

Burma is one of the largest countries in Southeast Asia and was once one of its richest. Under successive military regimes, however, the country ev...

The expansion of capitalism and neoliberal ideologies have delivered economic integration between countries and brought global inter-connectedness ...

PHUNK is a contemporary art and design collective based in Singapore. Founded in 1994 by Alvin Tan, Melvin Chee, Jackson Tan and William Chan when ...

This latest instalment in The Illustrators on Dutch artist Dick Bruna (1927-2017) takes readers behind the scenes of the creation of some of the wo...

Even with the current rise in awareness of sexual and intimate diversity, monogamous relationships remain the cultural norm. Most people aspire to ...

For centuries the beguiling ancient ruins of Egypt have provided an endless source of fascination for explorers, antiquarians, treasure hunters and...

Since earliest times food has encompassed so much more than just what we eat – whole societies can be revealed and analysed by their cuisine. In th...

Throughout history, intrepid men and women have related their experiences and perceptions of the world's great cities to bring them alive to those ...

How do writers and citizens in the different countries of the world view their own past? What key events and influences shaped those perspectives? ...

In February 1747, Selima the tabby fell into a Chinese porcelain tub in Walpole's Mayfair house and never returned to dry land. The poem by Thomas ...

Is there no escape from an economy that devours nature in the name of endless growth? John Thackara's answer is a rousing 'yes, there is!' Drawing ...

Throughout its long history, India has signified many things. To pilgrims from ancient China, India was the birthplace of the Buddha. To Alexander ...

Only four countries around the world do not currently define themselves as democracies. But many more do not fulfil the four basic requirements of ...

When we are born, we are each assigned a gender based on our physical anatomy. But why is it that some people experience such dissonance between th...

Modern medicine is exceptionally powerful, and has achieved unprecedented successes. But it comes at a price; individuals suffer from medicine's fa...

Religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-large...

An overview of the life and work of much-loved children's illustrator and author Judith Kerr, creator of classics such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea...

While almost everybody knows Ludwig Bemelmans' Madeline, the fact that the illustrator published over forty other titles remains a well-kept secret...

The livre d'artiste, or 'artist's book', is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was one of the greatest artis...

Edited by Justin Zhuang During a career spanning over three decades, award-winning architect Mok Wei Wei has designed numerous large- and small-sca...

This book offers a practical and clear-cut beginner's guide to the basics of paper engineering. It begins by explaining the foundational techniques...

Illustrator Posy Simmonds is known for her extraordinarily precise drawings, keen powers of observation, and sharp but well-tempered wit, all of wh...

Raymond Briggs has changed the face of children's picture books, with his innovations of both form and subject. Stylistically versatile, he has ill...

Like every era, the Renaissance brims with stories. In this book, Robert Davis and Beth Lindsmith highlight dozens of notable lives from between 14...

Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articula...

Bringing the story of Scotland up to date, this revised fifth edition of Fitzroy Maclean’s classic work includes additional chapters by distinguish...

How did our universe come to exist? Why do stars shine? Is there life beyond the Earth? For millennia, humans have looked to the celestial sphere t...

In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking and sometimes provocative new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised by a lifetime o...

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual's lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and histor...

Star Trek Pop-Ups delivers seven iconic Star Trek images in a new way - popping off the page in three dimensions. From the Enterprise NX01 in fligh...

Drawing on the author’s personal experience of living and working as an architect in Syria, this timely and fascinating account offers an eyewitnes...

Which were the books that shaped art history as it developed in the twentieth century? This pioneering book provides an invaluable roadmap of the f...

Asian empires led the world economically, scientifically and culturally for hundreds of years, and posed a constant challenge to the countries of E...

Marco Polo, Ferdinand Magellan, David Livingstone, Amelia Earhart, Neil Armstrong: these are some of the greatest travellers of all time. This book...

From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host o...

The legend of Shangri-La emerged from the Tibetan Buddhist belief in beyul, or hidden lands. Tibetan prophecies proclaim that the greatest of these...

The Militant Muse documents what it meant to be young, ambitious and female in the context of an avant-garde movement defined by celebrated men who...

Japan may be one of the world’s biggest economies, a global leader in everything from architecture to food and a country whose brands have flourish...

For too long the Neanderthals have been seen as dim-witted evolutionary dead-enders who looked and behaved completely differently from us, but in r...

From the earliest Paleolithic cave rituals, magic has gripped the imagination. Magic and magicians appear in early Babylonian texts, the Bible, Jud...

Chocolate--'the food of the Gods'--has had a long and eventful history. Its story is expertly told here by the doyen of Maya studies, Michael Coe, ...

In Things Come Apart, fifty design classics―arranged by size and intricacy―are beautifully displayed, piece by piece, exploding in midair and disse...

Aspirations for a better - even a perfect - society have existed throughout history, often imagined in intricate detail by philosophers, poets, soc...

Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) was famously driven by his passion for God, for art - and for books. Vincent's life with books is examined here chapte...

Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broa...