True Stories: Discovery/Historical/Scientific

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...

An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry A welcome contribution to polar studies. Sara Wheeler, Spectator [MacInness] handles ...

Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that d...

A wonderfully quixotic, charming and surprisingly uplifting travelogue which sees Jack Cooke, author of the much-loved The Treeclimbers Guide, driv...

Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science ...

An Economist book of the year. Fifty years ago, Christmas 1968, Man first orbited the Moon. This book tells the inside story of that epic journey....

Triumphs and disasters in the deep sea This is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future o...

This is a book about expedition, adventure, our thirst for knowledge and pushing the limits of human endurance.From the navigational instruments th...

On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and unr...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. That these man-like creatures were in truth onl...

It is 1943. Join Elf, an intrepid grandmother, on her secret journey of over 6,814 miles up the African continent. Based on her personal journals, ...

'Åsne Seierstad is the supreme non-fiction writer of her generation ... Two Sisters isn't only the story of how a pair of teenage girls became radi...

Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.Over one hundred years after its wreck, Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's sh...

Cairo, 1963: Enayat al-Zayyat's suicide becomes a byword for talent tragically cut down, even as Love and Silence, her only novel, languishes unpub...

From William Shakespeare to Oprah Winfrey and Anne Frank to Julius Caesar, get the inside track on the incredible lives of history's biggest names ...

In the summer of 2022, Lee Berger lost 50 pounds in order to wriggle though impossibly small openings in the Rising Star cave complex in South Afri...

A look into the tantalising secrets of Florence's Palazzo Rucellai. When Italian Renaissance professor Allison Levy takes up residency in the pala...

ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 20225* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH'One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... a bea...

The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. The NHS ...

Dr. Edward A. Wilson (1872-1912) is widely regarded as one of the finest artists ever to have worked in the Antarctic. Sailing with Captain Scott a...

The Second World War Chief of MI6 said Alexander Wilson had 'remarkable gifts as a writer of fiction, and no sense of responsibility in using them!...

In this provocative and eye-opening classic of investigative journalism, the #1 New York Times bestselling author and Americas best true-crime writ...

Alexander Pearce and seven of his fellow convicts escaped from gaol in 1822 into one of the most unique and beautiful places on earth the Tasmania...

The riveting story of a true-life female Indiana Jones: an archaeologist who survived the Nazis and then saved Egypts ancient temples. In the 1960s...