Featured Nonfiction
Nonfiction – new and popular
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The Gates of Europe
Serhii Plokhy
Read more ▸ Order ▸A History of Ukraine
Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has long...
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A Short History of Russia
Mark Galeotti
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Such a slim volume hardly seems capable of fulfilling the brief of its topic,...
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Extra Life
Steven Johnson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The surprising and important story of how humans gained what amounts to an extra life,...
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The Shortest History of Democracy
John Keane
Read more ▸ Order ▸The roots of democracy stretch back beyond Athens to Syria- Mesopotamia and the Indian subcontinent,...
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Why We Read
Read more ▸ Order ▸Why read non-fiction? Is it just to find things out? Or is it for pleasure,...
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Russia
Antony Beevor
Read more ▸ Order ▸Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921
Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia...
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Serious Money
Caroline Knowles
Read more ▸ Order ▸Walking Plutocratic London
London is a plutocrat’s paradise, with more resident billionaires than New York, Hong...
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Freezing Order
Bill Browder
Read more ▸ Order ▸A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath
Following his explosive...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain
George Saunders
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth...
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Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of...
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Anne de Courcy
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and...
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France
Graham Robb
Read more ▸ Order ▸An Adventure History
France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of...