New Adult Nonfiction & Biography

Updated June 3, 2025
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Bored of lunch: the healthy air fryer book
Anthony, Nathan.
Paper Book
NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AIR FRYER BOOK OF ALL TIME Whether you're an air fryer fanatic or new to these time- and money-saving appliances, hugely popular healthy-eating platform, Bored of Lunch, will revolutionise your cooking packed with recipes that are quick, healthy and...
A brief history of the end of the f*cking world
Phillips, Tom (Journalist)
Do you feel like we're living in the end times? Does it seem like everything is on fire, and one disaster follows another? Here's a small comfort: you're not the first to feel that way. If there's one thing that people throughout history have agreed on, it's that history wasn...
Entangled life : how fungi make our worlds, change our minds & shape our futures
Sheldrake, Merlin
Paper Book
The million-copy bestseller that will transform your understanding of our planet and life itself. 'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer 'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story'...
Homework : A Memoir
Dyer, Geoff.
Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny -- I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story' - TESSA HADLEY In Homework, Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and...
Is a River Alive?
Macfarlane, Robert.
Paper Book
At its heart is a single, transformative idea- that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings - who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Inspired by the activists, artists and lawmakers of the young 'Rights of Nature' movement, Macfarlane takes the reader on an...
Next level : your guide to kicking ass, feeling great, and crushing goals through menopause and beyond
Sims, Stacy T.
Paper Book
Menopause doesn't have to be the end of you kicking ass. The renowned author of Roar presents a comprehensive and customizable physiology-based guide to peak performance for active women approaching or experiencing menopause. For active women, menopause hits hard....
The peepshow : the murders at Rillington Place
Summerscale, Kate
Paper Book
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved it' Richard Osman 'Shattering' Val McDermid 'Gripping...
Poppy Cooks: The Potato Book: 101 Recipes from the Potato Queen
O'Toole, Poppy
Paper Book
- THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER - 'Not simply a social media sensation but, heartwarmingly, the actual, real thing... She is the High Priestess of The Potato.' - Nigella Lawson 'My jaw dropped when I opened this book - all I want to cook and eat...
Researching local history : your guide to the sources
Raymond, Stuart A.
Paper Book
How has the place we live in changed, developed, and grown over the centuries? That is the basic question local historians seek to answer. The answer is to be found in the sources of information that previous generations have left us. The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of...
Tracing Your Ancestors Using DNA - Revised Edition: A Guide for Family Historians
Holton, Graham S.
Paper Book
DNA research is one of the most important and rapidly advancing areas in modern science and the practical use of DNA testing in genealogy is one of its most exciting applications. Yet there is no recent British publication in this field. That is why this accessible, wide-ranging introduction is so...
Tracing your Irish family history on the Internet
Paton, Chris
Paper Book
Ireland has experienced considerably more tragedy when it comes to the preservation of resources for family historians than its close neighbor Britain. Many of the nation's primary records were lost during the civil war in 1922 and through other equally tragic means. But in this new book Chris Paton...
A travel guide to the Middle Ages : the world through medieval eyes
Bale, Anthony
Paper Book
From the medieval bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost...
Yes, Ma'am
Quinn, Tom.
Paper Book
What really makes the British royal family tick? It's a question that royal watchers have pondered for as long as there has been a royal family. And the answer?Well, surprisingly, it's not the royal family's devotion to duty, it's not their wealth or their status, it's not even their popularity (or...

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