Top Non-Fiction Books

Ripley's Believe It or Not! is guaranteed to amaze and entertain children and adults alike with its unique blend of weird but true stories and jaw-dropping facts gathered from all over the world. This year... Marvel at the ice caves of Alaska. Find out what very unusual food Icelanders eat at their traditional mid-winter feast. Discover why Lucas the penguin has to wear rubber boots. Hear about the woman who sailed down the Missouri River in a giant hollowed-out pumpkin. And take the 'Funny Bones' test to see whether you can match photographs of skeletons to their animal owners. No Christmas is complete without Ripley's! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529941203 • Author: Ripley • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 30.5 x 23.6 x 2.2cm

The explosive new book from Britain’s leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple have together built a multi-billion-dollar global brand. For decades, adoring fans have been captivated by the glamorous world they have created, while their unrivalled fusion of showbiz, fashion, football and celebrity has been cultivated alongside the image of a strong marriage. When the much-trailed Netflix documentary Beckham aired in 2023, viewers were offered an even more intimate insight into their private lives. Produced by the Beckhams themselves, the series raised many questions, not only about their success and personal relationship, but also about the ruthlessly successful management of their image in the media. Are their lives really as perfect as the Beckhams would like the world to believe? Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9780008638870 • Author: Tom Bower • Publisher: HarperCollins • Format:  Hardcover • Pages: 384 • Dimensions: 15.9 x 3.8 x 24 cm

One chop, no waste, all taste. Use ingenious supermarket-swap shortcuts and simple, low-cost ingredients for everyday feasts in a flash. Create fabulous food without the faff using no-mess prep techniques – Shivi Ramoutar has done all the thinking so you don’t have to. Make the most of what you have using cleverly chosen ingredients to turn your fridge-raid into mouthwatering meals in moments. Enjoy well-planned, high-impact dishes that pack a flavour punch, with minimal hassle for maximum mealtime joy.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780008551032 • Author:  Shivi Ramoutar • Publisher:  HarperCollins • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  224 • Dimensions:  19.5 x 2.1 x 25.2 cm

Join us in celebrating the platinum anniversary of the world's biggest-selling annual book! To mark GWR's 70th birthday, we're throwing a party, starting off with a feast of retro features in the opening chapter that look back over our last seven decades. Of course, we're also highlighting the very best of record breaking from the past 12 months! This new edition - fully revised and updated with 1,000-plus images - continues the annual tradition of serving up thousands of awesome facts and feats for the whole family to enjoy. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781913484552 • Author: Guinness World Records • Publisher: Macmillan Distribution Limited • Pages: 256 • Format: Hardback • Dimensions: 30.4 x 22.8 x 1.8cm

Healthy Eating Made Simple. This quick-and-easy cookbook makes healthy meal prep, and eating more veg, effortless. Everyone will love these delicious, vibrant breakfasts, snacks, lunches, dinners, baking and desserts cooked in your air fryer. If you’re new to vegan eating or have just got an air fryer, this book is for you. Find 70 plant-based recipes for beginners. Enjoy cooking easy breakfasts, simple lunches & light bites, super quick meals ready in 15 minutes or less, 30-minute meals or bread, cakes, cookies & desserts.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781529922363 • Author:  Niki Webster • Publisher:  Penguin • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  192 • Dimensions: 24.4 x 2 x 17.2 cm

Delicious recipes. Nutritionally balanced. So Good. When we think of nutrition and eating well, so many of us jump to the words ‘diet’, ‘unenjoyable’, and ‘sacrifice’. Sometimes we see healthy eating as something we should do, rather than something we want to do. This is the book to help you kickstart healthy eating as an enjoyable lifelong habit rather than a fad for a week. A perfect collection of over 80 vibrant, tasty and easy recipes all steeped in nutritional science, So Good explains the principles of healthy eating in a fun and relatable way. With recipes including… Fluffy Ricotta Lemon Pancakes Hot Honey Halloumi Avocado Toast Mango And Crunchy Chickpea Salad, With Jalapeno Dressing. Chicken And Spicy Guacamole Lunch Time Tacos Garlic Crumbed Salmon With Courgettes And Yoghurt Creamy Parmesan Chickpeas With Pickled Chillies Greek Yoghurt Roasted Strawberry Eton Mess Food should be a celebration, a memory, a moment. It’s not about counting calories; it’s about making every meal count. Let every meal you make nourish your body and bring you joy with every bite. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781399620055 • Author: Emily English • Publisher: Orion Publishing • Pages: 240 • Format: Hardback • Dimensions: 23.88 x 19.05 x 2.54 cm

Tuck into your all-time favourite flavours and a good sprinkling of Bake Off magic with our easy-to-follow recipes.  A feast for both the eyes and the taste buds, these flavourful bakes will leave you inspired to mix and match different combinations, or to indulge yourself with some classic tastes and textures. Whether you're looking for a tart blackcurrant millefeuille, a fresh passion fruit trifle, a sticky ginger treacle tart or a rich chocolate and speculoos cake - Paul, Prue, the Bake Off team and the 2022 bakers are here to show you how to get the perfect result. From earthy to spicy, and from tangy to creamy, this book showcases how to bring out the very best flavours in whatever you create.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781408726983 • Author:  The Bake Off Team • Publisher:  Sphere • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  288 • Dimensions:  25.5 x 19.7 x 2.5 cm

Pull on your wellies, grab your flat cap and join Jeremy Clarkson in this hilarious and fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the farm we're all obsessed with . . . An idyllic spot offering picturesque views across the Cotswolds, bustling hedgerows and natural springs. Until one day, Jeremy decided he would do the farming itself. After all, how hard could it be? . . . Faced with suffocating red tape, biblical weather, local objections, a global pandemic and his own frankly staggering ignorance of how to 'do farming', Jeremy soon realises that turning the farm around is going to take more than splashing out on a massive tractor. Fortunately, there's help at hand from a large and (mostly) willing team, including girlfriend Lisa, Kaleb the Tractor Driver, Cheerful Charlie, Ellen the Shepherd and Gerald, his Head of Security and Dry Stone Waller. And yet while the farm may be called Diddly Squat for good reason, Jeremy soon begins to understand that it's worth a whole lot more to him than pounds, shillings and pence . . . Product Information: • ISBN: 9780241464502 • Author: Jeremy Clarkson • Publisher: Michael Joseph • Format: Hardback • Pages: 224 • Dimensions: 24 x 16.2 x 2.6 cm

Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. At the end of Jeremy's first year in the tractor's driving seat, Diddly Squat farm rewarded him with a profit of just £144. So, while he's the first to admit that he's still only a 'trainee farmer'*, there is clearly still work to be done. Because while he's mastered the art of moaning about nearly everything, some of the other attributes required of a successful farmer prove more of a challenge. Did you know that loading a grain trailer was more demanding than flying an Apache gunship? Or that cows were more dangerous than motor-racing? Or whether would have been easier to get planning permission to build a nuclear power station than to turn an old barn into a farm restaurant? But if the council planning department and the local red trouser brigade seem determined to frustrate his schemes at every turn, at least he's got Lisa, Kaleb, Cheerful Charlie and Gerald, his dry-stone-walling Head of Security to see him through.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9780241695791 • Author:  Jeremy Clarkson • Publisher:  Michael Joseph • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  240 • Dimensions:  15.24 x 1.3 x 23.5 cm

Try over 100 brand new tasty, slimming recipes, all under 500 calories! The follow-up to the smash hit Slimming Eats, plus 15 signature favourites from Siobhan's enormously popular blog. This beautiful array of family-friendly meals will save you time in the kitchen and leave you spoilt for choice - using only accessible and fuss-free ingredients - the book is brimming with options and ideas for everyone to enjoy. Recipes include Piri Piri Halloumi Traybake, Slow Cooker Ropa Vieja, Cheesy Bolognese Gnocchi Bake, One-pot Moroccan-style Lamb Pilaf, Sticky Sriracha Tofu Bowls, Balsamic-roasted Beetroot with Feta and Orange Salad and Raspberry Lemon Loaf. Satisfying, flavoursome and healthy - this is Slimming Eats, made simpler than ever before.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781399708241 • Author:  Siobhan Wightman • Publisher:  Yellow Kite • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  288 • Dimensions:  19.69 x 2.54 x 25.4 cm

The Great British Bake Off: Kitchen Classics showcases 80 sumptuous bakes inspired by the show's most popular signature themes - Cake, Biscuits, Bread, Pastry, Patisserie, Dessert, Chocolate and Free-from - taking the best classic recipes and reinventing them to create the most gorgeous, flavourful and indulgent bakes. Throughout the book, Paul, Prue and the 2023 bakers themselves show you how to turn a signature into something truly special. Among the many transformations, Victoria sponge becomes a four-tier, zesty extravaganza; a brioche-style babka turns savoury with kale pesto and red peppers; and the cherry Bakewell is reimagined as an irresistible fondant fancy. Page after page, this book is packed with 'new' classics that will draw family and friends to your own kitchen table time and again. Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781408727003 • Author: The Bake Off Team • Publisher:  Sphere • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  256 • Dimensions: 19.2 x 2.2 x 25.2 cm

Treat your loved ones with this brand-new collection of Hairy Bikers' recipes, perfect for families of all shapes and sizes. Inspired by their journey together, Si King has completed this book as a tribute to his best friend and cooking partner Dave Myers, and a celebration of the food they loved to cook for themselves and their families. The Hairy Bikers are known as the Kings of Comfort, adored for their hearty food, big flavours and simple recipes. With this book, Si King delivers all that and more - bringing joy to the kitchen as he looks back and shares this ultimate collection of their most treasured dishes along with heartfelt stories and reflections on their adventures together. With over 100 easy and rewarding recipes to choose from, dishes like Cowboy Breakfast, Curried Welsh Rarebit, Bacon, Sausage & Egg Pie, Coronation Chicken Pancakes, Ginger Beer-Glazed Ham and Rum Babas with Grilled Pineapple will soon be your family favourites too. Featuring the Hairy Bikers' trademark flavours and comfort, Our Family Favourites is a deeply personal tribute packed with food you'll want to cook and share with your own loved ones again and again. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781399607322 • Author: Hairy Bikers • Publisher: Seven Dials • Format:  Hardback • Pages:  288  • Dimensions: 24.2 x 2.6 x 19.4 cm

Discover the delicious, time saving and cost-effective way to cook Italian classics in the air fryer. With fresh takes on Gino's iconic Italian recipes such as Classic Lasagne and Roman-Style Pizza, plus new air fryer favourites such as Carbonara Potatoes and Devilled Chicken Wings, this is the ULTIMATE ITALIAN AIR FRYER BOOK. "I just love air fryers. They're simple to use, efficient and environmentally friendly. They make your life easier in the kitchen while still enabling you to create fantastic food for your friends and family. The best thing of all is that Italian food cooks beautifully in an air fryer, which means a very happy Gino!" Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781526680419 • Author: Gino D'Acampo • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Format:  Hardback • Pages: 208 • Dimensions: 18.9 x 2.54 x 24.6 cm

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life. Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appalling abuse at the hands of his own family, Billy's life is a remarkable story of success against all the odds. Billy became a folk musician with a genuine talent for playing the banjo. But it was his ability to spin stories, tell jokes and hold an audience in the palm of his hand that truly set him apart. As a young comedian Billy broke all the rules. He was fearless and outspoken, but his stand-up was full of warmth and silliness too. His startling, hairy 'glam-rock' stage appearance - wearing leotards, scissor suits and banana boots - only added to his appeal. Billy's stand-up comedy continued- for over 50 years, in fact - until a double diagnosis of cancer and Parkinson's Disease brought his remarkable live performances to an end. Since then, he has continued making TV shows, creating extraordinary drawings... and writing. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529318272 • Author: Billy Connolly • Publisher: Two Roads • Format: Paperback • Pages: 400 • Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 3.4 cm

Aging has long been considered a normal process. We think disease, frailty, and gradual decline are inevitable parts of life. But they're not. Science today sees aging as a treatable disease. By addressing the root causes of aging we can not only increase our health span and live longer but prevent and reverse the diseases of aging - including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and dementia. In Young Forever, Dr Mark Hyman challenges us to reimagine our biology, health, and the process of aging. To uncover the secrets to longevity, he explores the biological hallmarks of aging, its causes, and its consequences - then shows us how to overcome them with simple dietary, lifestyle, and emerging longevity strategies. Learn how to optimize your body's Key Longevity Switches, reduce inflammation and support the health of your immune system, exercise, sleep and de-stress for healthy aging. In addition to understanding how to eat your way to a long life, featuring Dr Hyman's Pegan Diet, including which supplements are right for you and where the research on aging is headed  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781399716307 • Author:  Mark Hyman • Publisher:  Hodder & Stoughton • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  332 • Dimensions:  13.5 x 21.5 x 3.1 cm

From flowered gowns and headdresses to sky-high heels and sharp metallics, Beyonce’s outfits are to die for.  Now you can delve inside the wardrobe of one of the most fabulous singers in the world and recreate her most iconic looks. You can faithfully copy Beyonce’s original outfit or channel your inner fashion designer and create your own look for Queen Bey. Product Information: • ISBN: 9781916992078 • Author: Susanna Geoghegan Gift Publish • Publisher: Susanna Geoghegan Gift Publish • Format: Paperback

Discover over 100 dinner recipes – all under 500 calories with Twochubbycubs Dinner Time! James & Paul, otherwise known as the twochubbycubs, are here to arm you with meals that will fill you up throughout the week and keep those tastebuds happy, all while keeping you on track with your healthy eating. These are recipes for everyone: perfect plates for families, friends and meals made for sitting in front of the TV. There are incredible pastas, big batches of soups, stews and curries, salads and sides that will fill you, speedy dishes to throw together quickly, plus cubbies classics and fakeaway favourites to keep your Friday nights tasty. Dive in and enjoy feasting without the fuss, faff or fret - these are delicious dinners, drizzled with encouragement, support and laughter, to help you reach your goals! Product Information: • ISBN: 9781529340044 • Author: James and Paul Anderson • Publisher: Yellow Kite • Format: Hardback • Pages: 256 • Dimensions: 24.2 x 19.4 x 2.4cm

The 2024 Private Eye Annual presents the year's best cartoons, jokes, parodies and topical sketches from the UK's most successful, best-selling news and current affairs magazine. Edited by Ian Hislop and illustrated throughout with cartoons, sketches and photo-bubbles, the Private Eye Annual has become both a seasonal institution and a perennial Christmas bese-seller. The perfect gift for yourself or your friends and family. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781901784749 • Author: Ian Hislop • Publisher: Private Eye • Format:  Hardcover • Pages: 96  • Dimensions: 29.7 x 21cm

Give yourself a challenge with this book of word searches 2 by Perfect Pocket Puzzles.  This selection of puzzles will keep you entertained whether you're relaxing at home or out and about. Pocket-sized and full of the word searches you love to solve, pick up your pen, give your brain a gentle workout and enjoy a little 'me' time.  Product Information:  • ISBN:  9781789296532 • Author:  Dr Gareth Moore • Publisher:  Michael O'Mara • Format:  Paperback • Pages:  170 • Dimensions:  19.8 x 12.9 x 1 cm

Global superstar, songwriter, singer and Princess of Pop Britney Spears tells all in her heartfelt and honest memoir that portrays her rise to fame, tumultuous relationship with her father, controversial conservatorship, widely documented mental health struggles and so much more. Battling with a parent to take control of your own life at the age of 39 seems impossible. But this is where superstar Britney Spears found herself, 13 years into a conservatorship constructed by her father. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as she spoke in open court for the first time, delivering a bombshell statement in which she described the complex legal arrangement as abusive and condemned the actions of her own father, Jamie. The impact of voicing her truth was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others. The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her incredible journey and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history. Written with remarkable candour and humour, Spears's ground-breaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last. Product Information:  • ISBN: 9781398522541  • Author: Britney Spears • Publisher: Gallery UK • Format:  Paperback • Pages: 288 • Dimensions:  13 x 1.7 x 19.8cm