Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078

Secondhand Non-Fiction Bargain Book Box SP4078

A rich, varied mix of cultural writing, memoir and social commentary. Books on race, identity, the body, deafness, ballet, the internet, menopause, photography and much more — a box for readers who want non-fiction that challenges as much as it informs.

1. Passionate Marriage — David Schnarch — A therapist's groundbreaking guide to keeping intimacy alive in long-term committed relationships.
2. Good Witch: In Search of Our Lost Feminine Power — Lucianne Tonti — An exploration of the feminine archetypes that contemporary culture has suppressed — and what it might mean to reclaim them.
3. Bad Hair Days — Pamela Bone — A memoir that is, according to its own cover, not about dying. A personal account of illness and ordinary life, written with uncommon honesty.
4. We Love Love — Laura Byrne & Brittany Hockley — The creators of the Life Uncut podcast share an unfiltered A to Z of modern romance and self-love.
5. Why Does Everything Have to Be About Race? — Keith Boykin — Twenty-five arguments against the claim that racial thinking has gone too far — a direct, evidence-based rebuttal.
6. Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water — Alys Fowler — A meditation on Britain's bogs and peatlands, their ecological importance and their strange, half-submerged beauty.
7. The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine — Helen M. Luke — A Jungian exploration of the deep feminine in literature, mythology and everyday life.
8. The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound — Raymond Antrobus — A personal and cultural investigation of deafness from one of Britain's finest contemporary poets.
9. Periodic Bitch: A Memoir of Menopause, Mendness & Monsters — Emma Hardy — A frank, funny and cathartic memoir about navigating menopause, written with attitude and warmth.
10. Anna's Story — Bronwyn Donaghy — The story of Anna Wood: the facts, the fury, the future. A landmark work of Australian journalism examining the death that changed drug policy.
11. Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street — Cin Fabré — A sharp, vivid account of navigating America's financial world as a Black woman, in the tradition of Liar's Poker.
12. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire — Chloe Hooper — The story of a man who set fire to Victoria during the Black Saturday bushfires. Award-winning Australian narrative non-fiction.
13. On Photography — Susan Sontag — The foundational essay collection in which Sontag examines what photography does to the way we see the world. Essential cultural theory.
14. "I Will Not Be Erased" — gal-dem — Stories from young people of colour about growing up in Britain, feeling invisible and finding their voices. Urgent and moving.
15. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now — Jaron Lanier — One of Silicon Valley's original visionaries makes a principled, personal case for leaving social media.
16. Originals: How Non-Conformists Change the World — Adam Grant — Organisational psychologist Adam Grant on what makes people genuinely creative, courageous and original.
17. Word Watching — Julian Burnside — The barrister and author explores language, etymology and the strange history of English words. Sharp, funny and illuminating.
18. Nobel Wisdom: The 1000 Wisest Things Ever Said — David Pratt — A compendium of quotations from Nobel Prize winners across science, literature, peace and economics.
19. Bolshoi Confidential — Simon Morrison — A deeply researched history of Russia's greatest cultural institution — its dancers, directors and complicated relationship with power.
20. 1965: The Year Modern Britain Was Born — The cultural, political and social history of a pivotal year: the Beatles, the pill, immigration, the new universities, Harold Wilson.