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Getting Away with Murder

In March 1969, twins Reggie and Ronnie Kray were sentenced to life imprisonment for the gangland killings of George Cornell and Jack 'the hat' McVitie.

Ray & Joan

The movie The Founder, starring Michael Keaton, focused the spotlight on Ray Kroc, the man who amassed a fortune as the chairman of McDonald’s. But

The Time In Between

A beautifully written first hand account of a 20-year old's battle with eating disorders. When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to

Geezers

Fifty Cup Finals

For more than 20 years Nick Collins was one of the best-known faces at Sky Sports News, bringing audiences the fortunes of the England soccer

Running the Voodoo Down

RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN

12 Years A Slave

Relatarea șocantă din prima mână a remarcabilei lupte a unui om pentru libertate; acum un film cinematografic premiat. „De ce nu murisem în tinerețea mea

Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and

The Making of Her

What is school for and why does it matter? What contributes to the success of women? How can we inspire confidence, and nurture excellence in

Strong Woman

This is Karren's story. Before being Alan Sugar's aide on The Apprentice and VC of West Ham United, how she started out as a sparky

No One Is Coming to Save Us

JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he

Bella Figura

In 2008, Kamin Mohammadi found herself worn down - by the increasingly unrealistic expectations of her high-flying job in the magazine industry, by her fluctuating

The Brother

'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet

Closing Ranks

Closing Ranks tells of an illustrious career, giving a behind the scenes look at the workings of the Metropolitan Police. One of the founder members

Fall and Rise

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the mothers who knew they were witnessing

O the clear moment

The tale begins in 1950, the year he turned 17 and, from there, McClanahan is off and running, describing characters from his eventful life with

Different Kind of Weather

'Why did you go into politics in the first place?' A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over

7 Miles Out

In 1977, Carol Morley (fictionalized as 'Ann') was 11 years old and living in Stockport when her dad drove her to school one morning, then

Happy Old Me How to Live a Long Life and Really Enjoy It

Happy Old Me is a moving yet uplifting account of one year in Hunter Davies' life, navigating bereavement and finding hope in the future. On

Extreme Outdoor Adventures

Here is a collection of tales from everyday people who faced terrible odds, accidents, extreme weather, wild animals, or severe injury--and survived. Many describe how

See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

Arron Crascall is one of the UK's leading social media stars. Millions watch his videos online and he's guaranteed to bring a little bit of

Daughter of Boston

In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Carolin...

Hatton Garden: The Inside Story

For this team of old-school career criminals, The Hatton Garden Heist was supposed to be one last job, the fortune that would sort their retirement

On Being Human

An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff's years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how hearing loss taught her to listen fiercely,

Just Ignore Him

'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen Fry 'This hug...

Molly's Game

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world – an insider’s story of excess and

Copper, Iron, and Clay

'A gorgeously photographed love letter to copper pots, cast-iron skillets, and classic stoneware and the hard-won artistry that goes into them, by perhaps the only

Know the Truth

In this remarkable and candid memoir the former Archbishop of Canterbury recalls his life and his spiritual quest; this is the first time in history

Run with your heart

'Mr Bean meets Red Rum'. Owning Adelphi Warrior, whose 'uncle' won the Grand National, is a childhood dream come true for Steve Wright, rebuilding his

Another Side of Bob Dylan

A vivid, first-hand account of Nobel Prize-winning singer and songwriter Bob Dylan as an artist, friend, and celebrity, illustrated with never-before-seen photographs, an...

Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert

Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame

Three Mothers

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been

Tai Woffinden

Double Speedway World Champion and former captain of the Great British speedway team, Tai Woffinden is one of the sport’s biggest stars. Following in his

Raoul Wallenberg

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the

Single Journey Only

Ursula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in

My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Born in 1927 in the Deep South, Coretta Scott always felt called to a special purpose. After an awakening to political and social activism at

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Martha Griffith Browne, a Southern slave-owner who became wedded to the cause of emancipation, wrote this autobiography of Ann, a woman born into slavery, to

App Kid

An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley’s youngest entrepreneurs—a second-generation Latino immigrant who taught himself how to c...

Twice-Born

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide...

The Poet and the King

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as 'the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of

British Murder: A Compendium: 1901-2000

The first study, year by year, of murder in Britain in the 20th century. The cases range from the long forgotten, like Rhoda Willis -

Jane Haining

'Balances detailed research with powerful storytelling to create a well-written and heart-wrenching account' - Nicole Gemine, Press and Journal Jane Haining was undoubt...

Tsunami Kids

On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Matty and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from

Three-a-Penny

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman

Sharp

Dorothy Parker, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron and Janet Malcolm are just some of the women whose lives intertwined as

Evil Beyond Belief

The chilling true story of Britain's most prolific serial killer, Dr Harold Shipman. This is the shocking story of a doctor who was addicted to

Rose Kennedy

'An insightful portrait of this paradoxical woman.' —People In this definitive biography—the first to draw on an invaluable cache of newly released diaries and letters—pr...

I Am These Truths

The Emmy Award-winning legal journalist and co-host of The View Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to

My Life with Murderers

Professor David Wilson has spent his professional life working with violent men - especially men who have committed murder. Aged twenty-nine he became, at that

Park life

În decursul unei cariere care se întinde pe parcursul a patru decenii, John a fost creierul din 'spatele scenei', asigurând bunăstarea și întreținerea faimoasei turme

The Ice at the End of the World

'Greenland: remote, mysterious, ice-covered rock, population 56,000, in the middle of the North Atlantic. Why do we care so much about it? Because locked within

Golem Girl

In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. She endures endless medical procedures and is told she will never have a

My organic life

'A wonderfully engaging memoir from the woman who founded Restaurant Nora, America's first certified organic restaurant--the natural foods pioneer who, earlier than anyon...

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

NAMED A TOP 10 BOOK OF 2018 BY NPR and THE WASHINGTON POST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN CURRENT INTEREST FINALIST

Bolder

Bolder is on a mission to change perceptions about growing older. Ageing is a constant for all of us, every minute, every hour, every day.

Hunting Whitey

Granted access to exclusive prison letters and interviews with dozens of people connected to the case on both sides, Sherman and Wedge offer a trove

Cadwallader Colden

A portrait of the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of New York places his achievements as an intellectual and royalist against a backdrop of turbulent pre-Revolution C...

Wait for me!

Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story

Planet of the Blind

O carte de memorii obsedantă și strălucit imaginată despre acceptarea cvasi-obscurității, aceasta este povestea unui 'om pierdut cu o pată de ceva asemănător vederii'. N...

Robert the Bruce

Why is Robert Bruce a giant? Because he proved to the medieval world that superior military might could be overcome even in battle by a

Reporting always

'From ... New Yorker journalist Lillian Ross-- a stunning collection of iconic New Yorker pieces'--

If This Is a Man/the Truce

Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and

Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick

A star-struck, naïve 17-year-old country bumpkin leaves home catches a coach to a near-mythical land—London and the Swinging ’60s. Days later, mascara running, itching i...

Pele: My Life In Pictures

Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group

How to Be a Rock Star

As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true rebel, who

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind se uită la una dintre cele mai remarcabile figuri ale epocii noastre: autorul bestsellerului A Brief History of Time, celebru

DK Life Stories Harriet Tubman

Descoperiți povestea inspirată a lui Harriet Tubman, o activistă și aboliționistă neînfricată care a ajutat la eliberarea multor sclavi, în această fascinantă biografie ...

My Story

'Inspirational' Sunday Express 'Moving and forthright' Mirror 'Like so many of the stories in his book, Bright's account of meeting his father for the first

Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun

In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have

Wartime Summer

We take summer holidays for granted but, back in the 1940s, the picture was very different. War had gripped Britain. Wave after wave of bombs

Growing Up

Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. “Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching mater...

Bram Stoker

Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This accessible book offers an introduction to a range of his

Nobody`s Child

Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent and emotionally deranged father

My Friend, Julia Lathrop

As one of the four members of the inner circle at Hull-House, Julia Lathrop played an instrumental role in the field of social reform for

I Am, I Am, I Am

A Sunday Times No 1. bestseller, I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book - a wildly entertaining,

No Better Time

Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss.

Champion

Even on your worst day, you may become someone else's best hope. When Pastor Craig and Samantha Johnson moved to Houston to take a position

The Sixth Man

**The Instant National Bestseller** The standout memoir from NBA powerhouse Andre Iguodala, the indomitable sixth man of the Golden State Warriors. Andre Iguodala is one

Fortune's Spear

Gerard Lee Bevan was the model of an Edwardian swell arrogant, smooth, wellconnected and highly cultured. He married money and influence; his wife Sophie Kenrick

George Bernard Shaw

Această lucrare începe cu o introducere de J.H. Stape, St Mary's University College, Strawberry Hill. Scrisă în 1930, 'Bernard Shaw: O biografie neautorizată' (1930) a

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country.

Patrick O'Brian

In A Very Private Life, Nikolai Tolstoy draws upon his close relationship with his stepfather, as well as his notebooks, letters and photographs, to capture

Broken

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from 'thinks it's