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Street Kid

Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in his backyard, Judy suffered in a Manchester orphanage run by nuns before being

African Laughter

A highly personal story of the eminent British writer returning to her African roots that is 'brilliant . . . [and] captures the contradictions of

In Love with Hell

Publisher's Synopsis 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding' JIM CRACE 'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays

Hemingway and His Conspirators

Explores how Ernest Hemingway seized upon an emerging mass culture to become the premier author of the time

Henry James

The first volume in a magisterial biography of Henry James sheds light on the life and times of the distinguished author of Portrait of a

Hebrews Between Cultures

The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, Sternberg’s last book, established a new level of sophistication for biblical analysis. In Hebrews between Cultures, he shifts his focu...

Victor Hugo's Conversations With the Spirit World

'First English translation of Victor Hugo's writings on his experiments in spiritualism'--Provided by publisher.

My adventures with your money

'Today, we talk about Bernard Madoff, but in the early 20th century, they talked about George Graham Rice. Born Jacob Simon Herzig in 1870, he

A Lifetime Burning

Inspired by lines from T.S. Eliot's poem 'East Coker,' Richard Quinney contemplates in this memoir his family's artifacts and their final disposal when their generations-...

Idris Elba: So, Now What?

From starring as the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord Stringer Bell in the iconic HBO series The Wire, to playing Madiba himself in the long-awaited biopic

Chuck Close

Spune povestea vieții și operelor artistului american Chuck Close, descriind diferitele sale abordări ale portretului și hotărârea sa de a depăși aproape paralizia de la...

Ben Jonson

Soldat, satiric, duelist, scriitor de masca principal la curtea timpurie Stuart, tutore al fiului lui Sir Walter Ralegh și cel mai mare contemporan al lui

Close to My Heart

Aceasta este autobiografia unei femei liniștite a cărei conștiință și acțiuni sociale excepționale sunt un exemplu al influenței pe care o persoană o poate avea

The rise of Abraham Cahan

Already a noted journalist writing for both English-language and Yiddish newspapers, Abraham Cahan founded the Yiddish daily in New York City in 1897. Over the

Leo Tolstoy And The Alibi Of Narrative

Elaborating this theory of authorship while revisiting Tolstoy's most famous works of fiction, Weir offers new interpretations of the Childhood trilogy, The Cossacks, Wa...

Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington

O nouă biografie majoră a lui Duke Ellington de la aclamatul autor al cărții Pops: O viață a lui Louis Armstrong Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington

Women on the Renaissance Stage

Through detailed historicized and interdisciplinary readings of the performances of Anna Denmark in the Scottish and English Jacobean Courts, Women on the Renaissance Sta...

Aesthetics

Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips

Manderley Forever : The Life of Daphne du Maurier

Bestselling novelist Tatiana de Rosnay pays homage to Daphne du Maurier, the writer who influenced her deeply, in this startling and immersive new biography. A

Daily Telegraph Book Of Imperial And Commonwealth Obituaries

Illustrating the spread of Imperial British culture around the world, this collection of obituaries sheds light on the most interesting, exotic and eccentric individuals ...

Sand In My Shoes Coming of Age in the Second World War

A moving and personal account of a young woman's experiences of the Second World War from the mother of Sir Tim Rice.

Our Story Spl

The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful

Apollinaire and the Great War, 1914-18

This title draws heavily on Apollinaire's writings to tell the story of his war years, within the wider context of the French experience of the

The Wallace: Selections (Teams Middle English Texts), Anne McKim

The Wallace catalogs the sheer brutality of war. We are regaled with such detailed accounts of the sacking of towns and the burning down of

The Hidden Life of Otto Frank

În această nouă biografie definitivă, Carol Ann Lee oferă răspunsul la una dintre cele mai sfâșietoare întrebări ale timpurilor moderne: cine a trădat-o pe Anne

Dreams from My Father

'Dreams from My Father: O poveste despre rasă și moștenire' este o memoriu scrisă de Barack Obama, al 44-lea președinte al Statelor Unite. În această

Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy

A striking feature of ancient Greek literature is its preoccupation with old age. Yet scholars have been slow to explore the subject, a possible reflection

Travels with Macy

After a thirty-year career as high profile vet, columnist, presenter and author Bruce Fogle decided to leave urban Britain and take a journey with his

An Ordinary Soldier

On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in

Maeve's Times

'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger - un culturist devenit mogul imobiliar care a transformat o serie neînvinsă la concursul Mr Olympia într-o carieră cinematografică uluitoare și opt...

The Alice Behind Wonderland

Deftly engaging with Dogson's published writings, private diaries, and photography, Winchester weaves together the poignant, turbulent, and entirely fascinating story be...

My Stir-fried Life

As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all

All Quiet on the West End Front

War Horse is the most successful show in the National Theatre's history. After two seasons at the NT it transferred to London's West End and

Gunpowder and Geometry

In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles

Emissaries of Satan

Michael Ross. Kenneth Bianchi. John Scripps. These are truly the servants of hell, three savage killers without a shred of soul between them. Michael Ross

Frances: The Tragic Bride

She was young, very beautiful, and had everything to live for—but the life of Frances Shea, briefly married to Reggie Kray, remains one of the

Dad's Maybe Book

In 2003, already an older father, National Book Award–winning novelist Tim O’Brien resolved to give his young sons what he wished his own father had

Free Spirits

The love triangle portrayed in François Truffat's film Jules et Jim was based on a novel by, and indeed the life of, the writer Henri

Celebration of David Attenborough

A highly diverting celebration of television’s favourite naturalist, packed with games, trivia and Attenborough-inspired activities. Attenborough. Just saying the name ma...

Things I Learned from Falling

Ritmul continuu de lucru, activitatea socială și dorința de a face mai multe într-un oraș mare erau frenetice și stresante. Înconjurată de oameni, Claire se

Wife's Tale

The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman - and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years ago,

Source of the Nile

The source of the River Nile was one of the great mysteries of the Victorian age. On an expedition with Richard Burton which reached Lake

The Sky Is Your Oyster

This is collection of poems, discussion themes and meditations is designed for individual or group study, and can be used as a resource for public

A Hell for Heroes

Theodore Knell went through hell in the SAS - but his biggest battle began when he left. A Hell for Heroes is a searingly honest

Song of the Sea

Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her to find a place in a

Jailbirds

Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons... During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job

Prisoner

Kerry Tucker seemed to be a typical suburban mother of two, but she had a terrible secret- she had been stealing money from her employers.

The Joy of Big Knickers

TV presenter Kate Garraway has a lot on her mind. She's about to turn 50, which is fine (she thinks), but suddenly she seems to

The VW Camper Van

It was invented immediately after the war in the factory a far-sighted English military man had set up to turn the German economy from making

Only : A Singular Memoir

Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the

Great Bales of Fire

But while his responsibilities are changing fast, almost everything else in Malcolm's life stays the same. Despite facing his fair share of car accidents, house

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

At the time of its original publication by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was a pioneering work of literary investigation. Sallis's subjects of Himes,

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.

The Girl on the Wall

Jean Baggott is 'the girl on the wall' - a 1948 photograph taken of her when she was eleven - whose life was never going

Slave Girl

Sarah Forsyth și-a petrecut cea mai mare parte a vieții în frică. După ce a depășit durerea și suferința unei copilării îngrozitoare, Sarah a reușit

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

Mustn't Grumble

The definitive autobiography from the nation's best-loved broadcaster. Written in the style familiar to his millions of listeners, rich with warmth and irony, Mustn't G...

I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time

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

My Brother, Muhammad Ali

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman.

Shifting Shadows

Herman Mendoza built his kingdom in Queens, New York. He made a fortune selling cocaine with his brothers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. He

Standing on My Brother's Shoulders

A suicide loss survivor tells her story. Tara Lal's childhood was battered by her father's mental illness and by her mother's death when she was

The Father, the Son and the Ghostly Hole

A hilarious memoir of a lapsed catholic who can't quite fully escape I remember thinking when I was about 14, 'I hope God doesn't find

Roth Unbound

Philip Roth - one of the most renowned writers of his generation - hardly needs introduction. From his debut, Goodbye, Columbus , which won the

I Am Not A Label

This book brings together 34 disabled artists, thinkers, athletes and activists from past and present.

Cissie's abattoir

A memoir that serves as both a record of the author's hometown and a humorous remembrance of his entertaining, fashion-conscious, poker-playing Grandmother.

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

The Day That Changed My Life

Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the extraordinary moments...

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

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

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...

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

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

The Desert and the Sea

Michael Scott Moore, jurnalist și autorul cărții Sweetness and Blood, încorporează narațiunea personală și jurnalismul de investigație riguros în aceste memorii profunde...

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...

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

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

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

Geezers

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

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