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My Nonidentical Twin

Hey guys, you might know me already from one of my social media channels where I talk about the highs and lows of living with

Henry James

Seeking out the hidden stories of Constance Fenimore Woolson and Minny Temple, Lyndall Gordon creates a new form of biography in which outward events are

Upbeat

The story of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq is here told by its musical director from its inception to its eventual end. The NYOI

The shadow president

Biography of Mike Pence written by two award-winning journalists.'Little-known outside his home state until Donald Trump made him his running mate, Mike Pence--who procla...

100 Great Black Britons

'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in this island's long and

The charlatan

Jim Munroe tells his story of how he lived his passion for amazing audiences as a magician. MAZE, more than just a magic show, has

Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

The National Book Award winner from Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg is now celebrating its 40th anniversary. The talents he nurtured were known worldwide:

DK Life Stories Martin Luther King Jr

În această biografie, descoperiți povestea uimitoare a lui Martin Luther King Jr., ale cărui cuvinte puternice și vise pentru viitor au inspirat întreaga lume. Martin

Goldeneye

For two months every year, from 1946 to his death eighteen years later, Ian Fleming lived at Goldeneye, the house he built on a point

Enslaved

A heartbreaking memoir from a girl who escaped county line trafficking only to become prey to other abusers. Emily has always felt like an outsider,

It Shouldnt Happen To A Midwife

Training to be a nurse in the Swinging Sixties was demanding but great fun. In this sequel to It Won't Hurt a Bit, it's time

Francis: Pope of Good Promise

From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's Basilica for the first time, a global audience sensed that not only

Queen Elizabeth II: Pocket GIANTS

Queen Elizabeth II: pocket GIANTS

Officer's Daughter

The Officer's Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant

All the Young Men

In 1986, 26-year-old Ruth Coker Burks visits a friend in hospital when she notices that the door to one of the patient's rooms is painted

Last HeroesThe Last Heroes

Poignant first-person accounts from forty World ?War II heroes from all walks of life and all services

Wind in the Wires and an Escaper's Log

* Classic memoir of a Great War fighter pilot and prisoner of war * Graphic depictions of dogfights, bombing raids, attacks on observation balloons *

The Last Act of Love

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two

The Kremlin's Geordie Spy

Born a 'geordie,” a native of Britain’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Willie Fisher became one of the KGB’s most celebrated agents. Sent to spy in New York, where

A Search for Belonging

A hard-hitting and honest memoir from Michael Fuller, Britain's first black Chief Constable, who reflects on his astonishing life growing up in care and his

BOY ERASED

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON 'A necessary, beautiful book' Garth

Baggage

There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even

The Gamekeeper

Portia Simpson grew up outdoors, always preferring to climb trees than play with Barbie dolls. Talented and driven, she became the first female to graduate

Lost Without You

In this extraordinarily intimate memoir, Vinnie tackles his grief honestly and with heart, sharing warm and colourful stories from the 25 years he spent married

Unnatural Causes

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of

Letters to the Midwife : Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with reader...

Wildflower

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges, and incredible experiences she’s had throughout her life.

Dickens and Thackeray

Attitudes toward punishment and forgiveness in English society of the nineteenth century came, for the most part, out of Christianity. In actual experience the ideal

Onward and Upward

By always testing the limits, a young Michael had a yearning to understand “the secret of life” and began to “see things worth seeing.” During

Dear Cancer, Love Victoria

Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she

Call the Midlife

During his run into turning fifty, Chris Evans is on a mission. To take stock of where he is and where he's at in order

Pearl

Pearl describes a bereft father mourning the loss of his precious 'Perle.' Returning to the garden where she first disappeared, he observes the verdant shades

Death Diary

Take a terrifying day-by-day journey and experience hundreds of shocking real-life crimes - poisoning, throat slashing, stabbing and shooting all demonstrating the evil ...

Curious Boy

What makes a scientist? In a charming memoir, beloved and brilliant scientist Richard Fortey offers a tour of the natural world in all its joys,

Breaking Out

Janice Nix lived a life of crime. Groomed to work as a shoplifter in London's West End, she entered a glamorous underworld of beautiful possessions

Mahboba's Promise

In a recent Sydney Morning Herald cover story, Mahboba Rawi was featured as one of the 50 leading Australians who matter to the rest of

At Last

THE FIFTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself

Colder - Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Fiennes este, fără îndoială, cel mai mare explorator polar și aventurier din Marea Britanie, a cărui abordare a vieții, care nu a renunțat

Quite

'A delight' Stylist 'Funny, real and caring' YOU Magazine 'Funny, irreverent and moving... everything you would expect from the thick-fringed presenter who's won a place

Most Outrageous

In May 1989, Dwaine Tinsley stood at the summit of an unlikely career. The product of a broken, trailer-trash marriage, he was a high school

Reacher Guy

The Reacher Guy is a life of bestselling superstar Lee Child, a portrait of the artist as a young man, refracted through the life of

Beyond the Horizon

Richard Parks has what must be one of contemporary sport's most extraordinary and inspirational stories. Soon after he turned thirty, the professional career in rugby

Burning Man

Tabloid Secrets

Both as chief reporter and news editor for nearly twenty years at the now defunct News of the World, Neville Thurlbeck is uniquely placed to

Superdocious!

The previously untold life story from world champion, Olympic medalist, and Britain's most successful Olympic sailor for three decades, Rodney Pattisson, with a foreword ...

Relish : My Life on a Plate

The eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: the memoirs of Prue Leith, judge of C4's GREAT BRITISH BAKE OFF and former judge

I should have honor

'From a young age, Khalida Brohi was raised to believe in the sanctity of arranged marriage. Her mother was betrothed to a thirteen-year old boy

Bad Blood

Lorna sage’s outstanding childhood and adolescence brings to life her eccentric family and bizarre upbringing in rural Wales. The period is evoked through a wickedly...

Dream Big! Heroes Who Dared to Be Bold

Be FIERCE, be BOLD, be INSPIRED ... DREAM BIG! 100 people,100 ways to change the world. The ultimate empowering guide, Dream Big! Heroes Who Dared

Behind Palace Doors

The most senior and best respected member of any royal family in history, she did not give one media interview in her 101 years. This

The Emperor

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, with an introduction by Neal ...

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers

Cum să spui povestea reală a unei persoane aproape deloc amintite - o icoană și un idol - alături de a ta? Celebrul debut al

The Wind in My Hair

Acest volum de memorii este povestea extraordinară a modului în care o femeie, Masih Alinejad, o jurnalistă și activistă impresionantă dintr-un mic sat din Iran,

James Agee: Selected Journalism

Life at home and abroad during the Depression and during the war-torn 1940s is chronicled in this collection of nineteen essays published from 1933 to

Brief Lives: Leo Tolstoy

Born in central Russia in 1828, Tolstoy saw action as a soldier before becoming a writer. His two novels, War and Peace and Anna Karenina,

Serial Killers

Povestea terifiantă a celor mai monstruoși ucigași în serie din istorie. Criminalii în serie sunt cei mai notorii și cei mai neliniștitori dintre toți infractorii,

Facts and Fiction

In Facts and Fiction , Michael Holroyd reflects on the eccentricities of the art of writing about others. With characteristic playfulness and guilefulness, he cons...

Gilliamesque

Spunându-și povestea pentru prima dată, regizorul filmelor Time Bandits, Brazil, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The Fisher King, 12 Monkeys și Fear și Loathing in

Monsieur X

Monsieur X is a dazzling tale of glamour, riches, violence and ultimately tragedy. Patrice des Moutis was a handsome, charming and well-educated Frenchman with an

Lions Head Four Happiness A Little Sisters Story Of Growing Up In China

Lion's Head, Four Happiness is the captivating story of Xiaomei Martell, who was born in one of China's most remote regions just two years before

An Airman's Wife

Bill Bond went to serve as a fighter pilot on the Western Front, from where, to the ever present sound of gun fire, hardly a

J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist

J.D. Salinger published his first story in The New Yorker at age twenty-nine. Three years later came The Catcher in The Rye, a novel that

Mr. China: A Memoir - Tim Clissold

Mr. China tells the rollicking story of a young man who goes to China with the misguided notion that he will help bring the Chinese

Touched by the Sun

O întâlnire întâmplătoare la o petrecere de vară în Martha's Vineyard s-a transformat într-o prietenie improbabilă, dar de durată. Carly Simon și Jacqueline Kennedy Onas...

Gonzo Papers vol. 1: The Great Shark Hunt

The first volume in Hunter S. Thompson’s bestselling Gonzo Papers offers brilliant commentary and outrageous humor, in his signature style. Originally published in 1979...

The Love Diary of a Zulu Boy

A series of diary entries takes us on a whirlwind tour of a relationship that has not only survived, but thrived for 17 years. As

Aled Jones My Story

Best known as a boy soprano for his hit 'Walking in the Air', Aled Jones tells the full story of this phenomenal record and the

Divided lives

'Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which 'a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters.' Born to

Calixthe Beyala

The most successful female writer from Francophone Africa, Calixthe Beyala occupies an unusual place in French literary and popular culture. Her novels are bestsellers an...

Audience with Queen Victoria

A unique insight into one of the world's most famous monarch's personal opinions and feelings on the highest-profile figures of the day

Elderhood

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal , physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but ...

Close Up : The Autobiography

From a council house in Kent to her first home in the Hollywood hills, from being told she was too big to model to becoming

Double Take

Kevin Michael Connolly is a twenty-four-year-old man who has seen the world in a way most of us never will. Whether swarmed by Japanese tourists

The Jungle

Mico has left his family, his home, his future. Setting out in search of a better life, he instead finds himself navigating one of the

The Playboy Princes

A fascinating dual biography proves that controversial Royal Family members are not necessarily only a feature of late 20th- or 21st-century lifeEdward VII (1841-1910) an...

Red or Dead

A New York Times Editors' Choice '[T]he stuff of great literature.' —The New York Times | 'Red or Dead is a winner.' —The Washington Post

Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections

Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. Rebecca Front has always drawn

Deaf Utopia

Before becoming the actor, producer, advocate, and model that people know today, Nyle DiMarco was half of a pair of Deaf twins born to a

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the

Things I've Been Silent About

Azar Nafisi , autoarea bestsellerului internațional Reading Lolita in Tehran , ne oferă acum o poveste personală uimitoare despre copilăria în Iran, amintiri din vi...

My Struggle: Book Five

The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and

Jonathan Wild

The first book to explore, in depth, the myths and legends surrounding this notorious criminal.

Gentle on My Mind

The page-turning, never-before-told story of Kim Campbell's rollercoaster thirty-four-year marriage to music legend Glen Campbell, including how Kim helped Glen finally c...

Some Old Bloke

For the last several years, the writer, comedian and Red Dwarf actor Robert Llewellyn has been gathering notes, old diaries, pictures and ideas for a