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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

Dancing with the Octopus

For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named

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,

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

Letters to Sarah

After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had survived those terrible times.

Inventing Joy

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “It was an honor to play Joy on the big screen—she’s such a fearless woman, an incredible business force and an inspiration to

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

Take Courage: Anne Bronte and the Art of Life

Anne Brontë is the forgotten Brontë sister, overshadowed by her older siblings -- virtuous, successful Charlotte, free-spirited Emily and dissolute Branwell. Tragic, vir...

Plunder

For readers of Philippe Sands and Jonathan Safran Foer, this is an unputdownable tale of one man's quest to recover his family's property, plundered by

Before Action

William Noel Hodgson never intended to be a soldier he wanted to write. The Great War made his reputation as a poet but it also

You are So Beautiful Without Your Hair

This book is the deep and touching account of the author who lost both parents unexpectedly to cancer within one year of each other. It

Girl Power

'Girl Power' by Neha Hiranandani is a celebration of female empowerment and resilience, featuring the remarkable stories of 50 trailblazing women who have s...

Happiness

Happiness starts out as a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, an out-going, theatre-performing California girl, and Brian, an intellectua...

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

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

Opposite of Certainty

Janine Urbaniak Reid didn't want to learn how to live with uncertainty, but when her ten-year-old son was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she

Run Like Duck

A guide to running for the unathletic, told by a man who fell into the sport almost by accident. Progressing cautiously on a reluctant and

Hunting Charles Manson

'Hunting Charles Manson the best true crime book you will ever read....Lock your doors, keep the night lights on, and read this book.' - Linda

Laughing all the way to the Mosque

'Being a practising Muslim in a Western society is sometimes challenging, sometimes rewarding and sometimes downright absurd. How do you explain why Eid never falls

The Mockinbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee

„To Kill a Mockingbird” este una dintre cele mai iubite opere literare ale secolului XX. Și totuși, pentru ultimii cincizeci de ani, autoarea romanului, Harper

Brunel

It's often claimed that through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways Brunel played a critical role in creating the modern world. In the soaring ambitions

Naked

'I'm not taking my clothes off.' My words bounced off the walls of the empty changing room. I was ten years old. I folded my

Eat Like a Fish

In the face of apocalyptic climate change, a former fisherman shares a bold and hopeful new vision for saving the planet: farming the ocean. Here

I Laughed, I Cried

When is it too late to become the person you were meant to be? Viv Groskop is fed up, recession-scarred and pushing 40. She always

Manderley Forever

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

From Jailer to Jailed

Bernard Kerik was New York City's police commissioner during the 9/11 attacks, who became an American hero as he led the NYPD through rescue and

The Count of Scotland Yard

Bert Hannam was a dapper, charismatic figure in the Scotland Yard of the post-war years. As a young sergeant he made his name in London,

Last Stand

In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. In an era

My Notebook

On the field or off, Eric 'The King' Cantona has always been known as an artist. Passionate about painting and photography from a very young

Trying to Float

“Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise—a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents” (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bes...

The Justice Game

Geoffrey Robertson QC has been at the centre of internationally high-profile legal cases for over three decades. From representing Princess Diana to Salman Rushdie,...

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

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer the raging insults hurled between drivers the steady crescendo of horns honking the

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

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

Prince Harry: Brother, Soldier, Son

He is the redhead that Diana called 'the spare', whose childhood was one of chaos and loss the little boy walking behind his mother's cortege

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

Thirteen Lessons That Saved Thirteen Lives

John Volanthen is a legendary British cave-diver and one of the two-man team who discovered and rescued the Wild Boars soccer team from the sunken

I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV

A 'memoir of growing up Iranian in America, and the quest to make it in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb,

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

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

I Will Find You

Joanna Connors was thirty years old and on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a college theater production when she was held at

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

Smile for the Camera

No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-l...

Corrupt Bodies

In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's

Day Like Today

For more than three decades, millions of Britons have woken to the sound of John Humphrys' voice. As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's

A Gift from Darkness

When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to complete her family, and

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

The Wager Disaster: Mayhem, Mutiny and Murder in the South Seas

In 1741, the British warship HMS Wager crashed on the shore of an uninhabited island off the coast of Chilean Patagonia. One hundred and forty

We Swim to the Shark

Georgie Codd is scared of fish. Really, really scared, even on dry land there's no escape: Georgie sees sharks in the dining room, squid tentacles

My Young Life

“A love song to a lost New York” (New York magazine) from novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten as he recalls his personal and artistic

Let Love Rule

'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I sat down to write.

The Junak King: Life as a British POW

Sydney Litherland, at the age of 20, was called up in February 1940. After having been evacuated from Greece, he was among the 30,000 British

Long Shot

În timp ce Siria a intrat în război civil în 2011, voluntarii kurzi din nordul țării s-au ridicat pentru a-și elibera patria de secole de

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

Postcards to Europe

From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them - and us - in this

The Council of Dads

Now a major US primetime drama The uplifting story that touched the world and inspired families everywhere to rethink what matters most in their lives

Cheaper by the Dozen

One of the best-loved American memoirs of an oversized family and the parents who held them together. What do you get when you put twelve

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

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...

Wallace

Ever since that terrible night in January 1931, when the body of Julia Wallace was found in her Liverpool home, her head crushed by violent

Heads Up

Anfield '89. Copenhagen '94. Two of Arsenal's greatest triumphs in the modern era. Both matches defined by the goal-scoring prowess of one man - Alan

Secret Child

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s

Sexual Shakespeare

Shakespeare's sexuality has always been an ambiguous concept, despite the pleasant fictions of Shakespeare in Love. Now Michael Keevak examines such sources as anecdotes,...

Coming Clean

'A brave, heartfelt and extraordinary book' Corinne Sweet, author of Overcoming Addiction, psychologist and broadcaster What if the drugs that were meant to cure you

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

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

Pure

In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one

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

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 *

My Fathers Wake

Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The

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...

King of the World

This unforgettable account of Muhammad Ali's rise and self-creation, told by a Pullitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals...

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

Odyssey of an African Opera Singer

It is a difficult undertaking for any human to escape the cycle of poverty, but to do so from one of the world's most complex

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...

Go Spy the Land

Before espionage entered the era of modern technology, there was the age of George Alexander Hill: a time of swashbuckling secret agents, swordsticks, and secret

A Gift from Bob

From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their

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 ...

The Laundry Man

The Laundry Man by Ken Rijock - Memoirs of a multi-million money launderer - Mr Nice meets Catch Me If You Can 'Extraordinary' Mail on

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,

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

A Drinking Life

First published as John Barleycorn, Jack London's autobiographical novel is a harrowing account of a life undermined by alcoholism. Offering an honest and insightful lo...