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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 ...

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

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

Something to Live For

The real-life story of a young mum with postpartum depression - and how a small, specialist NHS hospital is saving women's lives Laura Canty is

Diamonds at the Lost and Found

Sarah Aspinall grew up in the glittering wake of her irrepressible mother Audrey. Born into poverty in 1930s Liverpool, Audrey had always known that she

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

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 *

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

Jonathan Wild

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working Stiff

A twenty-two-year-old perennial virgin, Englishman Grant Stoddard didn't know what to do with his life in America—until he won an X-rated online contest, the prize

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

Clean

A remarkable, powerful memoir in which cleaning and getting clean intertwine as a strange and ultimately magical form of redemption.

L.E.L.

Lucasta Miller tells the full story and re-creates the literary London of her time. She was born in 1802 and was shaped by the aftermath

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

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 ...

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

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

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,

Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

The son of one of the greatest writers of our time--Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel García Márquez--remembers his beloved father and mot...

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

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

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...

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

Hanging on

Frances Partridge knew well most of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group. Hanging On contains many of her memories of them. It also contains,

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

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 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...

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

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

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

Chicken Unga Fever : Stories from the medical frontline

Is it a new strain of bird flu? A strange neurological condition characterised by an irresistible urge to eat poultry-based foods? No, Chicken Unga Fever

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

Being Freddie: My Story so Far

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff is one of the most exciting cricketers in the world and has improved out of all recognition during the last two years.

Too Marvellous For Words

Midnight feasts in dorms, jolly japes with chums, pranks on mad teachers and no boys whatsoever: THE REAL MALORY TOWERS LIFE from award-winning writer, Julie

A Hilltop on the Marne

This is a collection of letters written by Mildred Aldrich, an American expatriate who had bought a country farmhouse near Paris in the spring of

A Smile as Big as the Moon

A special education class experiences what it is like to be astronauts when their teacher takes them to Space Camp.

Glorious Rock Bottom

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom...

Double Exposure

Two revelations, each coming to light 20 years apart following the deaths of his father and mother, prompt Brian Johnstone to turn a poet's eye

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

An Improbable Life

Sir Trevor McDonald is an extraordinary man - and he has led an improbable life. Now in his 80th year, he is known and loved

Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier's Story

It was just one remote hilltop in an unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt today,

A Day Like Today

As presenter of Radio 4's Today, the nation's most popular news programme, John Humphrys was famed for his tough interviewing. He has been at the

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

Travel Light, Move Fast

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six

Burning Man

Day My Life Changed

An inspiring collection of first-hand personal accounts of people whose lives have changed dramatically, sometimes suddenly, as a result of particular incidents or events...

D H Lawrence (The Savage Pilgrimage)

Catherine Carswell was one of the most loyal and dependable of D. H. Lawrence s friends. When he died in 1930, with the controversy over

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

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 Afterlife of Billy Fingers

In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy

Mr. Nice: An Autobiography

The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases, eighty nine phone lines and owned twenty five

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,

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy

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

Edith Sitwell a Unicorn Among Lions

Not until her twenties was the real Edith Sitwell born. Freed from her unhappy home life she set up home in a shabby London flat:

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit

Edith Nesbit is considered the first modern writer for children and the inventor of the children 's adventure story publishing over 40 books, influencing writers

Gotham Girl Interrupted

Nora Ephron and Allie Brosh fans take note: Alisa Jones' memoir Gotham Girl Interrupted is a smart stand-up comedy about the power of falling down.

Fishy Smiths

The discovery of the living coelacanth - one of the greatest biological finds of the twentieth century - will forever be linked with the name

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...

Lonely Courage

'A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book - told with tremendous pace and excitement' William Boyd 'This compelling and complete account of the extraordin...

Stanley I Resume

Stanley Johnson: one-time spy, politician, animal rights crusader - and irresistibly brilliant raconteur. From his career as a Member of the European Parliament to his

Nowhere to Hide

O poveste adevărată șocantă, care dezvăluie cum o femeie a fost chinuită până în adâncul disperării de către soțul ei prin control coercitiv și abuzuri

Good Hand

'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy, The Good Hand is one of those brilliant close-ups that suddenly flips to become a

Fateful Beauty

Revealing the intriguing story of a young woman who, at the age of 15, was forced to marry a mentally unstable man in order to

To Have and Not to Hold: The Bonding of Two Mothers Through Adoption

When Lorri Antosz Benson, a 24-year-old successful producer for a groundbreaking national television show, finds herself in an impossible situation, she digs deep and fa...

A Memoir

Mary Warnock reflects on her involvement in the philosophical world of Oxford during its heyday in the fifties and sixties and on her life as

The Life and Loves of E. Nesbit: Author of The Railway Children

Eleanor Fitzsimons, acclaimed biographer and prize winning author of Wilde's Women, has written the most authoritative biography in more than three decades. Here, she br...