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In Black and White

Alexandra Wilson era o adolescentă când dragul ei prieten de familie, Ayo, a fost înjunghiat în timp ce se întorcea acasă de la fotbal. Moartea

One Two Another: Line By Line

Over the past three decades, Tim Burgess has cultivated a lyrical style that is equal parts searing, elusive and raw. Brimming with nods to an

Hema Malini: Beyond the Dream Girl

One of the most enduring divas of Hindi cinema, a producer and director for films and television, dancer and choreographer par excellence, magazine editor, an

This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch

For fans of Caitlin Moran and Anne Helen Peterson, this is an exceptionally funny memoir and manifesto about what it's like to reclaim your sense

Mother Project

Brave, funny and honest, columnist Sophie Beresiner takes us on her complex journey to parenthood and shows us that there's more than one way to

Gerry Adams Life

Loathed, loved, terrorist to some, brilliant political strategist to others - what do we make of Gerry Adams? Malachi O'Doherty, one of Northern Ireland's most

Happily Imperfect: Living Life Your Own Way

Renowned and loved for her refreshing candour on everyday issues, social, domestic and intimate, Stacey Solomon reminds us how important it is to embrace ourselves

Red Roulette

In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red Notice comes a unique and incendiary memoir from an entrepreneur who rose to the zenith

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

With knowledge, spirit, good humour and passion, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak

In Search of Sir Thomas Browne

Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) was an English writer, physician, and philosopher whose work has inspired everyone from Ralph Waldo Emerson to Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia...

You Never Know Your Luck

When the Royal Canadian Air Force wouldn t accept him as a pilot in the summer of 1939, Keith Skeets Ogilvie walked across the street

Hergé, son of Tintin

Available for the first time in English, this insightful biography delves deep into the psyche of Tintin creator Georges Remi and his public persona Herge.

Not That Kind of Love

A moving, thought-provoking and surprisingly humorous book which is both a description of a journey to death and a celebration of the act of living.

My Stroke of Insight

La quatrième de couv. indique :'On the morning of December 10, 1996, Taylor, a brain scientist, experienced a massive stroke. She observed her own mind

Rescue Pilot

'Rescue Pilot' este o carte scrisă de Jerry Grayson, un pilot britanic cunoscut pentru misiunile sale de salvare aeriană. Cartea oferă o privire fascinantă în

HIT AND MISS

John Barry emerged as the UK's most eminent film composer and here is an opportunity to discover exactly how he reached this position by way

Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me

National Book Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair explores her fifteen remarkable years in Paris with Samuel Beckett and Simone de Beauvoir, painting intimate new portr...

Oscar Wilde's Chatterton

In Oscar Wilde's Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde's fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took ...

Nikola Tesla: The Man

As a scientist, inventor, and engineer, Nikola Tesla was devoted to discovery, registering over 700 patents in his lifetime. Today, he is mostly celebrated as

Mama's Boy

In 'Mama's Boy' by Dustin Lance Black, readers are invited into the deeply personal journey of the author as he grapples with his identity, family

Charles Dickens : A Life

Charles Dickens a fost un adevărat fenomen: un jurnalist muncitor, tatăl a zece copii, un călător neobosit, un susținător al cauzelor sociale liberale, dar mai

Becoming Beyonce: The Untold Story

She's adored by her millions of fans, writes and performs songs that move and inspire, but Beyoncé is truly known by very few. Now highly

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter

In Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter, Carol Ann Lee tells, for the first time, the stories of those women who came into Sutcliffe's murderous orbit, restoring

Too Famous

TOO FAMOUS collects pieces Michael Wolff has written as a columnist for New York, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, GQ and The Hollywood Reporter, and adds

Like Father Like Son

'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' -

Charles Dickens (Compact Guides)

Written by Charles Dickens’ great-great-great granddaughter, this illustrated biography—with more than 20 images from his personal archive—delves deeply into the author’...

Today Files

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

My Brother the Killer

In the gritty docklands of south-east England, Alix Sharkey and his younger siblings grew up in awe of their charismatic yet violent father, a vicious

Outlaws!

'Whether a pirate, a gunslinger, a gangster, or a desert fiend, you aren't born an outlaw--you become one. These rebels rose up against injustice and

P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Hardcover, P.G. Wodehouse

One of the funniest writers of the 20th century, PG Wodehouse shied away from a biography. Drawing on unpublished sources, this definitive edition of his

A Mother's Journal

Cadoul perfect pe care să-l oferi mamei tale, astfel încât ea să poată răspunde la toate întrebările pe care vei dori vreodată să le știi

Little Sister

In this true crime memoir, Lana Wood offers a no-holds-barred account of the life and death of her sister, Natalie Wood, including exclusive new information

Honourable Ladies

An indispensable and illuminating testament to the stories and achievements of these remarkable women.

More Lives Than One

Canny, infuriating, cynical and generous by turns, Felix Dennis was a true one-off. When he died in 2014 he was a multi-millionaire. Yet he spent

And Thank You For Watching

For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman

Letters of Note: Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website

Arthur Miller: A Playwright's Life and Works

An affectionate, understanding, and informed study of Miller's life and works, supported by a wide selection of personal and public photographs. Arthur Miller was one

Did I Say That Out Loud?

'Joyous, wise, reassuring and laugh-out-loud funny. I love these two women so much.' Elizabeth Day'A book like no other. Honest and very, very funny. Some

Cross Everything

Cross Everything is a heart-wrenching cancer memoir, a fascinating popular-science detective story, and a witty and at times darkly comical take on a disease that

Autumn in Venice: Ernest Hemingway and His Last Muse

Această carte prezintă povestea remarcabilă a relației amoroase a lui Hemingway atât cu orașul Veneția, cât și cu muza pe care a găsit-o acolo -

What a Bloody Awful Country

In May 2021, Northern Ireland celebrates its centenary. This book makes the case that there is little to celebrate. Northern Ireland has never worked -

Betty White

Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life is a photography-rich retrospective of the most significant events and achievements of one of America’s most

The Secrets of My Life

With poignancy and humour, Caitlyn writes about her confusion growing up, the temporary triumph of the Olympics as Bruce Jenner, and the noose of being

Stinging Delight

A powerful memoir by an extraordinary literary figure rugby player, artist, acclaimed playwright and Booker Prize winning novelist. The third son of a coalminer, David

A Bigger Picture

Malcolm Turnbull, Australia's 29th Prime Minister, tells the remarkable story of his life in this lively political page-turner. When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation...

Steadfast : My Story

On the eve of the 2016 Olympic Games, the biggest moment of her life, Lizzie Armitstead's career was thrown into turmoil. After being cleared to

The Telegraph Book of Readers' Letters from the Great War

An anthology of letters from writers to the Telegraph covering the lead up to and the duration of the entire First World War. For the

New Selected Journals, 1939-1995

The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people's.

Victor Lustig

The first account of one of history's most notorious con artists by an acclaimed biographer

White

Bret Easton Ellis has wrestled with the double-edged sword of fame and notoriety for more than thirty years now, since Less Than Zero catapulted him

Frank Sinatra

This lavishly illustrated hard back book tells the incredible story of Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra.

Deadlines on the Front Line

The author of this gritty memoir has lived life to the full and fortunately has the ability to recall his experiences in a graphic and

A Life in Question

The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge. Filled with views, opinions and stories from

Mr Smiley: My Last Pill and Testament

This was the mid-nineties, the height of the ecstasy and clubbing boom, and Ibiza was at the very centre of the vortex for the 'E

Re-run the Fun: My Life as Pat Sharp

Pat Sharp is a man out of time. For those of a certain generation, he is an iconic figure synonymous with good fun, great hair

Illustrated Letters of Oscar Wilde

'I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I

Author Who Outsold Dickens

He was in the Dickens’ circle before it was the Dickens’ circle and counted among his friends the literary lions of his age: men like

From Normandy to Auschwitz

The odds on Paul le Goupil living to see the end of the Second World War let alone the 21st Century were negligible in 1944.

Restoration Heart

Restoration Heart este o poveste de dragoste, divorț dublu și răscumpărare. Este o biografie a inimii și a unei case. Când William Cash suferă o

Not the Type

This is at once a memoir of an extraordinary life, and a script for living one's life to the full. Camilla Thurlow is a highly

BERNARD SHAW

With this volume, Michael Holroyd brings his Olympian life of G.B.S. to an end. It opens with the General Election campaign of 1918, and gradually

Absolute Pandemonium: My Louder Than Life Story

There's no one quite like Brian Blessed: actor, storyteller, mountaineer and coffin-maker. In this frank, riotous memoir he recalls his childhood in a Yorkshire mining

Lonely Courage

‘A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book – told with tremendous pace and excitement’ William Boyd ‘Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war … an astonishi...

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going

Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at school, McGough attended art school in New York, dropped out, and took

Hottentot Venus

'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary ReviewIn 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, Lon...

Watching Skies

Mark O'Connell didn't want to be Luke Skywalker, He wanted to be one of the mop-haired kids on the Star Wars toy commercials. And he

Two-Way Mirror

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine. But behind the

Gallipoli Victoria Cross Hero

The son of a former Premier of Western Australia, Hugo Throssell, volunteered to join the Imperial Australian Force which was shipped to Gallipoli in 1915.

Broken Vows: Tony Blair The Tragedy of Power

When Tony Blair became prime minister in May 1997, he was, at forty-three, the youngest person to hold that office since 1812. With a landslide

In Their Own Words. 2 More Letters from History

Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical

I Wanna Be Where the Normal People Are

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Guardian A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects

Pamela Stephenson the Varnished Untruth My Story

Along with my own personal story, I am going to write down a few things that may amuse you (or even take you down some

To Siri, With Love

'Incredibly moving' Daily Mail 'To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical nonneurotypical human.' Jon Stewart...

Olivier

Hollywood superstar Oscar-winning director greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'T...

Four weeks in May

In March, 1982, the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron of ships on exercise off Gibraltar. By the end of April

Odd Couple

The fascinating relationship between two of the most controversial and successful literary figures of the Twentieth century.

The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit

In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not speak to another human

Cardus

Neville Cardus was born in Rusholme, Manchester in 1888. He was the first music critic to be knighted, the most evocative - and most often

Human after All

Gary Numan is one of Britain's most important and respected musical artists. He has been lauded by everyone from Prince ('His album Replicas never left

Radical Wordsworth

He was born among the mountains of the English Lake District. He walked into the French Revolution, had a love affair and an illegitimate child,

Just Ignore Him

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid

F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

An entirely original and empowering memoir meets self-help guide from the bestselling author, rapper, artist, and chef Action Bronson From the New York Times bestselling

Holding On Upside Down The Life Of Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore (1887-1972) has been heralded as America's greatest poet of the modernist movement. Her volume Collected Poems won the National Book Award and the