Adventuress

Camera Girl

A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a

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

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 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

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

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

A book of secrets

The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second

The Infiltrator

Robert Mazur spent five years undercover infiltrating the criminal hierarchy of Colombia's drug cartels. The dirty bankers and businessmen he befriended knew him as Bob

Company I Keep

In his much-anticipated memoir, entitled The Company I Keep, Chairman Emeritus and former CEO of The Estée Lauder Companies Leonard A. Lauder shares the business

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

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

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

Roth Unbound

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

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

I Am Not A Label

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

Mistress and Maid (Jiaohong ji)by Meng Chengshun

In 1993, an astonishing discovery was made at a tomb in Guodian in Hubei province (east central China). Written on strips of bamboo that have

National Geographic Kids Chapters: Courageous Canine

National Geographic Kids Chapter books pick up where the best-selling National Geographic Readers series leaves off, offering young animal lovers who are ready for short...

Aaronsohn's Maps

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at

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

Nothing Else to Fear

David Ellis and his family were missionaries in Indonesia, where they were frequently the target of anti-Western violence. In the many terrifying - and sometimes

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

Invisible

'She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white

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...

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,

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

Baby Snatchers

— Sunteți toate femei căzute. Ai semănat sămânța lui Satana. Tu esti nimic.' Mary Creighton avea doar 15 ani când s-a trezit însărcinată în afara

Brief Lives: Gustave Flaubert

Serving as a perfect introduction to this well-known French writer, Flaubert scholar Meryl Tyers’ work covers the remarkable life of the renowned author of Madame

Three Mothers

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been

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.

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

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.

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 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

The Secret Ingredient

Gigi Butler of Gigi’s Cupcakes shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that she’s gained from a challenging li...

The C-word

The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced

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

Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me)

'Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart.” — Kevin Kwan Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and

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

Rani Padmavati

Padmavati is the most beautiful queen Chittor has ever had. Everyone who sees her is enthralled by her grace and goodness. When the greedy gaze

Touch and Go

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War

Raoul Wallenberg

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that

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

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...

Everything Beautiful in Its Time

Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today show, shares moving, funny stories about her beloved grandpar...

Mother's Ruin

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hopsital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school...

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

Growing Up

Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography about growing up in America during the Great Depression. “Magical….He has taken such raw, potentially wrenching mater...

Inventory

A lyrical memoir and family history told through four generations of fathers and sons in Northern Ireland A smuggler and a deserter, Darran Anderson’s grandfather

Things You Get for Free

Things You Get for Free is a travelogue rich with charm and wisdom and sparkling with its author's singular wit. At the age of thirty-four,

Radiant

Part hidden history, part love letter to creative innovation, RADIANT, is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a dancer, Loie Fuller, and a

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

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.

Geezers

Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...

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