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'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it'

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues : A Memoir

Rosie Mercado, vedetă latină și prezentatoare de televiziune, spune povestea vieții sale incredibile. Când Rosie Mercado avea doar 19 ani, tatăl nou-născutului ei a ple...

Brothers and Keepers

Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture

You're on an Airplane

Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Posey as your seat companion, perhaps? In this

A fish supper and a chippy smile

As Hilda works in the chippy six days a week - cutting the potatoes and frying the fish, yesterday's rag becoming today's dinner plate -

Unconquerable: The Invictus Spirit

'You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up

That Good Night

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own

Varina

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold

Grace's Day

Grace and her mother and sisters live on an island off the west coast of Ireland. Their father is a successful writer of travel books

The World According to Razor

The new book from England's 'hardest footballer' Packed full of anecdotes from life on and off the pitch, The World According to Razor is, by

Lee Rigby: A Mother's Story

Lyn Rigby's story charts the unfathomably difficult time she has endured since May 2013 when her son, 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, was butchered on a

Bud and Bill

Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop tells the riveting true story of how tragedy destined two men to become enemies - the father of

Judas: How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal

Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the

Love in the Blitz

With the intimacy and wit of a Second World War Bridget Jones, Eileen Alexander offers a portal into life during the Blitz: - The sex,

On the road

TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a series of significant driving episodes. He's a child in the back

September 1 1939

This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work

Shine on

Though she had written poetry for many years, it was only in her last year that professional record producers expressed interest in setting some to

The Fragments of my Father

My life had been suspended, as though I had inhaled and was still waiting to let out that gasp of breath. I set aside my

Consent

The Soundtrack to My Life

The Soundtrack to My Life is Dermot's personal memoir of a life in music told through the songs that were playing at key moments in

What Can I Do?

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster

John Cranch : Uncommon Genius

John Cranch was born in a small Devonshire town in the same year that Gray's Elegy was published and he might so easily have been

Breaking the Silence

Jo Milne trăise deja o viață înconjurată de tăcere, fiind surdă profund din naștere, când a început să-și piardă vederea. Cu puțin timp înainte de

Lessons from a Sheep Dog

Follows the story of Lass, who is transformed from a believed-worthless and untrainable animal into a valuable sheepdog by a man's love, explaining how Lass's

Blizzard of Glass: The Halifax Explosion of 1917

On December 6, 1917, two ships collided in Halifax Harbour. One ship was loaded top to bottom with munitions and one held relief supplies, both

Eternal Wonder

Chris Hamilton developed his love of nature while living by the River Lea in Wheathampstead from the age of 15, canoeing up and down the

I belong to no one

Rape, teen pregnancy, illegitimacy, domestic abuse - in 1970s Australia all were shameful secrets that trapped women in poverty, loss and ongoing emotional trauma. This

I Want You to Know We're Still Here

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly

J.D. Salinger: A Life Raised High

O biografie concludentă a unuia dintre cei mai cunoscuți și mai cumpărați autori. Catcher in the Rye a vândut mai mult de 65 de milioane

Forty Three Years Ago

A respected translator and author of over fifty books, Sangharakshita began studying BUddhism at the age of 16. After 20 years studying in India he

Dancing in the Mosque

In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of

Feel Good 101

THIS BOOK WON'T CHANGE YOUR LIFE But it might just help you change it yourself Only you can take the steps you need to help

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It

I Love My Computer Because My Friends Live in It is tech analyst Jess Kimball Leslie's hilarious, frank homage to the technology that contributed so

You're on an Airplane

From the 'Queen of the Indies' and star of Christopher Guest's Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show, Woody Allen's Cafe Society and Irrational Man

Call Me Ishmael Phone Book

For fans of My Ideal Bookshelf and Bibliophile, The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book is the perfect gift for book lovers everywhere: a quirky and

The Red Earl : The Extraordinary Life of the 16th Earl of Huntingdon

In The Red Earl Selina Hastings tells the extraordinary story of her father, Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon. In 1925, Hastings infuriated his ultra-conservative

Lost Properties Of Love

What if you could tell the truth about who you are, without risking losing the one you love? This is a book about love affairs

Breaking Free:Glimpses of a Buddhist Life

In 1975 Srimala (formerly Jane Goody) was ordained into the Western Buddhist Order by Sangharakshita whilst pregnant with her second child, and in this book

Place for Everything

'Painful, raw and with an honesty that rings clear as a bell' Catherine Simpson, author of When I Had a Little Sister A searing account

Jane Austen Miscellany

In a modest effort to feed the longing for more Jane than we can ever get, The Jane Austen Miscellany is a generous serving of:

Trapped: The Terrifying True Story of a Secret World of Abuse

„Trapped” a fost primul Sunday Times bestseller și prima autobiografie a asistentului social Rosie Lewis. Phoebe, un copil de nouă ani cu autism este luată

Sea State

'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 A candid examination of the life of

The Downfall of Anne Boleyn

British history is rich in enthralling stories: pivotal moments that changed the future of the country moments of drama, suspense, intrigue. Dive right into the

Untitled Holt Nonfiction Winter 2021

A young reader’s adaptation of whistleblower and bestselling author Edward Snowden's memoir—featuring a brand-new afterword that includes resources to learn about the bas...

Trumbo

Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous 'Hollywood Ten,' the screenwriters who, during the McCarthy era, were charged by the House Committee on

My Boy Butch

Much beloved broadcaster Jenni Murray recounts her great love affair with Butch the Chihuahua. There was always a dog. If not real, then imagined. As

Lizzie Siddal

O roșcată înaltă, slabă, fără forme, Lizzie era opusul modelului de frumusețe din secolul al 19-lea. Surprinsă lucrând ca asistenta unei modiste, ea a devenit

East End Gangland

East End Gangland is a true crime classic, now updated and expanded. Bestselling author James Morton tracks the changing face of the East End from

Raif Badawi : the Voice of Freedom

The whole world knows the face of the young man with the bright black eyes. He is in the process of becoming an icon, a

Penguins Stopped Play

Comedy writer and TV producer Harry Thompson (1960-2005) started his Captain Scott Invitation XI while at Oxford in the 1970s, and early members included Hugh

VETERANS

Published to coincide with Armistice Day, this book is based upon the memories of World War 1 veterans. They provide us with accounts of stark

The Life of Beccafumi

Contemporary of Vasari’s hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic

A Wild Life

The frozen wastes of the Southern Ocean the tropical rainforests of South America, the scorching grasslands of Africa, the dizzy heights of the snow-capped peaks

Don't Let My Past Be Your Future

'Harry Leslie Smith is a vital and powerful voice speaking across generations about the struggle for a just society' Jeremy Corbyn THIS A CALL TO

That Good Night

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own

Broken Blue Line

Ali's book offers an insight into the real world of modern policing: the demands and challenges faced by frontline officers throughout the UK. Ali's hope

Not afraid of life

When her mother, Sarah Palin, became the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate in 2008, Bristol Palin was instantly propelled into the national spotlight, becoming the ...

All the Wrong Moves

Sasha Chapin este o victimă a șahului. Ca nenumărați amatori înaintea lui - Albert Einstein, Humphrey Bogart, Marcel Duchamp - jocul i-a mistuit viața și

Abandon ship!

This book covers the second part of his naval career between 1945 and 1963. Having arrived back in Plymouth from Trincomlee as a lieutenant aboard

Little Labours

A droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies. 'Beguiling ... A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios ... A peculiar book...