Celebration of David Attenborough

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

My Generation

'Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here...

An Ordinary Soldier

On 11th September 2006 - exactly five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers - a modern day Rorke's Drift was played out in

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

To the Bridge

The case was closed, but for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What made a mother want to murder her own children? On May 23,

I, Wabenzi

Some time ago, Rafi Zabor sat down to write a brief account of 1986. gt
That was the year after his parents died, the year he

Florence Foster Jenkins

She had no pitch, no rhythm, and no tone. Still, Florence Foster Jenkins (Streep) became one of America’s best-known sopranos. Born in 1868, Florence was

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

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

To Read Aloud

Reading a story to another person creates a bond between two people. It is often assumed that reading aloud is only for children, but the

The teardrop island

After discovering the travel writings of a Victorian explorer and writer, Cherry Briggs decides to retrace his footsteps across the island of Ceylon—now known as

Busted in New York and Other Essays

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays,...

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...

Shakespeare in a Divided America

From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence. A

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

But Enough About Me

ginning with Reynolds s adolescence as a notable football player and the devastating car accident that ended his sports career, 'But Enough About Me' takes

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

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

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

A Book for Her

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a

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

Little Keith Lemon: Memoirs of me Childhood

Have you ever wondered how Keith Lemon went from life as a young nipper in Leeds to being the strawberry blonde star of Celebrity Juice

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

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

Young and Damned and Fair

În timpul uneia dintre cele mai fierbinți veri înregistrate, curtea lui Henric al VIII-lea este implicată, din nou, în scandal politic. Căsătoria regelui cu Anne

Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir

De la Frazzles la Foie Gras: memorii despre dorința de a vrea mai mult. De la o vârstă fragedă, Grace Dent a fost înfometată. Când

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

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

Maeve's Times

'As someone who fell off a chair not long ago trying to hear what they were saying at the next table in a restaurant, I

Roth Unbound

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

Memories of the Falklands

This poignant book is published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands conflict in 1982. Contributors include politicians, soldiers and

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

Byron In Love

Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic

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...

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

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

Through The Barrier

Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these

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

Education of an Idealist

An intimate and powerful memoir by Pulitzer Prize–winner and former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power.

Saul Bellow's heart

'An intimate and honest portrait of a fiercely private man, of a moving father-son relationship, and of the family man behind the iconic writer ...

Before Scarlett

Originally published: Athens, Ga.: Hill Street Press, c2000.

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...

Emissaries of Satan

Michael Ross. Kenneth Bianchi. John Scripps. These are truly the servants of hell, three savage killers without a shred of soul between them. Michael Ross

Soldier: Respect is Earned

With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than

Queer Icons from Gay to Z: Activists, Artists & Trailblazers

This illustrated picture book is an alphabetic celebration of queer activists, artists, comedians, writers, philosophers, musicians, poets and Olympic gold medallists. T...

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

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,

Rebel

Legenfarul star își spune povestea - o poveste despre artă, pasiune, angajament, dependență, la fel de intensă și hipnotică precum omul însuși. Într-o carieră care

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

Gustave Flaubert (Brief Lives)

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