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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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Naming Of Eliza Quinn

This is an extraordinarily haunting novel, inspired by a true story. In the late 1960s, in the hollow of an ancient oak tree beyond a

The Cure for Good Intentions : A Doctor's Story

The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie gave up her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put

Salinger

J.D. Salinger was one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. He was also one of its most elusive. After making his mark on the American

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

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...

A Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man

When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical history. Except he couldn't, because he

The late child and other animals

Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband has been killed on the

Eve's War

In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife

Bram Stoker

Most famous for his much-filmed novel Dracula, Bram Stoker was nonetheless a prolific writer. This accessible book offers an introduction to a range of his

Thirteen Lessons That Saved Thirteen Lives

John Volanthen is a legendary British cave-diver and one of the two-man team who discovered and rescued the Wild Boars soccer team from the sunken

Fighting Evil

A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of

Mistress of Charlecote

A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote. Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only twenty when in

Elephant in the Room

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s

The Poet and the King

The Poet and the King, described by the New York Review of Books as 'the finest and most perceptive of all the innumerable accounts of

Pure

In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one

Bringing in the Sheaves

After a life of sex and drugs and the Communards - brilliantly recounted in the highly acclaimed first volume of his memoirs FATHOMLESS RICHES -

Cowboy & Wills

Christened 'charming' and 'winning' by the Washington Post and 'touching' by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway's deeply moving memoir shares the unfo...

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book - a wildly entertaining,

Futureface

An acclaimed journalist travels the globe to solve the mystery of her ancestry, confronting the question at the heart of the American experience of immigration,

Tsunami Kids

On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Matty and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from

Shifting Shadows

Herman Mendoza built his kingdom in Queens, New York. He made a fortune selling cocaine with his brothers up and down the Eastern Seaboard. He

Guard a Silver Sixpence

Felicity's earliest memories are of pain and confusion, of being beaten daily by her nan and watching her mum being beaten too. She ran away

Three-a-Penny

A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the First World War - a woman

Amor Al Aire

Signados por destinos distintos, un hombre y una mujer experimentan un cambio de rumbo en sus vidas, a medida que ambos pasan la mayor parte

Adventuress

IN the 1930s Lady Lucy Houston was one of the richest women in England and a household name, notorious for her virulent criticisms of the

Say What You Mean

The n+1 Anthology is a selection from the best of n+1, a Brooklyn-based print magazine of politics, literature and culture, founded in 2004 and published

What Do You Desire?

N+1 Anthology Volume II brings together some of the best Essays of the last decade. Emily Witt writes on Pornography, Nikil Saval on the birth

Long Time Passing

Susan Galleymore is the mother of a US soldier who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. This is the story of how and why she traveled

How to Forget

'This is a masterfully crafted memoir, an elegant tour de force that firmly establishes Mulgrew as a writer of significant literary endowment. The soulmate to

Evelyn! : Rhapsody for an Obsessive Love

Beginning with his own personal obsession with 'Decline and Fall', the author embarks on a real journey to many of the key places in Evelyn

Bird of Paradise

Chronicles the author's quest to find out about her ancestry through DNA testing, sharing findings, stories, and the controveries around Latino identity.

Miss Aluminium

'I was self-invented, adapting myself minute by minute, a girl on the run. And yes, built for speed.' At seventeen, Susanna Moore left her home

Building the Party

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolshevik Party played a central role in that

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

Words of My Father

A Palestinian-American activist recalls his adolescence in Gaza during the Second Intifada, and how he made a strong commitment to peace in the face of

Ultimate Folly

Whitaker Wright began life as an impoverished English preacher before making his first fortune floating silver mines on the US stock market. He made and

Love, Africa

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against on...

The last time I wore a dress

At fifteen years old, Daphne Scholinski was committed to a mental institution and awarded the dubious diagnosis of 'Gender Identity Disorder.' She spent three years--and

Looking Up

Tim Rushby-Smith are 1,8 metri și este foarte activ, cu o dragoste pentru locurile înalte și în aer liber. În urmă cu trei ani, cu

My Story

The remarkable trilogy from SUNDAY TIMES No.1 Bestseller Dave Pelzer - now in one volume. A CHILD CALLED 'IT' is Dave Pelzer's story of a

Red One

The British Hurt Locker . In the Iraq War, Cpt Kevin Ivison defused bombs and IEDs left by the Taliban. Each time he took the

If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now

An NPR Best Book of the Year The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his

A dip in the ocean

4,000 miles of unpredictable ocean 500 Chocolate bars 124 days of physical exertion 3 Guinness World Records set 1 incredible journey. On 1 April 2009,

The Making of Us: Why School Matters

Într-un amestec strălucit de memorii și manifest, renumita educatoare Clarissa Farr spune povești din prima linie a școlilor pentru a oferi lecții vitale pentru modul

Hotel on the Roof of the World

The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten feet... This wasn't just bad - there was

Head over heels in France

Just when life seemed its darkest, Samantha found happiness—Pascal, and his 10-year-old son, and the rigors of country life—in an unexpected trip to France When

Heart Songs and Other Stories

Before she wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx was already producing some of the finest short fiction in the country.

C'est modnifique

A follow-up to the hilarious À La Mod: My So-Called Tranquil Family Life in Rural France After six years in the idyllic Loire Valley, comedian

The Reason I Run

How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was diagnosed with motor neurone disease he

Landscape with Figures: the Final Part of His Autobiography

Landscape with Figures is the third volume of L.T.C. Rolt's autobiography. In this book, written during the last years of his life, Rolt continues his

The Girl With Nine Wigs

Sophie is twenty-one when she is diagnosed with a rare, aggressive form of cancer. A striking, fun-loving student, her world is reduced overnight to the

Name Drop

From Ross Mathews, the nationally bestselling author of Man Up!, judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race, and alum of Chelsea Lately, comes “a delightful mix of