Killing Pablo

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Banksy

For someone who shuns the limelight so completely that he conceals his name, never shows his face and gives interviews only by email, Banksy is

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

The Day That Changed My Life

Exhilarating, heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring, The Day That Changed My Life is a remarkable collection of stories of Ireland's women and the extraordinary moments...

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

Frances: The Tragic Bride

She was young, very beautiful, and had everything to live for—but the life of Frances Shea, briefly married to Reggie Kray, remains one of the

Fifty Cup Finals

For more than 20 years Nick Collins was one of the best-known faces at Sky Sports News, bringing audiences the fortunes of the England soccer

Before Action

William Noel Hodgson never intended to be a soldier he wanted to write. The Great War made his reputation as a poet but it also

You are So Beautiful Without Your Hair

This book is the deep and touching account of the author who lost both parents unexpectedly to cancer within one year of each other. It

12 Years A Slave

Relatarea șocantă din prima mână a remarcabilei lupte a unui om pentru libertate acum un film cinematografic premiat. „De ce nu murisem în tinerețea mea

Uncomfortable Truth about Racism

An eloquent and thought-provoking book on racism and prejudice by the Liverpool and England football legend John Barnes. John Barnes spent the first dozen years

Slave Girl

Sarah Forsyth și-a petrecut cea mai mare parte a vieții în frică. După ce a depășit durerea și suferința unei copilării îngrozitoare, Sarah a reușit

Celebration of David Attenborough

A highly diverting celebration of television’s favourite naturalist, packed with games, trivia and Attenborough-inspired activities. Attenborough. Just saying the name ma...

Things I Learned from Falling

Ritmul continuu de lucru, activitatea socială și dorința de a face mai multe într-un oraș mare erau frenetice și stresante. Înconjurată de oameni, Claire se

Autobiography of a Female Slave

Martha Griffith Browne, a Southern slave-owner who became wedded to the cause of emancipation, wrote this autobiography of Ann, a woman born into slavery, to

Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and

The Making of Her

What is school for and why does it matter? What contributes to the success of women? How can we inspire confidence, and nurture excellence in

My Stir-fried Life

As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all

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

Mustn't Grumble

The definitive autobiography from the nation's best-loved broadcaster. Written in the style familiar to his millions of listeners, rich with warmth and irony, Mustn't G...

App Kid

An inspiring and deeply personal coming of age memoir from one of Silicon Valley’s youngest entrepreneurs—a second-generation Latino immigrant who taught himself how to c...

Nobody`s Child

Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent and emotionally deranged father

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

Twice-Born

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide...

I Was Born There, I Was Born Here

In 2000 Mourid Barghouti published I Saw Ramallah, the acclaimed memoir that told of returning in 1996 to his Palestinian home for the first time

No One Is Coming to Save Us

JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he