Secret Child

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...

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

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...

Scratched

'Reading Scratched gave me the feeling of standing very close to a blazing fire. It is that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest

My Shitty Twenties: A Memoir

The baby's father's parting shot was 'Enjoy your impending shitty, snotty, vomity twenties.'When Emily Morris was 22 and half way through university, she found out

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

Is There Still Sex in the City?

Candace Bushnell gets personal in her new memoir - an investigation into what happens when a woman of a certain age (ok, let's call it

Era of Ignition

A passionate and deeply personal exploration of feminism during divisive times by actor, filmmaker, and activist Amber Tamblyn In her late twenties, Amber Tamblyn experi...

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

Goodbye to All That

Într-unul dintre cele mai sincere și mai deschise autoportrete care au fost puse vreodată pe hârtie, Robert Graves spune povestea extraordinară a trăirilor sale ca

To Have and Not to Hold: The Bonding of Two Mothers Through Adoption

When Lorri Antosz Benson, a 24-year-old successful producer for a groundbreaking national television show, finds herself in an impossible situation, she digs deep and fa...

7 Miles Out

In 1977, Carol Morley (fictionalized as 'Ann') was 11 years old and living in Stockport when her dad drove her to school one morning, then

Letters to the Midwife : Correspondence with Jennifer Worth, the Author of Call the Midwife

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with reader...

Walking in the Shade

The second volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. `Walking in the Shade' begins in 1949, as Doris

The Tandoor Murder

Naina Sahni’s murder and the discovery of her body being burnt in a tandoor in a restaurant in the heart of Delhi shook the country’s

Charles: Our Future King

Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth

Jack Sutherland has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. After a childhood spent in London, his family moved

Fortune's Spear

Gerard Lee Bevan was the model of an Edwardian swell arrogant, smooth, wellconnected and highly cultured. He married money and influence
his wife Sophie Kenrick

Castaway

In 1858, 14-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul . With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, they stopped in Bombay, then

Call the Midlife

During his run into turning fifty, Chris Evans is on a mission. To take stock of where he is and where he's at in order

Heist!

Heist! is an in-depth look at 10 of South Africa’s most audacious heists. From the 1996 ‘burning man’ case, where four security guards were burnt

THE TRAIN IN THE NIGHT

How do you lose music? Then having lost it, what do you do next? Nick Coleman found out the morning he woke up to a

Just Ignore Him

'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen Fry 'This hug...

Molly's Game

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world – an insider’s story of excess and

Golem Girl

In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. She endures endless medical procedures and is told she will never have a

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

The Last Lecture

The Last Lecture is a New York Times best-selling book co-authored by Randy Pausch-a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction, and design at Carnegie Me...

Lush : A True Story, Soaked in Gin

Described by Caitlin Moran as 'filthy, immoral and incredibly funny', Gabrielle Fernie's blog, loveisa4letterturd.com, catalogued her life as a struggling actress with a...

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

Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth

Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed

Myself and Other More Important Matters

Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's 'Thought for the Day'. Long recognised

Planet of the Blind

O carte de memorii obsedantă și strălucit imaginată despre acceptarea cvasi-obscurității, aceasta este povestea unui 'om pierdut cu o pată de ceva asemănător vederii'. N...

Idris Elba: So, Now What?

From starring as the ruthlessly ingenious drug lord Stringer Bell in the iconic HBO series The Wire, to playing Madiba himself in the long-awaited biopic

Touched by the Sun

A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an

Long Shot

În timp ce Siria a intrat în război civil în 2011, voluntarii kurzi din nordul țării s-au ridicat pentru a-și elibera patria de secole de

My Nonidentical Twin: What I'd like you to know about living with Tourette's

Hey guys, you might know me already from one of my social media channels where I talk about the highs and lows of living with

All I Know Now

We all know that growing up is hard to do, and sometimes the only thing that makes it better are the reassuring words of someone

To Siri with Love

From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column 'To Siri with Love' comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about

Keith Moon Stole My Lipstick

A star-struck, naïve 17-year-old country bumpkin leaves home catches a coach to a near-mythical land—London and the Swinging ’60s. Days later, mascara running, itching i...

Siberian Dreams

Every year thousands compete to win the RGS/BBC Journey of a Lifetime award and fulfill their travel dreams. However, Andy Home's dream would be most

The Afterlife of Billy Fingers

In 2004, bad boy Billy Fingers Cohen, a homeless small-time drug dealer and addict in a state of drug induced euphoria ran into a busy

Branson: Behind the Mask

The image remains pristine: a charismatic high-school dropout turned billionaire, whose stratospheric rise and daring exploits have won him millions of enduring admirers...

By Any Means

Bikes have always been Charley's first love, but he also enjoys a challenge. So when the chance comes to travel across three continents 'by any

Victim Zero

Kat Ward was the first victim to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jimmy Savile and her testimony became a

A Better Man

Comedian, actor, writer, and podcast host Michael Ian Black’s look at boyhood in the form of a heartfelt letter to his teenage son before he

The Wind in My Hair

'A must-read for anyone who cares about women's equality' Sheryl Sandberg 'A flame-thrower for the rights of women who live under the thumb of repression

DK Life Stories Harriet Tubman

Descoperiți povestea inspirată a lui Harriet Tubman, o activistă și aboliționistă neînfricată care a ajutat la eliberarea multor sclavi, în această fascinantă biografie ...

No Cunning Plan

As one of Fagin's boys in the original production of Oliver!, Tony Robinson's understudy was Steve Marriott, later of the Small Faces, and he'd had

DK Life Stories Martin Luther King Jr

În această biografie, descoperiți povestea uimitoare a lui Martin Luther King Jr., ale cărui cuvinte puternice și vise pentru viitor au inspirat întreaga lume. Martin

Guidance from the Greatest

'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this

Cubed : The Puzzle of Us All

Ernö Rubik was a child when he first became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. To him puzzles aren't just games - they're creativity machines.

Wallace

Ever since that terrible night in January 1931, when the body of Julia Wallace was found in her Liverpool home, her head crushed by violent

617

In May 1943, 617 Squadron RAF executed one of the most daring operations in military history as bombers mounted a raid against hydro-electric dams in

Ayesha's Gift : A daughter's search for the truth about her father

Ayesha's quest to find the truth takes her away from her safe English existence and into Pakistan, where she is met with threats, violence and

Enslaved

A heartbreaking memoir from a girl who escaped county line trafficking only to become prey to other abusers. Emily has always felt like an outsider,

The Scrapbook of My Life

Hey guys, I'm Alfie and welcome to The Scrapbook of My Life! Inside this book you'll read all about the day I was born and

Marie-Antoinette and Count Fersen: The Untold Love Story

A new edition draws on fresh evidence from archive sources—including decoded secret correspondence—to peel back the layers of misinformation obscuring the Queen's great ...

Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story

In 1980, Carlos Acosta was just another Cuban kid of humble origins, the youngest son in a poor family named after the planter who had

Divided lives

'Lyndall Gordon was born in 1941 in Cape Town, a place from which 'a ship takes fourteen days to reach anywhere that matters.' Born to

Coming Clean

'A brave, heartfelt and extraordinary book' Corinne Sweet, author of Overcoming Addiction, psychologist and broadcaster What if the drugs that were meant to cure you