She Said : Witty Words from Wise Women

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Notes for the Everlost

Part memoir, part handbook for the heartbroken, this powerful, unsparing account of losing a premature baby will speak to all who have been bereaved and

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

Mother's Ruin

Nicola Barry grew up in well-to-do Murrayfield, Edinburgh. Her father was a hopsital consultant, her mother was medically trained, her brothers boarders at public school...

Dear Mr Murray

În ciuda numărului incredibil de scrisori păstrate de familia Murray, unele nu au ajuns, altele au fost întârziate, iar unele abia au supraviețuit, dar longevitatea

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,

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...

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

Finding Your Harmony

In this moving and inspirational memoir, singer Ally Brooke recalls her journey to fame, reveals how she has remained true to her beliefs through her

Bones : A Story of Brothers, a Champion Horse and the Race to Stop America's Most Brutal Cartel

Two brothers live parallel lives on either side of the US-Mexico border. This is the dramatic true story of how their worlds collided in a

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

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...

Every Lie I've Ever Told

I had made it! All my dreams had come true. I had an operating fridge, I was doing brilliantly, and I had written the memoir

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

Truck

The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

American Scream

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest,

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

Rice and Peas and Fish and Chips

Pauline Campbell was brought up on Rice and Peas and Fish and Chips after her parents crossed thousands of miles, leaving the warm shores of

I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV

A 'memoir of growing up Iranian in America, and the quest to make it in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb,

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover

Lisa Riley won the hearts of the nation as she danced for her life, now it's time to read her life... Never Judge a Book

Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections

Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. Rebecca Front has always drawn

You Can't Say that

A frank, gripping and moving - and controversial - autobiography from one of the most idiosyncratic and effective politicians of the last fifty years. His

In The Beginning

IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood

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,

My Struggle: Book Five

The fifth book of Knausgaard's powerful My Struggle series is written with tremendous force and sincerity. As a nineteen-year-old, Karl Ove moves to Bergen and

The Saboteur

'A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest

Hunter Of Stories

Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often

Fateful Beauty

Revealing the intriguing story of a young woman who, at the age of 15, was forced to marry a mentally unstable man in order to

Extraodinary Lives

They have entertained, trilled and captivates us and now in their own words, they tell the story of how they rose to the top of

My Wild Life : The Story of a Most Unlikely Animal Rescuer

The true, heart-warming story of how a reluctant City trader left a life of champagne and bonuses to follow his dream of rescuing animals and

The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Maude still remembers the sound

The Brontës in Brussells

The Brontës' time in Belgium, five years before they became best-selling authors, is the least-known episode of their lives, but is a fascinating and important

Colin Thackery: My Story

A tale of survival, love, hardship, family, heartbreak and triumph. This is the incredible story of 89-year-old Chelsea Pensioner Sergeant Major Colin Thackery who, in...

My Story

The 82 true life stories have been specially selected from many submitted to the My Story feature in Reader's Digest magazine over the years. They

Different Kind of Weather

'Why did you go into politics in the first place?' A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and indeed asking himself, over

Best Of A. A. Gill

For over twenty years, people turned to A. A. Gill's columns every Sunday - for his fearlessness, his perception, and the laughter-and-tear-provoking one-liners - but

You Left Early

'Spectacular. I can't stop thinking about it. Louisa Young is a beautiful, beautiful writer' Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love This brutal,

Killers

When Kate married gangster Ronnie Kray, he introduced her to the most deadly criminals ever known. She persuaded them to talk about their crimes, fears

Loose Women: Let Loose!

For 20 years the Loose Women panellists have been entertaining the nation with their forthright opinions on the vagaries of modern life. For the first

Autobiography of a Face

At age nine, Lucy Grealy was diagnosed with a potentially terminal cancer. When she returned to school with a third of her jaw removed, she

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

Celebrity and Performance

Demonstrates how to shoot big personalities. This title showcases the work reflecting the various aspects of celebrity and performance photography, including projects sh...

A Numerate Life

Employing intuitive ideas from mathematics, this quirky 'meta-memoir' raises questions about our lives that most of us don't think to ask, but arguably should: What

Updike

Updike explores the stages of the writer’s pilgrim’s progress: his beloved home turf of Berks County, Pennsylvania
his escape to Harvard
his brief, busy working

Pride and Passion

'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian 'Gatland is the master' Sir Ian McGeechan 'Gatland is a coaching star' Sir Clive Woodward 'Gats is one of the

Head Shot: A Memoir of Glamour, Adventure and Resilience

1967 was an extraordinary year for Victoria Nixon. Spotted in London's Bond Street by none other than Helmut Newton, who photographed her for Vogue, she

Ill Met by Moonlight

NOW WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY W. STANLEY MOSS'S DAUGHTER GABRIELLA BULLOCK AND AN AFTERWORD BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR Ill Met By Moonlight is the true

Flying Among Heroes

Following the extraordinary career of a Second World War bomber pilot, Flying Among Heroes brings together adventure and human daring with the harsh realities of

Glorious Rock Bottom

Bryony Gordon is a respected journalist, a number-one bestselling author and an award-winning mental health campaigner. She is also an alcoholic. In Glorious Rock Bottom...

Member of the Family

Following the recent death of Charles Manson – the leader of the sinister 60s cult – Dianne Lake reveals the true story of life with

Perfect Sound Whatever

„Perfect Sound Whatever” is a love letter to the healing power of music, and how one man's obsessive quest saw him defeat the bullshit of

Remembering Richie

As a player, Richie was one of the greatest of cricket's all-rounders. As a commentator and thinker on the game he became the leading figure

Just Tell Me You're Sorry

Tell Me You're Sorry, Daddy is the moving true story of one man's horrific campaign of abuse against his own daughter, which continued for more