Signs of Murder

Camera Girl

A moving and inspiring memoir of Doreen Spooner. Struggling to hold her head high through the disintegration of her family through alcoholism, she began a

The Telegraph Book of Readers' Letters from the Great War

An anthology of letters from writers to the Telegraph covering the lead up to and the duration of the entire First World War. For the

The Great American Read : The Book of Books

A blockbuster illustrated book that captures what Americans love to read, The Great American Read: The Book of Books is the gorgeously-produced companion book to

Murder Gang

They were an elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters covering the most notorious British crime between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s. It was

Wellington's Brigade Commanders

Recent research into the Duke of Wellington's armies during the Peninsular War and the Waterloo campaign has enhanced our understanding of the men he led,

Hitler: A Global Biography

From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's ...

Just As I Am

'Just as I am este adevărul meu. Sunt eu, simplu și nevătămat, cu sclipiciul și ghirlandele lăsate deoparte. În aceste pagini, eu sunt într-adevăr Cicely,

Queen

The Queen details the intriguing life of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, highlighting her commitment to service, sacrifice, and the Commonwealth of nations over which

Hottentot Venus

'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary ReviewIn 1810 the slave turned showgirl Sarah Baartman, Lon...

Tom Stoppard

In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is remarkable for its unprecedented access to

The Longest Kill

It takes a tough mindset to be a successful sniper, to be able to dig in for days on your own as you wait for

Sinatra: The Chairman

Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's bestselling Frank: The Voice--which completes the definitive biography that ...

Olivier

Hollywood superstar
Oscar-winning director
greatest stage actor of the twentieth century. The era abounded in great actors - Gielgud, Richardson, Guinness, Burton, O'T...

Eyewitnesses at the Somme

In 1915, news of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landing and the slaughter at Gallipoli stirred tens of thousands of young men to

Coming Home to Tibet

When her mother dies in a car accident along a great highway in India, far from her country and her family, Tsering decides to take

Two-Way Mirror

'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.' Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine. But behind the

Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away

Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britaințs Top Forensic Pathologist

Meet the forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd. He solves the mysteries of unexplained or sudden death. He has performed over 23,000 autopsies, including some of

If This Is a Man & The Truce

With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German...

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government’s parliamentary majority in

Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

Marilyn Monroe. Her beauty still captivates. Her love life still fascinates. Her story still dominates popular culture. Now, drawing on years of research and dozens

Seamus Heaney

This is the first attempt at a comprehensive bibliography of the published work of the poet and critic, Seamus Heaney. Compiled in accordance with principles

A Gift from Bob

From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their

Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

In this unique living testimony, illustrated with nearly 80 color illustrations, a Holocaust survivor shares his experiences to honor the millions, including his friends,...

Frank Sinatra

This lavishly illustrated hard back book tells the incredible story of Francis Albert 'Frank' Sinatra.

Mr Lear

O apreciere literară frumos ilustrată a lui Edward Lear - cel mai cunoscut pentru poemul său „The Owl and the Pussycat” - și „prostiile” sale

Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels

Jane Austen traces the author's life and times, her personal relationships, the attitudes and customs of the time that shaped her and were in turn

Adam Elsheimer: 1578-1610

Adam Elsheimer is first recorded in 1600 and by 1610 he was dead. But, rather like Giorgione, who had died young in Venice 100 years

Serial Killer

Explore the means, motives, and opportunities of more than 100 notorious serial killers, revealing what (if anything) drove them to their crimes. In recent years,

Casanova: The Seduction of Europe

From the salon to the boudoir: the world of Casanova as seen through the art of his era In 18th-century Europe, while the old order

Queen of bebop

'Queen of Bebop brilliantly chronicles the life of jazz singer Sarah Vaughan, one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century and

This Mum Runs

The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio 2016. 'Come-back races? I've

Oh, What a Lovely Century

At the heart of Roddy's writing adventures lay his search for love, even if just for the night. He fell head over heels for, and

This Is Shakespeare

An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of the plays...

Animals

Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. They spent their

Long Walk to Freedom

These memoirs from one of the great leaders of our time are ‘essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go

Maximum Volume: The Life of Beatles Producer George Martin, the Early Years, 1926-1966

The first of two volumes, MAXIMUM VOLUME traces Martin's early life, from an impoverished childhood, through WWII, to becoming head of EMI's Parlophone Records. Then

Liberation: Diaries Vol 3

`A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes,' as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his

Travel Light, Move Fast

From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived Six

P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters Hardcover, P.G. Wodehouse

One of the funniest writers of the 20th century, PG Wodehouse shied away from a biography. Drawing on unpublished sources, this definitive edition of his

At Last

THE FIFTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL As friends, relatives and foes trickle in to pay their final respects to his mother Eleanor, Patrick Melrose finds himself

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching candour from a truly

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl

Precipitated by the #MeToo movement, Jeannie confronts her rapist for closure - an incredibly moving memoir for our times. Things We Didn't Talk About When

Murder by the Book

From the acclaimed biographer--the fascinating, little-known story of a Victorian-era murder that rocked literary London, leading Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, and ...

Against Everything

'These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition

Writer's Journey

The Writer's Journey invites you to follow in the footsteps of some of the world’s most famous authors on the travels that inspired their greatest

Memories Unleashed Vietnam Legacy, Carl Rudolph Small

A memoir of the Vietnam War written as a series of short stories. This memoir of the Vietnam War is structured as a series of

A Plot to Kill

În octombrie 2015, Peter Farquhar a fost găsit mort în casa sa din Maids Moreton, întins pe canapea, lângă o sticlă de whisky. A fost

Becoming Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own children. The silly,

Permanent Record

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his

Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know

Colm Tóibín begins his incisive, revelatory Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know with a walk through the Dublin streets where he went to university--a wide-eyed boy

More Myself: A Journey

As one of the most celebrated musicians of our time, Alicia Keys has enraptured the nation with her heartfelt lyrics, extraordinary vocal range, and soul-stirring

While it is Yet Day: A Biography of Elizabeth Fry

While it is Yet Day is the unputdownable biography of Elizabeth Fry. Radical social reformer and Georgian celebrity, Fry was one of the nineteenth century's

The Glass Castle

Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson. This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey from the

Diary of Losing Dad

The Diary of Losing Dad is the true story of a heartbroken woman trying to keep it together, and an intimate insight into what it

The Yorkshire Witch

O escroacă desăvârșită, Mary a fost extrem de pricepută în identificarea slăbiciunilor psihologice ale oamenilor disperați și săraci care populau metropola industrială L...

Honourable Ladies

An indispensable and illuminating testament to the stories and achievements of these remarkable women.

Jonathan Swift

'One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican minister--as well as a

Telling times

A comprehensive collection of the author's nonfiction works ranges from reports on the 1976 Soweto uprising and observations of Zimbabe at the dawn of independence

In America

In 1960 John Steinbeck and his dog Charley set out in their green pickup truck to rediscover the soul of America, visiting small towns and