The Apology

Beautiful Stranger

In a quest to boost her low self esteem, Hope Donahue turned to altering her appearance through cosmetic surgery. By the age of 27 she

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

History.

Maya Lin : Thinking with Her Hands

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., is one of the most famous pieces of civic architecture in the world. But most people are not

Everyday Madness

'The small translucent bottle of shampoo outlived him. It was the kind you take home from hotels in distant places. For over a year it

Gunpowder and Geometry : the Life of Charles Hutton

Of Me and Others

The essential essay collection by one of Britain's most fascinating and acclaimed writers and artists, Alasdair Gray In this frank, playful and typically unorthodox co...

Charles: Our Future King

Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides a fresh insight into the extraord...

Undivided

Vicky Beeching, called 'arguably the most influential Christian of her generation' in The Guardian, began writing songs for the church in her teens. By the

The New Boy

The animals always win in the Tovey household and this time is no exception. It is with the interests of Solomon's (very audibly) grieving sister

The Road Ahead

I Carried a Watermelon

'Massively enjoyable.' Dawn French I Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand's

When I Had a Little Sister

When I had a Little Sister, de Catherine Simpson, este o relatare extrem de sinceră și sfâșietoare a creșterii într-o familie de fermieri și a

When I Had a Little Sister

'If you loved Tara Westover's Educated, get yourself a copy of When I Had a Little Sister as soon as humanly possible...beautifully under-stated...a startling, elegiac

Hero's Body

Un memoriu despre motociclete și mușchi, despre obsesie și durere și despre un tânăr care a învățat să rămână în viață prin literatură. La doar

Love in the Blitz

Eileen Alexander fell in love amidst the falling of bombs, finding a quotation from poetry at every turn. Graduating from Cambridge in 1939, she had

White Boy Running

In the run up to the 1987 election, Christopher Hope returned to his native South Africa after a 12-year absence. The nature of that year's

Café de Move-On Blues

Street to Recovery

Curly Watts is a TV icon - for twenty years appearing on millions of TV screens around the country in Coronation Street. Kevin Kennedy is

A Letter from Paris

When Louisa Deasey receives a message from a Frenchwoman called Coralie, who has found a cache of letters in an attic, written about Louisa's father,

Dad's Maybe Book

The bestselling author of The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned

Falling Palace: A Romance of Naples

Weaving the intrigue of a romance with the haunting evocation of a legendary Mediterranean city, Dan Hofstadter reveals Naples to us. He is our guide

Idiot Wind

The memoir of one man's journey from addiction back to sobriety and sanity via the road

Foot

In FOOT, Kathy Vanderlinden has collected a closetful of fascinating information about the physical foot, foot fashion, foot fetishism and other aspects of that part

The Memoirs of Walter Bagehot

The spirited and measured memoir of Walter Bagehot, had he left one Walter Bagehot (1826–1877) was a prominent English journalist, banker, and man of letters.

Charlotte

Born into the famous, sometimes scandalous, theatrical clan of Colley Cibber, Charlotte was an actress destined for greatness. But she rebelled, and started dressing as

No Storm Lasts Forever

As a cardiologist, Dr Terry Gordon dealt with life-and-death circumstances on a daily basis. Helearned that life is precious and tenuous it can change in

Carlos Acosta

Carlos Acosta grew up in a shantytown in Fidel Castro's politically isolated Cuba. Like many boys, he'd skip school to play football or breakdance with

Bowland Beth

The story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth - an English Hen Harrier - which dramatically highlights the major issues in

An Ancient Air

An Ancient Air portrays the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man in the world to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable.

Bad Machine

Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize The body is the `bad machine' of George Szirtes' latest book of poems. The sudden death of his elderly

Monsieur Mediocre

'John von Sothen fell in love with Paris through the stories his mother told of her year spent there as a student. After falling for

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 book of secrets

The author shares the stories of unknown women who played significant roles in the lives of prominent figures, including a mistress shared by the second

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

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

Aaronsohn's Maps

Aaron Aaronsohn was one of the most extraordinary figures in the early struggle to create a homeland for the Jewish people. Brought to Palestine at

Invisible

'She was brilliant, ambitious, and unafraid to break barriers. As the only member of a squad of twenty high-powered lawyers who was not a white

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

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

Targeter

A revealing and utterly engrossing account' (Joby Warrick) of the world of high-stakes foreign intelligence and her role within the campaign to stop top-tier targets

Touch and Go

The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian author of The Good War recounts his hard-working early childhood in Chicago, his beginnings as a disc jockey after World War

Raoul Wallenberg

An Honorary Citizen of the U.S.A., and designated as one of the Righteous among the Nations by Israel, Raoul Wallenberg's heroism in Budapest at the

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection

The Murray Edwards Duse Collection is the best record of the literary background of Eleonora Duse, one of the foremost Italian aesthetes. It proves that

Trump on Trump

Un lucru nu poate fi negat despre Donald Trump, faptul că spune ce gândește... și rezultatele sunt fascinante! Aflați cum funcționează această minte citindu-i cuvintele....

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

Living Modern: A Biography of Greenwood Common

Architect William Wurster envisioned Greenwood Common as a development that combined an idealistic sense of community with a modernist aesthetic and an awareness of regi...

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...

Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton

The first modern biography of this notable politician 'Mach's detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressiv...

Running the Voodoo Down

RUNNING THE VOODOO DOWN

Literary Reminiscences and Autobiographical Fragments

Toward the end of his career as a brilliant novelist, Turgenev turned his pen to the essays that comprise these Literary Reminiscences. Here he discusses

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

Here We Are: To Migrate to America

The Shahanis came to Queens--from India, by way of Casablanca--in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few unsteady years and then, with the arrival

Why I Left America And Other Essays

An African-American artist, self-exiled behind the Iron Curtain, gives his unique perspective on his homeland and on the culture that produced him

Langston Hughes

A collection of twelve critical essays on Hughes and his work, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

The Rat That Got Away : A Bronx Memoir

The Rat That Got Away is an inspiring story of one man's odyssey from the streets of the Bronx to a life as a professional

Lenin's Laureate Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Drawing on extensive archival research and the author's own discussions with Alferov, Lenin's Laureate offers a unique account of Soviet science, presented against the ba...

The Kremlin's Geordie Spy

Born a 'geordie,” a native of Britain’s Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Willie Fisher became one of the KGB’s most celebrated agents. Sent to spy in New York, where

Alger Hiss

Documents the story of a State Department official charged with spying for the Soviets, arguing the case was shaped by missed chances and poor judgments,

Labyrinths

Emma Jung era inteligentă, ambițioasă și extrem de bogată, una dintre cele mai bogate moștenitoare din Elveția când, la vârsta de șaptesprezece ani, l-a cunoscut

The Brother

'The Brother now discloses new information revealed since the original publication in 2003?including an admission by his sons that Julius Rosenberg was indeed a Soviet