Touch and Go

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

My Generation

'Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of public life. Here...

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

I, Wabenzi

Some time ago, Rafi Zabor sat down to write a brief account of 1986. gt
That was the year after his parents died, the year he

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

Just Ignore Him

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Alan Davies recalls his boyhood with vivid

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

Busted in New York and Other Essays

'[Pinckney] reveals himself to be a skilful chronicler of black experience in literary criticism, reportage and biography' The New York Times In these twenty-five essays,...

Lonely Courage

‘A fascinating, superbly researched and revelatory book – told with tremendous pace and excitement’ William Boyd ‘Rick Stroud writes brilliantly about war … an astonishi...

Survival Math

This dynamic book explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of 'hustle' and the destructive power of addict...

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

I've Seen the Future and I'm Not Going

Escaping the trauma of growing up gay in Syracuse and being bullied at school, McGough attended art school in New York, dropped out, and took

A Book for Her

Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a

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

Little Keith Lemon: Memoirs of me Childhood

Have you ever wondered how Keith Lemon went from life as a young nipper in Leeds to being the strawberry blonde star of Celebrity Juice

I Wanna Be Where the Normal People Are

'One of the funniest books of the year' - Guardian A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects

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

Young and Damned and Fair

În timpul uneia dintre cele mai fierbinți veri înregistrate, curtea lui Henric al VIII-lea este implicată, din nou, în scandal politic. Căsătoria regelui cu Anne

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

The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit

In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not speak to another human

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

Memories of the Falklands

This poignant book is published to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the outbreak of the Falklands conflict in 1982. Contributors include politicians, soldiers and

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

Byron In Love

Byron, more than any other poet, has come to personify the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, reaching beyond race, creed or frontier, his gigantic

Unconquerable: The Invictus Spirit

'You are all Invictus, you are now ambassadors for the spirit of these games. Never stop fighting and do all you can to lift up

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

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

Through The Barrier

Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these

Education of an Idealist

An intimate and powerful memoir by Pulitzer Prize–winner and former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power.

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...

Sisters of Auschwitz

Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Choice and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international bestselling and life-affirming true story

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

Soldier: Respect is Earned

With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than

Queer Icons from Gay to Z: Activists, Artists & Trailblazers

This illustrated picture book is an alphabetic celebration of queer activists, artists, comedians, writers, philosophers, musicians, poets and Olympic gold medallists. T...

Rebel

Legenfarul star își spune povestea - o poveste despre artă, pasiune, angajament, dependență, la fel de intensă și hipnotică precum omul însuși. Într-o carieră care

Three Mothers

Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been

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,

And Thank You For Watching

For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman

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

Lady Fanshawe's Receipt Book

In the mid seventeenth century, England was divided by war and bloodshed. Torn apart by rival factions, father opposed son and brother met brother on

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

For The People

Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna - a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists.

New Selected Journals, 1939-1995

The earlier 1985 edition of the Journals was overseen by the author, and it privileged his thoughts about poetry - his own and other people's.

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

Inside a Pearl

The celebrated author of The Flâneur traces his relocation to 1983 Paris in spite of his unfamiliarity with the language and culture, tracing how he

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

Do You Mind If I Cancel? (Things That Still Annoy Me)

'Gary Janetti's book is so rolling-on-the-floor funny, so brilliantly observant, and so full of heart.” — Kevin Kwan Fans of David Sedaris, Jenny Lawson, and

X Platoon

For three decades one of the most secretive units in the British military has been a mystery force known as X Platoon. Officially there was

Conan Doyle's Wide World

Această carte dezvăluie călătoriile și aventurile captivante ale lui Arthur Conan Doyle - creatorul lui Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle nu a fost doar creatorul

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

A Better Me

Gary Barlow is one of the most successful British musicians and songwriters of all time, but 15 years ago, as he himself admits, he hit

Operation Relentless

'The Night Manager meets Narcos' Saul David 'To catch this criminal took incredible courage and skill. This is James Bond meets Jason Bourne' Bear Grylls

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...

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...

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