Where the Past Begins

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

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

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

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

History.

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

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

MY MAM SHIRLEY

Behind the notorious Hudson men who dominated the Canterbury Estate for over 30 years were the girls, and my mam Shirley. Whether marrying into or

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

Listen

'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for everyone. You feel held by it'

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...

Brothers and Keepers

Brothers and Keepers is John Edgar Wideman's seminal memoir about two brothers - one an award-winning novelist, the other a fugitive. Wideman recalls the capture

You're on an Airplane

Have you ever wondered what it would be like talk to Parker Posey? On an airplane, with Posey as your seat companion, perhaps? In this

A fish supper and a chippy smile

As Hilda works in the chippy six days a week - cutting the potatoes and frying the fish, yesterday's rag becoming today's dinner plate -

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

That Good Night

As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents' experiences and her own

Varina

Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on? In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold

Grace's Day

Grace and her mother and sisters live on an island off the west coast of Ireland. Their father is a successful writer of travel books

The World According to Razor

The new book from England's 'hardest footballer' Packed full of anecdotes from life on and off the pitch, The World According to Razor is, by

Lee Rigby: A Mother's Story

Lyn Rigby's story charts the unfathomably difficult time she has endured since May 2013 when her son, 25-year-old Fusilier Lee Rigby, was butchered on a

Bud and Bill

Grace from the Rubble by Jeanne Bishop tells the riveting true story of how tragedy destined two men to become enemies - the father of

Judas: How a Sister's Testimony Brought Down a Criminal

Astrid Holleeder is in hiding because she had the courage to write this book. Her brother Willem Holleeder, best known for his involvement in the

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,

On the road

TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the story of his early life through a series of significant driving episodes. He's a child in the back

September 1 1939

This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work

Shine on

Though she had written poetry for many years, it was only in her last year that professional record producers expressed interest in setting some to

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

Consent

The Soundtrack to My Life

The Soundtrack to My Life is Dermot's personal memoir of a life in music told through the songs that were playing at key moments in

What Can I Do?

A call to action from Jane Fonda, one of the most inspiring activists of our time, urging us to wake up to the looming disaster

John Cranch : Uncommon Genius

John Cranch was born in a small Devonshire town in the same year that Gray's Elegy was published and he might so easily have been

Breaking the Silence

Jo Milne trăise deja o viață înconjurată de tăcere, fiind surdă profund din naștere, când a început să-și piardă vederea. Cu puțin timp înainte de

Lessons from a Sheep Dog

Follows the story of Lass, who is transformed from a believed-worthless and untrainable animal into a valuable sheepdog by a man's love, explaining how Lass's