William Burges

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

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

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

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...

Goodbye to All That

Într-unul dintre cele mai sincere și mai deschise autoportrete care au fost puse vreodată pe hârtie, Robert Graves spune povestea extraordinară a trăirilor sale ca

Joyce

James Joyce (1882-1941) a fost unul dintre cei mai mari scriitori ai secolului XX. În tinerețe, și-a respins țara și religia, dar a continuat să

The Man Who Founded the Anc

It is well known that the African National Congress was formed in 1912 and is considered the oldest political organisation on the African continent. What

Neglected

Micul Jamey, în vârstă de 21/2 ani, este plasat la asistenta maternală cu experiență, Cathy Glass, în regim de urgență. Poliția și serviciile sociale nu

Secrets of a Stewardess

People always seemed amused whenever Gretchen Ryan recounted anecdotes of her transformative experiences as an air hostess in days gone by. Many even suggested she

Love, Africa

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and finding a calling, set against on...

Snowball oranges

How a Scotsman and his family lived the dream, making their vacation home permanent?and how the local neighbors helped them endure that 'dream' I could

A dip in the ocean

4,000 miles of unpredictable ocean 500 Chocolate bars 124 days of physical exertion 3 Guinness World Records set 1 incredible journey. On 1 April 2009,

Hotel on the Roof of the World

The very aptly named Mr Pong had the kind of breath that could stun at over ten feet... This wasn't just bad - there was

Head over heels in France

Just when life seemed its darkest, Samantha found happiness—Pascal, and his 10-year-old son, and the rigors of country life—in an unexpected trip to France When

Letting Go

The stunning and heartbreaking story of the young son of Rachel Nickell - who witnessed the brutal attack on his mother and whose childhood was

Shallow Graves in Siberia

Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final

Things Get Better

To look and listen to the extraordinary Katie Piper, it is difficult to comprehend the severe trauma she suffered from a brutal rape and acid

Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann

Son of the famous Thomas Mann, homosexual, drug-addicted, and forced to flee from his fatherland, the gifted writer Klaus Mann’s comparatively short life was as

An Ordinary Man

Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man - a quiet manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on 6 April 1994 mobs with machetes turned

J. R. R. Tolkein

The complete guide to the inspiration that is J.R.R. Tolkien

Our Stories, Our Visions

Following on from the success of her acclaimed bestseller 'Ten Eternal Questions, ZoA' Sallis has conducted an exciting new collection of interviews, this time with

A Family Secret

‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other,

Inside the Firm

Throughout the 1960s, Tony Lambrianou was a trusted member of the Kray Gang. He had a unique insight into the workings of a criminal organization

American Duchess

'Draws startling parallels with Meghan ... Both were 34 when they met their princes, both are adored children of strong, single mothers, both have a

The Art of Failing: Notes from the Underdog

Haunted by endless tiny humiliations, struggling to resurrect the corpse of his literary career and ensnared in a loving yet bamboozling marriage, A man at

A Year in Jamaica: Memoirs of a Girl in Arcadia in 1889

A complex memoir of Diana Lewes's 1889 trip from England to visit her families sugar plantations on Jamaica, and the internal rite of passage she

Redeeming Features

Nicky Haslam's career as interior designer and contributor to 'Vogue' and 'Tatler' has brought him into contact with the rich and famous: Lucian Freud, David

Serving The Servant

From 1990 to 1994 top music manager Danny Goldberg worked with Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground music scene in Seattle, and

Casement (Life & Times)

Roger Casement's revolutionary fire was lit in the Congo where he saw at first hand some of the worst abuses of the colonial project. The

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.