Working Stiff

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 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

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

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

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

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...

Wife's Tale

The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman - and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia's history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years ago,

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

Jailbirds

Step inside one of Britain's most notorious prisons... During her time as a prison teacher Mim Skinner met every type of criminal. But her job

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.

The C-word

The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced

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...

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,

Anna of All the Russias

In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and int...

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

A Portrait of an Idiot as a Young Man

When Jon Holmes became a father (twice), he was asked to fill in a form detailing his family medical history. Except he couldn't, because he

Daisy

Daisy Warwick was an heiress in her own right and a renowned beauty when she married Lord Brooke, heir to the Earl of Warwick, in

Things I Learned from Falling

Ritmul continuu de lucru, activitatea socială și dorința de a face mai multe într-un oraș mare erau frenetice și stresante. Înconjurată de oameni, Claire se

Eve's War

In 1935 Evelyn Shillington started a diary, little knowing the years of turmoil it would cover, and how insightful her experiences as an army wife

Sphinx

Born in Paris to American parents in 1881, Gladys emerged from a traumatic childhood - her father having shot her mother's lover dead when Gladys

Investigating Organised Crime and War Crimes

Tony Nott retired from the Dorset Police in 2002 at the rank of superintendent. He had spent most of his service as a detective, and

The Making of Her

What is school for and why does it matter? What contributes to the success of women? How can we inspire confidence, and nurture excellence in

My Stir-fried Life

As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all

Twice-Born

In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where ancient customs collide...

No One Is Coming to Save Us

JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina, to build his dream house and to pursue his high school sweetheart, Ava. But as he

Truck

The author of Population: 485 returns, delivering a truckload of humor, heart, and . . . gardening tips? Think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle

Fighting Evil

A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword by Andy McNab.In the summer of

American Scream

He was a radical stand up who dared to question the values of small town America and the evils of American foreign policy. Ruthlessly honest,

Mistress of Charlecote

A delightful memoir of Mary Elizabeth Lucy and her life at Charlecote. Mary Elizabeth Williams, an heiress from North Wales, was only twenty when in

My Brother, Muhammad Ali

From Muhammad Ali's brother comes the most intimate biography ever written on the legendary sportsman.

I'm Not a Terrorist, But I've Played One On TV

A 'memoir of growing up Iranian in America, and the quest to make it in Hollywood without having to wear a turban, tote a bomb,

Conspiracy

Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is the

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover

Lisa Riley won the hearts of the nation as she danced for her life, now it's time to read her life... Never Judge a Book

Red or Dead

A New York Times Editors' Choice '[T]he stuff of great literature.' —The New York Times | 'Red or Dead is a winner.' —The Washington Post

Curious: True Stories and Loose Connections

Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine. Rebecca Front has always drawn

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

Bringing in the Sheaves

After a life of sex and drugs and the Communards - brilliantly recounted in the highly acclaimed first volume of his memoirs FATHOMLESS RICHES -

Wind in the Wires and an Escaper's Log

* Classic memoir of a Great War fighter pilot and prisoner of war * Graphic depictions of dogfights, bombing raids, attacks on observation balloons *

My Fathers Wake

Death is a whisper in the Anglo-Saxon world. But on a remote island, off the coast of County Mayo, it has a louder voice. The

Speak it's name!

This collection of quotations by and about gay people is a celebration of the advances in LGBT rights over the last half-century and a demonstration

In The Beginning

IN THE BEGINNING goes back to the poet's life before her arrest, interweaving her experiences of growing up in Odessa with those of her childhood

The Last Act of Love

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out. It was two

Seven Men: And the Secret of Their Greatness

In Seven Men, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas presents seven exquisitely crafted short portraits of widely known-but not well understood-Christian men, ea...

Cowboy & Wills

Christened 'charming' and 'winning' by the Washington Post and 'touching' by Publishers Weekly, celebrated author Monica Holloway's deeply moving memoir shares the unfo...

Ted Hughes

Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy. His marriage to the

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book - a wildly entertaining,

No Better Time

Danny Lewin's brilliant but brief life is largely unknown because, until now, those closest to him have guarded their memories and quietly mourned their loss.

A Mind With Wings

It's July 4, 1845. A soft-spoken young man named Henry David Thoreau has carefully constructed a small, simple cabin in the woods overlooking Walden Pond.

The Saboteur

'A scion of one of the most storied families in France, Robert de La Rochefoucald was raised in magnificent chateaux and educated in Europe's finest

Seven Men and Seven Women

In this new, one-volume edition that brings together two of his most popular works, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas explores the question

Hunter Of Stories

Not since Guy de Maupasant has the short literary form been imbued with such grace, elegance and poignancy . . . these quintessential and often

The Gamekeeper

Portia Simpson grew up outdoors, always preferring to climb trees than play with Barbie dolls. Talented and driven, she became the first female to graduate

Smile for the Camera

No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-l...

King of the World

This unforgettable account of Muhammad Ali's rise and self-creation, told by a Pullitzer Prize-winning writer, places Ali in a heritage of great American originals...

Corrupt Bodies

In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from lowly assistant to running the UK's

Tsunami Kids

On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Matty and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from

Lost Without You

In this extraordinarily intimate memoir, Vinnie tackles his grief honestly and with heart, sharing warm and colourful stories from the 25 years he spent married

Hammer of the Left

This publication vividly describes how in 1982 - with one vote majority and Foot still abstaining - Golding ruthlessly removed Benn, Heffer, Militant and their