Biographies & True Stories
Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness
Review In this brilliant mix of history and emotion, Craig Nelson has managed to combine grueling research with masterful reporting in order to ca...
View full detailsA World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries. Arguing that slavery can o...
View full detailsThe Warrior Queens: Boadicea's Chariot
Review Leavens scholarship with wit and casts new light on themes one might have thought familiar -- Bel Mooney ― Sunday Times She controls this ...
View full detailsWhat's New, Harper Drew?: Book 1
For fans of Dork Diaries comes a laugh-out-loud series about one girl's eccentric family, a whole lot of mayhem, and her unique way of dealing with...
View full detailsLet Me Take You by the Hand: True Tales from London's Streets
Let Me Take You By The Hand is a fascinating and eye-opening exploration of the life of London's streets, and is essential reading for those who re...
View full detailsThe Secret Life of Dorothy Soames
Product Description A gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its car...
View full detailsThe Writer's Game: Modern Authors
Product Description Who had the most commercial success in their lifetime, Ernest Hemingway or Agatha Christie? Whose work has the most adaptatio...
View full detailsNot Even This: Poetry, parenthood and living uncertainly
Review In clear, nimble, and dexterous prose, Underwood launches a capacious quest toward the unknown and maps the limits of knowledge via art...
View full detailsSoft Power
Review Winder is a highly knowledgeable guide to this slippery subject. His book is also beautifully written in an enviably easystyle. There i...
View full detailsHomage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist
Review There is much more than science in this book ... This is ultimately an uplifting book about the way life ought to be, both at a persona...
View full detailsA Century of Wisdom
Alice Herz-Sommer, 1903-2014 The pianist Alice Herz-Sommer survived the Theresienstadt concentration camp, attended Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem,...
View full detailsFreefall
Review This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of my seat. It also made me cry. - An...
View full detailsLong Way Home
Product Description Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage an...
View full detailsGardening for Everyone: Growing Vegetables, Herbs and More at Home
Review Jam-packed with beautiful colourful photographs and helpful tips, this is just right for aspiring eco-friendly gardeners ― Publishers W...
View full detailsFar and Away: The Essential A.A. Gill
Review A new collection of some of the legendary writer and critic's greatest travel and travel-adjacent pieces, from investigations into Mexi...
View full detailsThe World According to Razor: My Closest Shaves
Review Packed with hilarious anecdotes ― Daily Mail Product Description 'If you were expecting to read Razor's views on politics the...
View full detailsThe Real Crown Jewels of England: 100 Places That Make Us Great
Review Glorious ― Daily Mail Product Description 'Written with both charm and elegance, The Real Crown Jewels of England is a triump...
View full detailsThe Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop (Wellcome Collection)
Review Astonishingly bold ― Daily MailPerfect timing ― Financial TimesPopular science at its best ... sparkling and clear. The subject is deep...
View full detailsThe Big Five For Life: A story of one man and leadership's greatest secret
Product Description Thomas Derale, a mild-mannered businessman from Chicago, embodies leadership's greatest secret: his companies make fortunes, ...
View full detailsThe Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by ne...
View full detailsA Theft: My Con Man
'I was beginning to love my thief, a man I barely knew, but whom I had trusted and even liked, and who had taken my savings, amongst many other cri...
View full detailsFavourite Murder- Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered
Review A brutally honest and funny handbook for women looking to trust their own instincts. You'll read it in hours. ― STYLIST A brutally honest ...
View full detailsBut Seriously: An Autobiography
He is one of the most controversial sportsmen in history and a legend of Open Era tennis. But after reaching the top of his game - what came next? ...
View full detailsA Drake at the Door: Tales from a Cornish Flower Farm (Minack Chronicles)
The third title in the Minack Chronicles, which tell the story of how Derek and his wife Jeannie left behind their London home to establish a flowe...
View full detailsThe Liars' Club (Picador Classic)
"My father comes into focus for me on a Liars' Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so...
View full detailsRacing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar
The SUNDAY TIMES bestselling memoir from the Tour de France cyclist who lifts the lid on his drug use and return to sport. By his eighteenth birthd...
View full detailsLessons I've Learned
"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) ...
View full detailsMy Heroes: Extraordinary Courage, Exceptional People
In MY HEROES the 'world's greatest living explorer' (Guinness Book of Records), writes about the people who have inspired him - from explorers to p...
View full detailsBrand New Me: More honest, heart-warming and hilarious antics from reality TV’s biggest star
Charlotte Crosby is one of the nation's best loved and funniest TV stars. Here in BRAND NEW ME Charlotte talks us through an incredibly busy year,...
View full detailsMy Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography
There is only one Arsene Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story. In this definitive autobiography, the world-r...
View full detailsPolitical Risk
Product Description 'Smart. Informative. Overdue' Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google Political risk - the probability that a political action cou...
View full detailsWe Are Displaced
Product Description In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares vario...
View full detailsCrossing the Line: Lessons From a Life on Duty
Product Description A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'A love letter to police officers and the most vulnerable people they protect and serve' CHRISTIE ...
View full detailsBlack Klansman: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
* ADAPTED AS A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE BY SPIKE LEE * NOMINATED FOR SIX 2019 ACADEMY AWARDS & WINNER OF 'BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY' BAFTA * WINNER O...
View full detailsFrom Mother to Daughter: The Things I'd Tell My Child
Whether you're becoming a mum for the first time or you have children who are growing up faster than you could have ever imagined, motherhood can f...
View full detailsDiana Vreeland: Empress of Fashion
Described by an admirer as 'the High Druidess of fashion, the Supreme Pontiff, Perpetual Curate and Archpresbyter of elegance, the Vicaress of Styl...
View full detailsLiving in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
What is the relationship between the mind and the brain? In Living in a Mindful Universe, Dr Eben Alexander, author of the international phenomeno...
View full detailsMy Life on the Road: The International Bestseller
The New York Times bestseller Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would d...
View full detailsFalling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
View full detailsAdmissions- A Life in Brain Surgery
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLERHenry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devast...
View full detailsCatch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Riveting and often shocking' Sunday Times 'Dripping with jaw-dropping revelations' Telegraph 'Absorbing' New Yo...
View full detailsPortrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. The marriage...
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The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes
The 15:17 to Paris: The True Story of a Terrorist, a Train and Three American Heroes
The 15:17 to Paris is an amazing true story of friendship and bravery, of near terrorist attack averted by three young men who found the heroic uni...
View full detailsThe Rise, The Fall, and The Rise
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017 The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith St...
View full detailsOur LadBaby Journey: Success, Sacrifice and Sausage Rolls, the instant Sunday Times bestseller
Letters of Ted Hughes
At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and he was to become a pro...
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