Biographies & True Stories
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION 'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity an...
View full detailsConstructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND 'This is one o...
View full detailsAutobiography of Malcolm X
They called him the 'angriest black man in America' . . . Celebrated and vilified the world over for his courageous but bitter fight to gain for m...
View full detailsLive At Home With His Bad Self [VINYL]
A landmark recording James Brown intended as a late '69 release, but instead was edited into half the LP 'Sex Machine'. This 50th anniversary relea...
View full detailsMy Unapologetic Diaries
Review Outrageously wonderful . . . hilarious . . . it is nice to read a book where someone truly enjoys being themselves. She has promised us 'un...
View full detailsFighting For Your Life: A Paramedic's Story
Product Description A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her daughter suffe...
View full detailsOne Pair of Feet: 'I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens ... she's blissfully funny' Nina Stibbe (Virago Modern Classics)
Review Humorous, moving and fascinating -- Clare Mackintosh I envy anyone yet to discover the joy of Monica Dickens. She's beady eyed, big hearte...
View full detailsVirginia Woolf
Review All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon ... If only all literary lives were as succinct ― TIME OUT From his unique positio...
View full detailsA Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the her fourth title in October...
View full detailsLife's Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code
Product Description Life's Greatest Secret is the story of the discovery and cracking of the genetic code. This great scientific breakthrough...
View full detailsThe Next Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy
Review Endlessly insightful and full of surprises - exactly what what you would expect from Tim Harford -- Bill BrysonHarford is a fine, perce...
View full detailsTruly Peculiar: Fantastic Facts That Are Stranger Than Fiction
Review The Father Christmas of knowledge -- Giles CorenPraise for Go Figure:Books like this make you wary of ever guessing the answer to anyth...
View full detailsThe Colour Code: Why we see red, feel blue and go green
Review Such fun. An illuminating story for every stitch in your wardrobe and pigment on your wall -- Simon Garfield, author ― Just My TypeFun ...
View full detailsDead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Product Description 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in...
View full detailsPenguin Essentials: My Family and Other Animals
A Bewitching Account of a Magical Childhood on the Island of Corfu My Family and Other Animals is the enchanting memoir of a rare and magical child...
View full detailsEric Hobsbawm: A Life in History
At the time of his death at the age of 95, Eric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) was the most famous historian in the world. His books were translated into mor...
View full detailsMe Talk Pretty One Day
Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is c...
View full detailsAmelia Earhart: The Sound of Wings
When she disappeared in 1937 over a shark-infested sea, Amelia Earhart had lived up to her wish - internationally famous, a daring and pioneering a...
View full details1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
This work presents an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes, but the course of li...
View full detailsBoys in the Trees: A Memoir
#1 New York Times Bestseller A People Magazine Top Ten Book of the Year 'A sensational memoir ...brilliantly well written. Carly Simon is incapabl...
View full detailsLove from Boy: Roald Dahl's Letters to his Mother
'Dear Mama, I am having a lovely time here. We play football every day here. The beds have no springs . . .' So begins the first letter that a ni...
View full detailsUnguarded: My Autobiography
Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Autobiography of the Year 'Full of illuminating anecdotes, piercing insights and unsparing self-analysis fr...
View full detailsA Life: Barry Miles
Product Description Authoritative biography of cult writer and author of NAKED LUNCH, William Burroughs (1914-1997).It has been 50 years since No...
View full detailsStrictly Ann: The Autobiography
Forthright memoirs of a singular personality - former MP and STRICTLY COME DANCING star, Ann Widdecombe. In this life story of one of our most outs...
View full detailsMadonna
Madonna: singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, not to mention one of the most renowned cultural icons of the last three decades. Since her fi...
View full detailsI'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Product Description 'A leading new voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACYA REESE'S BOOK CLUB X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK...
View full detailsNelson - The Sword of Albion
The Sword of Albion concludes the most comprehensive and intimate life of Nelson ever written, one that teems with a glittering array of sailors an...
View full detailsProfession of Violence: The Rise & Fall of the Kray Twins
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins, now a major film, starring Tom Hardy. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland d...
View full detailsMusic Comes Out of Silence
Review Andras Schiff proves just as articulate, as cultured and as provocative a musical thinker as he is at the piano throughout this highly reco...
View full detailsFoo Fighters
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legenda...
View full detailsMartin Luther King
Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the ...
View full detailsDonnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia
In 1978, the US government waged a war against organised crime. One man was left behind the lines. From 1976 until 1981, Special Agent Pistone live...
View full detailsEssays in Zen Buddhism
Review Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism. ― Carl Jung He speaks of what he has ...
View full detailsBlack Teacher
The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyo...
View full detailsRe-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
From the acclaimed author of Art Sex Music comes a vital meditation on womanhood, creativity and self-expression, and a revelatory exploration into...
View full detailsAlong the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania
When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he l...
View full detailsSteve Jobs by Waater Isaacson
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, frien...
View full detailsThe Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot
Review The most valuable single book yet published about Eliot -- Jonathan Raban ― Sunday Times A nuanced, discerning account of a life famously ...
View full detailsLying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World
Product Description Financial crime seems horribly complicated but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what's theirs. In f...
View full detailsA Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
My Manchester United Years: The Autobiography
Bobby Charlton is Manchester United through and through. He was a member of the original Busby Babes and has devoted his career to the club, playin...
View full detailsChild Called It
A harrowing, yet inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally bestselling author Dave Pelzer. Brutally beaten an...
View full detailsWhen Giants Walked the Earth
Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revisio...
View full detailsWhy Patti Smith Matters
Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose. Through her poetry, her songs, her unapologet...
View full detailsPenguin Essentials: Down and Out In Paris and London
A Haunting Portrait of Life at the Margins Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey provides a striking new look for George Orwell’s classic account of...
View full detailsI'll Try Anything Once: New edition of this riveting memoir from Bake Off judge, originally published as RELISH
Originally published as Relish, a fully revised and updated edition of the eye-opening story of one woman's incredible appetite for life: Dame Prue...
View full detailsCristiano Ronaldo: The Award-Winning Biography Fully Updated (Guillem Balague's Books)
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
In this heartwarming collection edited by Joseph Heller's daughter, dozens of contributors imagine one last lunch with someone they cherished A...
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