Biographies & True Stories
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, A Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
Review The world's greatest birdwatcher ― IndependentLighthearted and filled with stories of exotic birds, risky adventures and colorful birdi...
View full detailsFeminism for Women: The Real Route to Liberation
Product Description 'Timely, necessary and important' J.K. Rowling'[This book is] guaranteed to remind us what we have still to fight for. I can'...
View full detailsCoasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans
Product Description " Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2021 Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anythi...
View full detailsHunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one ...
View full detailsMy Life with Murderers
'Hugely insightful and thought provoking . . . I read it from cover to cover in one go' - Emilia Fox 'With characteristic brilliance and admirable...
View full detailsGoing to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography
Comedy writer, journalist, radio DJ and screenwriter Danny Baker charts his 30 years in showbiz Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London...
View full detailsAriel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters"
Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the l...
View full detailsSnowdon: the Biography
Anthony Armstrong-Jones was born to a Welsh father and English-Jewish mother. Creative and inventive, he attended Eton and then Cambridge. The enga...
View full detailsSecond Chance: The Autobiography
Mark Todd's eventing career is the stuff of legends and encompasses one of the greatest sporting comebacks of all time. When he 'retired' from comp...
View full detailsOvershare: Love, Laughs, Sexuality and Secrets
Rose and Rosie are known for their candid and hilarious YouTube videos... but now they are taking oversharing to a whole new level. Discussing sexu...
View full detailsThe Buy Side: A Wall Street Trader's Tale of Spectacular Excess
The Buy Side is Turney Duff's high-adrenaline journey through the trading underworld, as well as a searing look at an after-hours Wall Street cultu...
View full detailsMichael Tippett: The Biography
'A delight to read' Philip Pullman 'Essential reading ... a genuine landmark publication' Tom Service A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' The music o...
View full detailsWildeana (riverrun editions)
Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as th...
View full detailsThe Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
'Freeman's pleasure in the food of literature ... is infectious. The Reading Cure will speak to anyone who has ever felt pain and found solace in a...
View full detailsLetters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956
The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956 Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the writers that defined the course of twentieth-century poetr...
View full detailsKilling Pablo
A tour de force of investigative journalism, Killing Pablo tells the story of the violent rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, the head of the Colombian...
View full detailsNotes on a Nervous Planet
THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, n...
View full detailsElizabeth & Margaret
Product Description The first in-depth dual-biography of Elizabeth & Margaret, written by the bestselling royal biographer, Andrew Morton.The...
View full detailsCider With Rosie (Vintage Classics)
"Cider with Rosie" is a wonderfully vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place ...
View full detailsThe Trials of Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall was born in 1880 in Bournemouth in a house inappropriately named 'Sunny Lawn'. Her mother drank gin in an attempt to terminate the p...
View full detailsThe Stranger Beside me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (True Crime Files)
Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who wa...
View full detailsYour Life in My Hands- A Junior Doctor's Story
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF DEAR LIFE 'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleedi...
View full detailsEssentials: My Family & Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist G...
View full detailsBrian Blessed: Absolute Pandemonium
There is no one quite like Brian Blessed. He's an actor, film star, trained undertaker, unlikely diplomat, secret romantic, martial artist and moun...
View full detailsEat, Drink, Run. How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad
The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author Bryony Gordon. 'A courageous account that will inspire us al...
View full detailsBeing Freddie: My Story so Far
Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff is one of the most exciting cricketers in the world and has improved out of all recognition during the last two years. In...
View full detailsChe Guevara: tu y TODOS
Product Description Fifty years after Ernesto Guevara’s death, Che Guevara tú y Todos (the title tú y Todos , is taken from a poem written for his...
View full detailsIn Conclusion, Don't Worry About It
Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of th...
View full detailsRe-run the Fun: My Life as Pat Sharp
Review Fabulous book . . . wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone . . . genuinely laugh out loud . . . twice as good as Partridge . . . ...
View full detailsEconomics: An A-Z Guide
Book Description Economics explained and demystified in trademark Economist style. Product Description Economics is all around us, e...
View full detailsThe Python Years: Volume One
Michael Palin's bestselling diaries before, during and after Monty Python.
The Sick Bag Song (Canons)
The Sick Bag Song chronicles Cave's 22-city journey around North America in 2014. Racked by romantic longing and exhaustion, Cave teases out the si...
View full detailsLife as We Have Known it
Reissued with a stunning new jacket design, the Virago classic about working class life at the turn of the last century.
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba ha...
View full detailsBoy Friends: A Memoir of Joy, Grief and Male Friendship
An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland's brightest young talents. 'As perfect a portrait of friends...
View full detailsAvenging Angels
Product Description "Lyuba Vinogradova is a historian with a writer's dramatic eye. By personally interviewing many of the Russian women who as te...
View full detailsJudy: A Dog in a Million
Review The dog of war whose sixth sense saved hundreds of British lives ― Mail on Sunday One of the most famous animals of the Second World War ―...
View full detailsAlone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean
'That's what happened, I think, struggling to stay afloat as the ocean pummels me from all sides. I must have blacked out -- exhausted, dehydrated,...
View full detailsHormonal
'The essential hormone handbook . . . it should be made part of the core curriculum up and down the land' STYLIST 'A must read. Informative, funn...
View full detailsOne Voice
Christy Moore is in every sense Ireland's folk hero. Mentor to a whole generation of Irish musicians, he holds a unique place in musical history. I...
View full detailsFracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
Review Graceful and considered ... an elegant, compassionate and wide-ranging tribute to the resilience of humans ― The TimesParris has a feel...
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What Are You Going Through: 'A total joy - and laugh-out-loud funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH
What Are You Going Through: 'A total joy - and laugh-out-loud funny' DEBORAH MOGGACH
Review Love, death, friendship, compassion & SO MUCH wisdom. I just adore Sigrid Nunez ― Paula HawkinsIf the meaning of life is that it en...
View full detailsTough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
Product Description It’s time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it’s being physically fit and mentally r...
View full detailsHons and Rebels: The Mitford Family Memoir
'Whenever I read the words "Peer's Daughter" in a headline,' Lady Redesdale once sadly remarked, 'I know it's going to be something about one of yo...
View full detailsA History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives
The political leaders, writers, artists and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city states into a pan-Mediterranean civilizatio...
View full detailsThe Hacienda: Threads: Foreword by Peter Hook
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey
Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Gr...
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