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Once it was simple to write about war. States or ideologies clashed; battles were fought between national armies or movements. But war has changed. War has become privatised by small...

The sequel to Mao's Last Dancer - the highly anticipated follow up to one of the world's most beloved books. Li Cunxin captivated the world with his unforgettable memoir, Mao's...

When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many years he lived side by side with the country...

"My heart has reshaped a thousand broken pieces, and for every moment I still want to heal him there are a thousand when I know he's perfect, exactly as he...

Acclaimed author Frank Moorhouse considers the world's most elegant and mysterious cocktail whilst also reflecting on his life. Acclaimed author Frank Moorhouse considers the world's most elegant and mysterious cocktail...

WINNER OF THE 2022 PULITZER PRIZE "A compelling and important history that this nation desperately needs to hear." -Bryan Stevenson, New York Times bestselling author of Just Mercy and executive...

In this raucous collection of true-life stories, actress and comedian Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the...

Brought up in Tanzania and Surrey, Trisha's early career as an air stewardess led to travel writing for magazines and then, when she settled in Australia in the mid-1980s, a...

The Outback has its own rules. Some are made to be broken. Some you have to write yourself. When 23-year-old Pip Newling arrived in the remote West Australian town of...

The only available edition of Stephen Spender's autobiography. A classic of gay literature

Jane Hawking, divorced wife of Professor Stephen Hawking and mother of his three children has written a memoir which relates the story of a marriage begun in optimism, despite facing...

Marie Bashkirtseff's diary is one of the great journals of all time: a Russian girl, transplanted to France, begins a little diary at the age of fourteen. Eleven years later,...

Virginia Woolf often wrote as many as six letters a day. This collection is illustrated with contemporary photographs and paintings - many of them by members of the Bloomsbury Group,...

I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can;...

In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man - his work occupies and fulfils...

A Rough Trade Book of the Year 'From lists to experiences and stories, there are no rules. A good song is a good song whoever writes it and however the...

"A dress from Schiaparelli ranks like a modern canvas" - "The New Yorker". Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s with a...

When Samantha Brick s life started to unravel her company in liquidation, homeless, penniless and friendless, and on max-strength anti-depressants it seemed that everything was going wrong. But a chance...

An anthology of writings from John Blashford-Snell, one of the world's greatest living adventurers and explorers, featuring highlights from the hundred or so expeditions he has organised and led, in...

'A moving and witty memoir with a big heart' - Nigella Lawson No one would consider Judith Newman's domestic life normal. She and her husband keep separate apartments-his filled with...

An exciting account of the international adventures of fashion model Pat Cleveland-one of the first black supermodels during the wild sixties and seventies. "Taking her reader through fifty years of...

"You have a unique viewpoint from which to write about Jack as no one else has or could write. I feel very deeply that this book must be written. And...

A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun is the autobiography of convicted criminal Noel Razor Smith. An extraordinarily vivid account of how a tearaway kid from South London became...

The vivid, often startling memoir of a young woman shaped by two dramatically disparate worlds. Saira Shah is the English-born daughter of an Afghan aristocrat, inspired by his dazzling stories...

The Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed,...

Over the next decade he, like other German Jews, lost his job, his house and many of his friends, even his cat, as Jews were not allowed to own pets....

The incredible, true story of how an ordinary man took millions of dollars from casinos across the US 'I was thrown out of my first casino in spring of 2000....

In the honorable tradition of the eccentric dandyism of Lord Byron, Oscar Wilde, and Quentin Crisp comes Sebastian Horsley's disarming memoir of sex, drugs, and Savile Row.

WALKING DISASTER is a riveting story of excess lived in the limelight, told with candour, humility and a thoughtful introspection rarely found in rock memoirs. An unlikely rock and roll...

This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than forty years,...

***The Instant New York Times Bestseller*** Endgame , the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a penetrating investigation into...

30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR ' Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the way on opening up a new, brave, nuanced...

The book titled My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor by the author Alec Guinness. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Born in French Equatorial Africa, Andree Blouin played a leading role in the struggles for decolonization that shook the continent in the 1950s and 1960s. From the colonial orphanage of...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER '. . . a compelling memoir. Breezy and unpretentious, The Sanest Guy in the Room is a delightful collection of memories, insider information and after-dinner anecdotes'...

In the twelfth century, Pope Clement III declared: 'The Pope is resolved to be the lord and master of the world's game.' Yet history has proven to be much more...

In Search of Fatima reflects the author's personal experiences of displacement and loss against a backdrop of the major political events which have shaped conflict in the Middle East. Kharmi...

A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about...

BROKEN OPEN is the story of ABC sports broadcaster Craig Hamilton and how, on the eve of the biggest undertaking of his career, he suffered a complete mental breakdown. Instead...

New York Times Bestseller Wildly popular award-winning blogger, accidental ranch wife, and #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Pioneer Woman Cooks , Ree Drummond (aka The Pioneer Woman)...

'Back in 2012, everyone knew who Bradley Wiggins was. Everyone, that is, but me. Thirteen years after the summer that defined me, I have finally defined myself. The disguises have...

An inspirational love story and candid memoir. Sara Davidson, television producer, scriptwriter, author, now in her forties, had established her way of life. A divorced mother, her two teenagers lived...

Music Bargain Book Box Sly Stone waited fifty years to explain himself. When he finally did, it won Music Book of the Year. That's the kind of company this box...

'Immensely enjoyable... Ros's experiences are fascinating. She's clearly a woman and who doesn't let the obstacles life throws at her get her down' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons...