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Fanny Burney (1752-1840) is best known as the author of EVELINA, one of the most engaging novels of the eighteenth century. But for much of her long life, she was...

"Chita Rivera blazed a trail where none existed so the rest of us could see a path forward."-Lin-Manuel Miranda "This deserves a standing ovation."- Publishers Weekly The wildly entertaining memoir...

'Dazzling...full of special delights. Harman excels in the vivid presentation of scenes, the selection of detail...[a] marvellous and beautifully written book.' Elspeth Barker, Independent on Sunday At the age of...

When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from schools and offices and even forbidden...

Miami, 1963. A young boy from Louisville, Kentucky, is on the path to becoming the greatest sportsman of all time. Cassius Clay is training in the 5th Street Gym for...

The book titled You Did What?!: Audacious Faith Adventures in the Life of David by the author David McCracken. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...

This biographical study illuminates one of the most important yet misunderstood figures in the history of science. Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), a geneticist who integrated classical genetics with microscopic observations of...

With a new Afterword and Reading Group Guide exclusive to the paperback edition. In this enlightening personal account, one man tells the story of his groundbreaking project to sleep overnight...

The book titled The Life of Charles Darwin by the author Sir Francis Darwin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with...

Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in India and Burma to his bohemian youth in London...

REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION OF THE BESTSELLING AND CONTROVERSIAL BIOGRAPHY Britain's leading investigative writer and biographer, Tom Bower turns the full beam of his formidable powers on one of the...

Winner of the American Library Association GLBT Book Award Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award

Muhammad Ali is a force of nature. Over the past forty years, he's proven himself a one-of-a-kind boxing champion, a charismatic media darling, and a world-class personality. Here at last...

A young Muslim leader's memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity A searing portrait of Muslim life in the West, this "profound and intimate" memoir captures one...

The book titled Heaven, Where the Bachelors Sit by the author Gerard Windsor. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A reissue of Airey Neave's controversial account of the last-ditch stand that preceded Dunkirk. It was a battle in which only 60 British soldiers of the 3000 defending Calais on...

THE OLIVE FARM and THE OLIVE SEASON are television actress Carol Drinkwater's lyrical accounts of a new life in France; about her house Appassionata and the trials and tribulations of...

The book titled And When Did You Last See Your Father? by the author Blake Morrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

C. S. Lewis is universally recognized as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. Despite his sophistication, Lewis was able to reach a vast popular audience during his...

'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...

Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in India and Burma to his bohemian youth in London...

Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in India and Burma to his bohemian youth in London...

From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and...

Dewi Anggraeni wrote this book because she saw that many things which did not fit the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia were rarely brought to the public's attention, as they...

PACKED WITH STARTLING REVELATIONS AND METICULOUS RESEARCH, THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHY EVERYONE WANTS TO READ... Madonna is the undisputed female icon of our age. Widely admired for her independence, self-confidence,...

Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into...

Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, a chance meeting led Mostafa Salameh first to London and then to Edinburgh, where he partied to excess, despite having little money. Islam...

The book titled Migrant with a Mission: Benjamin Short: 1883-1912 Grandfather's Story by the author Wilsie Short. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In Stay Alive, My Son , Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival. Documenting the 27...

The son of biologist T.H. Huxley, Aldous Huxley had a privileged background and was educated at Eton and Oxford despite an eye infection that left him nearly blind. Having learned...

When eight-year-old Adelino Serras Pires first arrived on a boat from Portugal in 1936, Mozambique was a tropical paradise, where native tribes and Portuguese colonists lived in harmony, and vast...

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with...

The book titled My Illustrated Career by the author Shane Warne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The story of an Irish priest's fight to help the persecuted people of an island off Ireland's west coast. Father Diarmuid O'Peicin found the islanders of Tory Island, living in...

INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the Month A LoveReading Best Book of 2024 Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024 'Travel at its...

From the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY and THINKING IN NUMBERS'Bursting with feeling and possibility' TELEGRAPH'Nine Minds offers something that autistic people urgently need: it humanises us'...

IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leila Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by...

"I first became aware of this project through my enormous admiration for one of the subjects, water activist Anne Kennedy. However, through reading John's words, I have discovered a further...

Since the success of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over twenty plays, successively confirming his reputation as a major dramatist of the twentieth century. But...

Who was the man behind The Scream, the iconic painting that so acutely expresses the anguish of the twentieth century? Edvard Munch (1863 - 1944) was twenty-eight when he embarked...

The aim of this study is to resolve discrepancies and correct errors in previous biographies and to attempt to fill serious and long-existing gaps in the story of Hazlitt's life....