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Roosevelt's Centurions: FDR and the Commanders He Led to Victory in World War II
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Author: Joseph E Persico Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 650 All American presidents are commanders in chief by law. Few perform as such in practice. In "Roosevelt's Centurions, "distinguished historian...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure' Stylist 'A...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream
Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...
It Is What It Is
Author: David Coulthard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim
Author: Russell Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'. Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four...
Testament Of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 With a new introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge. In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was...
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of REDDIT, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'A gripping read' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals Reddit hails itself as 'the front page of the Internet'....
Memoirs and Reflections
Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...
The American Duchess
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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
How to Trace Your Family Tree in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
Author: Willard Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 We turn to Machiavelli at every tumultuous period in history - he is the one who knows how to...
Marie Curie: The Pioneer, The Nobel Laureate
Author: Prof Richard Gunderman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Marie Curie coined the term 'radioactivity', and it is to her and her husband, Pierre Curie, that we owe much...
Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values
Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man
Author: Dr Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership
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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe
Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...
Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)
Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...
Lou Reed: A Life
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Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...
Anna Comnena: A Study
Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...
Against My Will: Groomed, trapped and abused. This is my true story of survival.
Author: Sophie Crockett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Asperger's made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was waiting.'...
Talking to Strangers: And other ways of being human
Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'It's always a bad idea to go online and book a flight when you've had too much wine. You...
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures
Author: Wilbur Smith Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....
Inside Out
Author: Demi Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the...
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
Yves Saint Laurent
Author: Roxanne Lowit Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Yves Saint Laurent is a name synonymous with style, elegance and high fashion. When he came on the scene at Dior...
The Letters of Paul Cezanne
Author: Alex Danchev Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 392 A singular thinker and an uncompromising seeker after artistic truth, Cezanne channelled a large part of his wide-ranging intellect...
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir
Author: David Hare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...