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Notes on a Nervous Planet
The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast and nervous lives. We are more connected, yet feel...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
'This book will make you love her as much as I do' FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 'Breath-taking courage and compassion [...]a beautiful book' THE SUNDAY TIMES 'A renegade Florence Nightingale...
This Is a Call: The Fully Updated and Revised Bestselling Biography of
FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED, INCLUDING TWO NEW CHAPTERS TO BRING THE STORY UP TO DATE 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over...
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and
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"THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ." --CNN SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This "powerful and disturbing" (Bill Browder, author...
Lost Boy Found: Overcoming my OCD
Andrew Puccetti's life seemed perfect: he grew up in a loving Catholic community, his parents were happily married, and his childhood was good. But this picture-perfect existence started to crack...
Hidden Valley Road
'Unforgettable' The Times 'Grippingly told and brilliantly reported' Mail on Sunday 'Startlingly intimate' Sunday Times 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'Groundbreaking' Evening Standard 'Exceptional and moving' Spectator " Hidden Valley Road contains...
The Time In Between: A memoir of hunger and hope
When Nancy Tucker was eight years old, her class had to write about what they wanted in life. She thought, and thought, and then, though she didn't know why, she...
Lone Rider: The First British Woman to Motorcycle Around the World
Reeling from a recent breakup and with only limited savings from her pub job, a tent, a few clothes and some tools, all packed on the back of her bike,...
How to Be Hopeful: My year of living joyfully
A joyful journey into how to live more hopefully in hard times, from million-copy Sunday Times bestseller Caitlin Moran - perfect for fans of Wintering. Not getting enough sleep, doomscrolling...
Last Rites: Never-before-told stories of a legendary life from the
People say to me, if you could do it all again, knowing what you know now, would you change anything? I'm like, f*** no. If I'd been clean and sober,...
Toil & Trouble: A Memoir
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky. "Here's a partial list of things I don't believe...
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave birth just half a century...
The Journal of Helene Berr: A Young Jewish Woman's Life in Occupied
From April 1942 to March 1944, Helene Berr, a recent graduate of the Sorbonne, kept a journal that is both an intensely moving, intimate, harrowing, appalling document and a text...
Fiddlers and Whores: The Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson's Fleet
"A country of fiddlers and poets, whores and scoundrels"-Nelson's famous description of Naples-was a world eagerly embraced by a young Irish doctor called James Lowry who went to sea, apparently,...
East West Street: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE and THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'A monumental achievement:...
Little Bird of Auschwitz: The breathtaking true story of how one man's
'That nickname . . .' '"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't...
The Chain: How Women Save Each Other
'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR 'An ode to how women support, protect and uphold each other in a misogynistic...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and
This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to...
Night
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A new translation from the French by Marion Wiesel. Night is Elie Wiesel's masterpiece, a candid, horrific, and deeply poignant autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the...
Cairngorm John: A Life in Mountain Rescue
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For over thirty years John Allen was an active member of the Cairngorm Mountain Rescue Team and for most of them acted as Team Leader. In 'Cairngorm John' (his call...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive
"A gripping and powerful account of what prison is like and what it takes to make it through... Make sure you read it." Kimberley Chambers Widely known in the criminal...
Insomniac City: New York, Oliver Sacks, and Me
____________________________ A moving celebration of what Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the...
Throwing the Book
Wayne Barnes - one of the most-experienced international referees in history and criminal barrister to boot - uniquely lifts the lid on a lifetime of trying to keep the biggest...
A Life in Fifty Books: A Publisher's Memoir
'There are good publishers and there are great publishers. And then there's Anthony Cheetham.' Richard Dawkins In November 1966, by way of Mexico City, Eton College, Balliol College, Oxford, and...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
Heart Life Music
INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Heart Life Music is a love letter to the journey: all the places I've gone and how we got...
Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway
In this candid autobiography, Cherie Currie--the original lead singer of '70s teenage all-girl rock band The Runaways--powerfully recounts her years in the band, her friendship with guitarist Joan Jett, and...
Biotope: Pastorale
Two-star Michelin chef Bart De Pooter - a pioneer of Flemish gastronomy at his elegant restaurant, Pastorale - pays homage to the adventures and discoveries that have shaped his culinary...
How to Dress a Dummy
Cassie Lane had a quintessentially Australian, dysfunctional, single-parent upbringing. She and her mother loved each other, but in a stealing-Christmas-trees-together kind of way. For as long as she remembers she...
What I Don't Know About Animals
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. There is, however, one thing of which she is certain: our relationships with and attitudes to animals are really...
The Evin Prison Bakers' Club: Surviving Iran's Most Notorious Prisons
16 recipes testifying to the sisterhood and solidarity forged in the most notorious prisons in Iran THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A remarkable testimony to women's bravery, compassion and solidarity in...
Love and Money, Sex and Death: A Memoir
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and raising two kids, McKenzie Wark has a particularly extreme midlife life-change: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and...
Antonia and Her Daughters: Secrets, love, friendship and family in
The renovations to 34 via del Duomo now complete, Marlena de Blasi, the bestselling international author and woman with the 'fairytale life', longs to find time and space to finish...
Gaia Calls: South Sea Voices, Dolphins, Sharks and Rainforests
Gaia Calls compiles memoirs and descriptions of Wade Doak's life as a young man in the Solomon Islands living among the islanders, to years of dolphin research, diving adventures, and...
Hear Me Out
Girls Aloud 'wildchild' Sarah Harding finally sets the record straight in her powerful and moving memoir 'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my...
Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from
'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...
Still Bobbi: Stories of authenticity, resilience and reinvention from
'Feeling stuck? You need to read this book. Let Bobbi's powerful story be your reminder that you don't need permission and you don't have to feel ready. You just have...
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
An instant Sunday Times bestseller 'A sexy, frank and delectable memoir' The New York Times 'An instant, hedonistic culinary classic' The London Standard 'It's the two best things in the...
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with
'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...
Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted
' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...
Breaking Awake: My Search For A New Life Through Drugs
'An unflinching examination of contemporary culture's quest for the quick fix to emotional pain' LAURA DELANO Why do so many of us need drugs to make it through the day?...
Flourish: The Extraordinary Journey Into Finding Your Best Self
What is a meaningful life? What does it mean to flourish? Antonia Case, the co-founder of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, quits her corporate job in the city and, with...
An Ocean and a Day: A powerful and poignant memoir on grief, loss and
An utterly riveting, moving and poignant memoir of grief and loss that will speak to anyone who's ever lost someone they love. 'P rofoundly moving, both a tender love letter...
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: A radically new way of thinking about depression and anxiety 'A book that could actually make us happy' SIMON AMSTELL 'This amazing book will change your life'...
Harley Loco: A Memoir of Hard Living, Hair and Post-Punk, from the
'She's experienced wealth, cultural alienation, homelessness, brushes with fame, prison, rehab, record deals, a million blown second chances, a dozen broken hearts and one bloody-knuckled ultimate spiritual redemption. She even...
My Salinger Year: NOW A MAJOR FILM
The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world - now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret...
Wonder and Loss: A Practical Memoir for Writing about Grief
A braided memoir that interweaves the author's personal journey through grief with a guide on how to write about it, this book is both Sam Meekings' raw account of the...
Joyful, Anyway: Finding Delight in Impossible Times
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting...