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Hitch 22: A Memoir
Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry...
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times...
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Author: Joanna Gaines Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after...
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees
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Author: Helen Jukes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive-a year of living dangerously-watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...
Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
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Author: Jesse Itzler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times...
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces
Author: John Sutherland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller A searingly honest memoir of life, policing and falling apart 'Every contact leaves a trace' John...
Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY
Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships...
Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City
Author: Ray Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In his gripping memoir, former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly opens up for the first time about his life fighting...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Managing Expectations: A Memoir
Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Small Bodies of Water
Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller
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My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...
The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
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Author: J R Moehringer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK 'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo
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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader
Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it...
Reckless
Author: Marele Day Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'utterly compelling.' - The Guardian Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier of fortune, opportunist,...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'To read it is to believe that words can save' MARLON JAMES 'I adored this book...
My Place At The Table: A Recipe for a Delicious Life in Paris
Author: Alexander Lobrano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he...
Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk
Author: DBC Pierre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Guantanamo Diary: The Fully Restored Text
Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previous censored material...
Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ... Damian is just seven when he is taken in...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
Author: Michelle Tea Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle Tea, the hilarious, powerfully written, taboo-breaking story...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
The Language of Blood
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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My name is...
The Instant
Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I loved this book' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'Utterly absorbing' - Lucy Jones, author of...
Finding Chika: A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love
Author: Mitch Albom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the magical in...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
The Flight Charles Lindberghs Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Author: Dan Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges
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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return
Author: Rebecca Mead (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
Notes from an Island
Author: Tove Jansson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrom, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on...
Seven Cats I Have Loved
Author: Yardenne Greenspan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one...
A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels
Author: Henry Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 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...