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Godspeed: A Memoir
'I swim for every chance to get wasted - after every meet, every weekend, every travel trip. This is what I look forward to and what I tell no one-...
Granta 145: Ghosts
Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang, Stephen King, A.L. Kennedy, Doris Lessing, Ben Marcus, Lorrie Moore, Herta...
Cabin Fever: The Sizzling Secrets of a Virgin Air Hostess
The secrets of the Mile High Club revealed . . . Mandy Smith spent twelve years strutting down the aisles as one of Richard Branson's sexy and sassy flight attendants,...
Gone Bush
The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...
The School of Restoration: The story of one Ugandan woman who has
'Beyond inspiring . . . This story of the redeeming power of educating girls and the restoration of traumatised lives is beautiful. The impact will be immeasurable.' Tim Costello AO...
Counterclockwise: My Year of Hypnosis, Hormones, Dark Chocolate, and
In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there's no question that anyone who aims to look younger easily can. But Lauren Kessler wants something...
The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir
A New York Times Bestseller An Apple Best Book of the Month, February 2025 An unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary life-one forged through a poverty-stricken childhood in 'slummy, one-horse towns';...
The Undertaker's Daughter
'On the last day of 1959 my father, the Beau Brummel of morticians, piled us into his green and white Desoto in which we looked like a moving pack of...
Cheng Lei: The extraordinary memoir of surviving China's secret
The extraordinary true story of journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage. Journalist Cheng Lei spent more than...
The Lives of Brian: The Sunday Times bestselling autobiography from
The story of AC/DC's legendary front man in his own distinctive voice 'It wasn't me. I didn't do it. And I'll never do it again!' says Brian Johnson of The...
Things I Didn't Expect (when I was expecting)
Things I Didn't Expect is one woman's journey to make sense of the absurdities, the harsh realities, the myths and the downright lies about making babies. Pregnancy is natural, healthy...
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
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From the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO's Girls comes a hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays that establishes Lena Dunham as one of the most...
Burn Book
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech industry and its founders who wanted to change the world but broke it instead. While...
Big Mouth
"Like hanging with your funniest, sunniest, most sound, wise friend. " - Marian Keyes Everything good, bad and downright mad that has shaped Vogue's life and career is laid bare...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction
'I've never read a book like it. It's as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
The Path to Power
Margaret Thatcher's government was, she says, about the application of a philosophy, not the implementation of an administrative programme. These ideas and beliefs were propelled throughout her time in office...
A Glimpse of Eternal Snows: A Family's Journey of Love and Loss in
When Jane Wilson-Howarth'sson, David, was diagnosed with serious neurological disorders, the family faced a major decision. They could stay in England, where David had access to the best services that...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs
'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post 'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker '[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times 'A fascinating new look at the patchwork chaos called...
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace
'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person . can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than...
Chernobyl Strawberries
Vesna Goldsworthy breezed through life - a pampered child of the Serbian middle class, a top student at Belgrade University, a presenter of a fashionable radio programme, a poet who...
White Male Stand-Up
'Davies has done it again, damn him. Irritatingly good. Maddeningly funny. Annoyingly fine.' STEPHEN FRY 'Emotional, entertaining and startlingly honest. I was totally engrossed .' AMY LIPTROT , author of...
Free Spirit: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life
"I read Free Spirit all in one go as I literally couldn't put it down.Tanya Sarne's courage and resilience are utterly awe-inspiring.You could read no better book than this on...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted
'Divide is well written and thought-provoking' - Sunday Telegraph 'A lively guide through the thorny challenges of rural life in an urban world. Essential reading for both incomer and local....
Mama Mia: A Memoir
Mia Freedman -- her life without the air-brushing 'this is a book about Mia the person ... It's not often we get to see our idols in this light' Sydney...
Wally's World
Marsha Boulton gave up her glamorous job as a journalist, and with her partner Stephen, moved to a farm in the middle of nowhere. Shortly after, they learned they would...
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Journey to Understand His
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A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2011 The Boy in the Moon is Ian Brown's powerful, honest, and emotionally complicated memoir of raising his son, Walker--one of only...
The Tent, the Bucket and Me
Pack your suitcases, we're off! A hilarious Seventies childhood memoir of utterly disastrous family camping trips, now the inspiration for the major BBC series THE KENNEDYS.. Emma Kennedy's hilarious memoir...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. 'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case...
Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen
Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires , Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -...
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...
The Unwinding of the Miracle: A memoir of life, death and everything
An inspiring memoir by a young mother with Stage Four metastatic cancer, The Unwinding of the Miracle challenges the way we write and talk about death and demands you contemplate...
Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life
Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad?...
Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After
An Amazon Best Memoir of the Month One of Elle Magazine's Best Books of 2017 Goodreads Best of the Month Daily Beast, "Books I Can't Live Without" Good Housekeeping, Best...
The Grove: A Nature Odyssey in 19 1/2 Front Gardens
*** 'The best gardening book of 2022.' The Telegraph 'A book to make even a quick trip to the corner shop endlessly fascinating. Dark has been dubbed the millennial Monty...
Tissue
'wide-ranging, defiant and impassioned' - Fiona Wright, author of The World Was Whole What does it mean to terminate a pregnancy? In Tissue, Madison Griffiths turns her keen eye to...
The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times
When, in 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency unanimously elected Mohamed ElBaradei as its next Director General, few observers could have forecast the dramatic role he would play over the...
Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor
From a top speechwriter to President George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, this may be the most deliciously candid memoir ever written about official Washington - a laugh-out-loud cri de...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOW Inventory of...
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Dr Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and the only certainty we all share: death `Impossible to read with dry...
Time for Her: A Memoir of True Romance
MITCH LARSSON LIVED THE REGULAR LIFE OF A MARRIED FATHER, UNTIL A SNAP DECISION MADE IN HIS FORTIES CHANGED HIS LIFE AND THE LIVES OF MANY WOMEN... Time for Her...
Waleed Aly (I Know This To Be True): On sincerity, compassion &
Waleed Aly is an Australian broadcaster, journalist, academic and musician. As co-host of The Project , a daily primetime television news and current affairs programme, he is one Australia's leading...
Being Peta: living with leukaemia
Being Peta provides a brave, honest firsthand account by a young person of what it's like to live with leukaemia. It is a book that will provide comfort and companionship...
The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley ( a memoir)
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia's most revered writers - Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with...
The Hidden Journey: Melanoma Up Close and Personal
Christine is in a purple patch of her life. Recently retired, she has big plans for the future and decides to keep a journal. This is her time: time to...
The Ride of My Life: Memoirs of a Sporting Editor
Michael Clayton has enjoyed a fascinating career as a professional journalist on Fleet Street but the highlight of his career was his work as a editor and journalist in the...
Rural Tranquillity to National Crisis: A Farm Vet's Story
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Born in rural Worcestershire in 1950, David Harwood learnt about keeping animals from an early age, before going on to study veterinary medicine at London's Royal Veterinary College. Once qualified,...
Why We Run: A Story of Obsession
Everyone can run. It is the simplest of sports, requiring only a pair of trainers and the open road. Its simplicity is part of its beauty. But why do we...