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Split Decision: Life Stories
Award-winning actor, rapper, and producer Ice-T unveils a compelling memoir of his early life robbing jewelry stores until he found fame and fortune-while a handful of bad choices sent his...
Based on a True Story
From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers' lives into one. Author of...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...
A Slice of Fried Gold: Taste my Memories
'I want to eat everything in this book every single day for the rest of my life.' James AcasterFrom Spaced and Hot Fuzz to Paul and Truth Seekers, Nick Frost...
Rise: Life Lessons in Speaking Out, Standing Tall & Leading the Way
Gina Miller came to prominence when she brought one of the most significant constitutional cases ever to be heard in the British Supreme Court. Gina successfully challenged the UK government's...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
"[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one of the most emotionally exacting, mercilessly candid, deeply funny,...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating'
'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL'Heartfelt and upfront... A grieving daughter rediscovers her mother's political past'...
Performance: An electrifying memoir from the dark heart of London's
'Enthralling... Ivo captures the euphoria and comedown of Soho's clubland so acutely' THE TIMES'Stunning . . . a love letter to the aliveness of London and its nightlife' SOPHIE MACKINTOSH'A...
Geek Magnifique: Finding the Logic in my OCD
At her lowest point, Melissa Boyle was starving herself out of fear of vomiting, avoiding leaving the house so that she wouldn't become contaminated. Wracked with the debilitating symptoms of...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to
The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Owen Wright...
Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir
Emmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, "unforgettably memorable" (Lily Tomlin) memoir about her five decades in Hollywood, where she took on some of the most...
Stray
From the author of the international bestseller Sweetbitter, a memoir of survival, starting over, and love in all its complicated guises. Even after achieving her dream of selling her debut...
Underclass: A Memoir
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERDr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and where substance abuse was a day-to-day occurrence. Now one of the...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDAn unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
Saturday Afternoon Fever
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Love Affair: The memoir of a forbidden father-daughter relationship
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Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face
'Patterson is one of the great comic writers of the last quarter century' THE HERALD'Unsparing but ultimately uplifting, every sentence cuts a caper' MOJO'A thoroughly engaging, life-affirming book' MAIL ON...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey into the Past to Unearth Family Secrets
Max and Mally, two out of millions murdered in the Holocaust, are deported in 1942 from Berlin to Theresienstadt - where they will starve to death.Decades later, in London and...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDAn unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
Horses, Heifers and Hairy Pigs: The Life of a Yorkshire Vet
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Star of Channel 5's television series The Yorkshire Vet, Julian Norton has written a warm, evocative and often funny memoir of his life and the huge variety of animals and...
Get Me the Urgent Biscuits: An Assistant's Adventures in Theatreland
'A sparkling memoir full of charm and wit' NINA STIBBE 'Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book' ZOE WANAMAKER At eighteen, after moving to London with dreams of...
Spinning Plates: SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR talks Music, Men and Motherhood
AS HEARD ON HIT FILM SALTBURN.'She's an honest and a very warm writer... it's a really warm read this. It might just touch a lot of readers.' - MAGIC RADIO'Honest...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: Quick Reads 2024
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Kit de Waal and her brother and sisters had a hard childhood in the West Midlands. Her Irish mother didn't feed them, didn't believe in Christmas or birthdays, and thought...
The Little Guide to Britney Spears: Stronger than Yesterday
'Success is a state of mind... Success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.' - Stylist Magazine, 2011.Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning pop icon Britney Spears is one...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
'A powerful, eloquent and deeply affecting book. I loved it' EDMUND DE WAAL'Tender, evocative and deeply moving' JONATHAN FREEDLAND'Profound, elegiac and fascinating... I zipped through it' PHILIPPE SANDS'Compelling' DAILY MAIL,...
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out...
Down with the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj TankianWith nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of...
A Pebble In The Throat: Growing Up Between Two Continents
SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'I loved this book ... incredibly moving' Reverend Richard Coles'A treasure of a book' Fern BrittonThe heart-warming memoir from the much-loved broadcasterA Pebble...
The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began speaking of the earth beneath our feet as la...
The Anxiety Project
"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
My Broken Language: A Memoir
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Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh
WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the YearCritic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick...
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
'Magical and transporting . . . Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms'Maggie O'Farrell'A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival: a map...
Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online
'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Warm, juicy, and eye-opening, like having a chat with a best friend'...
Justice for Helen: As featured in The Mirror: A mother's quest to find
Burying a child is every parent's nightmare. But Marie McCourt has spent 31 years yearning to do just that.On February 9th, 1988, her 22-year-old daughter, Helen, left her office in...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author...
Rebel Talk
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Lucky
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The Six Pack: On the Open Road in Search of Wrestlemania
They say to never meet your heroes. Brad Balukjian doesn't listen. From the bestselling author of The Wax Pack, comes another eye-opening road trip adventure into a pocket of massively...
Walking the Americas: 'A wildly entertaining account of his epic
LONGLISTED IN THE ADVENTURE TRAVEL CATEGORY OF THE 2017 BANFF MOUNTAIN BOOK AWARDS SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLERBY THE AUTHOR OF WALKING THE HIMALAYAS, WINNER OF THE 2016 EDWARD STANFORD...
Love and Other Gods: Adventures Through Psychosis
Michael Nangla was the first of his family to be born in England and has always been torn between two cultures; that of his mother's homeland and that of the...
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out...
The Cove: A Cornish Haunting
For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound...
Take Nothing for Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life
Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the presenter of various documentaries exploring the most dangerous people and places on the planet, BAFTA-winning actor Ross...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday
'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of...
Living My Best Life, Hun
'A hilarious must read.' -Jameela Jamil'I loved the chutzpah and the honesty.' - Graham Norton'Funny, frank and inspiring.' - Lenny Henry All her life, London longed to be a badass,...
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience
__***From the number-one bestselling author***'It's a constant cycle of loving and losing, gratitude at surviving and grief for what's been lost. I think we all emerged from the last few...