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Vet at the End of the Earth: Adventures with Animals in the South
Brings a delightfully fresh perspective on the vet memoir, with a huge variety of fauna, unique settings and a literary sensibilityA warm, witty read that will entertain readers who love...
My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive stroke when a blood vessel exploded in the left side of...
I'm Glad My Mom Died
* #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * MORE THAN 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD! A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette...
Fed Up: A Chef's Adventures in Food, Farming and Feminism
Disillusioned chef and sustainable food advocate Lucy Ridge is sick of the barked orders, the long hours, the inappropriate comments in a male-dominated hospitality environment. It's ruining her love for...
Rose Boys
What exactly is the message of Robert Rose? One year after his death, twenty-six years afterjust another of our crashes, knowing the effect it had on his family and friends,...
Every Second Counts: A story of deadlines, daring, danger, and what
A FASCINATING, FAST-PACED MEMOIR by award-winning journalist Charlotte Glennie, who survived a near-fatal accident and went on to break new ground reporting across Asia during major world events. From being...
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir
Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her...
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir
Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her...
Grief is for People: A Memoir
Potent and propulsive, a lyrical meditation on loss and what comes after - TARA WESTOVER For most of her adult life, Sloane and Russell worked together and played together as...
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...
She Who Tastes, Knows: A memoir of food, exile and awakening
To truly understand things, we need to know them. We need to taste them. This is a story of how food connects us all - not only at the table...
Look After Your Feet: Some keen observations on the unexpected
This book is dedicated to feet, much maligned and underappreciated, but without which we would travel far less. Rosalie Ham, the international bestselling author, burst onto the literary scene in...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society
Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy investigates the modern concept of "tribes" and how New Tribalism has pernicious effects on the health of our society. TRIBES will explore ways in...
Stranger No More: A Muslim Refugee's Story of Harrowing Escape,
There will be pain ahead, and trouble and problems that I won't be able to fix on my own. But in them all, I know God will be there, calling...
You with the Sad Eyes: An unflinchingly honest and darkly funny memoir
Christina Applegate came of age on sets and stages, expected to be on time, with lines learned, ready for lights-camera-action. Performing began as a financial necessity and became an emotional...
The Meerkats Of Summer Farm: The True Story of Two Orphaned Meerkats
The Colliers are a pretty normal family: mum, dad, two kids, two dogs and two cats ... Oh, and a few wallabies, two lemurs, several owls, Ringo the bad-tempered crane...
Back On My Feet: From doctor to patient, a moving and inspirational
The inspirational story of how a rehabilitation doctor overcame her devastating spinal injury with faith and determination, and changed her life and practice as a result. In September 2008, Dr...
A Month in Siena
A moving reflection on the intersection of life and art, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return. Shortly after completing his searing work of non-fiction, The Return, Hisham Matar...
The Bootle Boy: an untidy life in news
A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper publishing, from a man who helped define our modern media. A brilliantly evocative memoir from the golden age of newspaper...
The Compassion Project: A case for hope and humankindness from the
'A wonderful book' - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee 'Highly convincing' - Daily Express 'Pioneering' - The Telegraph 'The strength of the book lies in its description of how community life can...
A Fighting Chance
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An unlikely political star tells the inspiring story of the two-decade journey that taught her how Washington really works--and really doesn't--in A Fighting Chance As...
Hope's Boy: Broken by life, saved by love
Andrew grew up in the 1970s with his funny, loving but deeply unstable mother. Life with her was totally chaotic. She left him alone in motel rooms at night and...
Out of the Darkness: The Mystery of Aaron Rodgers
Instant New York Times Bestseller "A masterwork. ... O'Connor answers every question, deftly and deeply, that we've had about the most controversial person in America's biggest game." -Peter King Four-time...
I Love You, Byeee: Rambles on DIY TV, Rockstars, Kids and Mums
A Sunday Times Bestseller 'I Love You, Byeee is poignant and properly funny; a bracing dip into nostalgia, but self-aware, too.' Observer The long-awaited new memoir and follow-up to the...
Love in a Headscarf: Muslim Woman Seeks The One
At the age of thirteen, I knew I was destined to marry John Travolta. One day he would arrive on my North London doorstep, fall madly in love with me...
Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices from Gaza
Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza asking each one of them about their experience of October 7, 2023, and what their life has been like...
Memory Pieces
Memory Pieces is an intimate and evocative memoir in three parts. `Double Unit' tells the story of Maurice Gee's parents - Lyndahl Chapple Gee, a talented writer who for reasons...
How Stella Learned to Talk: The groundbreaking story of the world's
An incredible, revolutionary true story and surprisingly simple guide to teaching your dog to talk from speech-language pathologist Christina Hunger, who taught her dog, Stella, to communicate using simple paw-sized...
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and
Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the account,...
Open Book
The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by the journals she's kept since age fifteen, and brimming...
Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs
A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith...
Frontline and Experimental Flying With the Fleet Air Arm
The spectacle of Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and the Fleet at anchor in Weymouth inspired the author's lifelong passion for airplanes, flying and the Royal Navy . World War Two...
The Village on the Edge of the World: Writing and Surviving
From her childhood in Romania, in a village 'as small as a thimble on the edge of the world', through to life in exile in Germany, Herta Muller's story unspools...
Blood and Circuses: An irresponsible memoir
In his early years on TV he was the 'wog' who was always being told to 'Leave the money on the fridge' by Ted Bullpitt in Kingswood Country . And...
The Rookie: An Odyssey through Chess (and Life)
Chess was invented more than 1,500 years ago, and is played in every country in the world. Stephen Moss sets out to master its mysteries, and unlock the secret of...
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands
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First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...
Nefarious: A life in crime - my life with Joey Pyle, the Krays and
A Daily Mail Book of the Week Prolific armed robber. Close ally of Joey Pyle. Friend and fellow inmate of the Kray twins. Last man to stand trial with a...
Meetings with Remarkable Men
An exhilarating, life-affirming travelogue and a provocative, rallying invocation to the search for spiritual truth 'Gurdjieff asks us why we are here, what we wish for, what forces we obey....
Chomsky and Me: My 24 Years Running Noam Chomsky's Office
Bev Stohl ran the MIT office of the renowned linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky for nearly two and a half decades. This is her account of those years, working...
Aquanaut: A Life Beneath The Surface - The Inside Story of the Thai
Watched by the world with bated breath, read the enthralling autobiography of cave-diver Rick Stanton, who played a leading role in the Thai cave rescue in 2018 In July 2018,...
Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle
New York Times bestseller A down-to-earth, hilarious collection of stories and musings on marriage, motherhood, and country life from the #1 New York Times bestselling author and star of the...
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison-Solitary Confinement, a
The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...
American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family
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Now in paperback: RFK Jr. describes his life growing up Kennedy in a tumultuous time in history that eerily echoes the issues of nuclear confrontation, religion, race, and inequality that...
Her Name Is Alice: My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must
'Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.' Sofie Hagen 'Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims,...
Stripped Down : Unfiltered and Unapologetic - A Modern-Day Memoir from
From the trailer parks of Vegas to the mansions of Nashville, Bunnie Xo has lived a lot of lives and seen the darkest sides of humanity. Her memoir, Stripped Down:...
How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto
For many people, wine is an anxiety-inducing mystery, and with so many varieties, it's difficult to know what to choose. That uncertainty often prevents them from enjoying wine, depriving them...
Help
Revealing, uplifting, heartbreaking - this is stand-up comedian Simon Amstell in his own words. 'A beautiful and clever book about being human' Russell Brand COMEDY. TRAGEDY. THERAPY. Simon Amstell did...
Letters To Poseidon
I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to a god? From his Mediterranean garden on the island...