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Swell: A Waterbiography The Sunday Times SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 Part social history, part memoir, Swell shines a light on the 'swimming suffragettes'. These days, swimming may seem like...
Swimmingly: Adventures in Water
WINNER OF THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A hugely enjoyable love letter to swimming and open water adventures' - Sophie Raworth Sports and...
Boys Don't Cry: The A-Z of everything we need to talk about
Powerful and timeless, this is a book for everyone that will kick-start honest conversations and help create real change' - Fearne Cotton 'This book reminds us that being vulnerable is...
Tell Me Where it Hurts: A Day of Humour, Healing and Hope in My Life
Part ER, part Dog Whisperer, and part House, this heartfelt and candid book shows that while the technology has changed since James Herriot s day, the humanity and compassion remains...
Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the
Hunter S. Thompson - high priest of excess and supreme chronicler of the American nightmare - takes on the one subject too disturbing for anyone else to tackle: himself 'Hot...
Blue Eyed Samurai: 1000 Days In The Young Lions Dormitory
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At the center of this story stands Nicholas Pettas, a young man with an unwavering dream: to become the true "Karate Kid." Nicholas's indomitable spirit takes him from Copenhagen to...
A Better Life: How our darkest moments can be our greatest gift
A frank and inspiring guide to living a happy, fulfilling life with the challenge of a mental health issue. A Better Life is a rich blend of Craig Hamilton's own...
My Family and Other Animals
My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. This tv tie in...
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi's unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a...
The Accidental Memoir
The Accidental Memoir truly is for all: writers and non-writers, teachers and students, the perfect book for anyone seeking inspiration or imaginative ways to explore their own life story. The...
Love Wins
More than twenty years ago, Jim Obergefell and John Arthur fell in love in Cincinnati, Ohio, a place where gays were routinely picked up by police and fired from their...
Life in Limbo: My Battle with Depression, Infertility and Mental
This memoir, based on diary entries, is a frank, moving and at times humorous account of Matt Barwick's struggle with infertility, and diagnosis with bipolar disorder triggered by family suicide....
Underwing: A Story of Motherhood, Loss and Wild Intuition
One for sorrow, two for joy... When Jennifer Lane finally fell pregnant she and her partner were overjoyed. But it was not an easy pregnancy and her journey towards motherhood...
Justice For My Father: 'A must-read' - Paul Williams
In 1983 an off-duty prison officer was shot by the IRA in cold blood on a Dublin street. Over 40 years later, no one has been convicted of his murder....
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his...
My Body: Emily Ratajkowski's deeply honest and personal exploration of
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. _______________ 'This is the book...
D-Day to Victory: The Diaries of a British Tank Commander
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A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day. 'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the...
Reeva: A Mother's Story
In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, shooting her multiple times while she cowered behind the locked door of their...
Saltwater
Saltwater tells the compelling story of one lawyer's fight for justice amongst the beauty and the violence of this tropical paradise. 'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent...
To Miss with Love
One inspirational teacher. One extraordinary year. Hope and heartbreak on the front lines of an inner city school A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job....
Little Weirds: 'Funny, positive, completely original and inspiring'
'Magical' MINDY KALING 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see...
Black Watch: Liberating Europe and catching Himmler - my extraordinary
As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It...
Notes of a Russian Sniper
'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all...
Strange Memories: It's Only Forever...
From a bee-sting to a childhood re-visited. A chance visit in the doctor's waiting room saw Australian artist Anna Glynn read and apply to an advertisement for an Artist in...
Perfect Bound: A memoir of trauma, heartbreak and the words that saved
A Mail on Sunday Best Memoir 2024 'Truly compelling.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Breathtaking ... I loved it.' Fern Britton 'Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.' Alastair Campbell 'Gripping' Observer 'Brave and raw' Daily Mail...
Biting Through: Five Years in Afghanistan
John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find...
The Zeroes: My Misadventures in the Decade Wall Street Went Insane
Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...
Icefall: Adventures at the Wild Edges of Our Dangerous, Changing
In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All fell into a crevasse near Everest and took a series of videos as he struggled to climb out 70 feet of...
Adventures of a Compulsive Traveller
Journalist Dominic Dunne's travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the...
Boyfriends We've All Had (and Shouldn't Have)
A raunchy laugh-a-minute romp through the dating mistakes we all make before finding Mr Just Right and settling down in the 'burbs. Written with Mandy's customary wit and punch, BOYFRIENDS...
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
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The compulsively readable memoir of a woman at war-with herself, with her body, and with food-while working her way through the underbelly of New York City's glamorous culinary scene. Hannah...
All That Shimmers
Fendi, Christian Louboutin, Alex Perry, Jimmy Choo: with friends like these, who needs fidelity?When Jade Jaeger vowed "for richer or poorer" to her millionaire entrepreneur boyfriend, she was swept away...
You Better Not Cry
You've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot-tall-stuffed Santa? You ve seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?...
Mickey: The cat who helped me through times of change, from the
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo , a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural...
Stories to Tell: A Memoir
National Bestseller Legendary musician Richard Marx offers an enlightening, entertaining look at his life and career. Richard Marx is one of the most accomplished singer-songwriters in the history of popular...
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and her path to becoming one of the world's most influential voices, with reflections on hope, happiness and...
Only Ever Evonne
'The most elegant player to have ever graced a tennis court, Evonne brought her career to life with dedication, talent, love and fierce commitment. She has inspired millions to be...
Big Blue Sky: A memoir
Peter Garrett's life has been fully and passionately lived. A man of boundless energy, compassion, intelligence and creativity, he has already achieved enough to fill several lives. From his idyllic...
Plot Twist: A Memoir of a Writing Life
Part deeply personal memoir, part masterclass in storytelling, Plot Twist is a refreshingly honest look at the life of a writer whose stories have thrilled us for decades. Part deeply...
Fictional Selves
In this highly anticipated memoir, the beloved actor and star of Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, and Sex and the City shared his unconventional journey in Hollywood and every unforgettable story...
The other side
Hillary Rohde has lived the kind of life not often found outside of fiction; a life which seems to have had a bit of every genre all rolled into one...
Adult Fantasy: searching for true maturity in an age of mortgages,
'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky- the sound of a cultural...
Just Mercy: A Story Of Justice And Redemption
Just Mercy is at once an unforgettable account of an idealistic, gifted lawyer's coming of age, a moving portrait of the lives of those he has defended, and an inspiring...
The Profound Benefits of a Stint in Prison: Locked up and lucked out
Andrew Hamilton thought he had life sorted: beautiful fiance, a popular pizza restaurant, two beloved dogs and a thriving side business supplying massive quantities of magic mushrooms and LSD to...
You Will Go, Won't You?
Sad, humorous and confronting-the first hand account of Bob Handby's experiences throughout his day-to-day life in the field as an aid worker. Discover not only the dangerous circumstances and challenges...
Kindness: What surviving on the kindness of strangers taught me about
Kath Koschel has faced almost unimaginable hurdles. In her mid-twenties, she broke her back and was told she may never walk again. Shortly afterwards, she lost her beloved partner to...
Swimming Home: A Memoir
Introducing a major new Australian literary voice - an unforgettable memoir of the complicated love between a mother and daughter 'Easily the most vivid memoir I have ever read' -Sebastian...