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The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A biographical orrery - intricate, complex and fascinating' The Observer 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and...
The President Will See You Now: My Stories and Lessons from Ronald Reagan's Final Years
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Author: Peggy Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Peggy Grande's memoir is the book to read on Ronald Reagan's post-presidential years . . . Among the most unique and...
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...
The End of an Earring
Author: Pam St Clement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to...
Tales from the Secret Footballer
Author: Anon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 **From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Footballer** FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS The Secret...
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir
Author: Rosie Mercado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Latina superstar and daytime television host, Rosie Mercado, tells the story of her incredible life. When Rosie Mercado was only nineteen,...
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't
Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
Gandhi: Naked Ambition
Author: Jad Adams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India's independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil...
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...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall
Author: Arron Crascall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Arron Crascall is one of the UK's leading social media stars. Millions watch his videos online and he's guaranteed...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother
Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot
Author: Cathy Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography
Author: Tricky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His...
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir
Author: Jason Rosenthal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
Author: Debora Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
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...
Falling is Like Flying
Author: Manon Uphoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister...
Coming Undone: A Memoir
Author: Terri White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else,...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated...
The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings
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Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
Is This Anything?
Author: Jerry Seinfeld Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The first book in twenty-five years from Jerry Seinfeld features his best work across five decades in comedy. Since...
Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real
Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss
Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
Breathe: A Life in Flow
Author: Rickson Gracie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Austerlitz
Author: W. G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency
Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Wicked Lord Lyttelton
Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
Bitter Experience Has Taught Me
Author, Nicholas Lezard (Non Fiction Reviews, guardian) Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 304 In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not...
Frederick Douglass, Prophet of Freedom
Author, David W. Blight Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 912 **Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History** "Extraordinary...a great American biography" (The New Yorker) of the most important African-American of...