Biography

An insightful and comprehensive biography of the great twentieth century sculptor Alberto Giacometti. Alberto Giacometti was one of the most enigmatic and memorable personalities of the twentieth century. Born in...

There is a war on truth. And the liars are winning. There is an increasingly large number of weapons in the arsenal of the rich, the powerful and the elected...

The 36 murders are those for which men were either executed or served long terms of imprisonment for crimes which they were later found not to have committed. Two of...

'Utterly absorbing and deeply affecting' - The Guardian As a Spice Girl, TV talent show judge and Broadway star, Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice, has been a global icon since...

NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING SAOIRSE RONAN WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE AND THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE...

HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 'Jaw-dropping' -Val McDermid 'A police memoir like no other' -Kerry Daynes, bestselling author of The Dark Side...

New York Post and Toronto Sun crime reporter and author of Cold Blooded Murder, Brad Hunter has spent over thirty years writing about some of America's most horrific crimes. In...

An Observer , New Statesman , Financial Times , Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight 'Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what...

Harry Lamin was born in Derbyshire in 1877 and left school at thirteen to work in the lace industry, but by December 1916 he had been conscripted into the 9th...

'Darkly funny as well as deeply shocking, [Be Patient] is an antidote to This is Going to Hurt... This is what it's like to be on the other side of...

Letters to the Midwife is a wonderful collection of correspondence received by Jennifer Worth, offering a fascinating glimpse into a long-lost world. Along with readers' responses and personal histories, it...

Edna O'Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works 'to bestir the hearts of men and angels'. The...

This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the...

WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 2017 'In its tragic absurdity, Close But No Cigar reads like a Graham Greene story, with a cast of characters...

'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE 'A glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds' Bel Mooney, DAILY MAIL Written by a beginner-birdwatcher with the...

Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that...

'IN THE RHODODENDRONS is vital consolation, amidst the amidst. It's a triumph, an instant classic. Christle has become one of our art's most urgent living practitioners' Kaveh Akbar, author of...

A powerful exploration of grief following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal Everyone deals with grief in their own way....

A New York Times Bestseller Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this inspiring and witty memoir on a creative life enriched by her...

'We ain't got no drink, Pa.' I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back. 'We don't have no grog...

Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This...

'Immersive and compelling. I read it in a single day! Everyone should take a plunge into this book.' CATHY RENTZENBRINK ' The Tidal Year is some of the best writing...

'A moving true story that will pull at the heartstrings' - Woman & Home The first book in the Paws of Fame series, which follows movie animal trainer Julie Tottman...

'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .' Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2020 NAACP IMAGE AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING LITERARY WORK - BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY NOW OPTIONED FOR DEVELOPMENT AS A TV SERIES BY PARAMOUNT TELEVISION STUDIOS...

What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself? From a spectacular career spanning almost three decades, these...

"An important and necessary book... a work of honesty and humanity," Mishal Husain "This is a unique and necessary book. The Good Russian takes us inside wartime Russia, to a...

A lost artist . . . an obsessed collector . . . a true-life detective story set in the Australian art world, involving one of our most famous painters, Lloyd...

On the surface Mary Weiland had a fairy tale life. She was a successful model married to a successful rock star-Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland-and a...

One of golf's most popular and funny personalities reveals the ups and downs of a life playing the world's most infuriating sport. 'Even professional golfers hit bad shots. I guess...

In this brilliant new book, one of the world's leading restaurateurs shares wit and wisdom from a distinguished 40-year career and offers deep insight into some of life's most intriguing...

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand. When Casey...

'Oodnadatta Country - I can still see it, in my mind's eye, exactly as it was back in my time. The 'There are so many stories to tell of my...

When a clairvoyant tells Gretel Killeen that she has only days to live, she is forced to look back on all the most important things in her life. High on...

Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with internationally acclaimed poet, John Kinsella, to explore a common geography in poetry and prose. Sand is quintessentially Australian. It...

Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their...

'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna...

The incredible story of a six-continent journey of self-discovery Jenny Tough is an endurance athlete who's best known for running and cycling in some of world's most challenging events -...

There is a line that stretches from the northernmost tip of Denmark to where the Wadden Sea meets Holland in the south-west. Dorthe Nors, one of Denmark's most acclaimed writers,...

A voyage of discovery, nature and untold histories - in the vein of Clare Wright, Edmund de Waal and Helen Macdonald. When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed...

The last pill and testament from Britain's most famous and well-love drug smuggler "He is such a good writer ... Some of the descriptions in Mr Smiley of the Marbella...

Matt Wright - adventure-seeker, conservationist, tourism guru and star of the wildly successful National Geographic TV show Outback Wrangler - is back. Rescuing endangered species, piloting choppers and coming nose-to-snout...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when the family you grew up with turns out to be a house of mirrors...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageShe was a queen, a scholar, a strategist, and the most powerful woman in the ancient world —...

Condition remarks:Book: ExcellentJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the celebrated author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic comes a deeply personal and luminous meditation...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: DamagedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: worn dj with some loss; slightly discoloured boardsIn the vast, sun-scorched skies above a young nation, a handful of daring...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: price clipped dj; damaged fep - half of the page is missingCommando Extraordinary is a gripping...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: small stain on the book block, otherwise internally soundIn the fourth volume of his monumental series, Manning Clark...