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The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible
Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41
Author: Frederick Douglass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Author: Frank Langfitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
Sea State
Author: Tabitha Lasley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 A...
The Making of Us: Why School Matters
Author: Clarissa Farr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Lenin the Dictator
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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
Author: Eva Schloss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback 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...
Born On a Blue Day
Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date...
A Brief Guide to Jane Austen: The Life and Times of the World's Favourite Author
Author: Charles Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the...
Love Like Salt: A Memoir
Author: Helen Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four...
Slash: The Autobiography
Author: Slash Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling...
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes
Author: Phyllis Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 250 'What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir this is. Phyllis writes of longing, suffering, family, and food with such delicate...
The Universal Tone
Author: Carlos Santana Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited memoir of guitar legend Carlos Santana. In 1967 at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium, a young...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
Author: Michael Punke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes...
Let Me Go: Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for
Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley...
The Buddhist on Death Row
Author: David Sheff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. Jarvis...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
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Author: Niall Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1008 From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of...
Letters of Note: Mothers
Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and...
Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values
Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
Cicero: Selected Letters
Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Author: Claire Brock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel...
The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Author: Thomas Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby...
Brief Lives - Newton (Peter Ackroyd)
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership
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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...
Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary
Author: David Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...
Imagine This
Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Until now, the true story of John Lennon's childhood has never been told. John's sister Julia has herself been...
The Man Who Sold the Milky Way: A Biography of Bart Bok
Author: David H. Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 246 Distinguished researcher, teacher, and lecturer, Bok began his professional career at the University of Leiden. In 1929 he...
Everyone Versus Racism: A Letter to My Children
Author: Patrick Hutchinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'The best of England' The New Statesman 'A powerful open letter about racism' The Sun 'I just want equality,...