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Lost in Music: The classic laugh-out-loud memoir
A hilarious memoir and modern classic of trying to make it as a rock star, perfect for fans of High Fidelity and Daisy Jones & the Six 'In the Spring...
Confessions of a Minor Poet
Author: Phil Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'What a life. What a book. When it's not making your ribs rattle with laughter, it's making your heart ache with...
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan
Author: Robert Whiting Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades -...
Saving Elli
Author: Doug Gold Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger. In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl...
The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories
Author: Osamu Dazai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of...
The Jewel Garden
THE JEWEL GARDEN is the story of the garden that over the past decade has bloomed from the muddy fields around the Dons' Tudor farmhouse, a perfect metaphor for the...
Ciao Bella!: Six Take Italy
Host of Mamamia's No Filter Kate Langbroek tells all in this deliciously funny and inspiring memoir about moving to Italy with her family to seek la dolce vita. 'A wonderful...
All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden
'A beautifully written and wisely laid out memoir . . . a treasure map back to 'living', for those who have been away too long ' Donna Ashworth, author of...
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over
** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity
In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was...
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised
From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships While the Grohl family had always been...
Into the Uncut Grass: The instant New York Times bestseller
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'What will we find in the uncut grass? 'It depends on what we're looking for.' From the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime...
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story
'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed? '- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024...
Finding Me: The Grammy-winning, inspiring, deeply personal memoir by
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-blowing and emotionally honest tale of survival against all odds.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A breathtaking memoir...I was so moved by this book.' Oprah 'It is...
Naked
A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No.1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd...
When You Are Engulfed In Flames
David Sedaris remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics
Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
The Rest is Still Unwritten
Author: Natasha Chloe Muller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: What would it be like to cope with a life-threatening disease? How would it feel to be abandoned by your fiancŽ...
Vagabond
Author: Tim Curry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT. The outrageous,...
Nobody's Girl A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Author: Virginia Roberts Giuffre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The extraordinarily powerful and unforgettable memoir by the woman who stood up and spoke out about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell....
What Did I Miss?
Author: Holly Brunnbauer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Can she cram a wild decade into a few months without losing her mind ... or her heart? A witty rom-com for...
Big Mouth
"Like hanging with your funniest, sunniest, most sound, wise friend. " - Marian Keyes Everything good, bad and downright mad that has shaped Vogue's life and career is laid bare...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction
'I've never read a book like it. It's as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
Things I Didn't Throw Out
Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...
Mama Mia: A Memoir
Mia Freedman -- her life without the air-brushing 'this is a book about Mia the person ... It's not often we get to see our idols in this light' Sydney...
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...
Tested: Reflections and conversations on leadership and resilience
Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. Finalist at the Australian Business Book Awards - Leadership Category 2025 When...
Memories of an SOE Historian
Michael (MRD) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the...
The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany
Explores the life and works of P.G. Wodehouse and examines how his wonderful creations were based on real people and places. Wodehouse saw his first article published when still at...
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods
The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...
Save Our Souls: The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone , the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck,...
While I Have Your Attention: It's Never Too Late for a New Beginning
Find hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning. This book is for... Every person who has experienced struggle and hardship Every person who...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced
From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a
ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...
In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever
A coming-of-middle-age memoir, about the search for love, friendship and the ever-elusive Mr Darcy. Prince Charming? Happily ever after? Childhood fairy tales are full of promises, but the reality -...
Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)
With a new introduction, Northup's memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles. The 1853 memoir and slave narrative...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...
Women Leading the Way: Women are taking the lead, stepping into their
Is there a calling within you to step into your power? This book provides you with the inspiration, motivation and practical advice to show up as a leader and take...
Holocaust Hero: The Life and Times of Rudolf Vrba
"His story was breath-taking. He had what's described as a photographic memory. He was able to give eyewitness testimony that was unshakable and he played a key role in the...
All The Worst Humans: Shady Confessions of a PR Fixer
'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down' Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking 'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'A spin doctor to the...
Days in the Caucasus
A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...
My Beloved Monster
An instant New York Times bestseller, this is an unforgettable story about a cat, love and loss from a highly acclaimed writer Caleb Carr lived with cats ever since he...
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum - THE INSTANT BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY and THINKING IN NUMBERS A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience...
Blood, Sweat and Glitter
Em Rusciano - singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven - didn't mean to write a memoir. She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the...
Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics
How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled 'a second Newton'. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the...
Inside Out: A Story of Sport, Family and Self
Inside and Out is the inspiring story of one of Australia's all-time sporting champions: AFLW icon and basketball legend Erin Phillips. In this honest and revealing memoir, Erin candidly looks...
The Other Girl
WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born....