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Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong
Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father
The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth...
Making a Scene
From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere.Growing up in the friendly suburbs of...
Unleashed
THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Jazz Jackrabbit, Gears of War,
The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise.Video games are dominating...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's
'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New...
Please Don't Take My Baby
'I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,' Jade said. 'I'll show my mum she's wrong.'Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she's brought to...
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that
You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia
A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALA searing memoir from Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, about one of the most misunderstood...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...
My Family: The Memoir
'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM KAY A searingly honest,...
Wernher Von Braun: Crusader for Space: A Biographical Memoir
This new edition of a biographical memoir describes the antecedents of the Apollo drama, based upon close personal and professional relationships between von Braun and the authors. Extracts from interviews,...
Shotguns and Stagecoaches: The Brave Men Who Rode for Wells Fargo in
The true stories of the Wild West heroes who guarded the iconic Wells Fargo stagecoaches and trains, battling colorful thieves, vicious highwaymen, and robbers armed with explosives. The phrase "riding...
Boy Soldiers: A Personal Story of Nazi Elite Schooling and its Legacy
Shining a light on the largely untold story of elite-schooled child and youth soldiers under the Nazi regime. Schooled by Barbarians documents the untold story of how the Nazis abused...
War of the Windsors: The Inside Story of Charles, Andrew and the
Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a...
The Dead Don't Need Reminding: In Search of Fugitives, Mississippi,
This brilliant, adult nonfiction debut from the acclaimed MG author and poet weaves two wrenching personal narratives of recovery and reclamation, spliced with a dazzle of pop-cultureThe Dead Don't Need...
The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize
Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The Stirrings is a...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
'A beautiful, deeply philosophical book about reading as a form of existential consolation' Literary Review'Acute and tender . . . alive with discovery and desire' Observer'A meditation, by turns glorious...
Highly Desirable: Tales of London's super-prime property from the
'A hugely fun tale of how the super-rich buy their super-prime lairs - I was absolutely boggled throughout. Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Rightmove anymore . ....
The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby
'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan'Extraordinary realism' SUNDAY TIMES'A touch of the Somme and more...
Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir
A gritty, revealing heavy metal memoir by Lamb of God's lead guitarist and co-lyricist, which explores both his life in music and his tumultuous path through addiction and into recovery.DESOLATION...
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024
'[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann NapolitanoA deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left...
The Light Room
'Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup' Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'The Light...
Womanish: A Grown Black Woman Speaks on Love and Life
Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be...
Bessborough: Three Women. Three Decades. Three Stories of Courage.
'I read Bessborough in one sitting, veering from fury to devastation within a matter of pages. A vitally important book.' Louise O'Neill'Vivid and powerful' CAELAINN HOGAN'I loved this book for...
Menopause: The True Story: A Life-changing Approach to the Change of
'The final step to equality has to be turning the menopause into a topic we can happily discuss, and even celebrate. In these pages, Christa D'Souza puts us firmly on...
Under A Rock
ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS OF 2024'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've...
FEH: A Memoir
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024'Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander's prose isn't just laudable, it's frightening' David SedarisFrom the acclaimed author of...
Polite: The Art of Communication at Home, at Work and in Public
A fresh and fascinating look at politeness and the important role it plays in our work, relationships and lives, from professor and pioneer of Politeness Theory, Louise Mullany'Fascinating and insightful....
Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto
As a boy, Zachary Zane sensed that all was not right when images of his therapist naked popped into his head. He sometimes imagined other people naked, too, and without...
What Is a Doctor?: A GP's Prescription for the Future
What Is a Doctor? is a vital contribution to the ongoing debate about how we maintain an NHS that is both fit for purpose and free. Using stories and case...
Ruskin Park: Sylvia, Me and the BBC
Can we ever really know the truth about our parents? From the popular journalist, podcaster and tweeter about his rescue dog #SophiefromRomania comes a moving memoir in search of the...
Kew - Parched: 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden
Dazzling, diverse, durable - discover the remarkable drought-proof plants that flourish in the driest environments.With rainfall unpredictable and summers increasingly hot, plants that survive and thrive in these conditions have...
Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online
'An ideal summer read' EVENING STANDARD'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKEOenone didn't set out to become an...
In Pursuit of Happiness: Mating, Marriage, Motherhood, Money, Mayhem
'Engaging, honest and funny...Stacey could write about Farrow & Ball paint drying - not to mention the breakdown of a marriage and a lifetime's dreams - and make it funny....
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
A Times Biography of the YearAda Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in ways that still influence...
Tiger Woman: A Wild Life
Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other.Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty May...
Time on Rock: A Climber's Route into the Mountains
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE BOARDMAN TASKER AWARD FOR MOUNTAIN LITERATUREWith great lyricism, Anna Fleming charts two parallel journeys: learning the craft of traditional rock climbing and the...
The Story of My Boyhood and Youth
'When I was a child in Scotland, I was fond of everything that was wild, and all my life I've been growing fonder and fonder of wild places and wild...
Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life, A Memoir
Everyone deals with grief in their own way. Helen Macdonald found solace in training a wild gos hawk. Cheryl Strayed found strength in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol...
brother. do. you. love. me.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults...
The Pill That Steals Lives - One Woman's Terrifying Journey to
When Katinka Blackford Newman was prescribed a common anti-depressant drug by her doctor, she could never have predicted the almost fatal consequences it would have.Shortly after she began taking the...
The Intimate Adventures Of A London Call Girl
Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story.From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle...
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood
Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What...
Theft by Finding: Diaries: Volume One
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'He's like an American Alan Bennett, in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry about waiting...