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The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
This Party's Got To Stop
Author: Rupert Thomson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs...
Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor: AS FEATURED ON CHANNEL 4 TV DOCUMENTARY
Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 December 1936. The King of England, Edward VIII, has given up his Crown, foregoing his duty for the love of Wallis...
Why Patti Smith Matters
Author: Caryn Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose....
Conclusions
Author: John Boorman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year' John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic...
Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967-75
Author: Richard Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Thompson could be said to be an English Dylan - only in some ways he's even better than that.' - Guardian...
Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Author: Barney Hoskyns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Spanning Tom Waits' extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, Lowside of the Road is Barney Hoskyns' unique take on...
Touching From a Distance
Author: Deborah Curtis (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The only in-depth biographical account of the legendary lead singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. Includes a foreword...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
The Great Peace: A Memoir
Author: Mena Suvari Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself...
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely...
From Manchester with Love: The Life and Opinions of Tony Wilson
Author: Paul Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 'Reading From Manchester With Love I feel I understand the times we've lived through differently, better, and from new angles. The...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir
Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
Miss Dior: A Wartime Story of Courage and Couture
Author: Justine Picardie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Miss Dior explores the relationship between the visionary designer Christian Dior and his beloved younger sister Catherine, who inspired his most...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
Coal Black Mornings
Author: Brett Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in COAL BLACK MORNINGS he traces the journey...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
Ataturk
Author: Andrew Mango Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This biography of Atat rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its...
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms...
No Shame: a queer life in suburbia
Author: Tom Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Excellent - I inhaled it, I absolutely loved it!... it's moving, and funny...It's a beautiful, beautiful read...for anyone who wants to...
Andy Warhol
Author: Wayne Koestenbaum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT 'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people...
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List'
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Vera Brittain: A Life
Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
Awakenings
Author: Oliver Sacks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
In the Dream House: Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
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Author: Carmen Maria Machado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' - Economist 'Daring, chilling,...
Notes on a Nervous Planet
Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it? Looking at sleep, news,...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Author: Robby Krieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the...
Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe
Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'An epic tale, told the way it should be' RECORD COLLECTOR 'The book he was born to write' CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE...
Thinking Again
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Joan of Arc
Author: Helen Castor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 We all know the story of Joan of Arc. A peasant girl who hears voices from God. A warrior leading an...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell you...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)
Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......