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Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

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Author: Oasis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An entertaining first-hand account of pure rock 'n' roll madness.' The Daily Telegraph 'Hundreds of exclusive photos and brilliant one-liners make for...
Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Author: D.J. Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature....
Furiously Happy

Furiously Happy

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Author: Jenny Lawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "It's the difference between surviving life and living life. It's the difference between taking a shower and teaching your monkey butler...
On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno

On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno

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Author: David Sheppard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 Authorised biography of Brian Eno - the 'Father of Ambient Music' A sonic alchemist to the stars, Brian Eno's address book...
A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

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Author: Jonathan Mildenhall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Much needed inspiration for those working hard to reach a position that matches their potential and their allies' Ally Owen, Founder...
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

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Author: Ben Jacob Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'A daring, delightful and galvanising call to save the...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

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Author: Brian Herbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
Keira & Me: A tale of two best friends and how they saved each other, the new bestseller from the Supervet

Keira & Me: A tale of two best friends and how they saved each other, the new bestseller from the Supervet

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Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Let national treasure Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - the Supervet - break your heart and put it back together again in...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

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Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to...
My Life

My Life

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Author: Golda Meir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Blockbusting film GOLDA starring Helen Mirren is out now 'The gripping memoir of a remarkable woman who rose to the top...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is a three-decade survivor's tale ... a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes,...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

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Author: Hollie McNish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly...
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

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Author: Cin Fabre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabre ran with the wolves of Wall...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

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Author: Natasha Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin's Lakes

Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin's Lakes

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Author: Jessica J. Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist,...
The Rules Do Not Apply

The Rules Do Not Apply

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Author: Ariel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris 'I...
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

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Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

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Author: Aidan Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 **Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** ?**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

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Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

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Author: Edward Parnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice'...
Diana: Her Last Love

Diana: Her Last Love

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Author: Kate Snell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 WITH NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR. When you're the most famous woman in the world, can you really love in secret?...
Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life

Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life

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Author: James Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'The Fever Pitch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONS A must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed amateur football. James Brown...
Harry Potter: Slytherin Ruled Pocket Journal

Harry Potter: Slytherin Ruled Pocket Journal

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Decorated with striking imagery from the beloved Harry Potter film series and featuring a refreshing new design, this...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

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Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her...
Into Thin Air

Into Thin Air

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Author: Jon Krakauer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 0
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

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Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
A Woman In Berlin

A Woman In Berlin

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Author: Anonymous Author Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the...
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

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Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

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Author: James Proud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 - DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO...
Animal House

Animal House

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Author: James Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade....
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

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Author: Puk Damsgard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along...
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End

The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End

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Author: Danny Dyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'I've had an up and down life - and I've tried to write down some of the stuff I've learned along...
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

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Author: Robert Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys,...
Harry Potter Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

Harry Potter Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter: Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal-one of Insight Editions' best-selling Harry Potter...
The Man Who Loved Siberia

The Man Who Loved Siberia

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Author: Roy Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when...
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

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Author: Patricia Highsmith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1024 'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of...
Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

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Author: Colin MacIntyre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque THIS PAPERBACK FEATURES...
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

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Author: Leo Houlding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton)...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

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Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian...
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

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Author: Suzy Hansen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Deeply honest and brave . . . A sincere and intelligent act of self-questioning . . . Hansen is doing something...
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

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Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . ....
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

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Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Sunday Times bestseller "Profoundly moving ... it falls into a tradition of beautifully written accounts of grief, such as Joan...
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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Author: Jenny Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1...