Biography

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...

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...

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,...

Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how...

Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...

Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker In this revealing, funny, and inspiring memoir, seven-time New...

Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...

Author: Annette Griffin Format: Board book Number of Pages: 20 Ants have a colony. Bats have a cloud. Chickens have peeps, where they can get loud. All the way from...

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Author: Joshua D Stein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "The lowdown on what it's like to be raised by a legend. Frequently funny and consistently intimate. . . ....

Author: Danielle Jawando Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 Maya Angelou was an African-American author, poet, playwright and civil rights activist. She wrote seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several...

Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...

Author: G. Buckler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Anna Comnena (1083-1148) was a princess of the Comneni dynasty, the eldest daughter of the Byzantine emperor Alexius I, and the...

Author: Philip Norman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Almost 50 years after his lonely death, Hendrix is the abiding symbol of musical genius cut tragically short. WILD...

Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret. Oskar's school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar's mother...

Author: Andre Leon Talley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the...

Author: Matt Haig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The world is messing with our minds. Rates of stress and anxiety are rising. A fast, nervous planet is creating fast...

Author: Hamish McKenzie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'You'll tell me if it ever starts getting genuinely insane, right?' - Elon Musk, TED interview Hamish McKenzie, a...

Author: Antonio Carluccio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Antonio Carluccio is a larger-than-life character who, over his 50-year career, has inspired thousands of people with his no-fuss Italian cooking...

Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .' Having recalled his life...

Author: Wilbur Smith Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....

Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...

Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Kafka first made the aquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into...

Author: Hello!lucky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Manners don't come naturally to everyone! But did you know that elephants are known for their impeccable etiquette? It's true! This hilarious...

Author: David Hare Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had...

Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...

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Author: Robin Rinaldi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The project was simple: Robin Rinaldi, a successful magazine journalist, would move into a San Francisco apartment, join a...

Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...

Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...

Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...

Author: Harry Eyres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem What is the value of the...

Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of 18 July 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...

Author: Shane White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In the middle decades of the nineteenth century Jeremiah G. Hamilton was a well-known figure on Wall Street. Cornelius Vanderbilt, America's...

Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...

Author: Maya Jasanoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Enlightening, compassionate, superb" --John Le Carre Winner of the 2018 Cundhill History Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book...

Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out...

Biography, April-2021 Secondhand Author: Carmen Callil Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 607 "Bad Faith "tells the story of one of history's most despicable villains and con men--Louis Darquier de Pellepoix,...

Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...

Author: Darcey Bussell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The first book from Darcey Bussell in over six years, retired darling of the British Ballet and beloved judge of Strictly...

Author: Warren Gatland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Warren Gatland is one of the most renowned rugby coaches of the last 20 years, leading Wales to three...

Author: Sebastian Mallaby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 WINNER OF THE 2016 FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, this is the biography of one...

Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what...

Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 After completing grueling residencies, the competition for subspecialty fellowships in the medical world is intense. And few fellowships, if any, are more selective...

Author: Janet Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm...

Author: Vanessa Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your...

Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...

Author: Patience Ibrahim Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a...