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Memoirs and Reflections
Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear,...
A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future
Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Author: Hyeonseo Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships...
How to Trace Your Family Tree in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
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Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort
Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
Good Company: How to Build a Business without Losing Your Values
Author: Julietta Dexter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 In a highly competitive world, many think business success means being ruthless: maximising short-term return for shareholders, cutting overheads,...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man
Author: Dr Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Comet Sweeper (Icon Science): Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Author: Claire Brock Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel...
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home
Author: Tembi Locke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and...
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership
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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe
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...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
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...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
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,...
Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives)
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...
Lou Reed: A Life
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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...
Anna Comnena: A Study
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...
A Private War
Author: Marie Brenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan. The book that inspired the...
Talking to Strangers: And other ways of being human
Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'It's always a bad idea to go online and book a flight when you've had too much wine. You...
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures
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....
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953
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...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...
Nella Last's Peace: The Post-War Diaries Of Housewife 49
Author: Patricia Malcolmson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'I've met such interesting people, and always heard unbelievable stories about people's lives. If I could put all in...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
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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...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
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,...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov
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...
Self-help Messiah: Dale Carnegie and Success in Modern America
Author: Steven Watts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 586 "An illuminating biography of the man who taught Americans how to win friends and influence people b> efore Stephen Covey, Oprah...
The Messenger
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...
Face It: A Memoir
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...
Alpha Docs
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...
The Throwaway Boy
Author: Alix Chapel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Alix Chapel's husband Billy suffered a mental breakdown, he was forced to admit the truth of his tormented...
Taking Command
Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
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...
White Boots and Miniskirts: A True Story of Life in the Swinging Sixties
Author: Jacky Hyams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In the follow-up to her bestselling memoir Bombsites and Lollipops, Jacky Hyams takes a look back to the years...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....