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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir
Author: Thomas Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby...
Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
Author: Tom Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Based on rare one-on-one interviews with the flamboyant rock 'n' roll icon, this is the first book to trace Elton John's...
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...
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,...
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...
Too Scared to Tell: Abused and alone, Oskar has no one. A true story.
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...
To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in
Author: Philippe Petit Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers...
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...
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy
Author: John Prevas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and...
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...
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...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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...
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 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...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened 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...
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...
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...
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
Author: Chrissie Wellington Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family
Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...
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 . ....
The Secrets of My Life
Author: Caitlyn Jenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal...
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces
Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin...
The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner
Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive...
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound
Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade
Author: Sophie Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at...
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light
Author: Carlos Santana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of...
Another Bloody Love Letter
Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
David Bowie: Starman
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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
Gangbuster
Author: Peter Bleksley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but...
Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary...
Stay Golden
Author: Lucky Blue Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 While most kids my age were sitting in English class waiting for the bell to ring, I was...
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted
Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects...
King of the World
Author: David Remnick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 With an introduction by Salman Rushdie. It was the night of February 25, 1964. A cloud of cigar smoke...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering
Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter
Author: Duane Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Duane 'Dog' Chapman entertains and inspires millions on DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER, his top-rated TV show, but there is...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
On the Road with Janis Joplin
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Author: John Byrne Cooke Format: Book Number of Pages: 432 One of Parade's Top Ten Rock n' Roll Reads As a road manager and filmmaker, he helped run the Janis...
Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography
Author: Mike Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 One of the most talked-about and best-selling books of last year, this is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting...
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics
Author: Chris Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major...