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A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist
Author: Chris Paling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain
Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground...
No Shame: the hilarious and candid memoir from one of our best-loved comedians
Author: Tom Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Wonderfully funny, utterly charming and sharp as all Hell' SARAH MILLICAN 'Tom Allen is one of the funniest comedians in the...
To Siri, With Love: A mother, her autistic son, and the kindness of a machine
Author: Judith Newman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A moving and witty memoir with a big heart' - Nigella Lawson No one would consider Judith Newman's domestic life normal....
Task Force Helmand: A Soldier's Story of Life, Death and Combat on the Afghan Front Line
Author: Doug Beattie, MC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Doug Beattie MC returns to Helmand Province for one final tour before retiring - and it's the most bloody and...
Saffron Barker Vs Real Life: My perfectly filtered life (Sort of. But not really at all)
Author: Saffron Barker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 #SaffronBarkerVSRealLife In world of airbrushing and perfectly constructed social media lives, one girl is battling to make it through completely unfiltered...
A Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM
Author: James Bowen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Street Cat Bob and James, stars of bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob that touched...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
A World Transformed: Slavery in the Americas and the Origins of Global Power
Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A World Transformed explores how slavery thrived at the heart of the entire Western world for more than three centuries....
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...
Black Icons in Herstory
Author: Monica Ahanonu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Black Icons in Herstory is the follow-up book to Icons: 50 Heroines Who Shaped Contemporary Culture by Monica Ahanonu. Following the...
Virginia Woolf
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'You cannot find peace by avoiding life' Virginia Woolf An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author...
My Life in Food: A Memoir
Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
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 Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain's Most Terrifying Prison
Author: Nicholas Guyatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The War of 1812 - the last time Britain and America went to war with each other. British redcoats torch the...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown
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...
Kevin Pietersen on Cricket: The toughest opponents, the greatest battles, the game we love
Author: Kevin Pietersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In 2014, Kevin Pietersen's autobiography was one of the most talked about sporting media stories of the year, largely due to...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants
Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
What Makes Us Stronger
Author: Freya Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her. Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the...
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude
Author: Emma Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir...
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
The Seasons: A Celebration of the English Year
Author: Nick Groom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For millennia, the passing seasons and their rhythms have marked our progress through the year. But what do they mean to...
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
Author: Scott Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The Arab Revolt against the Turks in World War One was, in the words of T.E. Lawrence, 'a sideshow of a...
Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family
Author: Amy Ellis Nutt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Becoming Nicole is a powerful and illuminating book about one couple's journey in coming to accept and nurture their transgender...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
The Ref's Call: Memoir of a Rugby Referee
Author: Owen Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A genuine presence on the field, Owen refereed with the perfect balance of respect and authority' Keith Wood 'Highly respected with...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
The Diary of a Young Girl
Author: Anne Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 une, 1942- I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide...
The Bell of Treason: The 1938 Munich Agreement in Czechoslovakia
Author: P.E. Caquet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 On returning from Germany on 30 September 1938 after his agreement with Hitler on the carve-up of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain spoke...
Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding
Author: Joanna Wolfarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Joanna Wolfarth was pregnant with her first child, she assumed she would breastfeed, as her mother had fed her. Yet...
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy; THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Frederic Martel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The New York Times Bestseller '[An] earth-shaking expose of clerical corruption' - National Catholic Reporter In the Closet of the Vatican...
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live
Author: Vashti Bunyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Magical and transporting' Maggie O'Farrell 'A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival... A quietly defiant and moving work' Sinead Gleeson 'An...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man
Author: Fiona Gell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown
Author: Shaun Bythell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
Philip Guston
Author: Musa Mayer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 120 Written by Musa Mayer - Philip Guston's daughter and President of The Guston Foundation - this book brings Guston's life and...
Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin
Author: C. M Kushins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The first full-length narrative biography of Led Zeppelin's John Bonham, considered by many to be one of the greatest drummers...
Diaries, 1984-1997
Author: James Lees-Milne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Despite advancing years, James Lees-Milne's descriptions of the people he meets, the houses he visits and country life on the Duke...
The Great Game
Author: Peter Hopkirk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in...
Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
Author: Jenson Button Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This is my life, not the stuff you've seen, but...
The Car: The rise and fall of the machine that made the modern world
Author: Bryan Appleyard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of...
Colombia Es Pasion!: The Generation of Racing Cyclists Who Changed Their Nation and the Tour de France
Author: Matt Rendell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 By winning the 2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal became the race's youngest champion in 110 years, and the first from...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom...
The Invention of Russia: The Journey from Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War
Author: Arkady Ostrovsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Winner 2016 Orwell Prize In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev launched Perestroika, opened Russia up to the world, ended the Cold War and...
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
Author: Greg Sestero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In 2003, an independent film called THE ROOM - starring and written, produced, and directed by a mysteriously wealthy social misfit...