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Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
End to End: 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles
Author: Paul Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A really great read, fascinating, moving' Adrian Chiles The End to End record is the longest place-to-place cycling record in Britain....
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy
Author: Tessa Dunlop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal...
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City
Author: Dr David Dickson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 Dublin has many histories: for a thousand years a modest urban settlement on the quiet waters of the Irish Sea,...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'Haunting, remarkable and ultimately very moving' Sunday Times The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
Churchill and Empire: Portrait of an Imperialist
Author: Lawrence James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 One of our finest narrative historians, Lawrence James has written a biography of Winston Churchill, set within a fully detailed historical...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Budapest: Between East and West
Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Wallis Simpson, Theodore Roosevelt, Benito Mussolini, Evelyn Waugh, the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti, and the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin,...
Brian Friel: Essays, Diaries, Interviews: 1964-1999: Essays and Interviews
Author: Professor Christopher Murray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Since the success of "Philadelphia, Here I Come!" in 1964, Brian Friel has written over twenty plays, successively confirming his...
Anatomy of a Nation: A History of British Identity in 50 Documents
Author: Dominic Selwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons
Author: Kate Fagan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 ? Kate Fagan and her father forged their relationship on the basketball court, bonded by sweaty high fives and a dedication...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen in a...
A Stinging Delight: A Memoir
Author: David Storey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic...
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...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition
Author: Julia Kaye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Instead of a traditional written diary, Julia Kaye has always turned to art as a means of self-reflection. So when she...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Mary, Queen of Scots
Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
Into the Rip: How the Australian Way of Risk Made My Family Stronger, Happier ... and Less American
Author: Damien Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Damien Cave brought his young family to Sydney to set up the New York Times' Australian Bureau, they encountered the...
Inside Ukraine: A Portrait of a Country and its People
Author: Ukrainer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Inside Ukraine is a compelling visual portrait of the real Ukraine, lovingly put together by Ukrainians in the years leading up to...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries
Author: John L Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption
Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know
Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE
Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
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...
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Author: Natasha Tidd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Taking readers on a global journey through human history, historian Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us,...
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...
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...
25 Days to Aden: The Unknown Story of Arabian Elite Forces at War
Author: Michael Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 25 Days to Aden is the story of how in a week in 2015 the Gulf States pulled together a ten-nation...
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...
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces,...
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...
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...
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 Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone
Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS IF SHE...
The Unmumsy Mum: The Hilarious Highs and Emotional Lows of Motherhood
Author: Giovanna Fletcher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The massively successful Unmumsy Mum writes candidly about motherhood like it really is: the messy, maddening, hilarioud reality, how there is no...
Out of Africa
Author: Karen Blixen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa,...