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The McCartney Legacy: Volume 1: 1969-73
Author: Allan Kozinn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 In this first of a groundbreaking multivolume set, THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY, VOL 1: 1969-73 captures the life of Paul McCartney in...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century
Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
To Reach the Clouds: The Walk film tie in
Author: Philippe Petit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew
Author: Julia Copus Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'An exquisitely told account of the life of a half-forgotten London poet whose work was admired by Hardy, Sassoon and Virginia...
The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War
Author: Philip Oltermann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Engrossing.' -Observer 'Remarkable.' - The Times 'Magnificent.'- Phillipe Sands 'Gripping.'- Literary Review 'A history so outlandish and unlikely that you feel...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy
Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
The League of Wives: The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the US Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
Author: Heath Hardage Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The true story of the fierce band of women who battled...
The Last Palace: Europe's Extraordinary Century Through Five Lives and One House in Prague
Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 When Norman Eisen moved into the US ambassador's residence in Prague, returning to the land his mother had fled after the...
The Last Assassin
Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A gripping history' Mary Beard 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel 'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his]...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
The Great Peace: A Memoir
Author: Mena Suvari Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had...
The Cure for Sleep
Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Just days...
Testament Of Youth: Film Tie In
Author: Vera Brittain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE With an introduction by her biographer, Mark Bostridge 'Remains one of the most powerful and widely...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with...
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN
Author: Georgina Lawton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly... a gripping, thought-provoking book.' The Sunday Times 'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of...
Priests de la Resistance!: The loose canons who fought Fascism in the twentieth century
Author: The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "Whoever said that Christians had to be meek and mild hadn't met Father Kir - parish priest and French...
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais
Author: Stephen Golding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future
Author: Jill Lepore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey...
Hope is a Woman's Name
Author: Amal Elsana Alh'jooj Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 456 At birth it was only Amal's father who looked at her and said "I see hope in her face. I...
Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep
Author: Michael Schulman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Her Again is an intimate look at the artistic coming-of-age of the greatest actress of her generation, from the homecoming float...
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife
Author: Gustav Mahler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent of twentieth-century women. Her book Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (1940)...
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A memoir about women, addiction and love
Author: Nina Renata Aron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The disease he has is addiction,' Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend. 'The disease I have is loving him.'...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
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...
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...
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...
Chest Pain: A man, a stent and a camper van
Author: Michael Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In late 2018, Michael Harding was in a hotel room in Blanchardstown experiencing severe pains in his chest. He eventually phoned...
Chaise Longue
Author: Baxter Dury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Wild, exhilarating and very funny' Sunday Times 'A must-read for pop culture fans' The Times 'Unflinching' Observer ---------------- Chaos and debauchery...
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 Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This book will make you love her as much as I do' FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON 'Breath-taking courage and compassion...
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...
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),...
The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion
Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Ms Hepburn's elegant black shift to Lady Gaga's meat gown, The Dress relives the marvellous and unforgettable dresses of fashion:...