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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 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...
Paths of Glory: The French Army, 1914-18
Author: Anthony Clayton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Anthony Clayton is an acknowledged expert on the French military and his book is a major contribution to the study and...
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...
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.'...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
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:...
The Balkans
Author: Mark Mazower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 At the end of the twentieth century people spoke as if the Balkans had plagued Europe forever. But two hundred years...
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...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom
Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
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...
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...
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
Author: David Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet
Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
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...
Away From Beloved Lover: A Musical Journey Through Cambodia
Author: Dee Peyok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 In the swinging 1960s, after nearly a century of colonisation, Cambodia had gained its independence and was ready to rock. Young...
Ataturk
Author: Andrew Mango Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This biography of Atat rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain...
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 Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying
Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking...
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...
Bushcraft 101: A Field Guide to the Art of Wilderness Survival
Author: Dave Canterbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Written by survivalist and self-reliance expert Dave Canterbury, Bushcraft 101 gets you ready for your next backcountry trip with advice on...
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...
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...