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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...
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...
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...
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...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science
Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its...
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short
Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms...
Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond!
Author: Emily Atack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Warm, charming and remarkably honest - Grazia The highs, the lows, the hangovers, the relationships, the lucky breaks (and the breaks...
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...
Schindler's Ark: The Booker Prize winning novel filmed as 'Schindler's List'
Author: Thomas Keneally Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was...
A Prayer for Gallipoli: The Great War Diaries of Chaplain Kenneth Best
Author: Gavin Roynon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War - others insisted on doing so,...
Night
Author: Elie Wiesel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz...
White Fragility: Why Its So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Author: Robin Diangelo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this "vital, necessary, and beautiful book" (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility...
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...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age
Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
1942: Britain at the Brink
Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium
Author: Lucy Inglis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'Lucy Inglis has done a wonderful job bringing together a wide range of sources to tell the history of the most...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly...
Art Hiding in Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the Secret Masterpieces of the City of Light
Author: Lori Zimmer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Paris is the city of light, the city of love, and the city of more art than you could possibly explore...
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023
Author: Will Ashon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic...
A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons
Author: Geoffrey Hindley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Starting AD 400 (around the time of their invasion of England) and running through to the 1100s (the 'Aftermath'), historian Geoffrey...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass...
Dante
Author: Alessandro Barbero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but...
Achtung Panzer!
Author: Heinz Guderian Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Published in 1937, the result of 15 years of study since his days on the German General Staff in World War...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
The God Delusion
Author: Richard Dawkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The God Delusion caused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic,...
How Democracies Die
Author: Steven Levitsky, Daniel Ziblatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Donald Drumpf's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is our democracy...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History
Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
Holocaust Child: Lalechka - An Inspirational Story of Survival
Author: Amira Keidar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A little girl is smuggled out of a Jewish ghetto by two courageous women. Holocaust Child is an inspirational story of...
SEX/LIFE: 44 Chapters About 4 Men: Now a series on Netflix
Author: BB Easton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The inspiration for seasons one and two of the hit Netflix series Sex/Life One woman's secret journal completely changes her marriage...
D-Day: The Soldiers' Story
Author: Giles Milton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Compellingly authentic, revelatory and beautifully written. A gripping tour de force' Damien Lewis Almost seventy-five years have passed since D-Day, the...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
Goodbye to All That
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback 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...
A Brief History of the Normans: The Conquests that Changed the Face of Europe
Author: Francois Neveux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The history of the Normans began a long time before 1066. Originating from the 'Norsemen' they were one of the most...
I Used to Know That: History
Author: Emma Marriott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 If your response to a mention of the Wars of the Roses, the Sumerians or the Reformation is, 'Hmmm, I've heard...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In
Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 390 From groundbreaking writer and thinker Jared Diamond comes the epic, visionary book, now in a revised edition with a new afterword,...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...