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Small Bodies of Water
Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning
Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'Hypnotic, shocking and unputdownable' JOHN LE CARRE 'Remarkable'...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling
Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
Katherine Howard
Author: Josephine Wilkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Katherine Howard was little more than a child when she married Henry VIII, and just 18 when she was beheaded in the...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood
Author: Finlay J. Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback 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...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance - A New York Times Bestseller
Author: Judy Batalion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that...
Vanished Years
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rupert Everett's first memoir - RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert
Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
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...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
A Short History of the World in 50 Books
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading
Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.
Author: Emma Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood
Author: Jasper Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story
Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen...
Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life
Author: James Crowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving
Author: Julia Samuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290 Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and...
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism
Author: Matthew Continetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A "superb" and "ambitious" (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism When most people...
Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk
Author: DBC Pierre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a...
Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant
Author: Roland Lazenby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Shortlisted for the 2017 Cross Sports Book Awards Best Biography of the Year Bryant is one of basketball's greatest-ever players, a...
Solid Ivory
Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
How Sugar Corrupted the World: From Slavery to Obesity
Author: Professor James Walvin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An 'entertaining, informative and utterly depressing global history of an important commodity . . . By alerting readers to the...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it...
Little Big Man
Author: Stanley J. Browne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother...
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin
Author: Robert Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept 'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....
America Over the Water
Author: Shirley Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee...
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World
Author: Jennifer Higgie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
Author: Christine Toomey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...