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A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES...
The Pilgrimage
Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Journey for the Ages The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coelho's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways,...
Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography
Author: Mark Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton...
History of War in Maps
Author: Philip Parker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From the moment towns and cities arose, the struggle for land, resources and power has turned to violence. Almost from the...
The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel
Author: Kati Marton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An...
Devotion: A Memoir
Author: Mickey Harte Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A moving and lyrical memoir about life, love and loss, from a true giant of Gaelic games. In a frenetic seven-year...
Murder: The Biography
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof. David Wilson...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
This Party's Got To Stop
Author: Rupert Thomson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs...
Conclusions
Author: John Boorman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year' John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic...
Porcelain
Author: Moby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New York club scene...
And Still I Rise
Author: Doreen Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In April 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered by a group of young white men on a street in south-east London. From...
The Bloody White Baron
Author: James Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before...
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...
Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity
Author: Justin Baldoni Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 A GRIPPING, FEARLESS EXPLORATION OF MASCULINITY The effects of traditionally defined masculinity have become one of the most prevalent social issues...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir
Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...
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 Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II
Author: George Weigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future and the...
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 Small Arms Trade: A Beginner's Guide
Author: Matthew Schroeder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 177 Small Arms are responsible for over half a million deaths each year. Despite this terrifying statistic, millions of guns flow into...
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 News from Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington's Victory
Author: Brian Cathcart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The Duke of Wellington's victory over Napoleon in 1815 at Waterloo ensured British dominance for the rest of the nineteenth century....
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 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 High Girders: The gripping true story of a Victorian dream that ended in tragedy
Author: John Prebble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A tale of irresponsibility and inexperience' THE TIMES 'Graphically written with a sense of dramatic construction' SCOTSMAN On December 28th 1879,...
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...
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir
Author: David Hare Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had...
The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
Author: George Packer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The Assassins' Gate is the main entrance to the Green Zone, the fortified enclave of Saddam's former palaces that now houses...
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...
Tenement Kid: Rough Trade Book of the Year
Author: Bobby Gillespie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 ROUGH TRADE'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Gillespie is rock and roll's Oliver Twist. A punk rock fairytale, razor sharp on class...
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...
On Michael Jackson
Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Michael Jackson: provocateur, icon, enigma. Who was he really? And how does his spectacular rise, his catastrophic fall, reflect upon those...
Munkey Diaries
Author: Jane Birkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge...
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.'...
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...