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On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd
Author: Axel Linden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 'Axel Linden is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer 'Endearing...
After the Fall: Crisis, Recovery and the Making of a New Spain
Author: Tobias Buck Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Tobias Buck arrived in Madrid in December 2012, in time to celebrate the bleakest Christmas the city had seen...
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot
Author: Cathy Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography
Author: Tricky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His...
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir
Author: Jason Rosenthal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous
Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
If You Were There: Missing People and the Marks They Leave Behind
Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'One of the non-fiction books of the year.' Andrew O' Hagan A powerful, evocative and deeply personal journey into the world...
Feather and Brush: A History of Australian Bird Art
Author: Penny Olsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Feather and Brush traces the history of bird art in Australia - from the simple engravings illustrating accounts of the earliest...
The King and the Christmas Tree: A heartwarming story and beautiful festive gift for young and old alike
Author: A.N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Every year, a huge Norway spruce, twenty metres and more in height, is erected in Trafalgar Square. Many who see it...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
Author: Debora Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when...
Fire And Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Author: John C. McManus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 An engrossing, epic history of the US Army in the Pacific War "Out here, mention is seldom seen of the...
Swordswoman!: The Queen of Jhansi in the Indian Uprising of 1857
Author: Devika Rangachari Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Queen Lakshmibal of of Jhansi was an unconventional queen. She could read and write; she rode a horse and...
Life Lessons from Explorers: Learn how to weather life's storms from history's greatest explorers
Author: Felicity Aston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Great explorers are known for their hard-earned skills and meticulously honed character traits which have made their astonishing endeavours possible. Valuable...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Author: Masha Gessen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled,...
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...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
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Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
Author: Rebecca Donner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Born and raised in America, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD programme in Berlin and witnessed the...
Falling is Like Flying
Author: Manon Uphoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister...
Coming Undone: A Memoir
Author: Terri White Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else,...
Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima
Author: Martha MacCallum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In honor of the 75th Anniversary of one of the most critical battles of World...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
The Unnamable Present
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Author: Roberto Calasso Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A decisive key to help grasp some of the essential points of what is happening around us. The ninth part of...
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition
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Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real
Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...
Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19
Author: Alina Chan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Understanding how Covid-19 started is more important than we know for the future of humankind. Determining whether the virus...
The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy
Author: Lawrence Freedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 522 '...Lawrence Freedman has provided a masterly account of the evolution of nuclear strategic thought which is steeped in scholarship, elegantly written,...
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Author: Dan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Dan Jones's epic new history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
The Great British Speeches
Author: Simon Heffer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip-in...
An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The...
Over the Top
Author: Jonathan Van Ness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The...
Giving A Damn: Racism, Romance and Gone with the Wind
Author: Patricia Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 'I cannot help but see the bodies of my near ancestors in the current caravans of desperate souls fleeing from place...
Becoming: Adapted for Younger Readers
Author: Michelle Obama Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A younger reader's edition of the number-one bestselling memoir by former first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama. With a...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life
Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Austerlitz
Author: W. G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to...
V2: the Sunday Times bestselling World War II thriller
Author: Robert Harris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The no. 1 bestselling author of MUNICH and THE SECOND SLEEP returns to the Second World War for his...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Leadership in War: Lessons from Those Who Made History
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A comparison of nine leaders who led their nations through the some of greatest wars the world has ever...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency
Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson
Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
Heads Up: My Life Story
Author: Alan Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018 A DAILY TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Alan's...