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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...
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age and Death
Author: Peter Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the...
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...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley, one girl fought for her...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
Author: Robby Krieger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'An attempt to retell an oft-told tale, this time informed by a desire to suck the hot air out of the...
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...
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison
Author: Piper Kerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with...
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...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)
Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......
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,...
How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
Author: Peter Conrad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'We Are All Americans Now' proclaimed headlines around the world on the day after 9/11. It was not news: it had...
The Torch In My Ear
Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume...
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...
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33
Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic....
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces
Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' - Ian Bostridge Mozart is...
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...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London
Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked...
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...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to...
My Life on the Road
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Australian Women at War
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Crossing the Borders of Time: A True Story of War, Exile, and Love Reclaimed
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The Bean Patch
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Ten Days in May: People's Story of VE Day
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Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
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Dingo: The Story of Our Mob
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Where Do We Go from Here?
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Simply Hell Let Loose
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A Brief History of London
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 As the United Kingdom left the European Union, during a period of international and domestic turmoil, London found itself at a...