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Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...
Thinking Again
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey through Life and Death
Author: Paul Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 2008, the renowned violinist Paul Robertson suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying momentarily on the operating table, he remained in...
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...
Sean Connery: The measure of a man
Author: Christopher Bray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to...
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
Author: John Adams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the...
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Author: Chuck Klosterman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock'n'roll and death across a continent....
The Queen's Knight
Author: Martyn Downer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Suppressed passion and domestic intrigue at the heart of Queen Victoria's court. Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War,...
Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam's Beijing Envoy
Author: Stephen FitzGerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Comrade Ambassador reveals how Australia from the 1960s decided to engage with Asia and change for all time how we saw...
True Compass: A Memoir
Author: Senator Edward M. Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A landmark autobiography and the definite account from a member of America s most heralded family. As a young...
My Judy Garland Life
Author: Susie Boyt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, MY JUDY GARLAND LIFE will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or...
Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem
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Author: Jeremy Spencer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From the cofounder of Five Finger Death Punch, a fascinating inside account of one of the most successful heavy-metal bands of...
Between the Sticks
Author: Alan Hodgkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 2013, Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing and coaching at clubs including Sheffield United, Manchester United and England. This...
Solito
Author: Javier Zamora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Javier is nine years old, can't tie his shoes, and dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in...
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Edward Enninful Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted...
A Pocketful of Happiness
Author: Richard E. Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a...
Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: Lisa Taddeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever...
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011
Author: William Feaver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY...
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
Author: Max Chafkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the...
Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage
Author: Mr James Runcie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I'd met her - but feeling...
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (University of Notre Dame, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________...
Solito
Author: Javier Zamora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Javier is nine years old, can't tie his shoes, and dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in...
Soldier: Respect Is Earned
Author: Jay Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one...
So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait
Author: Aaron Fa'Aoso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers...
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading...
Robert Peel: A Biography
Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
Reckoning
Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
Paul McCartney: The Biography
Author: Philip Norman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 864 The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking...
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
In My Mother's Shoes
Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Honest, funny, heartfelt ...I loved it' Cathy Kelly Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother's Shoes is Alison Walsh's delightful...
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic
Author: Bill Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Winner of the New York City Book Award From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
Author: Levison Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by...
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Author: Isaac Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the New Atlantic...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises
Author: A. N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Here at last is the story of one of the leading contemporary critics, literary and otherwise, who has become celebrated...
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen
Author: Jane Draycott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene....
Bedtime Story
Author: Chloe Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From...
A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce
Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN...
Unfinished Woman
Author: Robyn Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA 2024 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN 'The zigzagging life of an adventurer'...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
Angela's Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the...
Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
Author: M Manson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The best-selling autobiography of America's most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his...
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Author: Hyeonseo Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and...
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things...