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The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In
Author: Mark Lewisohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 960 The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System
Author: Ricardo Nuila Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .
Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World - WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023
Author: Lauren Fleshman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Author: Greg Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 * A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot *...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Author: Bill Browder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER 'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly,...
The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Author: Michael Finkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This...
The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd
Author: Janet White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book ....
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
Author: Erica Heller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A few years ago, Erica Heller, daughter of novelist Joseph Heller, realized how universal the longing is for one more moment...
Passion for Flying
Author: Tom Group Captain Eeles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Group Captain Tom Eeles served in the RAF for 44 years and totalled over 8000 hours of flying in...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography
Author: Pramod Kapoor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Rarely seen images and rigorous research provides fascinating insight into one of the most revered figures in modern Indian history. Gandhi...
Cacophony of Bone
Author: Kerri ni Dochartaigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage...
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
Author: Art Pepper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his...
Writers and Their Cats
Author: Alison Nastasi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 This follow-up to Artists and their Cats celebrates the special bond between celebrated writers and the cats who share their bookish...
Woody Guthrie: A Life: 'A really great book.' Bruce Springsteen
Author: Joe Klein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A really great book.' - Bruce Springsteen With a foreword by Billy Bragg. Few artists have captured the American experience of...
Prostitute Laundry
Author: Charlotte Shane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A Stylist 'Non-fiction You Can't Miss' selection for 2023 This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as...
I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America
Author: Tyler Merritt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this powerful memoir, the creator of the viral videos "Before You Call the Cops" and "Walking While Black", Tyler Merritt,...
Samuel Johnson: A Life
Author: David Nokes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out...
In the Company of Heroes: The Inspiring Stories of Medal of Honor Recipients from America's Longest Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Author: James Kitfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An award-winning military journalist tells the amazing stories of twenty-five soldiers who've won the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military...
Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem
Author: George Prochnik Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 Gershom Scholem, the great humanist thinker and founder of modern Kabbalah, is all but forgotten today. But here, in a biography...
Women Don't Owe You Pretty: The record-breaking best-selling book every woman needs
Author: Florence Given Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'THE BEAUTY MYTH' FOR THE INSTAGRAM GENERATION Women Don't Owe You Pretty is the ultimate book for anyone who wants to...
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister
Author: Olesya Khromeychuk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV 'If you read only one book about the war,...
Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home
Author: Susan Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she...
Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker
Author: Tom Parker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE POWERFUL AND UPLIFTING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died...
It's a Don's Life
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Beard's by now famous blog It's A Don's Life has been running on the Times Literary Supplement website for...
At the Loch of the Green Corrie
Author: Andrew Greig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A homage to a remarkable poet and his world. 'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more...
Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery
Author: Jessica Cornwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'When a woman gives birth, she may, unwittingly, remember violent things. Ugly things. Unspoken things.' After her twins were born, Jessica...
About A Son: A Father's Search for Truth
Author: David Whitehouse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A book that reaches so deeply into the human experience that to read it is to be forever changed' ELIZABETH DAY...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
Pride and Passion: My Autobiography
Author: Warren Gatland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS. 'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian 'Gatland is...
A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram
Author: Patience Ibrahim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to...
Along the Enchanted Way: A Story of Love and Life in Romania
Author: William Blacker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When William Blacker first crossed the snow-bound passes of northern Romania, he stumbled upon an almost medieval world. There, for many...
Small: On motherhoods
Author: Claire Lynch Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "Original, important, moving, witty and exquisitely-written. WHAT a feat." - BERNARDINE EVARISTO "Incredible... beautiful and funny and humane." - EMILIE PINE...
Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama
Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 784 The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, LONG WALK TO FREEDOM brilliantly re-creates the drama...
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian
Author: Richard Herring Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
A Cotswold Family Life: heart-warming stories of the countryside from the bestselling author
Author: Clare Mackintosh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Clare Mackintosh, A Cotswold Family Life is a warm, humorous memoir of family life in the...
Scar Tissue
Author: Anthony Kiedis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story,...
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures
Author: Ted Kessler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds
Author: John Higgs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 They were the bestselling singles band in the world. They had awards, credibility, commercial success and creative freedom. Then they deleted...
A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
Author: Chrissie Wellington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Chrissie Wellington is the world's No 1 female Ironman triathlete, a four times World Champion, having recently won the her fourth...
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Author: Alistair Urquhart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret
Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...