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Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story
Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary and the...
Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas
Author: Mavis Batey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The highly eccentric Alfred Dillwyn Knox, known simply as 'Dilly', was one of the leading figures in the British codebreaking successes...
The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society. The first known inhabitant of St...
Billie Eilish: From e-girl to Icon: The Unofficial Biography
Author: Adrian Besley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 With number one songs all over the world, a Bond theme, an armful of Grammys and over 70 million Instagram followers...
Half Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist or Spy
Author: Frank Close Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The memo landed on Kim Philby's desk in Washington, DC, in July 1950. Three months later, Bruno Pontecorvo, a physicist at...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather...
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler
Author: Svenja O'Donnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A stunning family memoir of one woman's search for her German grandmother's history during the Second World War 'A lyrical, engrossing...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Author: Jude Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
On the High Wire: With an introduction by Paul Auster
Author: Philippe Petit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY PAUL AUSTER 'A book of instructions to those who will dare one day the impossible. I bow...
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude
Author: Emma Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir...
About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth
Author: David Whitehouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day 'I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants
Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
Ian Fleming: The man who created James Bond
Author: Andrew Lycett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The definitive biography of author Ian Fleming Ian Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback 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 Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery
Author: Henry Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his...
Dearest Jane...: My Father's Life and Letters
Author: Jane Torday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 As the eldest daughter of a prolific letter writer, Jane Torday received hundreds of letters from her father over the years....
The Existential Englishman: Paris Among the Artists
Author: Michael Peppiatt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and...
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale
Author: Victor Gregg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington,...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday
Author: Bez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve
Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.
Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'My life was changing and I didn't like it. Everything was so out of my control, even...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century
Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping Hollywood biography of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh based on new research, including exclusive...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century
Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The New York Times bestseller - a sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its infamous gates...
Iggy Pop: Open Up And Bleed: The Biography
Author: Paul Trynka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Iggy Pop s life has been one of extraordinary highs and terrifying lows. Infamous for his wild ways, he is also...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS
Author: Zarifa Ghafari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala Zarifa Ghafari was two...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister - Vol.2: No Priest But Love
Author: Anne Lister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 ANNE LISTER IS THE INSPIRATION FOR GENTLEMAN JACK, THE ACCLAIMED BBC/HBO SERIES BY SALLY WAINWRIGHT, STARRING SURANNE JONES. 'The Lister diaries...
Martin Scorsese: A Journey
Author: Mary Pat Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of...
Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing
Author: Brad Wetzler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
In Patagonia
Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian 'The book that redefined travel writing' Guardian Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey...
The Saboteur: True Adventures Of The Gentleman Commando Who Took On The Nazis
Author: Paul Kix Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the...
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land
Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the...
Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory
Author: Shobna Gulati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay 'Lucid and probing' -...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone
Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me
Author: Frankie Bridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it doesn't...
A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings)
Author: Chrysta Bilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 2022 5* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH 'One of the maddest memoirs you'll...
Life and Death Decisions: Fighting to save lives from disaster, disease and destruction
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Author: Dr Lachlan McIver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Just brilliant. The book of the decade.' - Professor Tim Flannery, Former Australian of the Year 'An honest, powerful...
Jenson Button: Life to the Limit: My Autobiography
Author: Jenson Button Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 This is my life, not the stuff you've seen, but...
Never a Native
Author: Alice Shalvi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Shalvi has been a pioneer in advancing the status of women in Israel and in religious girls' education. She has been...
Fragile: The True Story of My Lifelong Battle With Anorexia
Author: Nikki Grahame Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Say the name Nikki Grahame and most people will remember the bubbly, highly strung and hugely entertaining Big Brother 7 contestant....
Stanley I Resume: Further Recollections of an Exuberant Life
Author: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Stanley Johnson: one-time spy, politician, animal rights crusader - and irresistibly brilliant raconteur. From his career as a Member of the...
For the Love of the Royal Family: A Companion
Author: Roger Bryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Did you know King Alfred once dressed as a minstrel in order to spy on the Danes? Charles II's consort, Queen...