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Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994
Author: David Hepworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW
Author: J. T. Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ****** THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY 'You will laugh and cry,...
Astor: The Rise And Fall Of An American Fortune
Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the...
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker
Author: Niall Harbison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero...
The World According to Joan Didion
Author: Evelyn McDonnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions
Author: Alberto Manguel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A best-selling author and world-renowned bibliophile meditates on his vast personal library and champions the vital role of all libraries. "The...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel
Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
Author: Ingrid Rowland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511?1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond
Author: Geezer Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Rough Trade Book of the Year The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million...
My Life in Food: A Memoir
Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
Augustine
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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 "This narrative of the first half of Augustine's life conjures the intellectual and social milieu of the late Roman Empire...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 In this definitive biography of father and son, an eminent historian "brings to life the full drama of ancient history" (Wall...
Henry VIII and the men who made him: The secret history behind the Tudor throne
Author: Tracy Borman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind
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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Author: Jim Davidson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
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Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
Warhol
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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day,...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's rise to...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A...
Small World, Big Ideas: Eco-Activists for Change
Author: Satish Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and...
Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death
Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An authoritative book, written with two close friends of Diana: Inspector Ken Wharfe was Diana's police protection officer for...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY
Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships...
Transformer: How Lou Reed's LGBTQ+ Love Songs Changed
Author: Simon Doonan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 In this funny and poignant memoir and cultural history, the television personality, columnist, and author of Drag pays homage to Lou...
Never Work with Animals
Author: Gareth Steel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day. Welcome to the...
Sea State
Author: Tabitha Lasley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 SHORTLISTED...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo
Author: Salvatore Ferragamo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography...
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees
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Author: Helen Jukes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive-a year of living dangerously-watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Toussaint Louverture: A Revolutionary Life
Author: Philippe Girard
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
The definitive biography of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, leader of the only successful slave revolt in world history
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel....
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry
Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzman
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Author: Alan Feuer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The definitive account of the rise and fall of the ultimate narco, El Chapo, from the New York Times reporter whose...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
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Author: Jill Heinerth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths...