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A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...
Prince Among Slaves (Anniversary)
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In this remarkable work, Terry Alford tells the story of Abd al Rahman Ibrahima, a Muslim slave who, in 1807, was recognized by an Irish ship's surgeon as the son...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain to turn the tide of the Civil War-and the...
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
Extraordinary Wing Women: True Stories of Life-Altering, World-Changing Sisterhood
A beautifully illustrated gift book celebrating the beauty, power, and joy of female friendship. Wingman: a pilot who flies behind and outside the leader of a flying formation.While researching her...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as...
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives
Author: Tim Vivian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 390 Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi...
Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude
"Nicole Avant gives a raw and courageous look into how she found the light in her darkest moment. She reminds us that grief is different for everyone, and we have...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map - the Soviet Union. On the site where the famous...
Inverse Cowgirl: A Memoir
Author: Alicia Roth WeigelFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 454g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share...
Grace: President Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America
Author: Cody KeenanFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 265g, 320 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"At a time when the meaning of America is up...
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry
Author: Anne de CourcyFormat: Paperback, 128mm x 196mm, 320g, 416 pagesPublished: Orion Publishing Co, United Kingdom, 2022 From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of...
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent
Author: Eddie Betts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy
Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
The Princess Diarist
Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers
Author: Rachel Holtzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer remnants,...
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow
Author: Charles Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next...
Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers
Author: Rachel Holtzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer remnants,...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer
Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' -...
Among You Taking Notes...
Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Forgotten Women
Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Author: Justine Picardie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden...
She Begat This: 20 Years of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Author: Joan Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A stirring and eye-opening celebration of the enduring legacy of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill-released in 1998 and named "Best Album...
World of Christopher Marlowe
Author: David Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is the definitive book about the man who revolutionised English drama and English poetry - and was murdered in his...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Author: Justine Picardie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden...
Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
Author: Johnny Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 392 In 1962, boxing writers and fans considered Cassius Clay an obnoxious self-promoter, and few believed that he would become the heavyweight...
The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Author: Norman Eisen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A sweeping yet intimate narrative about the last hundred years of turbulent European history, as seen through one of Mitteleuropa's greatest...
Fall: Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2021
Author: John Preston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A dramatic, gripping account of the rise and fall of the notorious business tycoon Robert Maxwell In February 1991, Robert Maxwell...
The Boy from Boomerang Crescent
Author: Eddie Betts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book...
Lives of Houses
Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Author: Santi Elijah Holley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New York Times Editors' Pick "Magnificent.... A uniquely intimate history of Black liberation." - Los Angeles Times The long...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen
Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of...
A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop
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Author: Hilda Kemp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through...
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War
Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea
Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)
Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine
As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery
Author: Herb Frazier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Joseph McGill Jr., a historic preservationist and Civil War reenactor, founded the Slave Dwelling Project in 2010 based on an idea...
In the Garden of the Righteous: The Heroes Who Risked Their Lives to Save Jews During the Holocaust
Author: Richard Hurowitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 "In the Garden of the Righteous brilliantly describes how in the midst of the brutality of the Holocaust and the collaboration,...
My Holidays
Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 From the author of Misadventures and Appleby House comes another volume of true-life tales. In My Holidays, Sylvia Smith remembers in...
Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
Author: Paul Hendrickson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own...
Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women
Author: Jane Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 If you could write a letter to your younger self, what would it say? Letter to My Younger Self is back...