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Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
Migrants: The Story of Us All
Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
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...
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music
Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...
Living in a Mindful Universe: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Heart of Consciousness
Author: Dr Eben Alexander, III Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 2008, Dr Eben Alexander's brain was severely damaged by a devastating case of bacterial meningitis, and he lapsed...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
Devotion: A Memoir
Author: Mickey Harte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Wonderfully lyrical, nostalgic, funny, dark, tragic, deeply emotional, honest and hopeful ... This is no ordinary memoir' - Irish News A...
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World
Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco set out...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family
Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling's Story
Author: Justine Cowan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The true story of a foundling. 'Extraordinary ... A fascinating, moving book: part history of the Foundling Hospital and the development...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II
Author: Stuart Eizenstat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century
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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39
Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom
Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Times, Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year 2020 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett...
Ethel Rosenberg: The Short Life and Great Betrayal of an American Wife and Mother
Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A heart-piercingly brilliant book about a woman whose personal life put her in the cross-hairs of history' HADLEY FREEMAN 'Totally riveting....
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year
Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...
Unprotected: A Memoir
Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...
Infidelity and Other Affairs
Author: Kate Legge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom.' Annabel Crabb 'Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East
Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts
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Author: Mary Wellesley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A breathtaking journey into the hidden history of medieval manuscripts, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to the ornate Psalter of Henry VIII...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze
Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
Battle: A History Of Combat And Culture
Author: John A Lynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Battle: A History of Combat and Culture spans the globe and the centuries to explore the way ideas shape the...
The Allies: Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II
Author: Winston Groom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Best-selling author Winston Groom tells the complex story of how Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin--the three iconic and vastly...
Three Days In June: The Incredible Minute-by-Minute Oral History of 3 Para's Deadly Falklands War Battle
Author: James O'Connell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 *** 'If you only read one book about the Falklands make sure it's this one.' - Soldier magazine 'An extraordinarily detailed...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War
Author: Laurence Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the...
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...
City of Light: The Making of Modern Paris
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Author: Rupert Christiansen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French...
Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History
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Author: Lewis Dartnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human...
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...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow
Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Author: Ibram Kendi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, colour-blind society....
Hitler's American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany's March to Global War
Author: Brendan Simms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A riveting account of the five most crucial days in twentieth-century diplomatic history: from Pearl Harbor to Hitler's declaration of war...
Artists' Lives
Author: Michael Peppiatt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Engaging encounters, personal anecdotes and jargon-free critical insights into some of the liveliest creative minds in modern art, by an international...
Fight!: Thirty Years Not Quite at the Top
Author: Harry Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A TIMES BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2021 'The funniest man in the world has written the funniest book in the world.'...
The Far Land: 200 Years of Murder, Mania, and Mutiny in the South Pacific
Author: Brandon Presser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at...
Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth
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Author: Ben Westhoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist's long-time relationship with his mentee, Jorell...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve
Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear and live a happier life....
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World
Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly
Author: Billy Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And...
The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
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Author: David Halberstam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 "In a grand gesture of reclamation and remembrance, Mr. Halberstam has brought the war back home."---The New York Times David Halberstam's...