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The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023
Author: Will Ashon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic...
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One
Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
A Brief History of the Vikings
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.' Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the Vikings surged from their...
Freefall
Author: Tom Read Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of...
Dante
Author: Alessandro Barbero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but...
The Case of the Married Woman: Caroline Norton: A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
Author: Lady Antonia Fraser Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Before biography was fashionable, Antonia Fraser made the past popular' Guardian 'As a pure storyteller, Antonia Fraser has few equals'...
The Craft: How the Freemasons Made the Modern World
Author: John Dickie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 'Convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining' - Wall Street Journal THE TIMES BEST BOOKS OF 2020 'This book shows that, despite rumours...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land
Author: Bella Bathurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'A priceless portrait of one of the least understood and frequently most vilified of people: farmers. It should really be read...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History
Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation
Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Witnessing Waterloo: 24 Hours, 48 Lives, A World Forever Changed
Author: David Crane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 [Previously published as 'Went The Day Well'] 'Of all the books marking the bicentenary Waterloo, this has to be the best'...
Written in History: Letters that Changed the World
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 INCLUDES NEW MATERIAL WRITTEN IN HISTORY celebrates the great letters of world history, creative culture and personal life. Acclaimed historian...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers
Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History
Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
A Brief History of the Atlantic
Author: Jeremy Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Atlantic has borne witness to major historic events that have drastically shaped humanity with each crossing of its path. In...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest
Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
Goodbye to All That
Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People
Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 SOHO - ILLICIT, GLAMOROUS, SORDID, LOUCHE, POVERTY-STRICKEN, SQUALID, EXHILARATING. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank grants us an intimacy with...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In Lives Between the Lines, Michael Vatikiotis traces the journey of his Greek and Italian forebears from Tuscany, Crete, Hydra and...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In
Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
Author: Anna Aslanyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Would Hiroshima have been bombed if Japanese contained a phrase meaning 'no comment'? Is it alright for missionaries to replace the...
On Photography
Author: Susan Sontag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and aesthetic issues surrounding this art form. Photographs are...
The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood
Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins with an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music
Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am
Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
Small Bodies of Water
Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning
Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
In the Dream House: Winner of The Rathbones Folio Prize 2021
Author: Carmen Maria Machado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Ravishingly beautiful' - Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' - Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' - Economist 'Daring, chilling,...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family
Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo in 1815...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years
Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut
Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
The Wolf of Wall Street
Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Macbeth: The True Story
Author: Fiona Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Thanks to Shakespeare, the name Macbeth has become a byword for political ambition realised by bloody violence. Fiona Watson has uncovered,...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti
Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization
Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
Vanished Years
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rupert Everett's first memoir - RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on...
Bob Marley: The Untold Story
Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock'n'roll? How is that he...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert
Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....