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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...
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...
Borges and Me: An Encounter
Author: Jay Parini Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 'For readers who already admire Borges, this memoir will be a delicious treat. For those...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story
Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen...
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...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)
Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......
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...
The Oldest Gay in the Village
Author: George Montague, SM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'I was a tall, good-looking gay man who had resolved to marry an innocent (read virginal) woman, and I was...
One Day I Will Write About this Place
Author: Binyavanga Wainaina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 196 Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him...
Katherine Howard
Author: Josephine Wilkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Katherine Howard was little more than a child when she married Henry VIII, and just 18 when she was beheaded in the...
Memoirs
Author: Robert Lowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the...
How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere
Author: Peter Conrad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'We Are All Americans Now' proclaimed headlines around the world on the day after 9/11. It was not news: it had...
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...
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life
Author: James Crowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join...
Conclusions
Author: John Boorman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'What a life! What a career!' - Harold Pinter 'Boorman is one of the world's great directors, a master storyteller.' -...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.
Author: Emma Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading
Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter
Author: Angela Hui Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 _______________ 'A beautiful book:...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance
Author: Simone Biles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Courage to Soar, the official autobiography from four-time Olympic gold-winning and record-setting American gymnast Simone Biles, Simone shares how her...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching...
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood
Author: Jasper Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of 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....
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic
Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
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...
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...
Hello, Stranger: Stories of Connection in a Divided World
Author: Will Buckingham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 What if meeting new people were a gift, not a burden? How might we transform our lives if we set aside...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback 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...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 He was one of the most eminent literary figures in the world. She was the kind of pioneering woman who knew...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy
Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
Author: Amanda Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, be/longing is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home....
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...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture
Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
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...
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...
Britain Alone: The Path from Suez to Brexit
Author: Philip Stephens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 In 1962 the American statesman Dean Acheson famously charged that Britain had lost an empire and failed to find a new...
Russia: Myths and Realities
Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
Blitz Spirit: 'Fascinating' -Tom Hanks
Author: Becky Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Fascinating ' Elizabeth Day 'Finally, a book that is proving very therapeutic in these difficult times... Full of doubt, fear, anger...
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!
Author: Florence Hazrat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier...
Ancient Rome: Infographics
Author: Nicolas Guillerat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 132 Packed with cleverly designed graphics, charts and diagrams, Ancient Rome: Infographics uses data visualization to tell the epic tale of the...
Lance Armstrong
Author: John Wilcockson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Few champions have astonished the world as much as Lance Armstrong. A cancer survivor who went on to win the Tour...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in...
My Name Is Why
Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is...
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes
Author: Susan Whitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it...
Little Big Man
Author: Stanley J. Browne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother...