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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it....
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian
Author: Richard Herring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
Leon Russell: The Master of Space and Time's Journey Through Rock & Roll History
Author: Bill Janovitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 New York Times Bestseller Leon Russell is an icon, but somehow is still an underappreciated artist. He is spoken of in...
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming
Author: Lyle J Rubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929
Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 3: 1925-30
Author: Virginia Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 With an introduction by Olivia Laing Monday 20 April 1925. One thing in considering my state of mind now, seems to...
The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman
Author: Eddie Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From Eddie 'The Beast' Hall, the winner of World's Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life
Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare
Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle
Author: Mary Considine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *** 'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea. He can't see where he is going, but...
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling
Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Sink: A Memoir
Author: Joseph E Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Author: Darryl Pinckney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and...
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth
Author: Stuart Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business
Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
Remain in Love
Author: Chris Frantz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'As the Brits say: I'm gobsmacked. I devoured this book... one of the most potent examples of living the dream' Debbie...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist
Author: Chris Paling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial
Author: John Densmore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the...
Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming
Author: Maia Toll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who...
Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron
Author: James Newton, Dfc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'I couldn't see the tank. I couldn't see it... Someone was screaming over the radio. "Scream all you want, I...
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...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On
Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars
Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation
Author: Mark Lee Gardner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 "Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street Journal A magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars,"...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather...
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude
Author: Emma Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir...
About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth
Author: David Whitehouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day 'I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS
Author: Zarifa Ghafari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala Zarifa Ghafari was two...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir
Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing
Author: Brad Wetzler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker
Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Author: Una McGovern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1600 Covering the full diversity of human achievement from Boudicca to Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton to Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton to David...
The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In
Author: Mark Lewisohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 960 The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System
Author: Ricardo Nuila Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .
Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World - WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023
Author: Lauren Fleshman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Author: Greg Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 * A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot *...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Author: Bill Browder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER 'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly,...
The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Author: Michael Finkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This...
The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd
Author: Janet White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book ....
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
Author: Erica Heller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A few years ago, Erica Heller, daughter of novelist Joseph Heller, realized how universal the longing is for one more moment...
Passion for Flying
Author: Tom Group Captain Eeles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Group Captain Tom Eeles served in the RAF for 44 years and totalled over 8000 hours of flying in...