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The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives
Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Author: Adam Sisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography
Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
In The Shadow of the Mountain
Author: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her...
Love & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and
Author: Ben Gillies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024 The powerful, untold story of two of the three members...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography...
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires
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Author: Juan Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 In the midst of the dramatic seventh-century war between two empires, Muhammad was a spiritual seeker in search of community and...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
The Queen: The Life and Times of Elizabeth II
Author: Catherine Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II has reigned for 64 years, longer than any British monarch in history. During that time...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it'...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love
Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
(R)evolution: The Autobiography
Author: Gary Numan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A Daily Mail 'best TV and showbiz memoir' for 2020 From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab
Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...
David Bowie: Starman
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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
Let Love Rule
Author: Lenny Kravitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I...
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy
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Author: Mike Love Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New York Times Bestseller Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the...
Under A Rock
Author: Chris Stein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS OF 2024 'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said...
Women of the 1920s: Style, Glamour, and the Avant-Garde
Author: Thomas Bleitner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Experience the glamour and excitement of the Jazz Age, through the lives of the women who defined it. It was a...
Power and Glory - As seen on Channel 4's Edward vs George: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The book that inspired the major documentary Edward vs George: The Windsors at War Power and Glory begins with the fallout...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
Author: Karolina Watroba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba...
The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power
Author: Tom Bower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
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...
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time
Author: Pamela Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates...
Elton John at 75
Author: Gillian G. Gaar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography
Author: Tricky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
The Child Bride
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Author: Michael J Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Author: Nigel Slater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars
Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout
Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...
Stephen Hawking: A Memoir of Friendship and Physics
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Author: Leonard Mlodinow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This "vivid and compelling account" (The Wall Street Journal) opens not only the inner workings of one of physics' greatest minds,...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...