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Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. A GUARDIAN...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea
Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
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,...
Managing Expectations: A Memoir
Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology
Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.
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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism
Author: Timothy Denevi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Hunter S. Thompson is best remembered today as a caricature: drug-addled, sharp-witted, and passionate; played with bowlegged aplomb by Johnny Depp;...
The Ox: The Last of the Great Rock Stars: The Authorised Biography of The Who's John Entwistle
Author: Paul Rees Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'A highly entertaining read' The Times Music Books of the Year 'Eye-popping' The Times best summer books The definitive no-holds-barred biography...
The Path of Peace: Walking the Western Front Way
Author: Anthony Seldon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In August 2021, Anthony Seldon set out on a gruelling 35-day pilgrimage from the Swissborder to the English Channel, following the...
All the Broken Soldiers: Private Kennedy's War
Author: Dr Jan McLeod Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To the Australian Army, Private Lawrence Nicholas Kennedy was NX21854, a soldier who served for 1907 days with the 2/4th...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...
The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Holocaust Survival, Music and Hope
Author: Roxanne de Bastion Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 One man, his piano and their miraculous survival. 'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger 'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
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Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian. Aphrodite was said to...
Operation Man Hunt: The Hunt for the Richest, Deadliest Criminal in History
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'The Night Manager meets Narcos' Saul David 'To catch this criminal took incredible courage and skill. This is James Bond meets...
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...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin
Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
My Lucky Stroke
Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet....
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power
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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club
Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
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Author: David Reynolds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A "fresh, fast-paced, and bracing" (Wall Street Journal) new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great...
Society of the Snow: The Definitive Account of the World's Greatest Survival Story
Author: Pablo Vierci Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby...
Samuel Johnson: A Life
Author: David Nokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century....
Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography: THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER - The Royal Gift of the Year
Author: Robert Jobson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES, THE REVELATORY ROYAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020
Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
Dua Lipa: The Unauthorized Biography
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Author: Caroline Sullivan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Discover the fascinating story behind the rise of a new pop icon: Dua Lipa. When Dua Lipa was eleven, her music...
The Third Pole: My Everest climb to find the truth about Mallory and
Author: Mark Synnott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 'The best Everest book I've read since Into Thin Air. Synnott's climbing skills take...
Sky's Story
Author: Louise Allen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 When Sky and her older sister Avril were taken into care, the social workers knew this was a case like no...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai
Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
Misadventures
Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London....
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.
Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
The Chateau - Forever Home: The instant Sunday Times Bestseller, as seen on the hit Channel 4 series Escape to the Chateau
Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Take a journey to Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Dick and...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'personal and warm and full of revealing small details about music superstars' The Independent top 20 books of 2024
Author: Tiffany Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail 'Gloriously tender and funny ....
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
Author: Barbara Winton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. 'Remarkable' - Guardian Sir...
Henri Matisse
Author: Kathryn Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:
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When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
Author: Christine Toomey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues - One Cop's Extraordinary True Story
Author: Cameron Hardiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police...
