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Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
$25.00
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain
Author: Gregory Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean...
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...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2023 'Eye-opening...
Yearbook
$15.00
Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars...
Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa
Author: Ray Salisbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Over the last 50 years, sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have been attempting audacious journeys across NZ that last many...
Sex Cult Nun
Author: Faith Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Both inspiring and disturbing, Sex Cult Nun unravels Jones' complicated upbringing, the trauma she endured as a result and her eventual...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year...
The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China
Author: Michael Sheridan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'Michael Sheridan is one of the best informed and wisest writers on China' - Chris Patten, last governor of Hong Kong...
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...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Author: Michael Wolff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional family of Fox News. Until recently, they formed the most powerful media and political...
Kipling
Author: Jad Adams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 218 Joseph Rudyard Kipling was the greatest writer in a Britain that ruled the largest empire the world has known, yet he...
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...
My Life in Food: A Memoir
Author: Albert Roux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
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...
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,...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year
Author: Sly Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
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...
The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace
$15.00
Author: Patricia Wiltshire Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and...
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...
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 Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
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...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
$15.00
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
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...
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...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:
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Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the
$25.00
Author: Josiah Osgood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the...
Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality
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Author: Robert Wainwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
$20.00
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...
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS
Author: Azad Cudi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
Author: Neil McKenna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre....
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....