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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,...
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.
$12.00
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
$10.00
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...
Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy: Darkness on the Edge of Truth
Author: Randall E. Auxier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If "love is a banquet...
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...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
$17.50
Author: Deborah Cadbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother....
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45
Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944, David Render...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ....
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,...
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...
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...
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
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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...
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...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...
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 Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
Author: Laura Freeman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with...
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...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 *PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE...
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...
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....
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...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
Author: Brian Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball
Author: Sarah Royal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 This stunning package offers a rich, intimate, and highly entertaining look at the remarkable life and work of the television pioneer,...
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...
Harry Potter Ravenclaw Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign
Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Ravenclaw Hardcover Ruled Journal-one of Insight Editions' best-selling Harry Potter...
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 Windsors at War - As seen on Channel 4's Edward vs George: The Nazi Threat to the Crown
Author: Alexander Larman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'This riotous and engaging biography has it all' GUARDIAN 'As much fun to read as a good political thriller' WALL STREET...
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...
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...