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A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food
Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
The Best of Me
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
When in French: Love in a Second Language
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Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to...
Idiot Wind: A Memoir
Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir
Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet
Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature
Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...
Runner: A short story about a long run
Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning
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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir
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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo
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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
Finding Chika: A heart-breaking and hopeful story about family, adversity and unconditional love
Author: Mitch Albom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS 'Mitch Albom sees the...
You Never Know: A Memoir
Author: Tom Selleck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin
Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures
Author: Wilbur Smith Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his...
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...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
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...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the...
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Author: Tarana Burke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twenty-first century, the me too movement, Tarana Burke...
The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
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Author: J R Moehringer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK 'Highly entertaining . . . constructed...
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,...
Hitch 22: A Memoir
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Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award The acid, hilarious, confessional, provocative bestselling memoirs of our greatest contrarian, and the...
Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature
Author: Julia Bradbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' THE TIMES Join Julia Bradbury as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir . . . and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling . . . also a wonderful read for...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir
Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated
Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant
Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Author: Joanna Gaines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Fresh and vital ... Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion ... A remarkable pioneer ... A hugely important memoir from...
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD
Author: Fergal Keane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD....
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes
Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl: Loving the Skin You're In
Author: Tess Holliday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Tess Holliday is many things and perfect is not one of them. But she loves her imperfections, after all they've formed...
The Colour of God: A Story of Family and Faith
Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together...
Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet
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Author: Jesse Itzler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times...
Between Heaven and Hell
Author: David Talbot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over...
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,...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times
An instant Sunday Times bestsellerJoin Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home...Throughout her life, Sarah Beeny has been obsessed with the idea of...