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Where Did I Go Right?: Memoirs of a Working Class Voter
Author: Geoff Norcott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *** 'Brave and vividly evoked, should haunt Kier Starmer et al.' - The Telegraph 'Where Did I Go Right? is sharp,...
Larry: A New Biography of Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1945
Author: Michael Haag Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Lawrence Durrell was unquestionably one of the most distinctive, original and compelling literary figures of his age. From his childhood in...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
Author: Debora Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding...
George Michael - The Life: 1963-2016: The Man, The Legend, The Music
Author: Emily Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 As the man whose voice and style came to define pop music in the eighties and beyond, George Michael will forever...
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled
Author: Kate Fullagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first joint biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history - the colonised and coloniser...
Saving Sam: The True Story of an American's Disappearance in Syria and His Family's Extraordinary Fight to Bring Him Home
Author: Sam Goodwin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A gripping testament of resilience, family, and faith, this is the incredible and true story of an American traveler who was...
100 Great Black Britons
Author: Patrick Vernon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in...
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years
Author: Roger Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER by...
American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story
Author: Cynthia True Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The highly-acclaimed unauthorised biography of cult anti-hero comedian Bill Hicks. He was a radical stand up who dared to question the...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Author: Greg Marshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Greg Marshall's early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you'll see a lopsided teenager...
A Life Among the Dead: Stories from an Irish Funeral Director
Author: David McGowan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 THE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER 'A profoundly compassionate, educational reflection on death' - The Irish Times When death is a way of...
Byron: A Life in Ten Letters
Author: Andrew Stauffer (University of Virginia) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 412 Lord Byron was the most celebrated of all the Romantic poets. Troubled, handsome, sexually fluid, disabled, and transgressive,...
The Letters of Ernest Hemingway: Volume 6, 1934-1936
Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 786 The Letters of Ernest Hemingway, Volume 6 (June 1934-June 1936) traces the completion and publication of Hemingway's experimental nonfiction book Green...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages
Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A Washington Post Most Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year "Delicious and infuriating . . . unputdownable."-Sadie Stein, The New York...
Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik
Author: Jeremie Gallon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Jeremie Gallon paints an intriguing portrait of the 'master of Realpolitik', drawing lessons from Henry Kissinger's life and actions to explore...
We Might Just Make It After All: My Best Friendship with Kate Spade
Author: Elyce Arons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving portrait of friendship by Elyce Arons as she reflects on her long relationship with Kate...
A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair
Author: Belinda Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'...
The Bookseller of Hay: The Life and Times of Richard Booth
Author: James Hanning Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'A breathtakingly hilarious and absorbing portrait of one of the most brilliant, dotty, dippy delirious yet ultimately inspiring eccentrics in British...
The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana - The Instant Sunday Times Bestselling Royal Autobiography
Author: Paul Burrell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BRAND NEW REVELATORY ROYAL MEMOIR FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAUL BURRELL. 'A moving and...
Everyone's Seen My Tits: Stories and Reflections from an Unlikely Feminist
Author: Keeley Hazell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, forthright and illuminating' Grazia 'Keeley Hazell is clever, thoughtful and very, very ambitious' Mail on Sunday A moving, genuine, and...
The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound: The 'bighearted, transformative memoir' about deafness and identity
Author: Raymond Antrobus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Raymond Antrobus was first diagnosed as deaf at the age of six. He discovered he had missing sounds - bird calls,...
The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State
Author: Michael Steinberger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On
Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York
Author: Andrew Lownie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER A Book of the Year in The Times and Financial Times 'The biographer who brought down...
Keir Starmer: The Biography
Author: Tom Baldwin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 THE BESTSELLING BIOGRAPHY OF THE BRITISH PRIME MINISTER A Times Book of the Year; A Telegraph Book of the Year; A...
Yardsticks For Failure: Adventures in Friendship and Fluster: the hilarious debut from the Taskmaster Season 15 contestant
Author: Ivo Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A hilarious and original voice' Josh Widdicombe 'Delightfully smart and impossibly charming' Dolly Alderton 'His writing is as unpredictable and brilliant...
The Princess Diarist
Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award
Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk
Author: Dennis Kneale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
Author: Alex Wheatle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news "A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter,...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History
Author: Anne Somerset Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that...
Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch
Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most important cultural and political icons in modern British history. As the United...
Living on a Thin Line: The 'Heartfelt and Hilarious' Autobiography
Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies 'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian 'This powerful tell-all from...
Just Ignore Him: A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick
Author: Alan Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...
Homesickness
Author: Janine Mikosza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Stunning' - The Guardian 'This is an emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward. It asks intriguing questions about what...
Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own
Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end...
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn
Author: Brett Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil Tennant The trajectory of Suede - hailed in...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West
Author: Joshua M. Greene Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International...
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
Author: Stephanie Land Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story
Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy Billingham 'The story...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller
Author: Renee Salt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Powsels and Thrums
Author: Alan Garner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 'I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'Entrancing ... a creative manifesto' TELEGRAPH 'Mesmerising ... vibrating...
The Uncool
Author: Cameron Crowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe-one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers-revealing his formative years in rock and roll and...
Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause
Author: Lisa Snowdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lisa Snowdon is on a mission to spread the word: growing old just means getting better! Having struggled for over a...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events
Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."...
Spy of the Century: Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary
Author: John Sadler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 170 'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich*...