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April 2024
Face It: A Memoir
Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography
Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown
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Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries
Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps
Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
The Stonemason: A History of Building Britain
Author: Andrew Ziminski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A stonemason's story of the building of Britain: part archaeological history, part deeply personal insight into an ancient craft. In his...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America
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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
Embroidering Her Truth: Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power
Author: Clare Hunter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the...
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...
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood
Author: Siri Helle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being...
Constable: A Portrait
Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Jacinda Ardern: Leading With Empathy
Author: Supriya Vani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Now in paperback with a new afterword, Jacinda Ardern: Leading with Empathy is a major biography of one of the most...
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...
Orwell's Roses
Author: Rebecca Solnit (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Outside my work the thing I care most about is gardening' wrote George Orwell in 1940. Inspired by her encounter...
Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend
Author: Flea Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story,...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Jacob's Room is Full of Books: A Year of Reading
Author: Susan Hill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The...
The Virago Book Of Witches
Author: Shahrukh Husain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves... Banshees - a howling night-witch and...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside
Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...
Scar Tissue
Author: Anthony Kiedis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story,...
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...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW
Author: J. T. Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ****** THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY 'You will laugh and cry,...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years
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Author: Christopher Benfey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Hope - How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life: Featuring Rodney, McMuffin and King Whacker
Author: Niall Harbison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It
Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.
Author: Jackie Malton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' -...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors
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Author: Robby Krieger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has...
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life
Author: Kristine Philipp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020
Author: Iain Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
Solid Ivory
Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself
Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
The Old Gays' Guide to the Good Life
Author: Mick Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved...
Heart: A History
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Author: Sandeep Jauhar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tick For centuries, the human...
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...
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....
Straight Life: The Story Of Art Pepper
Author: Art Pepper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Art Pepper was described as the greatest alto-saxophonist of the post-Charlie Parker generation. Straight Life, originally narrated on tape to his...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet
Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend
Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth
Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Allegorizings
Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today
Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The women of the Bible lived timeless stories-by examining them, we can understand what it means...