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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great
Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
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...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute
Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
Charlie's Good Tonight: The Authorised Biography of Charlie Watts
Author: Paul Sexton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Featuring forewords from bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, this is the official and fully authorised biography of the world's most...
The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
Author: Lan Yan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
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Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty
Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
The Queen
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini
Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir
Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner
Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
The Ministry of Truth: The Biography of George Orwell's 1984
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
Author: Ha Jin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the National Book Award-winning author of Waiting- a narratively driven, deeply human biography of the 8th century poet, Li Bai--also...
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...
Tracey Emin
Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
The Changi Camera: George Aspinall's Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Aussie Grit: My Formula One Journey
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Author: Mark Webber Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010,...
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...
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life
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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)
Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo......
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House
Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...
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?...
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...
If This Is A Man/The Truce
Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII
Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window'...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age
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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr
Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
Lou Reed: A Life
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Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Author: Jim Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea
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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
Selected Letters
Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
The Woman Who Shot Mussolini
Author: Frances Stonor Saunders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 7 April 1926: on the steps of the Capitol in Rome, surrounded by chanting Fascists, The Honourable Violet Gibson raises...
Paris: The Memoir
Author: Paris Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created....
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London
Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
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...
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe
Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...