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Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
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...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II
Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...
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...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story
Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography
Author: Tricky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific
Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death
Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An authoritative book, written with two close friends of Diana: Inspector Ken Wharfe was Diana's police protection officer for...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"
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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940
Author: Susan Ronald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition
Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England
Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
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...
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 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...
Young Prince Philip: His Turbulent Early Life
Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
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...
Act Like You Got Some Sense
Author: Jamie Foxx Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From Academy Award-winning multi-talent Jamie Foxx, a hilariously candid look at the joys and pitfalls of being the father...
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...
Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver
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Author: Jill Heinerth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
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,...
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer
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Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...
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...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren
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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...
George: A Magpie Memoir
Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
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,...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family
Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
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...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous
Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within
Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.
Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
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...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir
Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful,...
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...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
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...
Family Betrayal: Agent Sonya, MI5 and the Kuczynski Network
Author: David Burke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The remarkable story of the Kuczynskis, a family of Soviet spies under cover in Britain. In 1933, the celebrated German economist...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...
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...