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May 2021
Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon
$8.00
Author: Peter Ames Carlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A revelatory account of the life of beloved American music icon, Paul Simon, by the bestselling rock biographer Peter Ames...
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy
$15.00
Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...
This Will Only Hurt a Little The New York Times Bestseller
Author: Busy Philipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Funny, refreshingly candid memoir about Hollywood, motherhood and BFFhood' COSMOPOLITAN 'Busy is a legit writer with a voice as...
Benjamin Britten: A Life for Music
$6.00
Author: Neil Powell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: This spellbinding centenary biography by Neil Powell looks at the music, the life, and the legacy of the greatest British composer of...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal
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Author: Michael Mewshaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic;...
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III
$15.00
Author: Janice Hadlow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The Times Best Books of the Year - The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library
$15.00
Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "Like a Renaissance wonder cabinet, full of surprises and opening up into a lost world." --Stephen Greenblatt "A captivating adventure...For lovers...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman
Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
What a Wonderful World: The Magic of Louis Armstrong's Later Years
Author: Ricky Riccardi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Prodigiously researched and richly detailed, this is a comprehensive account of the remarkable final twenty-five years of the life and art...
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography
$12.00
Author: Dickinson, Bruce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 New York Times Bestseller "Illuminating and very entertaining...a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who...
The Child Bride
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from...
Horace and Me: Life Lessons from an Ancient Poet
$12.00
Author: Harry Eyres Format: Hardback Number of Pages: A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem What is the value of the...
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Author: Ophelia Field Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play...
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within
Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Lady Byron and Her Daughters
Author: Julia Markus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of...
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
$15.00
Author: John Stubbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power
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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
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....
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd
Author: Axel Linden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 235 'Axel Linden is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer 'Endearing and liberating.'...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival
Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior
$12.00
Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey
$10.00
Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...
Along the Edge of Annihilation: The Collapse and Recovery of Life in the Holocaust Diary
Author: David Patterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 328 This extraordinary book is based on more than fifty diaries of Jewish Holocaust victims of all ages, written while...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science
Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
Author: Richard P. Feynman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour...
The Flight: Charles Lindbergh's Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing
Author: Dan Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history...
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Author: Lindy West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 *CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW* 'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England
Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine
Author: Dr Peter Dorward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult...
Patient H69: The Story of My Second Sight
Author: Vanessa Potter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 864 Imagine how it would feel to one day wake up and find your vision descending swiftly into darkness. Your...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership
$10.00
Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...