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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays
Author: Tania De Rozario Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable
Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a...
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life
Author: Hella Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography
Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France
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Author: P N Singer (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in...
The Secret Life of John le Carre
Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award 'Now that he is dead, we can know him better.' Secrecy came naturally...
The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner
Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device....
Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir
Author: J. M. Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or involuntary"...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian
Author: Emmanuel Iduma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate'...
Zig-Zag Boy: A Mother's Love & A Journey Through Madness
Author: Tanya Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 '[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life' BOB ODENKIRK'Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary' NATHAN FILER, author...
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived
Author: Leslie Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the...
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked
Author: Lauren Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' Matt Haig 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much...
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Author: Manni Coe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS...
The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars
Author: The Secret Prison Governor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Unedited, uncensored and unbelievable: this book shows the harsh reality of life behind bars from a real prison governor...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged
Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl
Author: Hyeseung Song Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to Hyeseung Song's homeland of South Korea and back again, this memoir is...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of
Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence
Author: Mishal Husain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars
Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars...
The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour
Author: Jacqueline Alnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 How one woman's search to regain her health led her to the troubling outer fringes of the Queensland wellness industry. A...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair
Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022A Daily Mail Book of the Year...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe
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Author: Deborah Cadbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother....
The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost
Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao...
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS
Author: Azad Cudi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Author: Michael J Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book
Author: Sly Stone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England
Author: Neil McKenna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre....
My Rescue Dog Rescued Me: Amazing True Stories of Adopted Canine Heroes
Author: Sharon Ward Keeble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Meet the inspirational dogs who went from being rescued to becoming rescuer, in these incredible true stories. You'll read all...
Guiding Lights: The Extraordinary Lives of Lighthouse Women
Author: Shona Riddell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Women have a long history of keeping the lights burning, from tending ancient altar flames to manning modern day lighthouses. Yet...
A Voyage Around the Queen
Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage
Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 *Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert
Author: Brian Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
Takeaway: 'A warm incandescent memoir' Annie Lord
Author: Angela Hui Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 _______________ 'A beautiful book:...
Looking at Women, Looking at War
Author: Victoria Amelina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot...
The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk: A biography of the pioneering
Author: Dennis Kneale Format: Paperback 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...
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico
Author: Francesca Bratton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY 'Profound, moving...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham
Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 *PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that
Author: Julian Borger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee...
The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize
Author: Catherine Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The...
Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt: An Environmental History
Author: Alan Mikhail Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman...
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how
Author: Alex Noble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us...
Great Rides According to G
Author: Geraint Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Across the UK, into Europe and further afield, these are the training rides, races and journeys closest to his heart. From...