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My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'personal and warm and full of revealing small details about music superstars' The Independent top 20 books of 2024
Author: Tiffany Murray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail 'Gloriously tender and funny ....
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024
Author: Genevieve Kingston Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 '[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times 'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano A deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying...
The Chateau - Forever Home: The instant Sunday Times Bestseller, as seen on the hit Channel 4 series Escape to the Chateau
Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Take a journey to Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge. Dick and...
Underclass: A Memoir
Author: Dr Jessica Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Dr Jessica Taylor grew up on a council estate where brutality and coercion were normalised, and...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
Author: Karolina Watroba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba...
Young Elizabeth: Princess. Prisoner. Queen.
Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Elizabeth I is one of England's most famous monarchs, whose story as the 'Virgin Queen' is well known. But queenship was...
One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton
Author: Barbara Winton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. 'Remarkable' - Guardian Sir...
Kitchen Person: Notes on Cooking & Eating
Author: Rachel Cooke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In 2009, Rachel Cooke started a monthly column for The Observer on cooking and eating: here are her fifty best. In...
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES...
You Never Know: A Memoir
Author: Tom Selleck Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of...
Tika the Iggy: Lessons in Life, Love, and Fashion
Author: Thomas Shapiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Tika the Iggy is the fashion model of the 21st century with millions of fans on social media. She is an...
The House of Beckham: Money, Sex and Power
Author: Tom Bower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The explosive new book from Britain's leading investigative biographer, Tom Bower As one of the most famous and influential couples in...
The Forbidden Daughter
Author: Zipora Klein Jakob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan's survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and...
Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings
Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Double Agent Victoire: Mathilde Carre and the Interallie Network
Author: David Tremain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 On 28.2.42 there arrived in the U.K. a remarkable woman agent: Mathilde Lucie (or Lily) CARRE.' Her codename was VICTOIRE, although...
Candace Pert: Genius, Greed, and Madness in the World of Science
Author: Pamela Ryckman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story of maverick scientist Candace Pert, whose groundbreaking research introduced the world to the mind-body connection, opioid receptors, and peptide...
Calling the Shots: How to Win in Football and Life
Author: David Dein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited memoir from international football ambassador, former co-owner of Arsenal FC and legend of the game: David Dein. There's no...
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday
Author: Bez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures
Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality
Author: Leonid Sinelnikov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map -...
The Astrologer: How British Intelligence Plotted to Read Hitler's Mind
Author: James Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Were British Intelligence chiefs gullible or sensible to recruit an astrologer to assist in the war effort against Nazi Germany? And...
The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43
Author: Charles Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Prisoner of Kathmandu is the story of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In
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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing
Author: Rebecca Fogg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback 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 Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir
Author: Victoria Belim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers
Author: Leila Guerriero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist... Every year, at the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business
Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground
Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Stalin's Architect: Power and Survival in Moscow
Author: Deyan Sudjic Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The first biography to trace the remarkable life and career of Ukrainian-born Boris Iofan, beautifully illustrated with many of Iofan's previously...
In The Shadow of the Mountain
Author: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .
Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)
Author: Scott Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music
Author: Philip Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' - MARGARET DRABBLE,...
Philip Larkin: Letters Home
Author: Philip Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood
Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of...
The Fall: The End of the Murdoch Empire
Author: Michael Wolff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE BOOK THAT BROUGHT DOWN RUPERT MURDOCH - AND A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Meet the Murdochs and the disastrously dysfunctional...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger
Author: Nigel Slater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic...
XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness
Author: Cody Rigsby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering story that...
Hey Hi Hello: Five Decades of Pop Culture from Britain's First Female DJ
Author: Annie Nightingale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'I loved this book. Annie Nightingale is my heroine. The woman is a legend' Irvine Welsh 'A joy to read' Guardian...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
Author: Christine Toomey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers
Author: Dr Ali S. Khan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Next Pandemic is a gripping book that confronts the most urgent question facing our species: when, where, and...