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A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich
Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home
Author: Amanda Thomson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Reflecting on family, identity and nature, be/longing is a personal memoir about what it is to have and make a home....
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society
Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but...
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados,...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories
Author: Renee Hollis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and...
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal
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Author: Julie Metz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 344 A breathtakingly honest memoir about the complexities of forgiveness that begins when a young widow discovers her husband's secret...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon
Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
Battling the Blues
Author: Darius Boyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A legend of the game' - Anthony Seibold 'He's a player that never lets his team down' - Billy Slater Darius...
Breaking History: A White House Memoir
Author: Jared Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER Jared Kushner was one...
Foreign Native: An African Journey
Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown
Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth
Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
Out of the Woods
Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator
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Author: Jean Findlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece "And suddenly the memory returns. The...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges
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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France
Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
Taking Heaven Lightly: A Near Death Experience Survivor's Story and Inspirational Guide to Living in the Light
Author: Roisin Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'The day after my 35th birthday, I had a near death experience, caused by a sudden brain haemorrhage. Ironically,...
The Boy Who Was Born a Girl: One Mother's Unconditional Love for Her Child
Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The groundbreaking autobiography of the teenage boy who was born a girl, which is also a major documentary Brought...
Molly Keane: A Life
Author: Sally Phipps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which...
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir
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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
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....
Gunter Grass
Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
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...
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...
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork: The Sunday Times Business Book of the Year
Author: Reeves Wiedeman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 **The Sunday Times Best Business Book of the Year 2020** 'A satisfying ticktock of the company's rapid rise and crash, culminating...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Family
Author: Mary-Kay Wilmers (editor) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the...
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...
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...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone
Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family
Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse
Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them
Author: Mark Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I...
This Is Your World: The Story of Bob Ross
Author: Sophia Gholz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 Bob Ross continues to inspire young and old alike with his public television painting program, "The Joy of Painting," almost 30...
Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)
Author: John Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to...
Philip: The Final Portrait - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Gyles Brandreth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh - the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history....
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN
Author: Georgina Lawton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly... a gripping, thought-provoking book.' The Sunday Times 'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of...
Tom Stoppard: A Life
Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her biography is...
Life: My Story Through History
Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Mina Loy: Apology of Genius
Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Mina Loy was born in London in 1882, became American, and lived variously in New York, Europe, and finally, Aspen,...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Home Waters: A Chronicle of Family and a River
Author: John N Maclean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father's classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family's history and bond...