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Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter

Gabrielle Hamilton meets April Bloomfield in a lyrically written memoir about life as a female butcher.When 16-year-old Jessica Wragg app...

From Hell to Hollywood: The Incredible Journey of AP Photographer Nick UT

This book of Nick Ut's pictures and Hal Buell's wonderfully spare prose about Nick's life is so much more than a long-deserved tribute to...

The Last Padilla Standing

The Last Padilla Standing is a look back in time, my journey through the years as told by me. Through memories and story's passed down th...

Cult Following - My escape and return to the Children of God

A harrowing-but-moving story' - Stylist 'Raw, brave and vulnerable. Told with such clarity and purpose' - Maxine Mei-Fung Chung 'A brave ...

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on John Steinbeck, Including His Personal Life, Best Sellers Such as the Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Movi

Frank Zappa live albums (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 30. Chapters: Guitar, Sheik Yerbouti, Beat the Boots, Zappa in New ...

I Love Joey Essex: Large Black Notebook/Journal for Writing 100 Pages, Joey Essex Gift for Girls, Boys, Women and Men

Zen Meditations Journal - Meditations & Prompts for Living a Simple, Happy & Peaceful Life

Nell and the Girls

Nell and the Girls is a remarkable, dramatic and heartwarming true story. France, 1940. The British have evacuated their forces from Dunk...

Alexandria - The Last Nights of Cleopatra

Sir Peter Stothard's captivating memoir, written in Egypt as the country moved towards revolution: a life seen through the prism of his e...

Manifesto

'This honest, engaging memoir shares such gems . . . the perfect read for anyone who dreams big' The Times and Sunday Times, Books of the...

The Essential Writer's Guide: Spotlight on Kent Haruf, Including His Education, Analysis of His Best Sellers Such as the Tie That Binds, and Plainso

Ludo and the Power of the Book - Ludovic Kennedy's Campaigns for Justice

'A worthy memorial to a man whose campaigning against injustices was, probably more than any other single influence, responsible for the ...

More Fool Me

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable MORE FOOL ME.

The Diary Keepers - Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

They were ordinary people in extraordinary times. This deeply moving book interweaves the diaries of Dutch citizens to offer a startling ...

Once Upon a Time in the East - A Story of Growing up

From the Orange-shortlisted and Granta Best Young British Novelist, comes a rich memoir of growing up in modern China. Offers an intimate...

Hotel Splendide

Just Mercy (Film Tie-In Edition) - a story of justice and redemption

An account of an idealistic lawyer's coming of age in relation to mass incarceration and racial injustice across the United States. Soon ...

Chronicles of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow

Diana, William and Harry

'[A] pacy, frictionless read' Sunday Telegraph 'Cinematic. . . an entertaining and persuasive study of the royal family' Publisher's Week...

Pistols for Two

Real Estate - Living Autobiography 3

From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Liv...

Liebe und Leben der Lady Hamilton

Liebe und Leben der Lady Hamilton ist eine romanhafte Biografie über Emma Lyon. Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) war Mätresse des britisch...

A Visible Man

* AS HEARD ON STEPHEN BARTLETT'S DIARY OF A CEO * * THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'I wish he could be ed...

Euphoria

A woman's life, erupting with promise, is fissured by betrayal and duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, ...

Dear Senthuran - A Black spirit memoir

11 Life Lessons from Nelson Mandela - Life Lessons from my Grandfather, Nelson Mandela

Ndaba Mandela is the grandson of Nelson Mandela. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of the Africa Rising Foundation, an organization de...

The Pigeon Tunnel - Stories from My Life

John le Carr¿/b>was born in 1931 and attended the universities of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in British Intell...

Saving Freud - A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

March 1938: German soldiers are massing on the Austrian border, on the cusp of fulfilling Hitler's dream of absorbing the country into th...

Penguin Bloom - The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

Photographer Cameron Bloom began his career as a surf photographer at the age of 16. Since then Cameron's travel, editorial, commercial a...

Get Over It!

Get Over It! traces the path from heartbreak to happiness, using humor and honesty to describe each break-up milestone.

Sontag - Her Life

WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANC...

Smile - The Story of a Face

'Her story is intimate and revealing about what it is to smile and what it means when you can't' Cynthia Nixon The extraordinary story of...

A Carnival of Snackery - Diaries: Volume Two

There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it. If it's navel-gazing y...

The Instant

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney i...

Marianela

The Boy from Auschwitz - Peter Höllenreiner - The Sinto who was also a Jew

This is the obituary written for a man who first had his concentration camp number removed and decades later had it tattooed back in - wi...

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - A Memoir

As seen in The Last Movie Stars documentary - the raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an icon. The greatest movie star of the past 75 year...

Between Them - Remembering my Parents

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sportswriter comes a deeply personal account of h...

Joseph Anton - A Memoir

For over a decade, Salman Rushdie lived with a death sentence to his name. He dwelt in a world of security guards and armoured cars, of a...

These Precious Days

An irresistible collection of essays and memoir from the internationally bestselling, Women's Prize-winning author of The Dutch House 'An...

A Street Cat Named Bob - How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

The uplifting, true story of an unlikely friendship between a man on the streets and the ginger cat who adopts him and helps him heal his...

Lab Girl

'Leaves become elegant machines, soil is the interface between the living and the dead, and seeds, well, they are transformed into the mo...

The Penguin Lessons

Tom Michell was born and grew up on the rural downs of southern England, where he grew to love animals, birds and plants. After living in...

The Shepherd's Life - A Tale of the Lake District

James Rebanks is a shepherd based in the Lake District. His first book, The Shepherd's Life, won The Lakeland Book of the Year 2015 and w...

The Secret Heart - Le Carré and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022A Daily Mail Book of the Year 2022A Waterstones Best...

Elon Musk - Risking It All

A NEW EDITION OF MICHAEL VLISMAS' EYE-OPENING BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK, NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL COVERING THE LATEST IN MUSK'S FAMILY AND BUSI...

README.txt - A Memoir

An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world's most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2013, Chels...

All Down Darkness Wide - A Memoir

A luminous and haunting memoir from the prize-winning poet - a story of love, heartbreak and coming of age, and a fearless exploration of...

The Crane Wife - A Memoir in Essays

'Outstanding... An elegant masterpiece... Wry but also warm and generous' Roxane Gay 'Funny, exciting, vulnerable - truly visionary' Alex...

A Woman's Battles and Transformations

Édouard Louis is one of the most important literary voices of his generation' Guardian One day, Édouard Louis finds a photograph of his m...

Constructing a Nervous System - A Memoir

Dear Reader - The Comfort and Joy of Books

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love, Cathy Rentzenbrink's Dear Reader is the ultimate love letter to reading...

The Wild Silence - The Sunday Times Bestseller from the author of The Salt Path

The incredible Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and 80-week Sunday Times bestsell...

Bear Woman

A beautifully written and astonishing memoir of a woman - a writer - in the midst of motherhood, marriage and life. While struggling with...

A Lie About My Father

A moving, unforgettable memoir of two lost men: a father and his child. He had his final heart attack in the Silver Band Club in Corby, s...

The Shaking Woman - Or A History of My Nerves

While speaking about her father, Siri Hustvedt found herself a victim of the shudders. Was it a hysterical seizure or a bizarre form of p...

Unbowed - My Autobiography

The compelling autobiography of the Kenyan peace activist and environmentalist, who in 2004 became the first African woman to win the Nob...

When They Call You a Terrorist - A Black Lives Matter Memoir

The powerful memoir of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors, co-authored with activist and memoirist asha bandele and feat...