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In Extremis - The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin

Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News International Editor. She has covered many of the conflicts of recent years, including Syria, Ukraine an...

Finding Chika - A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

"Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no do...

The White Road - A Journey Into Obsession

"Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first" A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise: that ...

Lark Rise to Candleford - A Trilogy

Flora Thompson's classic evocation of a vanished world of agricultural customs and rural culture is reissued in a handsome hardback editi...

Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.

Rise - My Story

The first ever memoir from the most decorated female skier of all time, revealing never-before-told stories of her life in the fast lane,...

The Displaced - Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

Viet Nguyen brings together writers originally from Mexico, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Soviet Ukraine, Hungary, Chile, Ethiopia, and othe...

A Girl's Story

Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl's Sto...

Peaceful Heart, Warrior Spirit - The True Story of My Spiritual Quest

"Bestselling author Dan Millman describes his quest for meaning in the modern world, including the story behind his writing of the spirit...

Filthy Rich - The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein - The Billionaire's Sex Scandal

A shocking true crime tale of money, power, and sex from the world's most popular thriller writer. Jeffrey Epstein rose from humble origi...

The Year of Magical Thinking

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet uni...

A Woman's Story

A New York Times Notable Book A Woman's Story is Annie Ernaux's "deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dr...

The Art of Memoir

In The Art of Memoir, master memoirist Mary Karr synthesizes her expertise as professor and therapy patient, writer and spiritual seeker,...

My Story

Home in the World - A Memoir

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For Amartya Sen, ho...

Gender Euphoria - Stories of joy from trans, non-binary and intersex writers

"So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their b...

My Place

In 1982 Sally Morgan travelled to her grandmother's birthplace, Corunna Downs Station in Western Australia. She wants to trace the experi...

Jeremy Hutchinson's Case Histories - From Lady Chatterley's Lover to Howard Marks

'A fascinating episodic cultural history . . . Grant brings out the essence of each case, and Hutchinson's role, with clarity and wit' Th...

Bob - No Ordinary Cat

A special children's edition of the bestselling "A Street Cat Named Bob", about how a beautiful ginger cat came into Bowen's life when he...

Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club) - A Memoir

BEYOND MERELY INSPIRATIONAL: LOVE WARRIOR IS EPIC' ELIZABETH GILBERT, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic 'LOVE WARRIOR B...

Kingdom of Fear - Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century

Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005) was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. His books include Fear and Loathing in America, Hell's Angels...

Diary of a Young Naturalist

WINNER OF BOOK OF THE YEAR, NARRATIVE NON-FICTION BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 2021 Rediscover the natural world with the multi-award winning phen...

In Love with the World - What a Monk Can Teach You About Living from Nearly Dying

A rare, intimate account of a world-renowned Buddhist monk's near-death experience and the life-changing wisdom he gained as a result. 'O...

Consider This - Moments in My Writing Life after Which Everything Was Different

Renowned, bestselling novelist Chuck Palahniuk takes us behind the scenes of the writing life, with postcards from decades on the road an...

Devotion - An Epic Story of Heroism/Friendship and Sacrifice

***SOON TO BE A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM*** 'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast/powerful/and moving.' Erik Larson Devotion tells the grip...

Big Friendship - How We Keep Each Other Close

'Wonderful and intimate portrayal. A story is as universal as it is revolutionary' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON A close friendship is one of th...

The Cancer Journals

'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New Statesman T...

The Collected Schizophrenias

Esm¿eijun Wang is the author of The Border of Paradise. She received the Whiting Award in 2018 and was named one of Granta's Best of Youn...

The Chronology of Water

A memoir from the author of "The Book Of Joan", drawing attention to the potential of the exhilaration of swimming - and other outlets fo...

Threads of Life - A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** **RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK** For the mothers of the disappeared in 1970s Argentina, protest was difficult. Ev...

The Little Book of Bob - Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is unusual, even in cats. In the decade since w...

The Secret Barrister - Stories of the Law and How It's Broken

An anonymous barrister offers a shocking, darkly comic and very moving journey through the legal system - and explains how it's failing a...

Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing - Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language

Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller 'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, autho...

Heart Berries - A Memoir

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the Whiting Award for Non-Fiction Selected by Emma Watson as an Our Shared Shelf Book Club Pick 'I ...

A Life's Work

A Life's Work is Rachel Cusk's funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences of motherhood. An education in babies, boo...

Endless Flight - The Genius and Tragedy of Joseph Roth

The mercurial, self-mythologizing novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the 20th-century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was the...

Super-Infinite - The Transformations of John Donne

Happening

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: understanding that her pregnancy w...

The Falling Sky - Words of a Yanomami Shaman

Anthropologist Bruce Albert captures the poetic voice of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon, in...

Save Me from Myself - How I Found God, Quit Korn, Kicked Drugs, and Lived to Tell My Story

The incredible story of a controversial rock star, his secret addiction to methamphetamines, and his miraculous salvation through Jesus C...

The Junior Officers' Reading Club - Killing Time and Fighting Wars

The extraordinary memoir of Grenadier Guards officer Patrick Hennessey, an acclaimed account of the making of a modern soldier who has fa...

Resident Alien

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

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 ...

Hotel Splendide

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...