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Jolly Lad - A Menk Anthology

A memoir about the recovery from alcoholism, habitual drug use and mental illness, from broadcaster, and co-founder and editor of The Qui...

The Old Lost Land of Newfoundland - Family, Memory, Fiction, and Myth

In 2008 Wayne Johnston became the second prominent Canadian writer to enlighten and entertain audiences as a speaker in the Canadian Lite...

Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting

Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting is Dorcas Smucker's brand new chronicle of family life with six fast growing kids. Downstairs the Queen ...

Sociopath - The Eye-opening True Story Everyone's Talking About

Fascinating' - Stylist magazine 'Addictively page-turning' - The Telegraph ''Surprising, thoughtful and deeply personal.' - Pandora Sykes...

Bright Star - Selected Poems

JOHN KEATS: BRIGHT STAR: SELECTED POEMS Edited with an introduction by Miriam Chalk This book gathers the most potent passages from the p...

The Spiral Shell - A French Village Reveals Its Secrets of Jewish Resistance in World War II

In this haunting memoir that reflects on the Holocaust and its legacy, award-winning author Sandell Morse discovers stories of bravery an...

J. K. Rowling - The Biography of the Highest Paid British Fantasy Author and her Life as a Philanthropist

Are you a fan of J.K. Rowling? This biography book is for you! It tells the story of one of the most successful British authors, from her...

Lightning Can Strike Twice - My Life as a Fury

In his first book professional boxer and social media star, Tommy Fury, reveals what life is like juggling his many identities: boxing ch...

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt - True Stories of an L.A. Private Eye

Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a collection of true short stories with a few personal vignettes about investigations the author Eddy L. McC...

ROSIE HUNTINGTON-WHITELEY HAND

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley was born at the Freedom Fields Hospital in Plymouth, Devon, England. Her mother, Fiona, is a fitness instructor...

I Remain in Darkness

An extraordinary evocation of a grown daughter's attachment to her mother, and of both women's strength and resiliency.

Astronaut Wives Club

Read the bestselling book that inspired the ABC television series. As America's Mercury Seven astronauts were launched on death-defying m...

Rogues - True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery an...

Rural - The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE ...

Killjoy - How a small voice made a big change

Fearne Cotton's Happy Place Book Club Pick The uplifting and incredible true story of the No More Page 3 campaign and the unlikely everyd...

The Prisoner - Behind Bars in Putin's Russia

A shocking, but also wryly humorous and ultimately uplifting memoir of an ordinary man sentenced to lengthy and brutal imprisonment in Pu...

The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me

'Clement has lived a life like no other, and made of it a shimmering mosaic, a masterpiece, which is this book' Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitz...

Your Wild and Precious Life - On grief, hope and rebellion

A WATERSTONES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024 My son's death will never make sense to me. But it has taught me that it's possible to find meaning,...

Negroland - A Memoir

'Jefferson's eye for details yields some devastatingly honest and painful insights' The Times 'Captivating... Charm is this book's watchw...

Legends and Soles - Business, Creativity and Basketball - A Memoir of an Improbable Life

The brilliant autobiography from the 'saviour of Nike' If you're a sneaker head, you know him as the Savior of Nike. If you've watched Ai...

Turning - A Swimming Memoir

Jessica J. Lee - Canadian, Chinese and British - swims through all four seasons. This is the story of a beautiful obsession: of the thril...

Stand Against Injustice - The Untold Story of the Family of Barry George, Wrongly Convicted for the Murder of Jill Dando

On April 26, 1999, BBC TV presenter Jill Dando was murdered outside her home in London. Barry George was convicted and imprisoned for the...

The Bookshop Woman - The Smash-Hit Japanese Bestseller

I'm the manager of a very unusual bookshop. I have access to over ten thousand books, and I'll recommend the perfect one for you. 80,000 ...

Somebody's Daughter

'If family was everything, the source of all that was needed to complete the picture, I was a wilfully missing piece of the puzzle...' Th...

Shame

Monster

This volume describes true events spanning from 1982 to 1998 relating to American Thomas Luther (b. 1957), a complicated and ruthless man...

The Earl and the Pharaoh - From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun

Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography. Betw...

Dear Senthuran - A Black spirit memoir

Exteriors

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take pl...

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Volume Two of Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'A lot of fro...

I Believe in Miracles

I Believe in Miracles is the true story of Diza Sutton's life that takes you through her tragedy--into darkness--to triumphant freedom in...

A Go! Go! Revisited

A Go! Go! Revisited - Beatles, Bournemouth and Beyond updates and extends Jon Kremer's Sixties memoir Bournemouth A Go! Go! The full text...

Over Our Dead Bodies: - Undertakers Lift the Lid

With humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach’s Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitli...

Beasts in My Belfry

'A renegade who was right . . . He was truly a man before his time' SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH 'An account of Durrell's very first job, as an...

The Crewe Murders - Inside New Zealand's Most Infamous Cold Case

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains New Zealand's most infamous cold case. It spawned tw...

The Position of Spoons - and other intimacies

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and w...

Unreconciled - Family, Truth, and Indigenous Resistance

NATIONAL BESTSELLER WINNER of the 2022 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Non-Fiction SHORTLISTED for the 2023 Speaker's Book Award A...

The Friday Afternoon Club

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Wise, funny and generous' The Times 'Warm and perceptive' New York Times 'So honest and funny and ...

Cravings - How I Conquered Food

Since childhood, legendary folk singer Judy Collins has had a tumultuous relationship with food. Her issues with overeating nearly claime...

Darling Days - A New York City Childhood

` iO's mother, Rhonna was a showgirl, actress, dancer, a widow by police murder and an addict who slept with a gun under her pillow. This...

The Plant Hunter - A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines

The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist’s quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through t...

Ten Steps to Nanette - A Memoir Situation

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.' Hannah Gadsby, Nanette Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transform...

Splinters - A Memoir

Leslie Jamison's exceptionally astute and honest writing has been compared to that of Joan Didion and Susan Sontag. Acclaimed for her pow...

Fi - A Memoir of My Son

The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child - from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don...

Black Chameleon - Memory, Womanhood, and Myth

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological? Growing up as a Black girl in America, Deborah D.E....

Pageboy - A Memoir

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Eloquent and enthralling..." -Washington Post "The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. ...

Thin Places

erri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the space of ...

Unwifeable - A Memoir

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK POST * MARIE CLAIRE * ELITE DAILY * REFINERY29 * ROMPER * PRIDE * PUREWOW “A guts...

The Seymour Desk - One man's journey to understand its past as well as his own

Starting with a fleeting fascination in the winter of 2021 and then becoming a three year obsession, first-time author Andrew Harrison ta...

The Gilded Razor: A Book Club Recommendation!

Sharply funny and compulsively readable, The Gilded Razor is a "powerful addition to the literature of active addiction and recovery" (Ne...

Alfred Russel Wallace (Volume I) - Letters And Reminiscences In Two Volumes, Vol. I.

Alfred Russel Wallace (Volume I): Letters And Reminiscences In Two Volumes, Vol. I. This book is a result of an effort made by us towards...

When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back

Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of Gri...

The Love That Dares - Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

An intimate and inspiring collection of letters revealing some of the greatest queer love stories in history "What this charming, moving ...

The Chain - How Women Save Each Other

'A powerful tribute to female solidarity that you won't be able to stop thinking about' GLAMOUR 'An ode to how women support, protect and...

Heligoland: Reminiscences of Childhood

Heaven's Coast - A Memoir

The year is 1989 and Mark Doty's life has reached a state of enviable equilibrium. His reputation as a poet of formidable talent is growi...

Jane Austen's Guide to Life - Thoughtful Lessons for the Modern Woman

Jane Austen has become our patron saint of romance, our goddess of happy endings. Her name is synonymous with romantic sighs, period cost...

The Famous Die Young - Englische Edition

From Al Capone to Frank Zappa. The Famous Die Young. 365 Legenden und ihre zu kurzen Lebensgeschichten. Sie sind Pioniere ihres Fachs, wa...

On Agoraphobia

'One of my favourite living writers: intelligent, lucid and, most impressive of all, funny' - Jonathan Coe If we're talking agoraphobia, ...

Will You Care If I Die? - The international bestseller

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A raw, intimate story of trust and betrayal' - A. L. Kennedy, The Guardian 'It's heartbreaking. It's scary....