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Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

Book of the Year Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Times, Evening Standard 'A compelling read from one of the greatest artists of our ti...

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The Speckled People

`This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ¿ It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.¿ Roddy Doyle

Notes on a Silencing - A Memoir

A memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and the efforts by a powerful New England boarding school ...

The Long Weekend - Life in the English Country House Between the Wars

Adrian Tinniswood OBE FSA is the author of fifteen books on social and architectural history, including Behind the Throne: A Domestic His...

We're Queer And We Should Be Here: The perils and pleasures of being a gay football fan - The perils and pleasures of being a gay football fan

Darryl Telles's sexuality is as important to him as his passion for Tottenham Hotspur, yet like other gay football supporters, he has had...

Belonging - One Woman's Search for Truth and Justice for the Tuam Babies

One woman, the secrets of a small town, and a story that rocked a nation - a riveting and important personal account of Catherine Corless...

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...

Letters of Note: Love

The Boys of My Youth

Beard writes with perfect pitch as she takes readers through one woman's life--from childhood to marriage and beyond--to memorably captur...

Yoga - From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a ...

This Girl Ran - Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete

When Helen's friends all started settling down and having kids, she was determined to fill her weekends with something other than cocktai...

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Group - How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life

A memoir by a young lawyer who describes her experiences going through group therapy.

Reflections from a Glass House: A Memoir of Mid-Century Modern Mayhem

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE? Carol Sveilich's memoir takes place in the 1960s and in the years just before the Santa Clara Valley mor...

Expecting Adam - A true story of birth, transformation and unconditional love

Expecting Adam is the beautifully written, poignant, achingly funny true story of John and Martha Beck, and of the extraordinary child th...

Frontline Midwife - Finding hope in life, death and birth

'Brutally powerful . . . Totally absorbing' Independent 'A gripping, honest and moving account of healthcare work in a war zone' Henry Ma...

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My Fathers' Daughter

A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family...

Get a Grip, Love

'Clever, kind, funny and wise, this book is an uplifting and useful addition to your self help library.¿ Daisy Buchanan, How to Be a Grow...

Last Days in Old Europe - Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89

A merging of memoir, history and reportage comparable to Patrick Leigh Fermor, looking back at the intricacies of lived experience in the...

The Survivor - How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A riveting, compelling, mesmerizing journey. Josef Lewkowicz is a hero in every sense of the word. The S...

In My Grandfather's Shadow - A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence

'Fascinating ... an extremely courageous work.' The Lady 'Absolutely extraordinary ... Findlay reveals a vast, hidden European story that...

Born on the Fourth of July

A powerful anti-war statement and memoir, with a foreword by Bruce Springsteen

The Absent Moon - A Memoir of Inherited Trauma in the Shadow of the Holocaust

A beautiful work that is in turn haunting, touching and redemptive' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE ?A profoundly emotional book, and a brave one'...

The Rib Joint - A Memoir in Essays

Exploring the hazy line that can exist between friendship and desire, this memoir-in-essays is a coming out story that chronicles the chi...

Friends Like Henry: Everything Your Family Needs to Know about Finding, Training and Learning from an Autism Companion Dog - Everything your family needs to know about finding, training and learning from an autism companion dog

Practical advice on how to introduce an autism companion dog into families, set out across a four-part programme.

Out of Sheer Rage - In the Shadow of D. H. Lawrence

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won ...

My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim feminist finds herself

A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 27-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experience...

Red Dust Road - Picador Classic

The jigsaw can never, ever be completed . . . You are made already, though you don't properly know it, you are made up from a mixture of ...

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in world literature. It is ...

Handsome - Stories of an Awkward Girl Boy Human

A funny, moving memoir of a sweet and awkward misfit who loses her battle with puberty but somehow grows into a tall, dapper adult with g...

Furious Hours - Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Shortlisted for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. The true story of an Alabama serial killer whose dramatic case for a whil...

Twelve Moons - A Year Under a Shared Sky

TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies.

The Dog With The Head Transplant

A follow-up to the hilarious Cows In Trees, offering more entertaining, dramatic and often poignant tales from Julian Earl's experiences ...

Sapphic Slashers - Sex, Violence, and American Modernity

"In this stunningly coherent and compelling account of the development of 'American modernity, ' Duggan captures our interest with the se...

The Courage to Care - Nurses, Families and Hope

'An inspiring book for our challenging times' Olivia Coleman Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in ou...

How to Be a Refugee - The gripping true story of how one family hid their Jewish origins to survive the Nazis

'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception ...

Return To Latvia

A rediscovered Italian author returns to her Baltic homeland to come to terms with widespread Latvian complicity in the massacre of Jews ...

Vet On A Mission

Vet on a Mission tells the story of a wife and mother of three who sets up her own small animal veterinary practice â ¿ the tears, the la...

White Girls

Hilton Als is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer and chief theatre critic at The New Yorker. He has received numerous awards, including the ...

My Own Story

Emmeline Pankhurst was born in 1858 in Manchester, into a politically active family. She became interested in politics at a young age and...

Invisible Walls - A Journalist in Search of Her Life

Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the great political correspondent...

In Memory of Memory

The Berlin Shadow

A formally audacious and deeply moving memoir in three timeframes that confronts the defining trauma of the twentieth century, and its ef...

The Portable Anna Julia Cooper

A collection of essential writings from the iconic foremother of Black women's intellectual history, feminism, and activism, who helped p...

Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography: Illustrated; Volume 3

The Outermost House - A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, ho...

The Proud Bastards - One Marine's Journey from Parris Island Through the Hell of Vietnam

The true story of a young marine's experiences in Vietnam, this memoir describes the day-to-day life of a combat infantryman in stunning ...

The Sun Does Shine - How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row (Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection)

Born in Alabama in 1957, Anthony Ray Hinton was 28 years old when he was wrongly convicted of the murders of two restaurant managers. Hel...

Another Planet - A Teenager in Suburbia

Everything But The Girl singer-songwriter and "Bedsit Disco Queen" author Tracey Thorn blends memoir and psychogeography in these recolle...

Varying Degrees of Success - A Memoir 1992-2020

In a career spanning six decades, David Lodge has been one of Britain's best-loved and most versatile writers. With Varying Degrees of Su...

The Life of Stuff - Possessions, obsessions and the mess we leave behind

'This extraordinary, beautiful memoir gripped me from the first page.' Clover Stroud, author of The Wild Other What do our possessions sa...

Rememberings

From the acclaimed, controversial singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor comes a revelatory memoir of her fraught childhood, musical triumphs,...

Make it Count - An extraordinary 100-year-old man's 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of

I don't know where to stop praising Benny and this amazing book...' - HEATHER MORRIS, The Tattooist of Auschwitz 'This book...is the stuf...

Jane Austen's Little Book of Wisdom - Words on Love, Life, Society and Literature

Jane Austen¿s Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size quotes of inspiration and wisdom from one of the greatest females writ...

A Taste of Power

The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers 'Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over...

Running The Coast For A Cure: One Man's Journey For His Niece With Sturge-Weber Syndrome

An extraordinary and inspirational journey to make a difference!In 2014, Al DeCesaris set out on a 1,935-mile solo run from Lubec, Maine ...

When the Men Were Gone - A Novel

AUTUMN 1944: FOR THE FOLKS OF BROWNWOOD, TEXAS, THE ONLY THING MORE IMPORTANT THAN WINNING THE WAR IS FOOTBALL! It's a man's game, until ...