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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...

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.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Seven Letters from Paris

Twenty years, seven letters, and one long-lost love of a lifetime At age 40, Samantha Verant's life is falling apart-she's jobless, in de...

Reason For Hope - A Spiritual Journey

From one of the world's most renowned scientists, conservationists, and animal rights activists comes a bestselling spiritual autobiograp...

Black Sabbath Bookazine

In this full colour bookazine, Greg Healey takes a closer look at the rock band from Birmingham. Adored by their fans and loathed by thei...

Letters of Note: Grief

The Young Man

In her latest work, Annie Ernaux recounts a relationship with a student thirty years her junior - an experience that transforms her, brie...

Searching for Hassan - A Journey to the Heart of Iran

The “astonishing and deeply poignant” (The Washington Post) memoir of one man’s search for a beloved family friend explores the depth of ...

The Life Inside - A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to be Free

A unique insight into survival behind bars, inherited shame and some of life¿s most pressing questions.

Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say - The Things We Cannot Say

A personal exploration of silence, taboo and the failure to communicate, from debut author Harriet Shawcross who looks back on a year as ...

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Newly Collected and Edited

India's Most Fearless - True Stories of Modern Military Heroes

The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across the LoC; a soldier who killed 11 terror...

Eastman, C: FROM THE DEEP WOODS TO CIVILIZ

Some New Kind of Trailer Trash

Brad Blanton is at ease in this first volume of his autobiography. Some NEW Kind of Trailer Trash, telling any tale about himself, includ...

One Way Ticket: The Autobiography of a London Cypriot - The Autobiography of a London Cypriot

The 1950s and '60s were a troubled and difficult time for Cyprus and its people. The land was torn and fractured. Thousands of Cypriots m...

Birdgirl - Discovering the Power of Our Natural World

Discover Mya-Rose Craig's moving and life-affirming memoir about family, searching for rare birds, and the power of our natural world. 'L...

Charging Around - Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car

A retired teacher approaching his eightieth birthday attempts to drive round the edges of England by electric car. With endless patience ...

Metamorphosis - A Life in Pieces

A darkly comic and moving memoir on what it means to be human in a world where nothing is certain, from the award-winning Oxford professo...

Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

"One of the most satisfying of all letter-writers." -- Spectator Henry James's beautiful letters to his friend and inspiration, the uncon...

A Beautiful, Terrible Thing

A woman discovers her marriage is built on an illusion in this harrowing and ultimately inspiring memoir. "Be forewarned: You won't sleep...

The Book of Hope - 101 Voices on Overcoming Adversity

A life-affirming and diverse anthology compiled by activist Jonny Benjamin, sharing 101 key figures' experiences of living with mental he...

When Shadow Meets the Bodhisattva - The Challenging Transformation of a Modern Guru

Andrew Cohen details his spiritual initiation, his rapid rise to guruhood, the explosive growth of his spiritual community worldwide, and...

Life as a Unicorn - A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between

A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020 WINNER O...

English Pastoral - An Inheritance

THE SUNDAY TIMES NATURE BOOK OF THE YEAR The new bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life 'A beautifully written story of a fami...

The Girl Who Survived Auschwitz

`You are no longer a number¿ Poland, 1944The train slowed and halted with a squeal of the breaks. It felt like we waited in the carriage ...

The Stable Boy of Auschwitz

"Previously published under the title The kindness of the hangman by Higgins Bay Press in 2014."--Title page verso.

Life, After

The Heartbreaking French Bestseller When Antoine lost his wife, Hélène, he was left to care for their baby alone. In this wry and honest ...

Courage to Change

Author of Forever Home, Lorraine Jenkins-Wilkes writes another compelling story of survival. At age thirty, Vilma has experienced two fai...

Slumberland

American Black Widow - The Shocking True Story of a Preacher's Wife Turned Killer

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable story of Sharon Nelson, the minister's wi...