Ten Steps To Nanette

The memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where …

A Game of Two Halves

There are nearly 50 million displaced children in the world, but it’s all too easy to overlook them in these fractured times. In 2017, the actor David Morrissey – a goodwill ambassador for UNHCR, the …

Attlee and Churchill

Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Churchill and Attlee. Brought together in the epoch-making …

Memento Mori

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In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated with old age and death that so transfix us today were a …

Lawless

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a US government sponsored ‘capacity building’ programme that helped train attorneys in war-torn Afghanista …

Prince Albert

The success story of the British royal family can be laid at the door of Prince Albert, who, after his death in 1861, turned into a man who could do no wrong. His statues were to be seen all over the …

The Face Pressed Against a Window

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Tim Waterstone is one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone’s empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. In this charming and evocative memoir, he recalls the …

Unfettered and Alive

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‘I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade …

Autumn in Venice

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National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …

Barefoot Surgeon

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Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world’s medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundr …

Fifty Years On

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August 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of an eruption of armed violence that traumatised Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warf …

Manson in His Own Words

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We called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as ‘the most dangerous man alive.’ But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry. This astonishing book lays …

The Destiny Thief

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A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody’s Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.I …

For All Mankind

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Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.Betw …

Not That Bad

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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and har …

The Travelling Vet

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Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside treating cows, dogs, pigs and cats, he’s also worked with an astonishing range of species around the …