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Unbreakable Threads

Emma Adams

RRP: £14.99

An extraordinary story of courage and kindness and the ultimate triumph of family over what, at times, seem like insurmountable odds.’Abdul is dignified, defiant even, but his poise is beginning to we …

Esther

Jessica North

RRP: £14.99

Esther only just escaped the hangman in London. She was aged 16 when she stood trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, from Harrops’ Drapery. Her sentence was ‘ …

The Library Book

Susan Orlean

RRP: £12.99

A New York Times Book of the Year, 2018A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICKA dazzling love letter to a beloved institution – our libraries.After moving to Los Angeles, Susan Orlean beca …

Freeman's California

John Freeman

RRP: £10.99

The sixth volume in the series that has been hailed by NPR, O Magazine and Vogue, Freeman’s: California features stunning new work from a broad selection of writers, revealing everything that is impor …

A Game of Two Halves

Amy Raphael

Ever wondered which goal Frank Lampard is proudest of, who Jürgen Klopp thinks will manage Liverpool in the future, what Rio Ferdinand thinks of Man United in the post-Ferguson years or exactly how ma …

Am I Doing This Right?

Tanya Hennessy

RRP: £9.99

Tanya Hennessy can’t tell the time on an analogue clock, was once employed as a stilt-walker and still sleeps with Morris, her childhood teddy bear, so naturally, she is the most qualified person to w …

Attlee and Churchill

Leo McKinstry

RRP: £14.99

Chosen as a Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail’A masterpiece’ Frederick Forsyth ‘Beautifully written… unlikely to be surpassed’ Simon Heffer’Superb’ Daily Mail, Book of the Week’ …

Memento Mori

Peter Jones

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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 …

Survive. Drive. Win.

Nick Fry

RRP: £12.99

‘The story of Brawn GP is legendary… Exciting and magical.’ Damon Hill’Nick Fry and Ed Gorman take us behind the mysterious and tightly closed doors of F1 to tell the remarkable story of the 2009 se …

Good Living Street

Tim Bonyhady

RRP: £10.99

In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for th …

Lawless

Kimberley Motley

RRP: £9.99

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of t …

Unfettered and Alive

Anne Summers

RRP: £16.99

‘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 …

Barefoot Surgeon

Ali Gripper

RRP: £14.99

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 …

Manson in His Own Words

Nuel Emmons

RRP: £22.00

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 …

For All Mankind

Harry Hurt

RRP: £10.99

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 …

Small Fry

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

RRP: £10.99

Vogue’s Best Books of the YearSunday Times’ Best Memoirs of the YearA New York Times Book of the YearNew Yorker Book of the YearA frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder S …

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