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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Red

Jacky Colliss Harvey

RRP: £12.99

A New York Times bestsellerRed is the first book to explore the history of red hair and red-headedness throughout the world. More than just a book for redheads, Red is a fascinating social and cultura …

Brainstorm

Richard Scolyer

RRP: £16.99

A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a medical revolution.Skin cancer is this country’s most common cancer, and melanoma the deadliest form of it. Richard, together with his colle …

Lin-Manuel Miranda

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

How did Lin-Manuel Miranda become the preeminent musical storyteller of the 21st century?Daniel Pollack-Pelzner traces Miranda’s path from a friendly but often isolated child to the winner of multiple …

Peacemaker

Thant Myint-U

‘A wonderful subject, beautifully written, evoking a world startlingly like and unlike our own’ Rory Stewart’A brilliant portrait not just of a great and unjustly forgotten man, but of an entire age’ …

The Complete Buddhism for Mothers

Sarah Napthali

RRP: £16.99

Become a calmer and happier mother with The Complete Buddhism for Mothers, fully revised and updated for the modern mother.Entering parenthood can be a time of great inner turmoil for a woman, yet par …

Turncoat

Dennis Sewell

The remarkable story of George Downing: savvy soldier, politician, diplomat and spy… or the biggest scoundrel in Stuart England?

Other Rivers

Peter Hessler

RRP: £12.99

‘Memorable… One of [China’s] most astute and sensitive foreign observers’ Financial Times’Compassionate… full of warmth’ GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China’s first boom …

Gwyneth

Amy Odell

‘Brimming over with gossip’ Guardian’The new Gwyneth Paltrow biography is juicy as hell’ Marie ClaireCome inside the world of one of the most influential, aspirational and polarizing celebrities of th …

All The Worst Humans

Phil Elwood

RRP: £10.99

A New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Editors’ ChoiceA New York Post Best Book of the YearAn Amazon Best Biography/Memoir’Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down’ Christopher Buckley, au …

Didion & Babitz

Lili Anolik

RRP: £10.99

A TOP 12 BOOK OF THE YEAR PICK IN THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMESTHE BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK FOR NOVEMBER 2024’This book is magic. It’s all I ever needed’ LENA DUNHAMEve Babitz died on December 17, 2021. …

Further

Michael Hutchinson

‘A unique and funny writer with a true understanding of what it takes to make it as an elite cyclist’ Chris Boardman’As if Bill Bryson had taken to two wheels’ Financial Times’Hutchinson proves as goo …

Love Expanded

Wren Burke

A boundary-pushing book that redefines how we love.What if romantic love wasn’t the only kind we prioritised? What would happen if we put the same emphasis on platonic love? How would we understand an …

Love, Expanded

Wren Burke

A boundary-pushing book on love and relationships in all its forms, showing exactly what we can all learn from the asexual community.Love, Expanded is not a book about suffering, though the challenges …

Queen Catherine’s Court

Sophie Shorland

RRP: £12.99

‘A good story, embracing character, emotion and drama… refreshing.’ THE TIMES’A splendidly sympathetic and sparky portrait… Wittily written and rich in detail’ Miranda SeymourCatherine of Braganza …

When Life Gives You Lemurs

Tim Husband

RRP: £16.99

‘A compelling story, beautifully told, about how animals can show you a way forward.’ Richard GloverTim Husband was born into a Jehovah’s Witness family who spent their weekends delivering God’s Word. …

A Very French Affair

Maria Hoyle

RRP: £14.99

What do you say when a man you’ve dated a handful of times asks you to go live with him in a mill by a river in France? The obvious answer is: ‘Are you out of your mind?’ Maria Hoyle’s was: ‘Okay.’At …

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