Chase Your Shadow
John CarlinRRP: £8.99
Guardian’s Best Sports Books SHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
Frank Zappa
Barry MilesRRP: £12.99
Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controvers …
Havel
Michael ZantovskyRRP: £20.00
This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …
The Magic Lantern
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …
The Truth About Hormones
Vivienne ParryRRP: £8.99
Shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis PrizeHormones rule our internal world: they control our growth, our metabolism, weight, water-balance, body clocks, fertility, muscle bulk, mood, speed of ageing, whet …
Twins
Katrina BowmanRRP: £12.99
When Louise and Katrina discovered they were having twins, both had the same thought once they recovered from the shock: buy a book that explains what to expect in order to get organised and to prepar …
Tsunami and the Single Girl
Krissy NicholsonRRP: £9.99
As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy–now almost thirty–needs her life to start taking shape. So how does a wild night on a dance floor in Vietnam land her a sought-after role in Oxfam working in eme …
The Good Soldier
Gary MeadRRP: £20.00
Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander wh …
Victoria
A. N. WilsonRRP: £14.99
The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.
Journals 1952 – 2000
Arthur SchlesingerRRP: £15.99
Frank, revelatory, suffused with wit and humanity, Arthur Schlesinger Jr’s journals offer an intimate history of post-war America, from his days on Adlai Stevenson’s campaign team to his years in JFK …
Overcoming Baby Blues
Gordon ParkerRRP: £12.99
Pregnant women are expected to glow, and new mothers are expected to bask in the delight of their baby. But for some women, this is a time of unsettling mood shifts and uncertainty. One in ten women e …
The Iceberg
Marion CouttsRRP: £10.99
THE WINNER OF THE 2015 WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE, 2014SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS, 2014 (BIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR CATEGORY) SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE …
Absent Without Leave
Paul LivingstoneRRP: £10.99
Absent Without Leave is not a book about what Private Stanley Livingston had to say. Like many veterans, Stanley Livingston barely spoke about the war. Instead, it is an attempt by his son to discover …
Stringer
Anjan SundaramRRP: £12.99
Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense perio …
The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge
Richard SheltonRRP: £8.99
‘When I first urged Richard Shelton to write his naturalist’s memoir, I never expected him to produce a classic. But he has.’ Redmond O’Hanlon, author of Trawler Fish have been a lifelong obsession fo …
A Conversation About Happiness
Mikey CuddihyRRP: £14.99
When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The set …
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