Barack Obama

RRP: £35.00

In Barack Obama, David Maraniss has written a sweeping narrative which reveals the real story of Obama’s beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland and a white woman born in Kansas. He charts the f …

Magical Thinking

RRP: £15.00

A collection of autobiographical short stories, small vignettes of his life experiences, universal in their appeal yet unabashedly intimate and very funny.From the #1 bestselling author of Running wit …

The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

RRP: £8.99

Young Minnie Sidgwick was just twelve years old when her cousin, twenty-three-year old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie – as …

To Sea and Back

RRP: £17.99

Combining natural history with beguiling autobiographical and historical narrative, To Sea and Backis a dazzling portrait of a fish whose story is closely intertwined with our own.’Indispensable and p …

The Twelve Caesars

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One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of …

Wild

RRP: £9.99

The official tie-in edition to the stunning film adaptation of the bestselling memoir, starring Reese Witherspoon.

The Missionary Position

RRP: £8.99

Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, feted by politicians, the Church and the world’s media, Mother Teresa of Calcutta appears to be on the fast track to sainthood. But what makes Mother Teresa so divi …

The Patagonian Hare

RRP: £20.00

The international bestseller: a cry of witness to the 20th century – the unforgettable memoir of 70 years of contemporary and personal history from the great French filmmaker, journalist and intellect …

The Trials and Triumphs of Les Dawson

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Les Dawson: a comedian who, more than any other, spoke for the phlegmatic, resigned, sarcastic, glorious British way of life. This is his story.A Northern lad who climbed out of the slums thanks to an …

Full Service

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Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.Sc …

Public Enemies

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‘Everything separates us from one another, with the exception of one fundamental point: we’re both utterly despicable individuals.’ (Houellebecq to BHL)In 2008, two of the most celebrated of French in …

The Limit

RRP: £12.99

10 September 1961: at the boomerang-shaped racetrack at Monza, in northern Italy, half a dozen teams are preparing for the Italian Grand Prix. It is the biggest race anyone can remember. Phil Hill – t …

Madam Lash

RRP: £10.99

Gretel Pinniger, dominatrix, fetishist, artist, and courtesan to the rich and famous has been shocking and outraging Australia for decades. Never shy of publicity, this introverted daughter of a hands …

What It Is Like To Go To War

RRP: £12.99

In 1968, at the age of 22, Karl Marlantes abandoned his Oxford University scholarship to sign up for active service with the US Marine Corps in Vietnam. Pitched into a war that had no defined military …

Pearl Jam Twenty

One of the key bands of the Seattle-based grunge movement of the 1990s, Pearl Jam broke on to the world stage with their album, Ten, which went on to become an alternative rock classic. For over two d …

Back from the Brink

RRP: £14.99

In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank – the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the …