The View from Here
Joan BakewellRRP: £8.99
Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column – Just 70The View from Here is Bakewell’s discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. A household name and a popular radio and TV broa …
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Inside Steve’s Brain
Leander KahneyRRP: £9.99
It is hard to believe that the same man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and put digital music on the map in t …
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John Stuart Mill
Richard ReevesRRP: £30.00
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on …
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Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £8.99
The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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City of Laughter
Vic GatrellRRP: £19.99
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Clever Girl
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
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44 Things
Kirsty GunnA distinguished literary novelist celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood in this rich and breathtakingly intimate treasury of stories, essays, poems and letters.In 44 Things, Kirsty Gunn celeb …
Keeping Mum
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
Self-Made Man
Norah VincentRRP: £10.99
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on just how hard it is to be a man, even in a man’s world. Vincent spent a year and a half disguised as …
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Breakfast Epiphanies
Sara HulseRRP: £7.99
The instant Sara and Toby met, they just knew that they were made for each other. But they soon discovered that they had very different ideas about how to get married. For Sara, God and Love were inse …
The Aquariums of Pyongyang
Kang Chol-HwanRRP: £12.99
‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …
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It's About that Time: Miles Davis On and Off Record
Richard CookRRP: £14.99
Here is quite simply one of the most original books about a jazz musician ever published–a biography-cum-discography that focuses in turn on fourteen major albums recorded by Miles Davis, using them …
Voltaire in Exile
Ian DavidsonRRP: £20.00
In 1753, Voltaire – playwright, poet, philosopher, and one of the most feted figures in Europe – was forced into exile by King Louis XV, where he would remain for the last 25 years of his life. This p …
A Life Inside
Erwin JamesRRP: £10.99
Nineteen years ago, Erwin James was sentenced to life imprisonment. He was in his twenties. Over the past three years, he has written powerfully about prison life for the Guardian. This book brings to …
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My Father's Rifle
Hiner SaleemMy Father’s Rifle is a beautiful narrative about the life of boy named Azad and his coming-of-age in Iraq during the 1960s and 1970s. Azad is born into a vibrant village culture, to a family that is p …
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Fortune’s Daughters
Elisabeth KehoeThe story of the three Jerome sisters is one of love, glamour and money in equal measure. Their father, Leonard, was a profligate New York stockbroker whose beautiful wife, Clara Hall, was as extravag …
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