If Walls Could Speak

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures – from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as Habita …

Mary Lou McDonald

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Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies’ favourite to be Ireland’s next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Féin leader ever to enter government in the Republic of …

The Joy of Gardening

Gardens teach us to live in the moment. They nourish us, provide solace in grief and offer sanctuary from the stresses of modern life.In a celebration of the healing power of nature, New Zealand garde …

The World's Strongest Book

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Go behind the scenes with Eddie ‘The Beast’ Hall as we follow his incredible journey from World’s Strongest Man to competing in ‘The Heaviest Boxing Match in History’ against his nemesis Hafthor ‘Thor …

Never Better

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The warm, rich and fascinating memoir of beloved broadcaster Tommie Gorman.When Tommie Gorman was growing up in Sligo in the 1960s, struggle was never far away but his household had a surplus of love …

The Wood Life

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*WINNER OF THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR**FOREWORD BY BEN STOKES*Hallo – I’m Mark Wood. As an England and Durham cricketer who was born, raised and refined in Ashin …

Bad Boy Boogie

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Bon Scott was once asked if he was AC or DC. ‘Neither,’ he grinned, ‘I’m the lightning flash in the middle.’ And that’s how he lived his life.No one had the same skill with lyrics as Bon, who called h …

Monster

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I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the gun, street, fence and wall.After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off sh …

The Truth About China

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‘People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me …

A Child of the East End

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‘Funny, stark, fascinating’ THE INDEPENDENT’An extraordinary celebration of a bygone era’ KATE THOMPSON, author of The Stepney Doorstep Society’A vivid portrait of the post-war years, but also a uniqu …

The Accidental Teacher

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With his sharp wit and poet’s eye, Tim Heath writes of a forty-year career, mostly in New Zealand but also in Samoa. He’s worked in small country schools, in big city schools, at the Correspondence Sc …

A Bloody Good Rant

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‘When I was born in 1935 I grew up, despite depression and World War II, with a primitive sense of being fortunate . . . The Utopian strain was very strong . . . if we weren’t to be a better society, …

A Home for All Seasons

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Gavin Plumley considered himself a distinctly urban being…until he met his rural husband, Alastair. Together, they bought Stepps House – a three-storey building in Pembridge, Herefordshire – on love …

Doc

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Often compared to David Bowie and Mick Jagger, Doc Neeson was hailed as a ‘messianic rock god’.He was thumping, pumping, sweaty hard rock. He commanded the stage. He was unstoppable. He was terrifying …

The Women's Doc

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‘We never train women in Sydney,’ Caroline de Costa was told in 1974 when she applied to become a junior registrar in obstetrics and gynaecology. She and her husband packed their bags and their childr …

The Break

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*SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SPORTS BOOK AWARDS CYCLING BOOK OF THE YEAR*The gripping and revealing autobiography of one of Britain’s most successful international cyclists of the modern era’Getting in a …