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When it was first published, in 2004, Feet in the Clouds was scarcely noticed outside the world of fell-running - an esoteric sport largely confine...

From much-loved documentary maker Louis Theroux comes a funny, heartfelt and entertaining account of his life and weird times in TV. The Sunday Tim...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Everything is much easier in life when difficult situations are faced with humour and a smile. But, don't get me wrong...

In spring 1956, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire - youngest of the six legendary Mitford sisters - invited the writer and war hero Patrick Leigh Ferm...

IN HIS OWN WORDS is a selection of Nelson Mandela's speeches, providing a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to freedom and recon...

"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness."...

As seen on The Oprah Winfrey Show , this is the gripping memoir of Stacey Lannert, who spent 18 years in prison for killing her sexually-abusive fa...

The author of the bestselling Please Daddy No reveals more harrowing experiences of his neglected childhood. Having survived the terrible abuse at ...

In 1995 high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken Ma...

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers 'The Tiger's Child...

Having relocated from the streets of London to a rural North Yorkshire beat in the late 1990s, village bobby Mike Pannett encountered everything fr...

One Dog at a Saving the Strays of Helmand [Paperback] Pen Farthing

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this bo...

Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countrysi...

A gold-inscribed invitation to a wedding in Pakistan led Christina Lamb to leave suburban England for Peshawar - a town perched on the frontier of ...

The cyclist Tom Simpson was an Olympic medallist, world champion and the first Briton to wear the fabled yellow jersey of the Tour de France. He di...

It's 1988 and radios across the land blast out the Top Ten hit "Stutter Rap" by Morris Minor and the Majors. The man behind the fake moustache is T...

Having recently lost his mum to cancer, when eight-year-old Tom comes to live with Maggie, he is scared and alone. Tom has been taken into care fol...

Gypsy Jane moved through the London underworld like a force of nature. Hardened criminals feared and respected her in equal measure as she made a r...

The second volume of William Woodruff's memoirs starts with him having arrived in Poplar in the early 1930s. On spec, he turns up at a steel foundr...

A few years ago, Owen Sheers stumbled upon a dusty book in his father's study by the extraordinary Arthur Cripps, part-time lyric poet and full-tim...

June Thomson and Giselle Ross are inextricably linked by two unspeakable acts of evil. On the same day, a few miles apart, their estranged husbands...

'I defy anyone not to snort, howl and recoil' The Sunday Times ' Full of wicked asides, tart observations and sharp remarks that could only have or...

A northerner in exile, stateless and confused, hearing rumors of Harvey Nichols in Leeds and Maseratis in Wilmslow, the author goes in search of Th...