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This volume provides an inside account of the Blair government from former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who resigned over the Iraqi crisis.

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Jane Austen A Life

Few people visited the Forest of Dean. They thought us primitive, and looked down on us.  Winifred Foley grew up in the 1920s, a bright, determined...

The stories in this book were submitted by listeners of National Public Radio. "True Tales of American Life gathers 180 personal accounts in a sing...

From one of America’s iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal a p...

Donatien-Alphonse-Francois, Marquis de Sade 1740-1814, remains a man whose name is instantly recognized but whose life is obscure. Born close to ro...

'His passion was for glory only, and in that he was insatiable'. Although written over four hundred years after Alexander’s death, Arrian’s Campaig...

In 1970 Dirk Bogarde retired from acting and turned towards a quieter, more contemplative, more settled way of life. He both dreaded and yearned fo...

Frank, funny, scandalous, outspoken and very politically uncorrect memoirs from the novelist and poet. Memories of his own life and of his friends,...

Stanley Matthews was the most popular footballer of his era, the man who epitomised a generation of legendary players: Tom Finney, Nat Lofthouse, B...

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Alexandra had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms and bored of yoga, she decide...

Ita Doyle: 'In all my life I have lived in two houses, had two jobs, and one husband. I'm a very interesting person' Rory & Ita, Roddy Doyle's ...

When Natascha Kampusch made her bid for freedom on 23 August 2006 after eight years held captive in a seemingly ordinary Austrian suburban house, h...

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 SPEAR'S BEST FAMILY HISTORY AWARD 150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the...

Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen. Expecting to find understanding and inne...

Memoir. LGBT Studies. Lesbian. Queer. Child sexual abuse. Mothers. Parenting. "A true story about Ellen's discovery that her daughters were being s...

Call the Midwife' is a most extraordinary book and should be required reading of all students of midwifery, nursing, sociology and modern history. ...

"If people turn to look at you in the street, you are not well dressed, but either too stiff, too tight, or too fashionable." - Beau Brummell Long ...

Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff is one of the most exciting cricketers in the world and has improved out of all recognition during the last two years. In...

'26 February, White House Briefing Room The coronavirus feels like it is changing everything. Suddenly it's not just a public health emergency; it ...

' Vickers allows Beaton to come alive in his own era; and forces us to conclude that, for all his snobbery and insecurity, here was a man determine...