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Jane Austen: Her Life
Park Honan's landmark biography of Jane Austen has been lavished with praise since its original publication. Written in an accessable atyle and met...
View full detailsPolitics On the Edge
Over the course of a decade, Rory Stewart went from being a political outsider to standing for prime minister - before being sacked from a Conserva...
View full detailsSingin' & Swingin' & Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #3)
Now a major Radio 4 drama. 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' Barack Obama Maya Angelou's five volumes of autobiogr...
View full detailsAs You Do: Adventures with Evel, Oliver, and the Vice President of Botswana . . .
Moving quickly on from the devastating crash that nearly killed him, Richard ranges widely over his life and times—a visit to Glastonbury with Jame...
View full detailsA Lifetime in a Race
With his last-gasp victory as part of the Great British coxless four team at the Athens Olympics, Matthew Pinsent clinched an historic fourth Olymp...
View full detailsEscape. Carolyn Jessop with Laura Palmer
Escape [Paperback] Jessop, Carolyn
Extreme Eiger
The North Face of the Eiger was long renowned as the most dangerous climb in the Swiss Alps, one that had cost the lives of numerous mountaineers. ...
View full detailsThe Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment
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A Slip of the Keyboard
With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – b...
View full detailsTales from a Young Vet: Mad cows, crazy kittens, and all creatures big and small
The funny, touching and entertaining story of how Jo Hardy, the star of BBC2’s Young Vets, gets to grips with animals big and small, friendly and n...
View full detailsBy the Seat of My Pants: Humorous Tales of Travel and Misadventure
Lonely Planet knows that some of life's funniest experiences happen on the road. Whether they take the form of unexpected detours, unintended adven...
View full detailsExtreme You
The former president of Gatorade and Equinox draws unconventional insights and kickass lessons from her personal and professional experiences and f...
View full detailsBeautiful
A harrowing but ultimately inspiring memoir of how one girl's beautiful face and spirit was destroyed after a vicious acid attack I heard a horribl...
View full detailsDriven to Distraction
Jeremy Clarkson is once more Driven to Distraction . Brace yourself. Clarkson's back. And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the mo...
View full detailsOrange Is the New Black
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners a...
View full detailsGirl A: My Story
This is the shocking true story of how a young girl from Rochdale came to be Girl A – the key witness in the trial of Britain’s most notorious chil...
View full detailsThe Convent
When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in 1959, her dad tells her she is going on holiday. But little does she know she will n...
View full detailsAdults In The Room
'One of the greatest political memoirs of all time' (Guardian) -- The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller What happens when you take on the establishm...
View full detailsSpoken From The Front: Real Voices From the Battlefields of Afghanistan
The biggest military author introduces real-life voices from the battlefields of Afghanistan. Spoken from the Front is the story of the Afghan Camp...
View full detailsW.H. Auden The Life of a Poet
W. H. The Life of a Poet
The Twat Files
Pre-order THE TWAT FILES and be one of the first to discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the la...
View full detailsLife in a Cold Climate: Nancy Mitford
This biography draws on Nancy Mitford's highly autobiographical early novels, the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her jour...
View full detailsBon Appetit!: Travels with knife,fork & corkscrew through France
Gastronomy is a wonderful starting point to study France and the French. As the retired schoolmaster from Provence says 'The religion of France is ...
View full detailsTWILIGHT CHILDREN PB
While working in the children's psychiatric ward of a large hospital, Torey was introduced to seven-year-old Cassandra, a child who had been kidnap...
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