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'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow. ''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening.'...

FBI Special Agent and expert in criminal profiling and behavioural science, John Douglas, is a man who has looked evil in the eye and made a vocati...

The true story of forbidden love in eighteenth-century Venice between an Italian noble and the brilliant, illegitimate daughter of an English baron...

Up till 2006 a British Ambassador leaving his post was encouraged to write what was known as a valedictory despatch, to be circulated to a small nu...

They were the courageous women of the French Resistance. Their actions put them in the gravest danger. Their friendship would keep them strong. On ...

From the oppression and terror of the killing fields in Cambodia, this is the story of how one man's conversion led to a rebirth of faith that brou...

On a midsummer day in 1937, Boris Bibikov kissed his two daughters goodbye and disappeared. One of those girls, Lyudmila, was to fall in love with ...

'Brilliant' Paul Newman, Daily Mail SHORTLISTED FOR THE BEST SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR In How Not to be a Cricketer , former England in...

Fresh from finishing the Marathon des Sables, Ranulph Fiennes has become the oldest Briton to complete this ultimate endurance test. The world's gr...

The shocking first true account from one of the young girls who lived through and survived the Rotherham sex abuse scandal. In the summer of 2014, ...

Patrick Leigh An Adventure

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. The worlds of Milan, Rome and Naples thro...

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Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was leveled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, sh...

Richard Grant has never spent more than 22 consecutive nights under the same roof. Motivated partly by his own wanderlust and partly by his realisa...

The defintive account of the early life of the revered author of the Aubrey-Maturin novels including Master and Commander . To many, Patrick O'Bria...

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Book by Barr, James

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with " blood and bone and sinew " ( Times Literary Suppleme...

An uneducated youth, William Booth left home in 1849 at the age of twenty to preach the gospel for the New Methodist Connexion. Six years later he ...

This work digs deep and painfully into personal experience of depression and mental illness, while also considering the wider the historical, socia...

On 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France. Her aim was simple: to circle the globe entire...

In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meanin...

A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political ...