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The Lighthouse Stevensons
Bella Bathurst
Bella Bathurst’s epic story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors and the building of the Scottish coastal lighthouses against impossible odds.‘Whenever I smell salt water, I know that I am not far from one of the works of my ancestors,’ wrote...
The Spy Who Changed History
Svetlana Lokhova
‘A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties … remarkable’ 5* review, TelegraphOn the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Bl?riot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling...
For the Record
David Cameron
‘The political memoir of the decade’ Sunday TimesThe referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its...
Love in the Blitz
Eileen Alexander
When the papers say that people in London are behaving normally, they’re telling the truth. Everyone is pretending as hard as possible that nothing is happening … I don’t think Hitler will destroy London, because London, if its legs are blown...
The Last Leonardo
Ben Smith Lewis
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across...
It All Adds Up
Mickael Launay
‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forever changed the world and the everyday people and...
The Creativity Code
Marcus du Sautoy
Will a computer ever compose a symphony, write a prize-winning novel, or paint a masterpiece? And if so, would we be able to tell the difference?As humans, we have an extraordinary ability to create works of art that elevate, expand and...
Monty Python Speaks! Revised and Updated Edition
David Morgan
The complete oral history of Monty Python – one of comedy's most legendary and influential troupes – publishing to coincide with the 50th anniversary of their BBC debut.With a foreword by John Oliver from Last Week Tonight‘Some people think...
A Short History of Falling
Joe Hammond
A Short History of Falling – like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air – is a searingly beautiful, profound and unforgettable memoir that finds light and even humour in the darkest of places.We keep an old shoebox, Gill...
The American Duchess
Anna Pasternak
‘The best book about the Windsors for decades’ Petronella WyattThe intimate biography of one of the most misunderstood women in British royal history.His charisma and glamour ensured him the status of a rock star prince. Yet Edward gave up the...
A Woman of Firsts
Edna Adan Ismail
‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostImprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating...
Eric Morecambe Unseen
Группа авторов
This is a completely original book on Eric Morecambe, one of the UK’s best-loved entertainers. Containing diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the most revealing book yet on Morecambe.Posthumously voted 'Comedian...
Planting the World
Jordan Goodman
A global history of botany and plant collecting in 18th century based on original research in many languages.Joseph Banks, botanist for Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on The Endeavour, was a child of the Enlightenment. He believed that...
Enemies Within
Richard Davenport-Hines
What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands?With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed...
A Dark Secret: Part 1 of 3
Casey Watson
Part 1 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this...
Period
Emma Barnett
‘I wish this book had been written before I stopped having them. I might have enjoyed them more! It’s brilliant, informative and funny. Period.’Jennifer Saunders ‘I want to hear what Emma Barnett says about everything, and this terrific and...
Roaring Girls
Holly Kyte
‘Extraordinary’ Woman&HomeA Roaring Girl was loud when she should be quiet, disruptive when she should be submissive, sexual when she should be pure, ‘masculine’ when she should be ‘feminine’. Meet the unsung heroines of British history who...
Finding Stevie: Part 1 of 3
Cathy Glass
Part 1 of 3Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online.When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and...
Open Side: The Official Autobiography
Sam Warburton
‘A terrific book. No one put their body on the line quite like Sam Warburton.’ Brian O’Driscoll‘It was an absolute privilege to play against Sam. An inspiring leader with an equally inspiring story to tell.’ Jonny WilkinsonSam Warburton OBE was...
Innocent: Part 1 of 3
Cathy Glass
Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 of 3Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an...
Brilliant, Brilliant, Brilliant Brilliant Brilliant
Joel Golby
‘This is a funny and beautiful book. What a little bastard.’ RUSSELL BRAND‘A millennial's answer to David Sedaris. No writer is funnier than Joel Golby.’ DOLLY ALDERTONA collection of full-throated appreciations, withering assessments, and...
Gunpowder and Geometry
Benjamin Wardhaugh
August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne.In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in. Sunlight, or rain. Scudding clouds and backbreaking labour. Three hundred feet underground, young Charles Hutton is at the coalface....
Dad’s Maybe Book
Tim O’Brien
The bestselling author of The Things They Carried and If I Die in a Combat Zone shares wisdom from a life in letters, lessons learned in wartime, and the challenges, humour and rewards of raising two sons.When Tim O’Brien became an older father,...
J. R. R. Tolkien
Humphrey Carpenter
The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.In the 25 years since Tolkien’s death in September 1973, millions have read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and...
Frankel
Simon Cooper
In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword. Of the twelve horses lined up on Newmarket Heath...
Damaged
Cathy Glass
The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass…Cathy, an experienced foster carer, is...
Taking le Tiss
Matt Le Tissier
The fascinating, insightful and at times hilarious memoirs of one of the most gifted and enigmatic British footballers of the last 25 years.Nicknamed «Le God» by the Southampton faithful, Matt Le Tissier was not cast from the same mould as 99%...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Edward Wilson-Lee
WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEThe fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flame, courtier, bibliophile and catalogue supreme, whose travels took him to the heart of...
Bad Blood
Lorna Sage
From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates...
The Light’s On At Signpost
George MacDonald Fraser
From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations.In between writing Flashman novels, George MacDonald Fraser spent thirty...
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Mike Ripley
WINNER OF THE HRF KEATING AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION CRIME BOOK 2018 An entertaining history of British thrillers from Casino Royale to The Eagle Has Landed, in which award-winning crime writer Mike Ripley reveals that, though Britain may have...
Virusphere
Frank Ryan
A fascinating and long overdue examination of viruses – from what they are and what they do, to the vital role they have played in human history.What are viruses? Do they rely on genes, like all other forms of life? Do they follow the same...
Genius and Ink
Вирджиния Вулф
FOREWORD BY ALI SMITHWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA WADEWho better to serve as a guide to great books and their authors than Virginia Woolf?In the early years of its existence, the Times Literary Supplement published some of the finest...
The Queen
Ben Pimlott
An updated edition of Ben Pimlott’s classic biography of the Queen: ‘There is no better biography of Elizabeth II.’ PETER HENNESSY, Independent on SundayThe royal family have been through a tumultuous decade, but with the wedding of Prince...
The Little Prisoner
Jane Elliott
From the age of four, Jane Elliott was forced to carry a terrible secret…Dominated, bullied and sexually abused by her stepfather for 17 years, The Little Prisoner is a devastating true story of one girl’s struggle from freedom.Held as a...
Little Prisoners
Casey Watson
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a harrowing and moving memoir about two innocent and frightened ‘unfosterable’ children who do not know what it means to be loved.This is the third book in the series.The shock that strikes Casey...
Skin Deep
Casey Watson
Rejected by her mother and excluded by her school, Flip is a little girl desperate to be loved.‘Am I ugly, Mummy?’ are the first words that little Phillipa says to Mike and Casey as she stomps into their lives on a hot August afternoon. She has...
Where Shall We Run To?
Alan Garner
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARFrom one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.'The war went. We sang in the playground, «Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions.» David’s father...
Inner City Pressure
Dan Hancox
A GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, PITCHFORK, NPR, METRO AND HERALD SCOTLAND BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2018‘The definitive grime biography’ NME’A landmark genre history’ PitchforkThe year 2000. As Britain celebrates the new millennium, something is stirring in the...
Лаба, Улла и Нева
Дмитрий Финоженок
Эта книга – машина времени, в которую садишься с опаской, но с первых же минут путешествия начинаешь доверять пилоту, слушая его рассказы и смеясь над остроумными шутками.Казалось бы, это просто истории из детства незнакомого человека, но как...
Мой путь к осознанности
Полина Иванова
Моменты осознания в течение моей жизни. Книги, которые я читала. Заметки для родившихся, как и я, без памяти прошлых жизней.
…в этом мире несчастливы… Книга третья
Евгений Черносвитов
Это третья книга из серии «…в этом мире несчастливы…», в ней собраны истории по документам, которые произошли в разное время. В основном в нашей стране. Авторы являлись в каждом случае или свидетелем, или врачом, или психологом, или экспертом....
Большеникольский Ломоносов: Иван Яковлевич Барков. В воспоминаниях близких, учеников и коллег
Чумовицкий А.И.
«Наш Ломоносов!» – так, с полным уважением, без всякой иронии называют старожилы села Большеникольского Октябрьского района Челябинской области своего земляка – Ивана Яковлевича Баркова. И это сравнение вполне уместно: так же, как и...
Fragile Lives
Stephen Westaby
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZETHE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT’S AWARD 2017An incredible memoir from one of the world’s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases...
Ghostland
Edward Parnell
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020‘A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature’ Philip Hoare‘An exciting new voice’ Mark Cocker, author of Crow CountryIn his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring...
A Dark Secret
Casey Watson
Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this is no simple...
The Fragments of my Father
Sam Mills
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEARIn the vein of the Costa-winning Dadland, with the biographical elements of H is for Hawk, The Fragments of my Father is a powerful and poignant memoir about parents and children, freedom and responsibility,...
GIRL
Kenya Hunt
Guhl. Gworl. Gurl. Girl! A zeitgeisty yet timeless celebration of womanhood, of blackness, and the possibilities they both contain.Coming soon in 2020…
Cruel to Be Kind
Cathy Glass
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in...
Cruel to Be Kind: Part 1 of 3
Cathy Glass
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in...
