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Tolkien and the Great War
John Garth
* TOLKIEN * Now a major motion picture *A biography exploring J.R.R. Tolkien’s wartime experiences and their impact on his life and his writing of The Lord of The Rings.“To be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than in...
An English Affair
Richard Davenport-Hines
WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014.Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, An English Affair is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social...
Work! Consume! Die!
Frankie Boyle
Brace yourself for Frankie’s novel, he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and...
Scotland’s Jesus
Frankie Boyle
Reading Scotland's Jesus should be like being called into the living room by your child shouting that they see a little red dot on the head of a TV newscaster, then riding the white hot bullet through the propaganda circuitry of his or her...
Wicked Beyond Belief
Michael Bilton
Revelatory investigation into the police handling of the Yorkshire Ripper Case which spanned over 14 years. Newly updated to include Sutcliffe’s bid for freedom in 2008, and the verdict from court in 2010.For over twenty years, the dark secrets...
Fighter Boys
Patrick Bishop
In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.The Battle of Britain is one of the most crucial battles ever fought, and the victory of...
The Killer Across the Table
Марк Олшейкер
‘John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement I've had the privilege of knowing’ Patricia Cornwell‘John Douglas knows more about serial killers than...
Too Scared to Tell: Part 2 of 3
Cathy Glass
PART 2 OF 3The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with...
The Girl with Seven Names
Hyeonseo Lee
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.As a...
Innocent
Cathy Glass
Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when...
The Speckled People
Hugo Hamilton
‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a...
Call Me Evil, Let Me Go
Sarah Jones
Sarah had lived in fear for over a decade. Humiliated, ostracised and brainwashed, her spirit had been crushed. But as the realisation of what she was subjecting her children to began to sink in, she found new strength and determination – the...
Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor....
Too Scared to Tell
Cathy Glass
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his...
Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre
Julius Green
A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world’s most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories.Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books and...
Some Sunny Day
Dame Vera Lynn
The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon.Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an early age – along with her father, who also did a ‘turn’, she sang in Working Men’s...
The World I Fell Out Of
Melanie Reid
The Sunday Times BestsellerFrom the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir‘It’s beautiful – full of love and light – and an exploration into not only how,...
Captain Cook
Алистер Маклин
On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean’s absorbing story of one of Britain’s great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the...
Too Scared to Tell: Part 3 of 3
Cathy Glass
PART 3 OF 3The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with...
Patrick O’Brian
Nikolai Tolstoy
An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.Patrick O’Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary history with the bestselling Aubrey–Maturin...
Happy Fat
Sofie Hagen
‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able...
When I Had a Little Sister
Catherine Simpson
When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine’s search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46. It’s a story...
The Saboteur
Пол Кикс
In the tradition of ‘Agent Zigzag’ comes a breathtaking biography of WWII’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned...
Erdogan Rising
Hannah Lucinda Smith
‘Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.’ Literary Review‘Essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan‘It is a must.’ The TimesWho is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into...
My Midsummer Morning
Alastair Humphreys
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had...
Born Trump
Emily Jane Fox
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President’s children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her findings as an insider within the most...
Innocent: Part 2 of 3
Cathy Glass
Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 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...
Innocent: Part 3 of 3
Cathy Glass
Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 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...
From Russia with Blood
Heidi Blake
The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination‘A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carr? couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not...
Damaged, A Baby’s Cry and The Night the Angels Came 3-in-1 Collection
Cathy Glass
Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ three inspirational memoirs, Damaged, A Baby’s Cry and The Night the Angels Came, now available for the first time in a single volume.Damaged is the heartbreaking...
В погоне за светом. О жизни и работе над фильмами «Взвод», «Полуночный экспресс», «Лицо со шрамом», «Сальвадор»
Оливер Стоун
Перед тем, как «Взвод» принес Оливеру Стоуну международный успех, он воевал во Вьетнаме, был дважды ранен. Вернувшись с войны, он поступил в Нью-Йоркский университет, где учился киноискусству у Мартина Скорсезе. По ночам Стоун водил такси, а...
I Carried a Watermelon
Katy Brand
’Massively enjoyable’ Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and...
Under Pressure
Richard Humphreys
‘One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.’ Dan Jones‘An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the hidden world of the modern submarine.’ James HollandA candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what...
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
Daisy Dunn
Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back.In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the...
Saving Danny
Cathy Glass
The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were...
Footsteps
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring...
Born to Be Posthumous
Mark Dery
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate EventsFrom The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward...
Punished
Vanessa Steel
‘Punished’ is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved...
Интересы партии превыше всего. Биография Си Чжунсюнь
Ван Сяоцян
Книга познакомит вас с видным членом Коммунистической партии Китая, руководителем по политической работе и Народно-освободительной армии.
Авторы расскажут о жизненных перипетиях, взлетах и падениях, недюжинном упорстве, честности, преданности...
Наследуя старое, открывать новое. Биография Гу Му
Лю Хуэйюань
Это книга о судьбе Гу Му – видного реформатора и преданного делу революции деятеля Коммунистической партии Китая.
Еще юношей вступив в ряды подпольщиков, в годы антияпонского сопротивления Гу Му проявил себя как храбрый воин и талантливый...
Особому делу – особый подход. Биография Жэнь Чжунъи
Ли Цыянь
Книга рассказывает о жизни и политической деятельности Жэнь Чжунъи – убежденного сторонника реформ и выдающегося члена Коммунистической партии Китая.
Еще студентом он включился в политическую жизнь страны и проработал на благо Китая более 70...
Служить, а не искать выгоду. Биография Сян Наня
Ся Мэн
Эта книга расскажет о жизненном пути Сян Наня – одного из выдающихся деятелей Коммунистической партии Китая, смелого и талантливого реформатора.
В годы войны – антияпонская пропаганда, в мирное время – кампания по механизации сельского...
В батальоне правительственной связи. Воспоминания семнадцатилетнего солдата. 1943—1945
Михаил Грачев
В книге Михаила Карповича Грачева (1926–2018) рассказано о судьбе совсем еще юного парня, в 17 лет призванного в Красную армию и дошедшего до самого берлинского Рейхстага. Несмотря на то что М.К. Грачев был распределен в батальон НКВД...
Валентин Фалин – уникальная фигура советской дипломатии
Валентин Фалин
Валентин Михайлович Фалин – уникальное и незабываемое явление советской дипломатии, политики, науки. Квинтэссенция уникальности его личности в том, что и знания, и опыт, и характер, и судьба выковали в нем принципы и бесстрашие. За то, что он не...
For The People
Anelia Schutte
A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid‘They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.’Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists.But...
Через три войны. Воспоминания командующего Южным и Закавказским фронтами. 1941—1945
Иван Владимирович Тюленев
Через три войны прошел автор этой книги, генерал армии Иван Владимирович Тюленев (1892—1978). Он остался в российской военной истории обладателем единственного сочетания высших боевых наград. Полный Георгиевский кавалер, кавалер трех орденов...
Mummy’s Little Helper
Casey Watson
The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson.A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system...
A Dark Secret: Part 2 of 3
Casey Watson
Part 2 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...
Dream. Believe. Achieve. My Autobiography
Jonathan Rea
‘If I had to lose my record to anyone, I couldn’t be happier that it was Jonathan. Family connections aside, there is nobody more talented, more determined or more deserving.’ – Carl FogartyWithin the staggeringly dangerous and high-pressure...
Finding Stevie
Cathy Glass
Finding 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 looks it...
