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'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves [Dostoevsky's] novels will be fascinated by this book' - Sue Prideaux, author of I Am Dynamite! A Life of Friedrich Nietzsche Dostoevsky's life...

A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable...

A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir.'A quiet, occasionally hilarious, ultimately devastating book . . . the most moving and memorable piece of...

A deeply researched biography of the prominent and divisive writer Ayn Rand, whose pro-capitalist novels and nonfiction have influenced three generations of Americansand “Excellent and succinct. -Jim Kelly,and Air Mailand Biographer Alexandra Popoff traces the life and creative achievement of Ayn Rand (1905-1982), one...

A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.'and - Jonathan Freedland, author ofand The Escape ArtistA powerful, true story of a Holocaust survivor told by her daughter -...

A detailed and graphic personal and family history within a national and international context. It mirrors and brings to life the modern and contemporary history of the Indian sub-continent and of India and Pakistan, and the dramatic birth-struggles of both major nation states dominating...

A fact-based book that highlights political assassins in history. The book includes the stories of the assassins rather than just their famous victims. The book dissects selected political assassinations and and why the assassins acted; details their political goals, addresses why they chose the...

A fascinating account of an audacious woman's journey and a rapidly vanishing way of life, Azadi's Daughter is both a personal memoir and a political commentary. Journalist Seema Mustafa writes evocatively of the secular, pluralist India of the 1960s and '70s, chronicling her life...

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A fascinating exploration into the lives of three women ignored by history …and Eye-opening, engrossing'Brit Bennett,and bestselling author ofand The Vanishing Halfand In her groundbreaking debut, Anna Malaika Tubbs tells the incredible, moving story of three women who raised three world-changing men.Much has been...

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A fascinating insight into the enclosed world of football scouts in the UKA teenaged boy plays football in a suburban park. His name is Raheem Sterling. The call is made: “Get down here quick. This is something special .Another boy is 8, going on...

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A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION'Profoundly personal as well as historically significant ... In his moral clarity and baring of the heart, Shehadeh recalls writers such as Ghassan Kanafani and Primo Levi' Hisham Matar,and New York TimesAziz Shehadeh was...

Aand Financial Timesand Book Best Book of the Year 2020Aand Foreign Affairsand Best Book of the Year 2020The gripping, untold story of how Saudi Arabia's secretive and mercurial new ruler rose to power.Even in his youth as a prince among thousands of princes, Mohammed...

A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red Guards in 1966 and subsequently jailed. All attempts to make her confess to the charges of...

A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, balance of power and national interest.The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography that examines Henry Kissinger's role in American government through his ideas. It analyses the continuing...

A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these diaries. I cannot remember being so moved by a book' Dolly...

A great and inspiring book from Doncaster's bravest son. Read it in a day' -and Jeremy Clarkson'Ben is the embodiment of positive thinking. What he has achieved, in large part through willpower, is nothing short of miraculous. An inspiration to us all' -and Ant...

A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling'and Daily Mail An unmissable read'and Sunday TimesSoldiersand is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne...

A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world.The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and Dickie'...

A gripping, painfully honest and ultimately inspirational, New York Times bestselling memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith.'It's a shame that Pinkett Smith's marriage has taken up so much attention because, asand Worthyand shows, it's far...

A groundbreaking exploration of Himalaya: one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions'Adds the human element to the hard rock. And what a rich vein it is' Michael Palin'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of...

Aand GUARDIANand BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYWINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020Following on from the critically acclaimedand Things I Don't Want to Know, discover theand powerful second memoir inand Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'.'I can't think of any writer aside from...

Aand Guardianand Best Thriller Novel of the YearZoe Ball's Radio 2 Book Club pickMesmerising and haunting, Emma Flint'sand Other Womenand is a devastating story of obsession inspired by a murder that took place almost a hundred years ago. This is a book that will...

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A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend'and ObserverAs well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from...

A harrowing account of one woman's reckoning with life, death and choice. For readers of Educated, Hillbilly Elegy and Three Women.

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam andamp; Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother-and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six...

A highly entertaining story of literary friendship, epic legal battles and cultural politics centred on one of the most enigmatic writers of the 20th century'and Financial TimesWhen Franz Kafka died in 1924, his friend Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil the writer's...

A highly original, stirring book on Mahatma Gandhi that deepens our sense of his achievements and disappointments. This is a vital, brilliant reconsideration of Gandhi's extraordinary struggles on two continents, of his fierce but, finally, unfulfilled hopes, and of his ever-evolving legacy, which more...

A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure to read.' Marina WarnerIn 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the...

A hilarious and horrific collection of Donald Trump's no-holds-barred opinions, brought together in one handy volume.It contains the rug-haired one's charming and intelligent thoughts on his opponents ( Hillary Clinton was the worst secretary of state in the history of the United States'), on...

A hilarious collection of essays from 'the premier observer of our world and its weirdnesses,'and New York Timesand bestselling author David Sedaris (Adam Kay, author ofand This is Going to Hurt)Anyone who has heard David Sedaris speaking live or on the radio will tell...

A history of Hewlett-Packard chronicles the efforts of its Stanford graduate founders to build their first product in a small California garage through its rise to a legendary Silicon Valley company, in an account that credits the company's objectives, employee trust, and firm self-appraisals...

A household name, an Australian rock icon, the elder statesman of Ozrock - there isn't an accolade or cliche that doesn't apply to Jimmy Barnes. But long before Cold Chisel and Barnesy, long before the tall tales of success and excess, there was the...

A humorous attempt at categorising recipes, Indian, Western and Continental, not on the basis of their ingredients or modes of preparation, but according to the various categories of Gentlemen Chefs'.

A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience of autism. A quirky boy growing up in 1950s Ottawa sows the seeds of his future Hollywood stardom. In the US, a non-verbal man explores body language, gesture...

A Junior Library Guild SelectionMeet Jerry Lawson, the Black engineer who revolutionized the video game industry, in this engaging picture book biography perfect for fans ofand Whoosh!: Lonnie Johnson's Super-Soaking Stream of Inventionsand andand Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History.Before Xbox, PlayStation, or...

A KING WITHOUT AN HEIRGiordano Bruno arrives in Paris to find a city on the edge of catastrophe. King Henry III lives in fear of a coup by the fanatical Catholic League and another massacre on the streets.A DEADLY CONSPIRACY IN PLAYWhen murder strikes...

A lavish commemoration of the fairy-tale wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, featuring complete, up-to-the-minute photos from this once-in-a-lifetime event!Features complete up-to-the-last-minute photos from the wedding itself!and Experience the heartwarming tale of how the dashing playboy prince fell in love with the beautiful...

A layer cake of truth, pain and wisdom iced with charm. I loved it.'and -and Sue Perkins'Painfully raw and incredibly funny'and - Simon Amstell'Katy sees the world like no one else and deciphers it with extraordinary beauty.and Delicacyand took my breath away'and - Lolly...

A lifetime spend fighting the powers that be and turning personal pain into collective power.Take care of this book because you are holding our history in your hands.' -and LOWKEY'Michael Mansfield is the greatest civil liberties lawyer this country has ever produced' -and Baroness...

A Lively, indispensable, cutting-edge exploration of our stake in India's gambit to transform itself from a developing country into a global powerhouse in record time. India is everywhere-Indian studios produce animated features and special effects for Hollywood movies; Indian software manages our health records;...

A Long Watch offers a story of human complexity amid entrenched narratives of Sri Lanka's long civil war.Pulled from a dark ocean after a battle at sea, Commodore Boyagoda became the highest-ranking prisoner detained by the Tamil Tigers. For eight years, he lived at...

A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker'sDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the world's great...