Biography
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind 1917. Virginia Woolf arrives at Asheham, on the Sussex Downs, immobilized by nervous exhaustion..
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**A Guardian book to look out for in 2024** 'An exceptional book: a meditation on family; an interrogation of movement and borders; a reflection on how someone can become separated from their own..
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*THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER* *A Times Best Music Book of 2023* 'Glorious! I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Self deprecating and re..
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATURE WRITING PRIZE 2023 A WATERSTONES NATURE AND TRAVEL BEST BOOK OF 2023 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT NATUR..
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'A fantastic and fascinating exploration of the life of a great champion... Full of compelling insight.' - Tom Hiddleston 'This book captures the deep complexities in Novak's mind and his l..
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The enthralling life, endurance and incredible leadership of Sir Ernest Shackleton, told by the world's greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph Fiennes. To write about Hell, it helps if you have be..
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An "extraordinarily brilliant" and "pleasurably naughty" (Andre Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became a..
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In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 - known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' - remains the chief shrine. It's not as r..
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This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long be..
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Discover the real Judi Dench through a series of intimate conversations about the love of her life - Shakespeare Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig; cavorting naked through the co..
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From Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed 'A few days ago, a bomb went off in my life, but this bomb has also shattered the lives ..
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Why do we cook? Is it just to feed ourselves and others? Or is there something more revolutionary going on? In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking - that simple act of rolling up o..
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It was 13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash dire..
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'Your friends would probably describe me as nice. But guess what? I can't stand your friends. I'm a liar. I'm a thief. I'm highly manipulative. I don't care what other people think. I'm capa..
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Love is our only hope. It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, A..
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What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In Something Lost, Something Gained, Hillary offers her candid views on life and love, politics, l..
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"Son of Hamas" is now available in softcover with an all-new chapter about events since the book's release such as the revelation of Mosab's Israeli intelligence handler's true identity, and Homeland ..
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The long-awaited memoir of the legendary actor, for readers of Keith Richards' LIFE and Bruce Springsteen's BORN TO RUN From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly..
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The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age. Source Code describes with unprecedented candour Bill Gates' life from h..
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It was one of the images of the twentieth century: two boys, walking behind their mother, Princess Diana's, coffin. Billions wondered what the princes must be feeling - and how their lives would play ..
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In this blend of memoir and criticism, Leslie Jamison turns her attention to some of the most intimate relationships of her life - her consuming love for her young daughter, and a ruptured marriage on..
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 'What Ned hasn't seen on a sports TV channel isn't worth knowing about.' Gabby Logan 'From fal..
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Rolling Stone 'One of the best nonfiction books about friendsh..
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A beautiful memoir, travelogue, and meditation on stone and the transformative power of craft, by young stone mason Beatrice Searle. A beautiful memoir, travelogue and meditation on stone by arti..
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As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk costumes and small mountains of glowing amber. We were half-scared, ma..
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'Engrossing, enlightening and hugely entertaining' SARAH WATERS, author of Fingersmith 'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating' KATHE..
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"a book full of love that makes you see what really matters, both in art and life. Clever, tender, completely compelling" - Ella Risbridger In 2020, artist Tom de Freston and his novelist wife Ki..
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Throughout her multi-faceted career, Venus Williams has earned four Olympic gold medals, 21 Grand Slam titles, and built two companies. Along with her sister, Venus became the first female African Ame..
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WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS SHORTLIST, NERO BOOK AWARDS SHORTLIST, BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPIONS SHORTLIST, AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTL..
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Dumped by her husband of twenty-five years, Jo Peck-smart, successful and sixty-is totally floored. There's the complete bombshell of the news, the cliche of a younger woman-a much younger wom..
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A portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton. Winne..
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A vulnerable exploration of modern womanhood that weaves deeply personal stories with opinions and advice on sex, friendship, family, career and beyond. This part memoir, part feminist manifesto..
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The full story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world A small-town girl with incredible talent - an..
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Brendan Watkins was eight years old when his parents told him he was adopted. When he was in his late twenties, he started searching for his birth parents and eventually discovered the identity of his..
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'A riveting account about Scott of Antarctica and the machinations of his demise. Of the food depots that were diminished and the rescue that never came.' - Peter Hillary, mountaineer and explorer ..
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The Duchess does indeed seem a remarkable woman . . . this is an engaging book' - Lynn Barber, Daily Telegraph When Emma Watkins, the pony-mad daughter of a Welsh farmer, imagined her future, she..
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Acclaimed biographer Susan Ronald reveals the truth about Joseph P. Kennedy's deeply controversial tenure as Ambassador to Great Britain on the eve of World War II. On February 18, 1938, Joseph..
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'Fascinating' Katherine May'Beautifully written, lyrical and unflinching' Charlotte Fox WeberThe day Jessica Hamel-Akr discovered the ideas of George Cheyne - an eighteenth-century polymath and London..
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When, at age forty-six, Nancy Pelosi, mother of five, asked her youngest daughter if she should run for Congress, Alexandra Pelosi answered: "Mother, get a life!" And so Nancy did, and what a life it ..
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The unforgettable account of Edith Eger's extraordinary survival of Auschwitz, with new material from Edith's teenage years. In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith was sent to Auschwitz and en..
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A novelist's gripping investigation of the forces that led his childhood best friend from academic stardom to the psychiatric hospital where he has lived since killing the woman he loved When the..
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Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Aristotle, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. All share the venerable title of polymath - or, more colloquially, "Renaissance man." Compared to his peers, though, Leibniz..
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A critical look at how Bill Gates uses his wealth and power through the Gates Foundation to advance his own agenda and erode democratic institutions in the process. You know him as the founder of..
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THIS BOOK IS A LOVE STORY TO BOOKS. A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurfacing at its close, ready to breathe a different kin..
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Sequel to the No. 1 bestselling Just A Boy Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller. In it he told the harrowing story of how he and his sisters were left motherle..
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Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an ..
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In August 2014, Tom Lee and his parents drove out to visit Severalls Hospital, a former in-patient psychiatric hospital. Closed since the 1990s, as part of a nationwide shuttering of psychiatric insti..
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From poet and bestselling novelist Peter Goldsworthy, this darkly funny, bittersweet memoir offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness. 'My first stray thought- canc..
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'Fabulously readable' STEPHEN FRY 'Wildly entertaining' DAILY EXPRESS 'Fabulous ... a fund of funny stories' DAILY MAIL Described variously as a 'polymath', a 'renaissance man' and 'one..
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We are all too familiar with the stories of Jews who were tortured and killed in concentration camps throughout the Third Reich. But less is known about the persecution of Polish prisoners housed in M..
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