Mary Quant The inspirational story of Mary Quant's stellar career. | John Major Shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize; former prime minister John Major takes a remarkable journey into his own unconventional family past to tell the richly colourful story of the British... |
Robin Nunn An illustrated biography of a very modern, some would say unprecedented, British royal romance between the man who may, one day, be king and a beautiful, middle-class English girl. It... | Stephen Fry Spanning 1979-1987, this title charts Stephen's arrival at Cambridge up to his thirtieth birthday. |
Angela Thirlwell Madox Brown, who grew up in France and Belgium before he came to England and won fame with paintings like 'The Last of England', was always an outsider, and the... | Stephen Roche On 6 September 1987, the author touched greatness. Victory at the World Cycling Championship in Austria completed a near-unprecedented triple crown that included triumphs in the same year at the... |
Edith Cotterill Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs... | Dylan Jones The story of how David Bowie's performance of 'Starman' on Top of the Pops on 6th July 1972 changed the face of music. |
Jessica Ennis The full story of the gold medal-winning 'face of the Olympics' | Chinua Achebe Gives us a portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both the author's happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and... |
Susan Sontag Traces and documents the author's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas... | Mitch Winehouse ALL AUTHOR PROCEEDS DONATED TO THE AMY WINEHOUSE FOUNDATION. |
Kate Summerscale The extraordinary stroy of 'Joe' Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller | Edmund De Waal A memoir that traces the network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century. It tells the story of a unique collection which passed from hand to... |
Peter J. Conradi An untold story of love, idealism and courage in the Second World War | Kelly Smith How one of the stars of the GB Olympic team overcame the odds to become the greatest English woman footballer ever. |