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Kurt Vonnegut Includes the letter the twenty-two-year old Vonnegut wrote home immediately upon being freed from the German POW camp; wry dispatches from Vonnegut's years as a struggling writer; letters to... | Paul Willetts For almost forty years, Paul Raymond was one Britain's most scandalous celebrities. Best known as the owner of the world famous Raymond Revuebar, he was a successful theatre impresario, property... |
William Shawcross The Queen Mother's witty, entertaining and insightful correspondence, published together for the first time. | Rupert Everett Rupert Everett's first memoir - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on publication in 2006. Reviewers compared... |
Sheryl Sandberg The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of... | Clive Stafford Smith A true story that reads like a thriller: how an innnocent man was convicted of murder and the horrifying flaws in American justice the case exposes. |
George Monbiot Tells the story of author's efforts to re-engage with nature and discover a new way of living. This title shows how, by restoring and rewilding our damaged ecosystems on land... | Rachel Lichtenstein Tells an account of London's Hatton Garden. This title uncovers the history, secrets and stories that bring this vibrant Clerkenwell street and its environs to life. |
David Walliams Famous comedian, funniest judge on "Britain's Got Talent", irresistible ladykiller and high-achieving sportsman, the author is a man of many talents. Launched to fame with the record-breaking "Little Britain", his... | Edna O'Brien I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as... |
Pete Townshend He is one of the greatest musical talents Britain has ever produced. But even as the principle songwriter and lead guitarist for The Who, it would be unjust to define... | Michel Rostain This is not a book about death. It's a book about life. |
Alistair Brownlee; Jonathan Brownlee Suitable for anyone interested in swimming, cycling and running and will be loved by readers of Mark Cavendish's Boy Racer and Running with the Kenyans, this title tells the story... | Albert Espinosa What is the yellow world? The yellow world is a world that's within everyone's reach, a world the colour of sun. It is the name of a way of living... |
Suzanne Corkin In 1953, at the age of twenty-seven, Molaison underwent an experimental psychosurgical procedure intended to alleviate his debilitating epilepsy. This title tells the story of the amnesiac Henry Gustave Molaison... | Alan Johnson Alan Johnson's childhood was not so much difficult as unusual, particularly for a man who was destined to become Home Secretary. This book tells the story of Alan's mother, Lily... |