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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. |
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... | 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... |
Judith Mackrell A gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s | Jesse Norman Both conservative and subversive, Burke's beliefs have never been more relevant than in today's 'Big Society', as MP Jesse Norman explains. |
Jon Henderson Stanley Matthews is one of the most famous footballers ever to play the beautiful game. He played 84 matches for England in a career that spanned an extraordinary 33 years... | Neil McKenna 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre. All eyes are riveted upon their lascivious oglings of... |
Alexandra Heminsley Whether you're in serious training or thinking about running for the bus, this book is suitable for those who after wine and crisps for supper a few too many times... | Richard Holloway At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood... |