Sean from our Royal Festival Hall branch picks out the books that best document a conflict - memorably described by Jose Luis Borges as "two bald men fighting over a comb" - that cost 907 lives.
Katy recalls her own childhood enjoyment of the late Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are and celebrates the achievements of an author who never grew up.
A voracious reader, a lover of music, an amateur actress, Alison Bechdel's mother is also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations...
An intimate memoir by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved actresses.
Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.
* The extraordinary story of Pannonica - a British-born Rothschild daughter who abandoned London to live in New York among the Jazz artists
At the age of 32, after ten years of hiding from the truth, Emma Woolf finally decided it was time to face the biggest challenge of her life. Addicted to hunger,...
The National Book Award winner Patti Smith presents a treasure box of a childhood memoir about clear unspeakable joy and just the wish to know.
For someone who shuns the limelight by concealing his real name, never showing his face and never giving interviews except by email, Banksy is remarkably famous. In ...
Here, in one book, is the sequel and the prequel to the hugely successful Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Andrew Marr's vivid account of the Queen and her reign now available in paperback
Cassandra will be discussing the recent release of City of Lost Souls with the inimitable...
In this exclusive interview for Foyles, Nell talks about how she came to write her latest novel, The Colour of Milk, in the voice of an 1830s farm girl, why society is more compassionate today and the value of literacy and speaking one's mind.
WINNER ANNOUNCED! Afghanistan account Dead Men Risen, whose first print run was pulped by order of the MoD, is unanimous victor.
It's annual Towel Day. If you don't know why, then treat yourself to one of the smartest, most imaginative comic fiction creations ever.