Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Read by John Cleese with an introduction by Michael Palin.

'I had not lived in the former pit village of Lynemouth since 1961 but the winding road north from Newcastle will always be the same nostalgic highway, each twist charged with vivid memories and powerful emotions.

Melissa Wareham always wanted to work with dogs.

Russell 'The Voice' Watson is a star with a real story to tell.

'I was six when my father died so my mother has been everything to me.

'All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why'Rick Stein's childhood in 1950s rural Oxfordshire and North Cornwall was idyllic.

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman.

Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, MILES JUPP would do anything to see his heroes play.

In 1999 His Holiness The Dalai Lama published the bestselling Ancient Wisdom: Modern World, which addressed the question of ethics for the new millennium.

The reigning queen of Albert Square, Laila Morse shares her incredible story for the first time.

As a young schoolboy, David Essex dreamed of becoming a professional footballer, and was signed up by his beloved West Ham United, but as a teenager he developed a passion for music which set him on a very different path, and ultimately led to superstardom.

She was only nine when her world fell apart.

Are you happy?

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Bear Grylls is a man who has always sought the ultimate in adventure.

'This book is going to try and get as close as possible to the full story of what informed the noise of The Streets.

Joe Simpson, with just his partner Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 foot Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in June 1995.

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'The decision to publish this book has been very difficult, and taken with heavy hearts .

It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727.

'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered .

A LIFE LOST.

'Tim and I both understood we had done something really stupid.

Pauline Quirke was a skinny child, a slim teenager, a curvy woman, then -- according to her bathroom scales (curse them) - just plain fat.

In his 14 years as CEO of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy not only turned the company into the largest supermarket chain in the UK but also transformed it into a global enterprise.

Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life?

Adolf Hitler was an unlikely leader - fuelled by hate, incapable of forming normal human relationships, unwilling to debate political issues - and yet he commanded enormous support.

'What is your name?

In this unique book, His Holiness the Dalai Lama tells the full story of his 75-year struggle with China to save Tibet and its people.

A Spectator Best Book of the YearTrawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man's world.

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'There was a lot that we kept from my mother.

Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history.

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA program had an idea-a romantic, albeit crazy, idea.

The day I was appointed Chair of the shop union was the same day the Pope was elected.

One night before putting him to bed, Enaiatollah's mother tells him three things: don't use drugs, don't use weapons, don't steal.

A wryly funny and moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the public eye.

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Fred Dibnah's World celebrates the life and work of Britain's best known steeplejack and national treasure, Fred Dibnah.

The narrow street on which Harry Bernstein grew up was seemingly unremarkable; there was nothing to distinguish it from the hundreds of other such working class streets in the industrial north of England - save for an invisible wall down the middle, dividing Jews on one side, from Christians on the other.

A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942.

**The iconic bestseller, now celebrating its tenth anniversary**When she was a child, people wondered why Lorna Byrne didn't seem present in the world around her.

In 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race - an incredible test of endurance never before attempted - a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop, going into port for repairs or supplies would mean disqualification.

'I will be good,' promised the thirteen-year-old Victoria, when she understood that she would be Queen of the most powerful country in the world.

A dramatic, sparkling tale of sex, glamour, intrigue, romance and heartbreak, England's Mistress traces the rise and rise of the gorgeous Emma Hamilton.

Discover the Gift is the companion book to an upcoming film of the same name which introduces the Gift, a compelling concept that contains the wisdom you need to unlock your fullest potential.

Bob Geldof first visited Africa in 1984.

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast.