Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Family is not always a place of safety.

It's 1971 and seventeen-year-old Christine is about to give birth to her son.

It's 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they'll never let anyone come between them.

'I'm so sorry, Casey,' my link worker John said, sounding weary.

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation.

Shortlisted for the 2017 PEN Ackerley Prize'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true.

In the tradition of 'Agent Zigzag' comes a breathtaking biography of WWII's 'Scarlet Pimpernel' as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers.

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis.

An unprecedented, page-turning narrative of the Nazi rise to power, the Holocaust, and Hitler's post-invasion plans for Russia told through the recently discovered lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg - Hitler's 'philosopher' and architect of Nazi ideology.

Inspired by her uncle, Lisa Samson has communed with trees since her childhood.

'More chilling than a horror film and more thought provoking than an HBO doc .

This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Helga's Diary: A Young Girl's Account of Life in a Concentration Camp, by Helga Weiss.

Shortlisted for the RSL Christopher Bland Prize 2021'Rarely has family history been so vivid' JENNY UGLOW'An extraordinarily original work' AMANDA FOREMANLike many well-to-do Georgian families, the Atkinsons' wealth was acquired at a terrible cost, through the labour and lives of enslaved Africans.

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Book of the Year.

Winner of The Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction in 2011 and the Authors' Foundation Roger Deakin Award in 2011A stunning debut in the tradition of Robert Macfarlane and Helen MacdonaldOf all the birds of the British Isles, the raptor reigns supreme, sparking the imagination like no other.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Paul French's Midnight in Peking, a gripping, true murder mystery story read by the actor Crawford Logan.

On a freezing night in January 2013, an assailant hurled acid in the face of the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Sergei Filin.

From Cameron Diaz, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Body Book, comes a fresh, personal, and authoritative examination of the art and science of growing older and a roadmap for abundant health and resilience as we age.

The unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Neil Young's Waging Heavy Peace, the rock music memoir of the year.

A selection illustrating the breathtaking variety of Byron's poetry.

Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer .

Unique, transgressive and as funny as its subject, A Life Discarded has all the suspense of a murder mystery.

The UK's number one TV psychic provides this fascinating and compelling guide to ghost hunting.

The basis for the musical phenomenon 'Cats', this collection of 14 inviting rhymes - the mixture of the real and the impossible, the familiar and the fantastic - make for a set of poems that no child or adult can possibly resist.

The most famous, beautiful and spiritually moving poems of the twentieth-century, read by the most famous poet.

The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.

The price for a country.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning's classic poem, read by Diana Quick.

The witty, incisive and frank memoirs from the legend of Newsnight and long-standing quiz master of University Challenge.

The story of a fascinating man who connected the great politicians, artists and thinkers at the height of British global power and influence.

The shocking true story of a young boy hidden away from his family and the world in a Catholic home for unmarried mothers in 1950s Dublin.

*THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER*What are the things we live for?

'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent'Superbly well told' Sunday TimesWho was Svetlana Alliluyeva?

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River.

An illuminating celebration of more than 80 of the world's most important thinkers, this book explores the fascinating stories of their lives, their loves, and their pioneering ideas.

This program is read by the author.

'When I am disturbed, even angry, gardening has been a therapy.

At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times.

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'A brilliant study of a brilliant woman' LUCY WORSLEYHistory has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach, yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as 'the cleverest queen consort Britain ever had'.

A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse.

DK Audio presents the audiobook edition of I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story, written and read by Anthony Daniels.

A rich account of the impact of the Second World War on the lives of people living in the farms and villages of Britain.

Hadley Freeman brings us her personalised guide to American movies from the 1980s - why they are brilliant, what they meant to her, and how they influenced movie-making forever.

'I watched the mirror for a last view, for now, of the frozen mountains of Glen Coe.

Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand.

From bestselling author and teacher Mary Maccracken comes the engaging and inspiring story of five troubled children who she fought to bring back from the brinkJoey is the class clown, but alone proves to be an intensely dark seven-year old who still can't read.

All seems tranquil as newly qualified Health Visitor Sarah motors into a small Kentish hilltop village in her new green mini.

The second novel, and first quick read title, from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.