Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book PrizeA Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction BookThe captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement.
*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Cut Out Girl written and read by Bart van Es.
Ireland's Instagram sensation Meditations for the Anxious Mind takes us on a trip around Ireland of the likes you've never seen before, from the trolley-filled Liffey to the glamour of Navan.
From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory.
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.
Mike Parker, bestselling author of Map Addict, is back with a very full, intelligent and witty exploration into a glorious and passionate British subject - footpaths and the history of land ownership.
'I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN'One of Britain's greatest writers' FINANCIAL TIMES'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous'GUARDIANIn this lyrical and revelatory memoir, Alan Garner, Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker, traces the line of his life: from a working-class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II, through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford, and then home to see if he could become what he most desired: a writer.
The Instant Top 5 Irish Times BestsellerFrom the creator of The Irish History Podcast comes a fascinating look at Irish history through the lens of murder.
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.
When 18-year-old Mary Hazard touched down in post-war Putney to begin her nurse's training, she could never have known that it was the beginning of a colourful career that would still be going 60 years later - one of the longest ever serving NHS nurses.
'The most gripping account of motherhood since Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work' IndependentA single mother wakes to blood in her mouth and flesh under her fingernails.
This captivating and moving saga full of twists and turns by the Sunday Times bestselling author Ruth Hamilton is perfect for fans of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court and Josephine Cox.
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Common People: The History of An English Family by Alison Light, read by Caroline Laskowska.
It's 1979: Dallas is enthralling the nation on TV, Mrs Thatcher has just become prime minister, Abba is top of the pops, and in the small Yorkshire village of Ragley-on-the-Forest, Jack Sheffield returns for his third year as headmaster of the village school.
'Wry observation and heartwarming humour in equal measure' Alan TitchmarshRandom House presents the audiobook edition of Starting Over, written by Jack Sheffield.
The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally best-selling icon Gabriel Garcia Marquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
