Biography: adventurers and explorers

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Blackwell's Non-Fiction Book of the Month.

An ';adventure tale for puzzle lovers and Indiana Jones fans alike' (The Washington Post) following three free-spirited Victorians on their twenty-year quest to decipher cuneiform, the oldest writing in the worldfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu.

This book is an accessible, sensitive, and evidence-based resource for partners, parents, and other family members navigating the heartache and challenges of caring for a young adult with cancer.

This book is an accessible, sensitive, and evidence-based resource for partners, parents, and other family members navigating the heartache and challenges of caring for a young adult with cancer.

This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer.

This practical, science-based book focuses on helping partners, family, and friends understand breast cancer.

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the rise of right-wing extremism and domestic terrorism, and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh, leading to the January 6 insurrectionfrom acclaimed journalist Jeffrey Toobin.

This valuable self-help book for people affected by cancer, their loved ones and friends focuses on self-care when life hurts.

This valuable self-help book for people affected by cancer, their loved ones and friends focuses on self-care when life hurts.

The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China.

The present book by Hu Baozhu explores the subject of ghosts and spirits and attempts to map the religious landscape of ancient China.

This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns.

This collection of Sonja Brentjes's articles deals with travels, encounters and the exchange of knowledge in the Mediterranean and Western Asia during the 16th and 17th centuries, focusing on three historiographical concerns.

An engaging account of the life and work of the legendary polymath Alexander von HumboldtIn this lucid biography, Andreas Daum offers a succinct and novel interpretation of the life and oeuvre of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859).

From the age of three Sheena Harrison was brought up by her grandmother whilst her own mother, Kathleen, sought work in America.

Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble's bestselling books, Baby X and Little Victim described his early years in Hackney's Child Protection Unit, as he battled to get to grips with cases of unimaginably horrific child abuse.

When Wendy Watson was just 16, her mother died from breast cancer.

Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze first met as teenagers at his mother's dance studio.

In this powerful and honest memoir, Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s and 1960s Dundee.

The compassionate and compelling true story of a young nurse who left behind an idyllic rural life in post-war Britain to work in the worlds most turbulent war zones.

Muriel Newmarch was born in North London in 1903.

From one of the world's most admired women, this is former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's compelling story of eight years serving at the highest levels of government.

This third and final volume of memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history and a brilliantly told narrative full of startling insights, candour and a sweeping sense of history.

This monumental work, covering Kissinger's first four years (1969-1973) as Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and President Nixon's closest advisor on foreign policy, is one of the most significant books to come out of the Nixon administration.

Ronnie Whelan was a mainstay of the iconic 1980s Liverpool FC side that won six League Championships, two FA Cups, three League Cups as well an unforgettable European Cup.

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I'm just Janet.

In this original memoir following Billy Idol from his childhood in England to his fame at the height of the punk-pop revolution, the iconic superstar tells the real story behind the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll that he is famous for.

Michele Hanson grew up an 'oddball tomboy disappointment' in a Jewish family in Ruislip in the 1950s - a suburban, Metroland idyll of neat lawns, bridge parties and Martini socials.

Monique Roffey had found her soulmate.

This, the first in a series of four unique War Diaries produced in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, will tell a story that is rarely heard: the experiences of a nurse working close to the Western Front in the First World War.

Adopted at eighteen months, Caradoc King was brought up in a large and growing family.

In January 1988, aged twelve, Martin Pistorius fell inexplicably sick.

A shocking and compelling memoir of a young girls childhood spent suffering abuse at the hands of her father and his friends.

'I had thought that for me there could never again be any elation in war.

Actor Bill Tarmey first appeared as Jack Duckworth in Coronation Streetin November 1979, when his formidable on-screen wife Vera dragged him to Brian and Gail Tilsley's wedding, only to have him sneak off for a pint at the first opportunity.

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness tells the story of the authors mother, Nicola Fuller.

In 1962 Mick Jagger was a bright, well-scrubbed boy (planning a career in the civil service), while Keith Richards was learning how to smoke and to swivel a six-shooter.

In 2006, Dave and Christie Nasser welcomed a Great Dane puppy into their lives - the runt of a litter of thirteen who won over the hearts of his new owners with his soulful blue eyes.

';I don't hate hardly ever, and when I love, I love for miles and miles .

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, or CMJ to his many fans as well as listeners of Test Match Special, was perhaps thevoice of cricket; an unparalleled authority whose insight and passion for cricket, as well as his style of commentary, captured what it is that makes the sport so special.

Dannii Minogue first appeared on television aged seven.

When Mark Radcliffe was born in the late 1950s, Britain was trying to find its own version of the dangerously sexy Elvis we gave the world Cliff Richard but by the time Mark was old enough to recognise pop songs on the radio, the UK was exploding into the world's most exciting place to be for a young music fan.

Nomadis a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds.

In Kenya's 'Happy Valley' in the years spanning the 1920s to the 1940s no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn and indulged in extra-marital affairs.

Casper became a national celebrity when newspapers ran the story of the amazing cat that regularly took the No.

Crossing Mandelbaum Gate is a vivid memoir of an American boy growing up in the midst of the Arab-Israeli conflict, three major wars and three decades of political upheavals in the Middle East.

The first full biography of John Ogdon; a tortured genius and arguably the greatest British pianist of all time.

Adriana Trigiani's two remarkable grandmothers, Lucia and Viola, lived through the 20th century from beginning to end as working women who juggled careers and motherhood.

The award-winning actress and New York Timesbestselling author pens the funniest, most accessible and timely book of her career, detailing all the things she's over and a few things she's not.