'A hugely enjoyable love letter to swimming and open water adventures' Sophie RaworthSports and Virgin Radio Breakfast Show presenter Vassos Alexander found solace and distraction swimming in the Thames during a difficult summer, and was bitten by the bug.
Born in 1918 in Fort Benton, Montana, Nedra Sterry has crafted a powerful memoir of life on the Montana prairies and a childhood defined in equal measure by poverty and grace, hard work and family ties.
On a sweltering day in August 1960, in the segregated Deep South city of Jacksonville, Florida, a seventeen-year-old Black boy finished his dishwashing job at Morrison's Cafeteria, walked out the back door, and found himself in the middle of a nightmare.
'True, unflinching, powerful, lyrical' Kate Mosse'It's quite an achievement to shine a light of truth on the often idealised, always understated, role of the farmer's wife.
Bajo el peso y la persecucion de la dictadura franquista, una familia se ve forzada a huir de su amada Cataluna, ultimo bastion republicano de la guerra civil que devasto a Espana.
'Fearless in its approach to both personal and Irish history, Hennigan's The Celestial Realm marks a brave new voice in Irish literature' - The Irish TimesPhil doesn't like physical affection.
Venciendo en las tempestades es un libro que ofrece valiosas herramientas para afrontar y superar las crisis y adversidades que inevitablemente surgen en la vida.
In Speak of It, Marcos McPeek Villatoro explores how he channeled his Latino roots to come to terms with the childhood sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a relative in his home in Appalachia, and he recounts his ensuing struggle with trauma and mental illness.
In A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, award-winning author, sex educator, filmmaker, and podcast host Tristan Taormino shares her coming-of-age story, revealing how her radical sexuality and unconventional career grew out of an extraordinary queer father-daughter relationship.
In this powerful and absorbing sequel to Mother and Me: Escape from Warsaw 1939 (ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Autobiography 2006), the author recalls his flight from the Nazis in Hungary as an 8-year-old boy with his resourceful and determined mother, Barbara.
For fans of Really Good Actually and I'm Glad My Mom Died'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldstein'Interrogates moments of trauma with insight, kindness and humanity' - John RobinsThis is a book about mistakes.
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Fashion and style icon Jeanne Beker delivers an uplifting and inspiring memoir that walks us through a wardrobe of memory, one article of clothing at a time.
THE WEIGHT OF GHOSTS is a circling of grief following the death of the author's older son when he was 21, a horror that was compounded by her younger son's drug use, the country's slow eruption as it dealt with its own brokenness, and reckoning the author had to do regarding her own story.
A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews.
Tausche Sportschuhe gegen Gummistiefel: Eine Familie wagt den Neuanfang als SelbstversorgerAls Sara und Michael ihre Karriere als Leistungssportler beenden, ahnen sie noch nicht, dass sie schon bald knietief in Erde und Schlamm stecken.
This story will take you through the life of John Palermo: how I grew up, and how I was influenced by some of the most celebrated historical top organized-crime figures in America for over thirty years.
