Memoirs

*WINNER OF THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2018*My younger brother s name is Nicholas Beard.

From the author of Paper Lion It began as a fun filled stunt and came to a deeply hellish, nearly humiliating end.

After forays into American football, golf and the world of professional boxing, George Plimpton accepts his riskiest assignment yet: taking to the ice as goalie for his beloved National Hockey League team, the Boston Bruins.

'This generation's Wild Swans' Daily TelegraphXiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven.

Discover a daughter's journey into her father's past in this Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the 2016 Costa Biography Award.

Los Angeles, 1988.

'What a nutjob!

**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER**'Rattling.

From the author of Paper Lion Stepping into the ring against light-heavyweight champion Archie Moore, George Plimpton pauses to wonder what ever induced him to become a participatory journalist.

In the mid-1960s, George Plimpton talked his way into the Detroit Lions pre-season training camp and in doing so set the bar for participatory sports journalism.

In January 2014 Henning Mankell was informed that he had cancer.

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox The father of virtual reality (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.

After the recent success of Princess, More Tears to Cry the Princess Al-Saud and Jean Sasson are collaborating on this new book to bring readers up to date not only with the Princess and her family but the stories and experiences of characters who formed the focus of the last book: Dr Meena - the woman who helps abused women to heal and fight for their rights, and Fatima, the mother of twin daughters who, once abused and abandoned by her family, now works for the Princess in one of the royal palaces.

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL.

Ngugi wa Thiong o s powerful prison memoir begins half an hour before his release on 12 December 1978.

Bruce Forsyth, the consummate performer and much-loved face of British entertainment, shares his story of a remarkable life lived to the full.

'We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again .

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

A FAMILY STORY AND THE TALE OF A NATION.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die.

Exquisite in its honesty and truth and resilience, and a necessary chronicle from one of the greatest writers of our time Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSelected as a Book of the Year 2016 in the GuardianWhen Ngugi wa Thiong o arrives at the prestigious Makerere University, it embodies all the potential and excitement of the early 1960s.

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur Miller, Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, Ring Lardner, Joan Didion, Stephen Sondheim all interviewed by Jean Stein, who grew up in the Forties in a fairytale mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England.

An intimate conversation about music and creativity, between the internationally bestselling writer Haruki Murakami and world-class conductor, Seiji Ozawa.

Winner of the Saltire Society First Book Award 2016An Economist Book of the Year 2016A Spectator Book of the Year 2016In 2011, Isabel Buchanan, a twenty-three-year-old Scottish lawyer, moved to Pakistan to work in a new legal chambers in Lahore.

People love Bill Murray movies, but even more, they love crazy stories about Bill Murray out in the world.

'Will resonate with any bereaved reader' Daily Mail'A heart-warming memoir' OK Laugh.

One man's account of Alcatraz, a rare and intimate memoir of life inside the world's most notorious prison.

Frederick Douglass was a key figure in helping to secure the abolition of slavery in America discover his Narrative.

After returning from a trip to Brunei, Anthony Burgess, initially believing he has only a year to live, begins to write - novels, film scripts, television series, articles.

In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge.

One woman s investigation into the nature of memory, the past, and above all, love.

Peter France looks at the various stages of his own spiritual odyssey and talks intimately of his long search for knowledge and enlightenment.

As Hitler s bombs threatened London during World War Two, eight-year-old David Merron was removed from his family and close-knit Jewish community in the East End and evacuated to the safety of the English countryside.

* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *Young Mary Newton, born into a large Irish family in a small Watford semi, was always getting into trouble.

Arguably the most gifted artist of her generation, Amy Winehouse died tragically young, aged just 27.

Technology and social media have changed, enhanced and complicated every facet of our lives.

When Jean Sasson s book Princess: Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia was published, it became an immediate international bestseller.

The award-winning autobiography from the British politician and author of the Sunday Times bestseller, This Boy.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM SAROYAN INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR WRITING Incredibly powerful by the time you reach the end, you ll have experienced the laughter, sorrow, joy, regret, love and hurt of a real life.

ONE OF BRITAIN'S FAVOURITE NATURE BOOKS AS FEATURED ON BBC's WINTERWATCHSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 'Bold and beautiful.

"e;He would say to me, You can t stop me no one can!

Sent to an Industrial School in Dublin at the age of seven, Patrick Touher was forced into a tough regime of education and training, prayer and punishment, strict discipline and fearful nights.

The true story behind the ITV series, StephenFormer Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll is most famous for being the man who finally secured convictions for the murder of Stephen Lawrence, a case previously mired by claims of institutional racism and corruption.

As a child, Victoria Spry was brutally beaten, neglected and starved by the woman she called Mummy.

Mindy Kaling has found herself at a turning point.

Cider with Roadies is the true story of a boy's obsessive relationship with pop.

'I was nine and the big sister.

**WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR****Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award**Gareth Thomas had it all.

I am trapped centre stage in the spotlight.