Memoirs

The perfect time for a reissue: In October 2009, PBS will air a ninety-minute primetime special on Joan Baez as part of the Emmy Award-winning American Masters series.

TELL IT ALL, TELL IT EARLY, TELL IT YOURSELF Nobody ever calls Lanny Davis to give him good news.

New York Times Bestseller

“An ideal Father’s Day present.

A true-crime, coming-of-age story with a tragic twist: a New York editor's quest to uncover the truth about the brutal murder of her wild and seductive friend in a ';rivetingand thoughtful examination of how we grow up and apart' (Cosmopolitan).

Would you be willing to change everything to follow your heart and feed your soul?

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023**'Full of delightful anecdotes and interviews and fascinating historical tales' Mail on SundayA panoramic portrait of the wonderous vehicle whose passenger is also its engine.

*Shortlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay*Selected as a Book of the Year 2016 by the Financial Times, Guardian, New Statesman, Observer, The Millions and Emerald Street'Fl neuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French.

A wooden box holds the buttons of three generations of women in Lynn Knight s family each one with its own tale to tell.

A story of tennis, obsession and Roger Federer for tennis fans and the general reader alike.

I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate.

All Our Todays is the first book about the BBC's most influential news and current affairs programme, published to celebrate Today's 40th anniversary in October 1997.

'[W]hen I found Rice's work I absolutely loved how she took that genre and (.

On 3 September 1939, the Prime Minister declared that Britain was at war with Nazi Germany.

Heart-rending, shocking and totally gripping, The Slave Across the Street is the incredible true story of how an ordinary girl was lured into the sinister world of human trafficking - and how she eventually escaped and rebuilt her life.

In this delightful sequel to her bestseller Tender at the Bone, the beloved food writer Ruth Reichl returns with more tales full of love, life, humour and marvellous meals.

A powerful prescient memoir of life in 1970s Britain for a child of Windrush generation parents.

Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black Memorial PrizeShortlisted for the 2015 PEN Ackerley prize Longlisted for the 2014 Thwaites Wainwright Prize Let me take you down the thin cobblestoned streets of the Belgian border town of Bouillon.

At the foot of a chalk hill a stream rises in a silent copse, and is soon lost under the car parks and streets of the town its waters once gave life to.

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY BILL GATESIn this warm, insightful portrait of the Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, we see the wisdom, humour and curiosity of Richard Feynman through a series of conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton.

Lion's Head, Four Happiness is the captivating story of Xiaomei Martell, who was born in one of China's most remote regions just two years before Mao launched the Cultural Revolution.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD MARKSOnce upon a time, opium (the main ingredient of heroin) was easily available over the chemist's counter.

You put together two things that have not been put together before.

'I was twenty-six years old and an associate beauty editor at Lucky, one of the top fashion magazines in America.

'This book could not be more timely' OBSERVERGot endometriosis?

No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.

Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?

Felix Dennis, notorious multimillionaire publisher, first started writing poetry after a life-threatening illness.

Castles in the Air is a beautifully written, autobiographical story of rescuing an ancient mansion.

'She should never have kept the business going after her husband died.

'He planted his big arms on the bed on either side of me, and I wanted him to take control I wanted him to be the boss 'Katie Collins went from being a shy, excluded teenager to the youngest, naughtiest and most popular woman on the Dublin sex scene.

'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k.

In 1972 Abbie Ross s cosmopolitan parents move the family from London to rural North Wales, exchanging a town house in Islington for a remote farmhouse on a hill.

'A remarkable book' The Independent'.

'This riveting account spares none of the detail and paints fascinating portraits of the desperate young pirates.

Ronan O'Gara has been at the heart of Munster and Irish rugby for the past fifteen years.

Sergeant Andy McNab recounts the story of the top secret mission that would reveal the secrets of the SAS to the world for the first time.

As one of the UK s leading forensic scientists, Mike Silverman has helped to identify and convict dozens of murderers, rapists, armed robbers, burglars and muggers, thanks to the evidence they or their victims unwittingly left behind at the scenes of their crimes.

THE AWARD-WINNING INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FROM THE AUTHOR OF FIRE WEATHER, WINNER OF THE 2023 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONWINNER OF A WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2014'Absolutely spellbinding' New York Times'Will change how many people think about nature' Sebastian Junger______________________________________JOURNEY INTO THE HEART OF NORTH AMERICA'S LAST GREAT FOREST.

Jeff Bridges is one of the world's most popular actors and his unforgettable performance as The Dude in Coen Brothers film, The Big Lebowski, made him a cult hero.

Mark Wallington has a dream.

'The Fall is a moving portrait of a relationship with a child and a place.

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary.

In 1973, Brian Thompson kissed the impossibly glamorous Elizabeth North for the first time, in a busy supermarket car park along the Leeds ring road.

For decades, Grace Coddington s personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue magazine.

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down.

It s the late 1970s and 20-something Christopher Fowler is a film freak, obsessively watching lousy films in run-down fleapit cinemas.

Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq.

Liza Campbell was the last child to be born at Cawdor Castle, as featured in Macbeth.

Abandoned as a baby, Andy McNab's start in life was tough.

All Dave Roberts ever wanted to do (apart from collect football programmes) was to work in advertising.