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The meeting of Voltaire, successful financier, famous poet and troublemaker, and the enchanting amateur physicist and countess...

Discover the daring life story and astonishing adventures of Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown - Britain's greatest-ever pilot

Small...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swindler, swashbuckler, poet, self-made gentleman, bon vivant, Giacomo Casanova was not only the...

My Happy Days in Hell (1962) is Gyorgy Faludy's grimly beautiful autobiography of his battle to survive tyranny and oppression....

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet -...

The authoratitive text

'There are occasions where it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all'

Both a...

The definitive biography of beloved author, Roger Deakin

Roger Deakin, author of the immortal Waterlog and Wildwood, was a man...

The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his...

The Extra Mile is no ordinary sports memoir. But Kevin Sinfield is no ordinary sportsman. A one-club legend of Leeds Rhinos, who...

The remarkable untold story of the mercurial cycling prodigy Frank Vandenbroucke, written by William Hill award-winning author...

Lewkowicz... , Calvin...

One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit,...

The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the...

The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo

In...

In 1982 Nina Stibbe, a 20-year-old from Leicester, moved to London to work as a nanny for a very particular family. It was a...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

Kompany... , Cheeseman...

Vincent Kompany relives a spectacular and unique season for Manchester City, in which as club captain he led the Blues to a...

Many children dream of becoming an astronaut when they grow up, but when a six-year-old Mike Massimino saw Neil Armstrong walk on...

'From an early age, locked doors, high fences and the secrets kept by businesses, buildings and people, fascinated me. I wanted...

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and...

"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it."
While imprisoned...

Solomon Northup's memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities...

"Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me." A standout among slave testimonies, the Narrative of William...

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is...

Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of justice. Under a year later, thanks to...

The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...

This major critical work by the great French novelist reveals Stendhal’s decisive role in the literary renaissance called...

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu,...