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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...

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...

"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...

"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...

The influence of Antonin Artaud on the contemporary theatre has only become evident since the early Sixties, although writers and...

The inspiring memoir from TV traveller Simon Reeve's life of amazing adventures in over 120 countries and the most remote and...

One of the most brilliant writers of her day, George Eliot (1819-1880) was also one of the most talked about. Intellectual and...

Born in 1831, Isabella, daughter of a clergyman, set off alone to the Antipodes in 1872 'in search of health' and found she had...

'Our childhood came to an end when our parents parted and from then on Jennifer was placed in the impossible position of having...

The second collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small.
Now...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

This updated edition of the bestselling and wildly popular I Am the Secret Footballer features a new introduction and an...

Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the...

The definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of...

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick...

In a small Polish village, Mala Kacenberg grew up in the comfort of her family. Until the arrived.
Her village was torn apart....

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the...

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable...

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and...

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...