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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...

Lennon... , Sheff...

The last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, conducted by New York Times bestselling author David Sheff, featuring a...

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

The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot's...

Ever wonder what your therapist is thinking? Now you can find out, as therapist and New York Times bestselling author Lori...

In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceased to exist. In Stasiland,...

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

Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca...

In this book Richard Ayoade — actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist — reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in...

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback...

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

Bass player extraordinaire Charles Mingus, who died in 1979, is one of the essential composers in the history of jazz, and...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks,...

In On Love, we see Charles Bukowski reckoning with the complications of love and desire.
Alternating between the tough and the...

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart 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...

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

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

Leading transplant...

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the...

A gloriously irreverent memoir from the frontline of old age - by the Sunday Times-bestselling author and legendary...

'My own suffering, my own loneliness, was a fair price to pay for the lives we'd saved. And now here I am, training to be a...

Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries written over one football season offer up his most personal take on...

There is the Cornwall Lamorna Ash knew as a child – the idyllic, folklore-rich place where she spent her summer holidays. Then...

Patti's Smith's exquisite prose is generously illustrated in this full-color edition of her classic coming-of-age memoir, Just...

The Apollo Moon Programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. In Moondust, Andrew Smith set out to...

Comic riffs and diatribes on the America of G.W. Bush from the author of Slaughterhouse 5

This is vintage Vonnegut -...

A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of Village School....