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First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the...

'Over the years I've had some incredible finds, but the one that excites me the most is the next one.'

Drew Pritchard set...

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...

Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards,...

Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How To Be A Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much...

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls...

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...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

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

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the...

Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.

How do we build enduring and honest relationships?
How can we discover...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

The...

A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant...

The haunting true stories of over 350 Holocaust survivors in their own words.

In the shouted words of a woman bound for...

Kompany... , Cheeseman...

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

He is the goal-scoring legend of the Treble Triumph, a local hero in Manchester and back home in Norway. But when Ole Gunnar...

Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces,...

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

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi...

Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and...