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From 'girl-next-door' to Princess of Pop to ultimate dance diva, Kylie
Minogue has transcended her soap opera roots to become one of the
biggest i...
The brilliantly funny Sunday Times top ten bestseller. Alan Carr tells
his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad
family ...
The Battle of Britain, 1940, was one of the most famous air battles in
the history of warfare and it is a story of ruthless organisation,
brillian...
For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is
Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and
her...
Agatha Christie's disappearance for 11 days in December 1926 caused a sensation. Jared Cade's book investigates
those missing days.
Amy Winehouse was the most talked about singer-songwriter of her
generation. Her soulful voice won her critical acclaim, scores of
awards and fans...
Everyone thinks they know the real Gordon Ramsay: rude, loud,
pathologically driven, stubborn as hell. But this is his bestselling
real story! Hu...
Joan Collins remains one of the most famous and popular women in the UK -
even in her seventies, she can still command a 100,000 fee for a brief
a...
Offering a broad view of the author's finest work, this collection
features critical essays, poems, and letters, plus material from
journals. Incl...
In "The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop," Lewis Buzbee
celebrates the unique experience of the bookshop--the smell and touch
of books, the joy of getting ...
This fascinating autobiography of the country music legend recounts the
highs and lows, the struggles and hard-won triumphs of his remarkable
life...
Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.) precipitated immense historical
change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. But the resonance
his le...
'At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old
full-length mirror in a wooden frame ...This reflected version of
myself, shaking,...
'This story will appeal to those who still believe that an Englishman's
home is his castle, and to those who have a soft spot for indomitable
old ...
In November 1942, two nights after the Battle of El Alamein, a young
British army officer was captured. As the Nazis deliberated about what
to do ...
In just seven years (from 1950 through 1956), Grace Kelly made eleven
feature films. They established her as one of the screen's iconic
beauties, ...
Nelson Mandela is the world's greatest idol. He has been mythologised
as a flawless hero of the liberation struggle. But how exactly did his
ear...
The story of how one council estate lad made good, really very good, and
survived -- just about -- to tell the tale! Chris Evans's
extraordinary ...
Approaching 50, Mark Radcliffe decided to write about his life and his
love of music. But crucially, he only wanted to write about the most
intere...
Not only is Johnny Depp a huge star, but his unconventional choice of
movie roles has made him a fascinating and mysterious character. With
appear...
Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken,
became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown
out of...
In this achingly funny and irreverent memoir, Anna Nicholas recounts her
adventures judging records around the world with "The Guinness Book of
Re...
Michael Caine is the best-loved film actor Britain has ever produced.
Here, for the first time, he reveals the truth about his childhood, his
fami...
The son of a deranged Italian immigrant, Joseph Grimaldi (1778-1837) was
the most celebrated of English clowns. The first to use white-face
make-u...
Bill Mitchell was recently voted the Yorkshire Dales National Park's
greatest living cultural icon in a poll to mark the 60th anniversary of
each ...
When Denis O'Connor and his wife Catherine return to Owl Cottage, only
to find it in a dilapidated state, they decide to restore his former
home. ...
What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job for life as a
breakfast radio DJ? 'I have always been very aware that millions of
peop...
Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the
candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to
understand,...
Through My Eyes is the first official book from Cheryl Cole. Featuring a
series of stunning exclusive new photos plus informal shots from her
own ...
The Stig gets his kit off and reveals how he came to be Top Gear's
iconic racing driver and so much more - including what it's like to
thrash an A...
The biography of the star of the film "Born Free". Its powerful message
stayed with the actress, and so began a lifetime of campaigning across
the...
Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold, but was richer still in
political and sexual intrigue. Though her life spanned fewer then forty
y...
What does Jenny Diski know about animals? She's really not sure. There
is, however, one thing of which she is certain: our relationships with
and ...
Alan Bennett's "A Life Like Other People's" is a poignant family memoir
offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds
child...
Mark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that
didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school
wi...
This is the definitive tribute to one of Britain's brightest stars,
affirming his cult status as a guiding light in international film,
television...
Marguerite Duras was one the leading intellectuals and novelists of
post-war France. She kept four notebooks in a cupboard in her country
home in ...
The new book from the author of the bestselling and much-loved
Seabiscuit. On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber
crashed into the...
Titanic Thompson is a rollicking biography of one of the most
charismatic characters in twentieth-century America. Like Howard Hughes
or Bonnie an...
At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian
citizenship ...
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri
Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered
by n...
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter
Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection
in ...
A Humphrey Bogart comes along only once in a century: someone who isn't
conventionally handsome or particularly versatile, but who can convince
an...
'I've struck it!' Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend. 'And I
will give it away - to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you
hav...
By the end of the First Punic War, Carthage had been humiliatingly
chased from the high seas, its once-powerful fleet reduced to a handful
of trir...
Arriving at the great houses of 1920s London, fifteen-year-old
Margaret's life in service was about to begin As a kitchen maid the
lowest of the ...
Born into a privileged family of eccentrics, Edith Sitwell set out
during the years of the Great War to create a life in the arts. A friend
of Sie...
Edith Piaf was one of the most beloved singers of the twentieth century.
From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like
form...
This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account,
uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled.
Draw...
One of the great mysteries in the life of E. M. Forster (1879-1970) is
why, after the publication of "A Passage to India" in 1924, he never
publis...
'Frater is a reliable, informed and entertaining navigator. He soars
confidently across the centuries, between abandoned aerodromes and
Scottish e...
'What is your name?' she asks, staring at me. 'Jennifer Ross'. 'Jennifer Ross, Sister.
Well, Nurse Ross, you are dressed in the uniform of a nur...
Growing up in rural Yorkshire in the 1940s and 50s, Terry Wilson spent
his school days hunting down Just William books, cutting up apples to
help ...
Rachel Beer was both a rebel and a pioneer. In the late 19th century, at
a time when women were still denied the vote, she became the first
woman ...
'There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had
either morals or principles', so said Gladstone. From the First Duke of
Marlbor...
Jeremy Keeling first met Amy, an orang-utan abandoned by his mother,
when he was looking after the private menagerie of music impresario
Gordon Mi...
Max and Vicky Hardcastle have a daydream. One day, they'll sell their
cramped city-centre antiques shop and the overflowing upstairs flat and
relo...
Four sisters, four very different characters. But they have always been
there for each other, through the hard times as well as the good. Now
they...
The age of discovery was at its peak in the eighteenth century, with
heroic adventurers charting the furthest reaches of the globe. Foremost
among...
Between 1945 and 1963, over two and a half million eighteen-year-olds
were called up for National Service. Alf Townsend was one of them, and
here ...
Alan Sugar was born in 1947 and brought up on a council estate in
Clapton, in Hackney. As a kid he watched his dad struggle to support the
family,...
Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by
the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious
Bri...
The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most
outstanding military historian, Max Hastings. The author is the son of
broadcas...
THE MAN WHO BROKE INTO AUSCHWITZ is the extraordinary true story of a
British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the
concentration ...
Hello. My name is Bill and I'm a bad beekeeper. A really bad beekeeper.'
So begins Bill Turnbull's charming and often hilarious account of how
he ...
Michael McIntyre is Britain's biggest comedy star. He has released two
record-breaking DVDs, "Live and Laughing" and "Hello Wembley"; hosts his
ow...
Alistair Sutcliffe conquered the highest mountains on each of the seven
continents at his first attempt. But his hardest climb was surviving and
r...
It's been a long journey for Maurice Micklewhite - born with rickets in
London's poverty-stricken Elephant & Castle - to the bright lights
of ...
As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and
lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it seemed to him,
wa...
The story of the tragic family is familiar to everyone: we all
know about the half-mad, repressive father, the drunken, drug-addicted
wastrel of a...
With the Rolling Stones, Keith Richards created the riffs, the lyrics
and the songs that roused the world, and over four decades he lived the
orig...
In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably.
Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes,
she h...
This is the life story of one of the most interesting human beings who
ever lived. A political genius who remade Europe and united Germany
between...
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a
poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her
knowledge - ...
Deborah Devonshire is a natural writer with a knack for the telling
phrase and for hitting the nail on the head. She tells the story of her
upbrin...
The book includes a free MP3 audio disc of Robert Lindsay reading the
book. This is the inside story of one of Britain's best-loved,
best-known ac...
Betty and Herbert have been together since their late teens. They share
everything - a home, a life, a cat, the remote...Well, almost
everything. ...
The Sayles might not have been the only Jewish atheist communist family
in Liverpool, but Alexei knew from an early age that they were one of
the ...
'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized
and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies and flag-waving
patr...
Having learnt Aikido with the Tokyo riot police (ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS)
and hunted for the world's longest snake in the jungles of the Far East
(BIG...
Double acts don't come any closer than the The Two Ronnies. Messrs
Barker and Corbett kept a nation laughing for two decades, and yet
despite the ...
In 1998 John Wood was a rising executive at Microsoft . Then a trip to
Nepal inspired him to set up schools and libraries in the developing
world....
Written with complete access to the Queen Mother's personal letters and
diaries, William Shawcross' riveting biography is the truly definitive
acc...
Harold Pinter and Antonia Fraser lived together from August 1975 until
his death thirty-three years later on Christmas Eve 2008. MUST YOU GO?
is, ...
Two lovers. Two very different lives. One future together that will change history.
When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up, she devotes he...
Do you remember flares, cheesecloth shirts and chopper bikes? What about
space hoppers? If you do, then it sounds like you were lucky enough to
gr...
Colin Elford spends his days alone - alone but for the deer, the
squirrels, the rabbits, the birds, and the many other creatures
inhabiting the wo...
A fascinating exploration of the contents of Agatha Christie's 73
recently discovered notebooks, including illustrations, deleted
extracts, and tw...
A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers;
finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning against
the...
From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery
Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained at London's
Cent...
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a
midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many
women gave b...
Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a
midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many
women gave b...
Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a demonicly hardworking journalist,
the father of ten children, a tireless walker and traveller, a supporter
of ...
The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only
surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable book
about hi...
Einstein is the great icon of our age: the kindly refugee from
oppression whose wild halo of hair, twinkling eyes, engaging humanity
and extraordi...
This is an intimate portrait of Her Majesty the Queen. As we celebrate
her Diamond Jubilee, this brand new biography of Queen Elizabeth II is
the ...
This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in
London's East end brings her story full circle. As always there are
heart...
'Fred Trueman was the first superstar of the game. He was a flamboyant,
larger-than-life character' Ian Botham Fred Trueman was so much more
than ...
In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the
footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with
his adoring...
Written by acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp,
gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious
figures ...
If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture, as
redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the
Poles, it...
After ten years with the Metropolitan Police, Mike has returned to his
North Yorkshire roots. Working a rural beat in God's Own Country he
finds ...
After ten years with the Metropolitan Police, Mike has returned to his
North Yorkshire roots. Working a rural beat in God's Own Country he
finds ...
Lilla Eckford, interned in a Japanese civilian camp in China during the
second world war after an extraordinary early life, passed her time by
com...
The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) is one of the
most famous navigators in history-he was the first man to sail from the
Atlan...
Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First
World War poets. "Now All Roads Lead to France" is an account of his
final f...
Acclaimed hillwalking writers Ian R Mitchell and George Rodway tell the
fascinating story of Aberdeen-born Alexander Kellas, and his
contribution ...
Queen Anne was one of Britain's most remarkable monarchs. With a
personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue -- she presided
over some of...
Hannah Hauxwell first came to the nation's attention on Yorkshire
television's award-winning documentary TOO LONG A WINTER, when she
captured the ...
In this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working
in the docklands area of East London in the 1950s tells more stories
abou...
"I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.”
That
was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a
N...
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography,
Isaac...
This memoir was recently discovered and appears to have been written in
the 1920s by somone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper. This person
i...
In her bestseller The Battersea Park Road to Enlightenment, Isabel
Losada set out with a modest aim - 'to be absurdly happy every day'. But
a few ...
'You know those people who always radiate cheerful optimism? Nauseating
aren't they? I want to become one of those. I want to find out how to
live...
With the flair for narrative and the meticulous research that readers
have come to expect, Andrew Marr turns his attention to the monarch and
to t...
When the Taliban took control of Kabul, Kamila Sidiqi and all the women
of Kabul saw their lives transformed. Overnight, they were banned from
sch...
A consummate writer and intimate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
Diana Mosley was a frequent guest at their parties in Paris or at 'the
Mouli...
'I've given up everything - my friends, my family, my country, & he
simply roared with laughter, and then of course so did I' - Nancy
Mitford ...
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a
poor black tobacco farmer, her cancer cells - taken without her
knowledge - ...
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th
century - amazingly he was an almost unknown, and certainly unqualified,
s...
Before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps, philosophers offered
arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are
and ...
"The Source" threads together two stories. The first that of Ursula
Sontheil, sometimes known as Mother Shipton, the 16th-century Yorkshire
prophe...
'I looked in the mirror one morning, and saw the face of a stranger. Who
was she, this haggard, bun-faced woman with the softening jawline, the
do...
Behind the legend, there was a man. In 1120 the wife of a Norman
draper's merchant gave birth to a baby boy in London's bustling
Cheapside. Despit...
The daughter of prosperous Jews, Heda Kovaly found her world turned
upside down with the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. Deported to
Lodz Ghe...
This is a definitive biography, based on new materials, by the
bestselling, prize-winning authors of "Pollock". Vincent van Gogh
created some of t...
On Christmas Eve 1971, the packed LANSA flight 508 from Lima to Pucallpa
was struck by lightning and went down in dense jungle hundreds of miles
f...
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only
Fruit", was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by
Pentecost...
'We had no antibiotics, few drugs. A lot of time was spent pouring
things down cows' throats. The whole thing added up to a lot of laughs.
...