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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, …
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Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius…
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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with…
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'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's…
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National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwins…
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout the course of her career…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the…
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Michael Ondaatje's remarkable masterpiece of a family memoir, reissued to mark 40 years since its first publication. 'During…
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This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature…
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Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage…
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He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the…
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In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors.Navigating family tensions…
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John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary…
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Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. sons, fathers, fatherhood, sibling…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MOHAMMED HANIFIn the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an…
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Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, in his sixty-first year,…
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When teenager Keith Rosen runs away from his Florida home - inexplicably taking along a motherless baby - his divorced…
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Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful…
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This is a memoir of romance - of lost love and the love of being lost - darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour. Implicit…
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Almost single-handedly, Seve gave European golf credibility; He played a leading role in the re-emergence of European golf,…
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Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only…
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Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else…
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In 1944, at the age of five, William Graves was taken from England to the delightful mountain village of Deya in Majorca,…
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Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his…
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In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone…
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd…
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When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a…
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As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. Perhaps it was turning thirty, perhaps it was having his first hole in…
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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of…
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author's search for the man his…
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*As featured in a BBC documentary*Born in Milan, Anna del Conte grew up in Italy in a gentler time. Her story is informed…
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In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.…
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From the author of the Sunday Times Number One Bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White HouseRupert Murdoch is one…
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human…
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The greatest sports stars characterise their times. Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John…
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A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, Give Me Everything You Have chronicles the author's strange and…
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Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era.…
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In Storms of Silence Joe Simpson recalls the severe snowstorm which put an end to an attempt with four others on Gangchempo…
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When Simon Yates cut the rope and sent his friend plummeting to an ordeal few mountaineers can have contemplated, the…
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The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio…
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final…
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Sacco paved the way for Palestine with his powerful triptych on modern war and its innocent victims, originally published in…
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In 1963 John Fowles won international recognition with his first published novel The Collector. But his roots as a serious…
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In spare, luminous prose these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter…
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Drawing on exhaustive research from interviews and unpublished archival material, John Richardson has produced the…
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