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Meet Union J – the X Factor’s newest boy band sensation. This is the full account of George, JJ, Josh and Jaymi’s story so far.From childhood stories and dreams of stardom to the week by week rollercoaster journey to the X Factor semi-finals and thei…
Meet Union J – the X Factor’s newest boy band sensation. This is the full account of George, JJ, Josh and Jaymi’s story so far.From childhood stories and dreams of stardom to the week by week rollercoaster journey to the X Factor semi-finals and thei…
I Know This Much – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and chickens …
I Know This Much – by Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet's prime mover – is simply the freshest, most exciting and best-written memoir to arrive for years.Gary's story begins in North London, where the Kemp family rented a home with no bathrooms and chickens …
Heartwarming, inspirational and genuinely touching, Finding Harmony is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary dog that rescued a woman from the depths of depression and transformed a family for ever.A keen mountaineer, Sally Hyder was in her p…
Heartwarming, inspirational and genuinely touching, Finding Harmony is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary dog that rescued a woman from the depths of depression and transformed a family for ever.A keen mountaineer, Sally Hyder was in her p…
Louisa Young, the best-selling author of MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is also the granddaughter of the celebrated sculptor, Kathleen Scott. In A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott she tells us about an extraordinary woman and a celeb…
Louisa Young, the best-selling author of MY DEAR I WANTED TO TELL YOU is also the granddaughter of the celebrated sculptor, Kathleen Scott. In A Great Task of Happiness: The Life of Kathleen Scott she tells us about an extraordinary woman and a celeb…
A funny, scrupulously honest account of one man’s quest to reverse 20 years of lies and read the books he’s always claimed to have read.'I loved the writing and the characterisation, oh, and the plot – yeah, all really pithy. Really great': sound fam…
A funny, scrupulously honest account of one man’s quest to reverse 20 years of lies and read the books he’s always claimed to have read.'I loved the writing and the characterisation, oh, and the plot – yeah, all really pithy. Really great': sound fam…
Headley, a wise-cracking New York City girl with as much wit as any character on Sex and the City, is jaded and cynical about men in New York. She vows to say yes to any and every person who asks her out – a taxi driver, a homeless man – you name it,…
Headley, a wise-cracking New York City girl with as much wit as any character on Sex and the City, is jaded and cynical about men in New York. She vows to say yes to any and every person who asks her out – a taxi driver, a homeless man – you name it,…
Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis.Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all might not b…
Trapped was a Sunday Times bestseller and the first memoir from foster carer Rosie Lewis.Phoebe, an autistic nine-year-old girl, is taken into police protection after a chance comment to one of her teachers alerts the authorities that all might not b…
Malachy McCourt, actor, gadfly and raconteur follows up his international best seller A Monk Swimming with this, the second instalment of his hilarious memoirs.Malachy McCourt grew up in Limerick amid death, squalor, poverty and abuse. When he went t…
Malachy McCourt, actor, gadfly and raconteur follows up his international best seller A Monk Swimming with this, the second instalment of his hilarious memoirs.Malachy McCourt grew up in Limerick amid death, squalor, poverty and abuse. When he went t…
Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused identit…
Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.Young Hugo longs to be released from the confused identit…
The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for over 150 years. The Times Great Lives is a selection of 124 of these pieces, each obituary has been updated and reproduced in their entirety, by Anna Temkin…
The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for over 150 years. The Times Great Lives is a selection of 124 of these pieces, each obituary has been updated and reproduced in their entirety, by Anna Temkin…
SPECIAL PRICERevolution 2.0 is the story of Wael Ghonim’s extraordinary contribution to the Egyptian Revolution.On the 25th of January 2011, a call for people to protest against the Egyptian government appeared on Facebook.‘We are all Khaled Said’ wa…
SPECIAL PRICERevolution 2.0 is the story of Wael Ghonim’s extraordinary contribution to the Egyptian Revolution.On the 25th of January 2011, a call for people to protest against the Egyptian government appeared on Facebook.‘We are all Khaled Said’ wa…
The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon.Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an early age – along with her father, who also did a ‘turn’, she sang in Working Men’s Clubs…
The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon.Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an early age – along with her father, who also did a ‘turn’, she sang in Working Men’s Clubs…
In August 1930, a Norwegian sloop, sailing in the Arctic Ocean, stopped at a remote island, where its crew members foudn a book, together with a boathook stamped ‘Andree’s Pol. Exp 1896’. Not far from the boat was a body leaning against a rock, with …
In August 1930, a Norwegian sloop, sailing in the Arctic Ocean, stopped at a remote island, where its crew members foudn a book, together with a boathook stamped ‘Andree’s Pol. Exp 1896’. Not far from the boat was a body leaning against a rock, with …
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before.In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life in western New York state, powerful…
A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we’ve never seen her before.In The Lost Landscape, Joyce Carol Oates vividly recreates the early years of her life in western New York state, powerful…
‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with wh…
‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John KeeganLife and death in Nine Section, a small group of hard-bitten and (to modern eyes) possibly eccentric Cumbrian borderers with wh…
Во втором томе опубликованы документальные свидетельства, рассказывающие о жизни СССР в эпоху Хрущева. В эти годы автор пошел в начальную школу.
Во втором томе опубликованы документальные свидетельства, рассказывающие о жизни СССР в эпоху Хрущева. В эти годы автор пошел в начальную школу.
Книга «Ночи бродячие», собравшая публицистику и ранние новеллы автора-журналиста, это не только психологическая проза и рассказы о молодых — она о том, как не согнуться в ситуациях, требующих нравственного выбора. А ситуации у героев Виктора Савельев…
Книга «Ночи бродячие», собравшая публицистику и ранние новеллы автора-журналиста, это не только психологическая проза и рассказы о молодых — она о том, как не согнуться в ситуациях, требующих нравственного выбора. А ситуации у героев Виктора Савельев…
Это воспоминание о целой эпохе конца 80-х и 90-х. Тяжелой эпохе, кровавой. Воспоминание о том, как за несколько лет жизнерадостная страна превратилась в руины. Как выживал народ, какую гадость мы ели и пили, как стыдно было за пьяные выходки Ельцина,…
Это воспоминание о целой эпохе конца 80-х и 90-х. Тяжелой эпохе, кровавой. Воспоминание о том, как за несколько лет жизнерадостная страна превратилась в руины. Как выживал народ, какую гадость мы ели и пили, как стыдно было за пьяные выходки Ельцина,…
В книге описан путь студента после окончания лечебного факультета Казахского государственного медицинского института. Все, с чем он столкнулся на своем жизненном пути — от желания стать хирургом. И что ему помешало осуществить свою мечту. Какие трудн…
В книге описан путь студента после окончания лечебного факультета Казахского государственного медицинского института. Все, с чем он столкнулся на своем жизненном пути — от желания стать хирургом. И что ему помешало осуществить свою мечту. Какие трудн…
Автор, Валерий Капленко, рассказывает о своём знакомстве с поэтом и философом Юрием Лобанцевым и размышляет о его творчестве.
Автор, Валерий Капленко, рассказывает о своём знакомстве с поэтом и философом Юрием Лобанцевым и размышляет о его творчестве.