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Biography
Brand: Random House
ISBN: 9780670095322Publisher: Penguin Random House India Pvt. LtdImprint: India PortfolioPublished date: 01 Nov 2021Language: EnglishNumber of pages: 304Weight: 358gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 23mm..
23.83£
Brand: Thomas Dunne Books
Most people might not get angry at someone for going the speed limit. Or for liking coleslaw or melon. Or someone not responding to a ridiculously hilarious text message. Or reality show recaps. But lucky for you, Rachel Ballinger is not most people..
19.21£
The remarkable lives of twelve sisters who changed the course of history.Historians paint pictures of amazing men and women who influenced the world, but seldom do we hear about sister duos that forever altered the course of history. Whether fightin..
12.25£
Veteran journalist and historian Steve Wiegand takes readers across the post-Civil War Wild West. Wiegand introduces--or re-introduces--us to lawmen such as Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp and outlaws such as the Younger and James Brothers, as well as ..
39.54£
Brand: Atria Books
Declared "the best survival book in a decade" by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean. On November 17, 2012, two men left the coa..
20.22£
Brand: Lerner Publishing Group
Sixty remarkable Americans and their inspiring stories are included in this unique book. Intended as a starting point for learning more about these important American heroes, each biography has a photo-illustrated double-page spread devoted to them...
23.63£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPHTold in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CR..
12.03£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice: There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mas-tered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self..
35.18£
Brand: North Atlantic Books
Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the British Society for the History of Science Hughe..
15.20£
In the year 1980, Margaret Thatcher was starting her first term as Prime Minister, the troubles in Northern Ireland continued and the Cold War raged on. Against this backdrop Kevin was uprooted from his quiet New Forest village home and deposited in..
34.80£
From midwifing new lambs to harvesting basil, Jessica Gigot invites the reader into her life on a small farm and the uncommon road that led her there. Fascinated by farming and the burgeoning local food movement, she spent her twenties wandering the..
34.07£
Brand: Trafalgar Square Books
ISBN: 9781646010554Publisher: Trafalgar Square BooksImprint: Trafalgar Square BooksPublished date: 22 Mar 2022DEWEY: 798.092DEWEY edition: 23Language: EnglishNumber of pages: cmWeight: 476gHeight: 229mmWidth: 152mmSpine width: 28mm..
29.85£
Brand: Birlinn Ltd
In 1889 Frederick Rea arrived from the Midlands to teach in South Uist, at that time one of the poorest places in the Outer Hebrides. Roads were often no more than rough tracks across the mountain moorland or over the storm-swept machair, and his Ga..
15.44£
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices R..
79.60£
Brand: Mountaineers Books
"Firsthand account of a life spent hunting, studying, and living alongside caribou that reveals the fragile, intertwined lives of people and animals surviving through sweeping changes in the Alaskan Arctic"--. ISBN: 9781594859700Publisher: Mountaine..
36.90£
There anchoring, Peter chose from Man to hide, There hang his Head, and view the lazy Tide In its hot slimy Channel slowly glide . George Crabbe, eighteenth-century poet, clergyman and surgeon-apothecary, is best known for 'Peter Grimes', the tale ..
22.73£
"Kate Wills didn't expect to completely remake her life at 33. But after a divorce, she set out to do just that, alone. As a travel journalist, Kate had been jetting in and out of unfamiliar cities for over a decade, but this time-with no press crew..
20.57£
Brand: Little Brown and Company
This is a devastating book. It is matter-of-fact, makes no attempt to score political points, does not attempt to solicit sympathy for its protagonist and yet is among the most chilling indictments of war I have ever read. Everybody, in particular e..
12.39£
Brand: Faber & Faber
In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk's marriage of ten years came to an end. Candid and revelatory, Aftermath chronicles the perilous journey as the author redefines herself and creates a new version of family life for her daughters. ISBN: 9780571351..
13.11£
Brand: Headline Publishing Group
'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography . . . is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' - Kate MosseIt has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. In this biography, Laura Thompson de..
17.59£
Brand: Simon & Schuster
The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano. Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation. ISBN: 9781982141493Publisher..
29.57£
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by, to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers ..
13.85£
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
Little known in America but venerated as a martyr in Iran, Howard Baskerville was a twenty-two-year-old Christian missionary from South Dakota who traveled to Persia (modern-day Iran) in 1907 for a two-year stint teaching English and preaching the ..
33.44£
Brand: Rutgers University Press
Anthropological Lives introduces readers to what it is like to be a professional anthropologist. It focuses on the work anthropologists do, the passions they have, the way that being an anthropologist affects the kind of life they lead. The book dr..
139.95£