The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton - Prijzen

Socialism Is Great!

With a great charm and spirit, &;Socialism Is Great!&; recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eve...

Greetings from Bury Park (Blinded by the Light Movie Tie-In)

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE. A charming memoir about the impact of Bruce Springsteen's music on a Pakistani boy growing up in 1970s Britain.Sarfraz Manzoor was two years old when, in 1974, he emigrated...

Bread, Jam And A Borrowed Pram

The compelling and heartwarming story of a young nurse's life and work in 1950s England from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author. Three small children peep out, their eyes watching me from beneath...

A Touch of Treason

This is the swashbuckling life story (so far) of one of Scotland's greatest sons. Ian Hamilton, born the son of a Paisley tailor in 1925, who made himself world-famous on Xmas Eve, 1950, when he helpe...

My Father's Fortune

'An unknown place'. This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book, he sets out to rediscover that lost land before a...

Negroes with Guns

Inside The Crips

The personal memoirs of a surviving member of one of Los Angeles's most dangerous gangs describes the home environment that contributed to his gang membership at the age of ten, his violent confrontat...

The Fatal Voyage

Cook was the greatest explorer of his age and his voyages of discovery are the stuff of legend. During two long journeys, he circumnavigated the globe twice, charted the east coast of Australia, the w...

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Southport

Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths Around Southport takes the reader on a sinister journey through centuries of local crime and conspiracy, meeting villains of all sorts along the way - cut-throats an...

In Calabria

From the acclaimed author of The Last Unicorn comes a new, exquisitely-told unicorn fable for the modern age. Claudio Bianchi has lived alone for many years on a hillside in Southern Italy's scenic Ca...

The French School of Classical Ballet

Over the years, methods of classical ballet instruction have been codified into a variety of canonical approaches. One of the most commonly taught systems is that of the French school. This thirty-...

I Is For Isobel

"Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing."The New Yorker A best-selling portrait of the artist as a troubled young woman. Isobel's imaginar...