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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...

More Mischievous in Mendham

More Mischievous in Mendham is the follow-up to Mischievous in Mendham, an anthology of comic memoirs based on the author's childhood in Mendham, New Jersey. In eighteen new stories, Gregory L. Smith...

Bone Gap

He'd been drawn here by the grass and the bees and the strange sensation that this was a magical place, that the bones of the world were a little looser here, double-jointed, twisting back on themselv...

The Happy Brain

'Funny, wise and absolutely fascinating.' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt Do you want to be happy? If so - read on. This book has all the answers* In The Happy Brain, neuroscie...

Of Mutability

Jo Shapcott's award-winning first three collections, gathered in Her Book: Poems 1988-1998, revealed her to be a writer of ingenuous, politically acute and provocative poetry, and rightly earned her a...

Mr Lear

Acclaimed historian Jenny Uglow brings us a fascinating and beautifully illustrated biography of Edward Lear, full of the colour of the age. Edward Lear lived a vivid, fascinating, energetic life,...