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Biography
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians : True stories of the magic of reading€23.99
Features an exclusive interview with beloved author Judy Blume! To be a bookseller or librarian. You have to play detective. Be a treasure hunter. A matchmaker. A brilliant listener. A person who creates a kind of magic by pulling a book from a shelf, handing it to someone and saying, 'You've got to read this. You're going to love it'.
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Unearthing : A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets€22.99Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically related. Suddenly Maclear becomes a detective in her own life, desperately seeking answers from her ailing mother whose memories and English are failing.
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The Trading Game : A Confession (Hardback)€29.99An outrageous, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world - from someone who survived the trading game and then blew it all wide open, 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?'
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Trailblazer : The First Feminist to Change Our World€29.99You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter.
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Mad Woman : The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL€23.99What if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad? Ten years on from first writing about her own experiences of mental illness, Bryony Gordon still receives messages about the effect it has on people.
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Subculture Vulture : A Memoir in Six Scenes€27.99After bottoming out, being institutionalized, and getting sober all by the tender age of fifteen, Moshe Kasher found himself asking: “What’s next?” Over the ensuing decades, he discovered the answer: a lot. There was his time as a boy-king of Alcoholics Anonymous, a kind of pubescent proselytizer for other teens getting and staying sober.
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Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets (Irish Memoir Hardback)€24.99How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. . .
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Meeting Churchill : A Life in 90 Encounters (Hardback)€21.99This insightful portrait of Winston Churchill delves beyond well-known political moments, incorporating perspectives from various individuals who encountered him throughout his life.
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Fleetwood Mac : Everywhere€36.99The essential, illustrated, song-by-song story of one of the most enduring acts in rock music history. Fleetwood Mac is one of the most successful bands of all time. Despite a long and complicated history, the band has survived dysfunction on a scale that would see many others implode, and remains a perennial favourite across generations.
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Watford Forever : How Graham Taylor and Elton John Saved a Football Club, a Town and Each Other€26.99An unforgettable British underdog story from one of our greatest narrative nonfiction writers, John Preston, and the international musical icon and bestselling author, Sir Elton John. Britain in the 1970s was beset by unrest and unemployment, as inflation soared, fuel was scarce, and hooliganism was on the rise. And for Watford FC, the outlook was even gloomier.
