Memoirs

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  • ‘Mum, what’s wrong with you?’

    £9.99

    ‘Mum, what’s wrong with you?’

    Sunday Times bestseller

    ‘The mothering manual we all need’ Claudia Winkleman

    Calling all Mums:

    Are you feeling lonely and confused?

    Are you panicking that you’re getting everything wrong?

    Do you feel as if your relationship with your teenage daughter has worsened overnight?

    £9.99
  • 42

    £30.00

    42

    When Douglas Adams died in 2001, he left behind 60 boxes full of notebooks, letters, scripts, jokes, speeches and even poems. In ’42’, compiled by Douglas’s long-time collaborator Kevin Jon Davies, hundreds of these personal artefacts appear in print for the very first time. Douglas’s personal papers prove that the greatest ideas come from the fleeting thoughts that collide in our own imagination, and offer a captivating insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers and most enduring storytellers.

    £30.00
  • A body made of glass

    £16.99

    A body made of glass

    An ache, a pain, a mysterious lump, a strange sensation in some part of your body, the feeling that something is not right. The fear that something is, in fact, very wrong. These could be symptoms of illness. But they could also be the symptoms of hypochondria – an enigmatic condition that might be physiological or psychological or both. In this landmark book, Caroline Crampton tells the story of hypochondria, beginning in the age of Hippocrates and taking us right through to the wellness industry today.

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    £16.99
  • A flat place

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    A flat place

    Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father’s car in Lahore. As an adult in Britain she’s discovered many more flat landscapes to love: Orford Ness, Morecambe Bay, the Cambridgeshire Fens, Orkney. These bare, haunted expanses remind her of the flat place inside herself: the place created by trauma. Noreen suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain’s flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life.

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    £16.99
  • A life of contrasts

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    A life of contrasts

    In ‘A Life of Contrasts’, the honourable Diana Mitford, the most glamorous of Britain’s Bright Young Things, rivetingly narrates her long life in her own inimitable Mitford way. Author Evelyn Waugh and politician Oswald Mosley fell in love with her, as well as Britain’s richest man, and she knew not only Winston Churchill – her uncle – but also Adolf Hitler. She was a guest in the grandest houses in Britain but also lived in Holloway Prison, London. Later the Duke and Duchess of Windsor entered her life, followed by Nelson Mandela. Hers is a uniquely intimate memoir from an exceptional perspective.

    £12.99
  • A promised land

    £18.99

    A promised land

    In the first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency – a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.

    £18.99
  • A silent language

    £6.99

    A silent language

    Published in book form for the first time, Jon Fosse’s Nobel Lecture, delivered in Stockholm in December 2023, translated by Damion Searls. 

    SKU: 9781804271230 Category: Tags: , ,
    £6.99
  • A thousand feasts

    £20.00

    A thousand feasts

    From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.

    ‘Nigel Slater’s prose is the rarest delicacy of all: exquisite yet effortless, filled with heart, tenderness, yearning and humour’ ELIZABETH DAY

    £20.00
  • A very private school

    £25.00

    A very private school

    In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age eight to attend a boarding school.

    £25.00
  • A woman’s place is in the kitchen

    £22.00

    A woman’s place is in the kitchen

    In ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Kitchen’, Sally Abé draws back the curtain on the good, and bad, and downright ugly of restaurant kitchens; and how they might be changed for the better. A stirring manifesto for change, it’s also the story of how a girl from Sheffield who used to cook herself Smash to get by is now one of the most successful fine-dining chefs working today.

    £22.00
  • A Woman’s Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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    A Woman’s Story – WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

    A deeply affecting tribute to her mother’s life and death by Annie Ernaux, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature. 

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    £9.99
  • Abroad in Japan

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    Abroad in Japan

    When Englishman Chris Broad landed in a rural village in northern Japan he wondered if he’d made a huge mistake. With no knowledge of the language and zero teaching experience, was he was about to be the most quickly fired English teacher in Japan’s history? ‘Abroad in Japan’ charts a decade of living in a foreign land and the chaos and culture clash that comes with it. Packed with hilarious and fascinating stories, this book seeks out to unravel one the world’s most mysterious and impenetrable cultures. Spanning 10 years and 47 prefectures, Chris takes us from the chilling summit of Mount Fuji to the chaotic neon-lit streets of Tokyo.

    SKU: 9781804992227 Category: Tags: ,
    £10.99
  • All that matters

    £22.00

    All that matters

    Sir Chris Hoy knows better than most how life can change in the blink of an eye. In elite sport, the margin between victory and defeat is miniscule, and the pressure is immense. Chris has built a glittering sporting career on understanding these moments: how to feel for them, how to cope with them, how to make them count. Then, he faced another life-changing moment. He found out that the ache in his shoulder was in fact a tumour, and that he had Stage 4 cancer. In this memoir, he shares the next phase of his extraordinary life with exceptional bravery. He looks over the challenges he has faced thus far, and the ways he has taken them on. With his wife Sarra and their young children by his side, he shares how he has used these experiences to find ways to focus on the moments that matter, showing us how to do the same.

    £22.00
  • All the worst humans

    £20.00

    All the worst humans

    A bridge-burning, riotous memoir by a top PR operative in Washington who exposes the secrets of the $129-billion industry that controls so much of what we see and hear in the media – from a man who used to pull the strings, and who is now pulling back the curtain.

    £20.00
  • An ordinary youth

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    An ordinary youth

    Following the Kempowski family from the months before the outbreak of war through to the fall of Berlin, ‘An Ordinary Youth’ is the fascinating story of an ordinary childhood in extraordinary times. Here, Walter’s academic struggle sits alongside his father’s conscription; his brother’s love of jazz burgeons amid the destruction of the barrages. And all the while, the horrors of Nazism loom in the peripheries – communicated in furtive looks or hushed conversations – running alongside the Kempowski family’s daily rituals and occasional scandals.

    £9.99
  • An uneasy inheritance

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    An uneasy inheritance

    While for generations Polly Toynbee’s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family – which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop – Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.

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    £10.99