True stories of heroism, endurance & survival
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A very private school
£25.00A 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.
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Coasting
£9.99Coasting
Elise had a new job, flat and relationship – and they were all making her utterly miserable. Then the obvious solution hit her: run 5,000 miles around the coast of Britain. Over the next 301 days, she saw Britain at its most wild and wonderful, and discovered that running away doesn’t solve your problems – but it’s more fun than dealing with them.
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Fearless
£10.99Fearless
Louise Minchin went from presenting BBC Breakfast to competing for the GB Team in triathlon in World and European championships, a journey she charted in her first book ‘Dare to Tri’. In ‘Fearless’ she sets out to push herself even further, alongside trailblazing women who are breaking down barriers, smashing records and challenging stereotypes. In every chapter Louise goes on an adventure with a different woman to tell their story and to test herself. She free dives under the ice in the dark in Finland with the first female to swim a mile in the Antarctic Circle; she cycles across Argentina with one of the world’s most famous female endurance runners; she swims from Alcatraz with two teenage sisters who have braved the shark infested waters over 70 times. With her natural empathy and sense of humour, Louise forms close bonds with these incredible women exploring what drives them.
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Finding Hildasay
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Great and horrible news
£10.99Great and horrible news
‘Grimly fascinating ? engrossing’ Daily Mail
NINE HISTORIC CRIMES. ONE FAMILIAR OBSESSION.
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Hildasay to home
£20.00Hildasay to home
Sunday Times bestselling Chris Lewis meets the love of his life and starts the real adventure of a lifetime as he builds a family and finishes his epic walk along the whole coastline of the UK.
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Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad
£10.99Hitler, Stalin, mum and dad
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2023
‘Epic, moving and important’ ROBERT HARRIS
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How to say Babylon
£16.99How to say Babylon
‘Dazzling. Potent. Vital’ TARA WESTOVER
‘To read it is to believe that words can save’ MARLON JAMES
‘I adored this book ? Unforgettable, heartbreaking and heartwarming’ ELIF SHAFAK
‘A breathless, scorching memoir of a girlhood’NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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How to survive a crisis
£10.99How to survive a crisis
Coincidental bad luck can easily cause a situation to spiral out of control. By then, it might be next to impossible to pull things back together, and there’s a real crisis to manage rather than just a local emergency. Slow burning crises, and bad luck, happen more often than they should in the world of business and politics. Professor Sir David Omand, formerly both a director of GCHQ and the UK’s Security and Intelligence Coordinator, shows how to manage crises in myriad forms, using methodologies employed by the British intelligence agencies. Through examples from his storied career, including from the COBRA room in government, to lessons from historic crises such as Chernobyl or the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, he equips you with military intelligence techniques such as situational awareness and adaptive resilience that can be used in any crisis, from the professional to the personal.
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In my element
£14.99In my element
A gripping and inspiring account of one of the world’s toughest races through the eyes of an extraordinary woman, and how she (and all of us) can use the lessons she learned to live a life of authenticity and success
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One life
£10.99One life
Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 Jewish children from Nazi occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again. This is his story. In 1938, 29-year-old ‘Nicky’ cancelled a ski holiday and instead spent 9 months masterminding a seemingly impossible plan to rescue hundreds of children and find them homes in the UK. There are around 6000 people who are alive today because of him. What motivated an ordinary man to do something so extraordinary? This book, written by his daughter, Barbara, explores the 106-year life of an incredible humanitarian, a man whose astounding feats only came to public light decades later. His legacy is to encourage us all to act when we see injustice or need, and to remind us that every one of us can change the world for the better.’If something is not impossible, then there must be a way to do it.’
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Our bodies their battlefield
£10.99Our bodies their battlefield
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE
‘A wake-up call’ Amal Clooney
‘Devastating? rape and sexual abuse continue to be a pervasive and all-too-often hidden feature of conflict zones the world over’ HM Queen Camilla
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The Best British Travel Writing of the 21St Century
£10.99The Best British Travel Writing of the 21St Century
Travel writing matters
This anthology is a collection of the 30 best travel stories published in British media over the last two decades, as judged by some of the top names in the game today. It is a celebration of the craft of travel writing, and its ability to educate, inspire and build understanding between people and cultures.Â
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The way of the hermit
£10.99The way of the hermit
A rare insight into an alternative way of life in this unforgettable journey of one man pitting his wits against the wilderness and enduring endless isolation, providing precious insights into the life of a hermit.
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To the limit
£18.99To the limit
In a world where we are having to work harder than ever before, where talk of ‘burnout’ is everywhere and where pressures increase in many areas of our lives, some of us are turning to endurance sport and extreme challenges. Pushing human limits has even become enmeshed with pushing technological limits, a cultural obsession fed by a multibillion-dollar technology industry led by the likes of Fitbit and Apple. ‘To the Limit’ asks why this might be and what kind of meaning we attach to our ability to endure. Michael Crawley immerses himself in various endurance cultures and asks what makes enduring together meaningful to people.
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Wavewalker
£10.99Wavewalker
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023
‘Grippingly vivid and pacey’ THE TIMES
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing’ SIMON WINCHESTER
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