Driven mad by three years of endless telegrams, phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the Road, Jack Kerouac, 'King of the Beats', needs peace, quiet and sobriety: surrounded and outnumbered he has to... Zobraziť viac
Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms... Zobraziť viac
The young Walter Miller was a product of his time. Growing up Black in the Jim Crow American South, he was in trouble with the police before his fourteenth birthday. And, like so many young Black men, once he'd landed in the criminal justice system... Zobraziť viac
David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, he channelled the energy of London's newly informal street culture into... Zobraziť viac
One of the most inspiring women of our age, Mary Robinson has spent her life in pursuit of a fairer world, becoming a powerful and influential voice for human rights around the globe. Displaying a gift for storytelling and remembrance,... Zobraziť viac
A memoir about grief, nature and what a small community in the Welsh valleys can teach us about life... Zobraziť viac
AUTHENTIC: Since he was a small boy, Mosab Hassan Yousef has had an inside view of the deadly terrorist group Hamas. The... Zobraziť viac
Arrow: Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins Publishers - 'Somewhere between Jilly Cooper and Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Rosie Swale-Pope is an archetypal British su Zobraziť viac
Arcadia Books - Book Description At once a hopelessly romantic love story, a gripping adventure yarn and a fine piece of soci Zobraziť viac
Vintage: I read somewhere that the decision to emigrate comes from a need to breathe. The hope of a better life is... Zobraziť viac
Little, Brown: The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A LONG WALK TO FREEDOM... Zobraziť viac
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith... Zobraziť viac
Sinéad O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U' made her a global icon... Zobraziť viac
The third book in the #1 New York Times- and USA Today-Bestselling Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer like you've never seen it before, now with new cover art! The evil space queen gives an imprisoned hacker orders to... Zobraziť viac
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man... Zobraziť viac
Ian Thorpe's achievements in the water are nothing short of phenomenal. He has won a record-holding eleven World Championship titles and ten Commonwealth Games gold medals... Zobraziť viac
With advice artfully woven into an intimate, beautifully written narrative, Jai's story will inspire not only the legions of readers who made The Last Lecture a bestseller, but also those who are embarking on a journey of loss and recovery themselves. Zobraziť viac
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later... Zobraziť viac
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead... Zobraziť viac
