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Fascinating memoirs and illuminating trips into the past (browse related category History & Biography )
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The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy - by Philippe QC Sands - £9.99
FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZE
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights’ Elif Shafak
‘An essential account’ Sunday Times
‘Powerful and persuasi ... more
Wild Twin - by Jeff Young - £20.00
‘A surging heart-song in which the narrator/confessor moves from reading and appreciating the books and the performers we all admired in that fondly remembered yesterday to joining their company. As poet of witness and happenstance. A moving panora ... more
Strong Female Character - by Fern Brady - £10.99
WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS
SHORTLISTED BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPAIONS
AMAZON NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
GOODREADS CHOICE BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLIST
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘An absolute riot. I ... more
Pageboy: A Memoir - by Elliot Page - £10.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Pageboy helps chart the course.' Jamie Lee Curtis
'Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant... This isn't simp ... more
Love and Money, Sex and Death: A Memoir - by McKenzie Wark - £14.99
A breathtaking memoir of transition, history, art, and memory.
After a successful career, a twenty-year marriage, and two kids, McKenzie Wark has an acute midlife crisis: coming out as a trans woman. Changing both social role and bodily form ... more
Departure & Return: One Family, Two Countries and a World of Connections - by Denis Wong - £16.99
“A deeply engaging and elegantly told story of two-way passages between China and Britain” ~ Gregor Benton, Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at Cardiff University
Who am I? This question is often asked in youth, as a part of “coming o ... more
The Deorhord: An Old English Bestiary - by Hana Videen - £10.99
Welcome to the delightful and fascinating world of Old English animals.
'Invaluable - and hugely entertaining ... It is an absolute romp and a must-have for history and fantasy enthusiasts alike' - Eleanor Janega
'Endlessly fascinat ... more
Free Loaves on Fridays: The Care System As Told By People Who Actually Get It - by Rebekah Pierre (Editor) - £12.99
A powerful anthology of stories, reflections and letters by care-experienced people, including contributions from Lemn Sissay, Sally Bayley, Kirsty Capes and many more.
This book is all about the care system, and it's written by people who h ... more
The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist - by Marcus Rediker - £14.99
The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing man-a Quaker dwarf who became one of the first ever to demand the total, unconditional emancipation of all enslaved Africans around the world. He pe ... more
The Men With the Pink Triangle: The True, Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camp - by Heinz Heger - £14.99
Translated by David Fernbach
Introduction by Klaus Müller
Preface by Sarah Schulman
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize th ... more
My Life in Sea Creatures - by Sabrina Imbler - £10.99
Join science journalist Sabrina Imbler on an astonishing journey which will completely redefine the way you think about nature and the ocean.
'An astonishing debut' GUARDIAN
'Reveals just as much about our fascinating, mysterious world as i ... more
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World - by Jonathan Freedland - £9.99
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
‘Excellent... thrilling... Freedland’s book is rich in the kind of details that haunt you long after you have turned the last page’ Sunday Times
Anne Frank. Primo Levi. Osk ... more
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography - by Rob Wilkins - £10.99
WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTION
WINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION
'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman
'Sometimes joyful ... more
A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story - by Polly Morland, illustrated by Richard Baker - £9.99
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize
The Top Ten Bestseller
Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month
A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year
‘If you want to read a book that moves you both at the level of sentence and the quality of lang ... more
Mick Lynch: The Making of a Working-Class Hero - by Gregor Gall - £20.00
In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic v ... more
The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People - by Stuart Maconie - £20.00
A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller
What kind of country is England today?
What does it mean to be English?
Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties?
Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining jour ... more
Do Right and Fear No One - by Leslie Thomas QC - £10.99
'If deaths are not investigated, then the authorities cannot be held to account and democracy is threatened. And if deaths are not investigated, we are not a society that values human life.'
Inspired from a young age to help the marginalised and ... more
A Heart That Works - by Rob Delaney - £10.99
In this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of death, and the question of purpose for those left behind.
When you’re a parent and your child gets hurt or sick, you ... more
George Harrison: The Reluctant Beatle - by Philip Norman - £25.00
From the author of the million-copy selling Shout!: The Beatles in Their Generation and the bestselling John Lennon: The Life comes a revealing portrait of George Harrison, the most undervalued and mysterious Beatle.
Despite being hailed as ... more
Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land - by Jacob Mikanowski - £10.99
An epic history of the ‘other’ Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore.
‘Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this very personal ... more
Private Worlds: Growing Up Gay in Post-War Britain - by Jeremy Seabrook - £14.99
A moving memoir chronicling the friendship of two gay men coming of age in 1950s Britain.
'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; ... more
A People's History of Football - by Mickael Correia - £16.99
A unique people's history of football, providing a global and diverse perspective from its origins to the present day.
'A fascinating journey through the game's history [as] a vehicle of change' Shaka Hislop
'Correia takes us around ... more
China in Ten Words - by Yu Hua - £9.99
A courageous and intimate memoir of China framed in ten telling words.
People. Leader. Reading. Writing. Revolution. Grassroots. Through these and other common vernacular words and phrases, Yu Hua – widely regarded as one of China’s grea ... more
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech - by Brian Merchant - £25.00
Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year
The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the h ... more
Backbone of the Nation: Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85 - by Robert Gildea - £11.99
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners’ own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes ... more
Bad Bridget: Crime, Mayhem and the Lives of Irish Emigrant Women - by Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick - £10.99
'A captivating account of lives previously ignored' Sunday Independent
'An important, impeccably researched though eminently readable book that charts new territory' Irish Examiner
Ireland in the nineteenth and early twentieth cen ... more
The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government - by David K. Johnson - £22.00
A new edition of a classic work of history, revealing the anti-homosexual purges of midcentury Washington.
In The Lavender Scare, David K. Johnson tells the frightening story of how, during the Cold War, homosexuals were considered as danger ... more
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice - by Ivan Jablonka - £12.99
'Exhilarating... a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times
'An unexpected bestseller in France... it has sparked conversations' Challenges
A highly ... more
Black Ghost of Empire: The Long Death of Slavery and the Failure of Emancipation - by Kris Manjapra - £10.99
A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic world.
To fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended. We celebrate abolition - in Haiti after ... more
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside - by Rebecca Smith - £10.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2024
‘Eye-opening and persuasive’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brilliant … I loved it’ KIT DE WAAL
‘Thoughtful, moving, honest’ CAL FLYN
*Winner of The Lakelan ... more
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