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Shaun Bythell
Confessions of a BooksellerShaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in W...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.... -
Laura Cumming
On Chapel Sands: My mother and other missing persons1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. ...1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village.The child remembers nothing of these events and at home, nobody e... -
Barack Obama
A Promised LandIn the stirring, highly anticipated first volum...In the stirring, highly anticipated 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 ... -
Timothy C. Baker
Reading My Mother Back: A Memoir in Childhood Animal StoriesWhen his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discover...When his mother died, Timothy C. Baker discovered that there was almost no record of her existence, and no stories that were his to tell: the only way to bring her back was through reading. Reading... -
Selina Mill
Life Unseen: A Story of BlindnessImagine a world without sight. Is it dark and g...Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why ... -
Linda Lewin
My Faraway Country: MyanmarA series of stories, told by a range of real an...A series of stories, told by a range of real and fictive narrators which lyrically evoke the childhoods and the adult adventures and struggles of a Karen family in Myanmar, through the twentieth an... -
Kamal Ahmed
The Life and Times of a Very British ManKamal Ahmed's childhood was very British in eve...Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very British in every way except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, ... -
Gavin Francis
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a PandemicGavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban a...Gavin Francis is a GP who works in both urban and rural communities, splitting his time between Edinburgh and the islands of Orkney. When the pandemic arrived in our society he saw how it affected ... -
Florian Gadsby
By My Hands: A Potter’s ApprenticeshipFlorian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery,...Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his skill has grown, so has his social media following, which today numbers in the mi... -
Cynthia Rogerson
Wah!: Things I Never Told My MotherCynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling be...Cynthia's mother is dying. Often. Travelling between her home in Scotland and California, as she spends time at her mother's bedside Cynthia recalls her youthful adventures: living in a squat, trai... -
Philippa Perry
Couch Fiction: A Graphic Tale of PsychotherapyBestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You...Bestselling author Philippa Perry (The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read) turns her keen insights to the power of therapy. This compelling study of psychotherapy in the form of a graphic novel vi... -
Alastair Campbell
Living Better: How I Learned to Survive DepressionLast Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. ...Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts.Never gone from almost to deed. Don't think I ever will. But it was a bad almost.Living Better is Alastair Campbell's honest...
