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Daniel Schreiber
Alone: Reflections on Solitary LivingAt no time before have so many people lived alo...At no time before have so many people lived alone, and never has loneliness been so widely or keenly felt. Why, in a society of individualists, is living alone perceived as a shameful failure? And ... -
Hannah Jackson
Call Me Red: A Shepherd’s JourneyHannah Jackson had no idea she wanted to work o...Hannah Jackson had no idea she wanted to work on a farm until a life-changing family visit to the Lake District in her late teens. It was there where she first saw a lamb being born, giving her the... -
Claire Ratinon
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belongA powerful work of memoir and storytelling that...A powerful work of memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world. Like many diasporic people of colour, Claire Ratinon grew up feeling cut off from the natural w... -
Pat Nevin
Football And How To Survive ItYou've played for Chelsea, Everton and your cou...You've played for Chelsea, Everton and your country at an international level. But what happens when you discover you're in so deep that football has taken over your whole life?In his brilliant new... -
Esa Aldegheri
Free to Go : Across the World on a MotorbikeWhen Esa Aldegheri and her husband left their h...When Esa Aldegheri and her husband left their home in Orkney, Esa didn't know that their eighteen-month motorbike adventure would take them through twenty international frontiers - between Europe a... -
Katherine Rundell
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John DonneJohn Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religio...John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, Donne was incapable of being just one thing. He was a scholar ... -
Luis Sagasti
Musical OfferingA lyrical celebration of storytelling, of child...A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music. Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti's second book to appea... -
Colin Grant
Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush GenerationHomecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand i...Homecoming draws on over a hundred first-hand interviews, archival recordings and memoirs by the women and men who came to Britain from the West Indies between the late 1940s and the early 1960s. I... -
Paul Theroux
Figures in a Landscape: People and PlacesDrawing together a fascinating body of writing ...Drawing together a fascinating body of writing from over 14 years of work, Figures in a Landscape ranges from profiles of cultural icons (Oliver Sacks, Elizabeth Taylor, Robin Williams) to intimate... -
Wendy Moore
Endell Street: The Women Who Ran Britain’s Trailblazing Military HospitalWhen the First World War broke out, the suffrag...When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett An... -
Angela Y. Davis
An AutobiographyA powerful and commanding account of the life o...A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Libera... -
Simon Callow
Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandIn One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic s...In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive and penetrating detail into one of the most complex artists of the tw...
