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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... -
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... -
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... -
Fiona Sampson
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browningow do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Eliz...ow do I love thee? Let me count the ways,' Elizabeth Barrett Browning famously wrote, shortly before defying her family by running away to Italy with Robert Browning.But behind the romance of her e... -
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... -
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... -
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...
