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When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi

For readers of Atul Gawande’s Being Mortal and Henry Marsh’s Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book about how to live.

The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

'It helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph

Persepolis I & II Marjane Satrapi

Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution.

H is for Hawk Helen MacDonald

**WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR** **WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** **WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRE ÉTRANGER** ‘Dazzling… Deeply affecting, utterly fascinating and blazing with love and intelligence’ Financial Times

The Iron Lady John Campbell

Read the true story that inspired the major new film, The Iron Lady. John Campbell's magisterial biography is the political biography of Margaret Thatcher.

On Helwig Street Richard Russo

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls turns to memoir in this witty, moving account of his life, his parents and the depressing hometown they all struggled to escape

The Ghost Rob White, Julie Welch

From the publishers of My Father and other Working Class Heroes comes the incredible biography of sixties Tottenham Hotspur legend, John White, who died aged 27.

Darling Monster Diana Cooper

Society darling, actress, wife of key WW2 politician Duff Cooper… Here are Lady Diana Cooper’s sparkling letters to her son John Julius

My Life as a Foreign Country Brian Turner

'My Life as a Foreign Country is brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I've ever encountered - a humane, heartbreaking, and expertly crafted work of literature.' Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried

The Diamond Smugglers Ian Fleming

The fantastic true story of the world's greatest smuggling racket, as told by the creator of James Bond

Through the Window Julian Barnes

From one of Britain’s greatest writers comes a brilliant collection of essays on the writers that have meant the most to him

The Divorce of Henry VIII Catherine Fletcher

The inside story of Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon - 'an intricate and fascinating story' Hilary Mantel

Deaths of the Poets Michael Symmons Roberts, Paul Farley

An entertaining journey into how the deaths of great poets have shaped our culture's distorted sense of poetry

Bernard Hinault and the Fall and Rise of French Cycling William Fotheringham

The definitive biography of France’s greatest cyclist by the number one bestselling author of Merckx: Half Man, Half Bike

A Dancer in Wartime Gillian Lynne

An irresistible memoir about a young girl's hard-won path to success as a dancer during the Second World War

The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev Simon Morrison

The dramatic untold story of Lina and Serge Prokofiev: a tale of a doomed love and a shattering portrait of an artist

Diane Arbus Arthur Lubow

A revelatory biography of the uncompromising photographer, Diane Arbus

Threads Julia Blackburn

A beautifully illustrated account of the search for an undiscovered genius, the Norfolk fisherman who became an artist. Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017

Wilfred Owen Jon Stallworthy

A revised and updated edition of Jon Stallworthy's prize-winning and classic biography of the great World War One poet, Wilfred Owen.

Bageye at the Wheel Colin Grant

In the tradition of Sam Selvon’s Lonely Londoners and V.S.Naipaul’s Miguel Street, Grant's Bageye at the Wheel does for Luton and the UK what Miguel Street did for Naipaul, Port of Spain and Trinidad.

Scott on Waterloo Walter Scott

As we commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, read Walter Scott's first hand accounts of his travels to the battlefield, in fascinating and bloody detail

Bradley Wiggins: My Time Bradley Wiggins

A full-length, in-depth and intimate memoir by Bradley Wiggins charting his journey to become the first Briton ever to win the Tour de France and his country's most decorated Olympian. INCLUDES A BRAND NEW CHAPTER

The Vanishing Man Laura Cumming

The captivating and mysterious tale of a Victorian bookseller whose fate was changed forever by the great painter Velazquez

Reading the World Ann Morgan

A thought-provoking and eye-opening journey through world literature inspired by a quest to read a book from every country.

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