Biography & Memoir
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Mary Queen of Scots
Stefan Zweig
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent...
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Lady Sings the Blues
Billie Holiday
Read more ▸ Order ▸“I’ve been told that no one sings the word ‘hunger’ like I do. Or the...
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Slightly Foxed Edition 44 Drawn from Memory
E. H. Shepard
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this, the first of two volumes of memoirs, we find a portrait of a...
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Slightly Foxed Edition 45 Drawn from Life
E. H. Shepard
Read more ▸ Order ▸In this, the second part of two volumes of memoirs, the untroubled bliss of Ernest’s...
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A Country Doctor’s Commonplace Book
Philip Rhys Evans
Read more ▸ Order ▸Each Christmas for the past sixteen years Dr Philip Evans has sent his friends and...
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Aethelred the Unready: The Failed King
Richard Abels
Read more ▸ Order ▸A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in...
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Appointment in Arezzo
Alan Taylor
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Part biography, part travel writing, this is the author’s sympathetic and witty account of...
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The Outrun
Amy Liptrot
Read more ▸ Order ▸At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney....
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Read more ▸ Order ▸The creator of Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World) officially sold at auction in New...
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Penguin Monarchs Paperbacks
Various
The acclaimed Penguin Monarchs series: short, fresh, expert accounts of England’s rulers – now in…Read more ▸ Order ▸ -
More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Read more ▸ Order ▸The second volume of exuberant, lively letters from legendary travel writer Patrick Leigh Fermor The...
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A Chill in the Air
Iris Origo
Read more ▸ Order ▸Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century’s great diarists, was born in England in 1902....
