Biography & Memoir
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Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
Jessica Pan
Read more ▸ Order ▸What would happen if a shy introvert lived as an out-and-out extrovert for one year?...
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Slightly Foxed Quarterly 62
Gail Pirkis; Hazel Wood
Read more ▸ Order ▸Laurie Graham pays an unusual visit to the Blandings piggery • Adam Foulds hangs out with a Russian...
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Slightly Foxed Edition 47 Love and War in the Apennines
Eric Newby
Read more ▸ Order ▸It was the winter of 1943 and young Eric Newby, later to become known for...
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Calypso
David Sedaris
Read more ▸ Order ▸If you’ve ever laughed your way through David Sedaris’s cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think...
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The Spy and the Traitor
Ben Macintyre
Read more ▸ Order ▸A thrilling Cold War story about a KGB double agent, by one of Britain’s greatest...
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A Life’s Work
Rachel Cusk
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Life’s Work is Rachel Cusk’s funny, moving, brutally honest account of her early experiences...
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Aftermath
Rachel Cusk
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the winter of 2009, Rachel Cusk’s marriage of ten years came to an end....
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In My Mind’s Eye
Jan Morris
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here...
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Beyond A Boundary
Cyril Lionel Robert James
Read more ▸ Order ▸C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted...
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William II: The Red King
John Gillingham
Read more ▸ Order ▸William II, or William Rufus, son and successor to William the Conqueror, is most famous...
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Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy
Carl Watkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸Remembered as a time in which ‘Christ and his saints slept’, Stephen’s troubled reign plunged...
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Richard I: The Crusader King
Thomas Asbridge
Read more ▸ Order ▸Even within his own lifetime Richard I, dubbed the ‘Lionheart’, attained a kind of semi-mythical...