Biography & Memoir
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A Spy Named Orphan
Roland Philipps
Read more ▸ Order ▸Donald Maclean was a star diplomat, an establishment insider and a keeper of some of...
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Left Bank
Agnes Poirier
Read more ▸ Order ▸A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between...
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Darwin: An Exceptional Voyage
Fabien Grolleau & Jeremie Royer
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is the year 1831. A gifted but distracted young man named Charles Darwin has...
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Happening
Annie Ernaux
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her...
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The Cut Out Girl
Bart van Es
Read more ▸ Order ▸WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018
Little Lien wasn’t taken from her Jewish...
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Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits
Barney Hoskyns
Read more ▸ Order ▸Spanning Tom Waits’ extraordinary 40-year career, from Closing Time to Orphans, ‘Lowside of the Road’...
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Girl in a Band
Kim Gordon
Read more ▸ Order ▸In ‘Girl in a Band’ Kim Gordon, founding member of Sonic Youth and role model...
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Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
Read more ▸ Order ▸When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and...
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The Dark Stuff
Nick Kent
Read more ▸ Order ▸In ‘The Dark Stuff’ Nick Kent profiles twenty-two of the most gifted and self-destructive talents...
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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.
Viv Albertine
Read more ▸ Order ▸In 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she...
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Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf & Katyuli Lloyd
Read more ▸ Order ▸Flush tells the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s cocker spaniel and is told, for the most...
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Read more ▸ Order ▸Andy Warhol – American painter, filmmaker, publisher, actor and major figure in the Pop Art...
