Paperbacks

Synopsis Angela's Ashes (Series of 3) #1 Angela's Ashes, imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humour and compassion, is a glorious ...

Synopsis A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote a...

Synopsis Subtitled : The story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both of their lives. When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oreg...

Synopsis "Everything creaks and bends in heavy seas - what will not bend will simply snap. So many times I wondered how much load we could carry in...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on). Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. A man ...

Synopsis Subtitled : Letters, Lyrics, Routines. Bill Hicks was arguably the most influential stand-up comedian of the last 40 years. He was funny, ...

Synopsis Subtitled : A Pilot Sees The World. A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2022. Growing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the ...

Synopsis Winner Parliamentary Book Award for Best Memoir 2017. From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power ...

Synopsis A Times and Telegraph Book of the Year. A Sunday Times Bestseller. Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to ge...

Synopsis Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year. In the spring of 2015, Mark Beaumont set out from the bustling heart of Cairo on his la...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co. 'Shakespeare and Company' in Paris is one of the world's most famous bookshops. T...

Synopsis Subtitled : Conversations with Britain's Most Evil Serial Killer. In February 1983 civil servant Dennis Nilsen was arrested after body p...

Synopsis Subtitled : Killing Time & Fighting Wars. Hailed as a classic of war writing in the U.K., The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a rev...

Synopsis Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelv...

Synopsis When we spend so much of our time immersed in books, who's to say where reading ends and living begins? The two are impossibly and glori...

Synopsis Sunday Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2019 Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year Award. In TV adventurer Simon Reeve's bestse...

Synopsis Ever wondered what your doctor really thinks about you? Or why you can’t get an appointment? Or what that funny buzzing noise in your ear ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize 2009. Subtitled : A Life in Mountain Rescue. In Cairngorm John (his call sign when in contact wi...

Synopsis Brain on Fire is the stunning debut from journalist and author Susannah Cahalan, recounting the real-life horror story of how a sudden a...

Synopsis The Times Memoir of The Year. The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Cor...

Synopsis The New York Times Number 1 Best Seller. This last book from beloved Hollywood icon Carrie Fisher is the crown jewel of ideal Star Wars gi...

Synopsis 31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island discs. Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, N...

Synopsis In the summer of 1990 - two weeks before his GCSE results, which turned out to be the best in his school - Cathy Rentzenbrink's brother Ma...

Synopsis Isabel Allende describes in an exceptionally vivid, human and deeply personal way her life in California where she has lived for more than...