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From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracie’s stunning career with the larger history of...
A heartbreaking and inspiring true story—Friday Night Lights meets Ghettoside—of a New Orleans high school football team and their head coach's mission to protect his...
The incredible true story of an entrepreneur turned conservationist—the founder of the iconic companies The North Face and Esprit who used his fortune to protect over 12-million acres of...
In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journalist reflects on his own journey to come to terms with his brother’s terrible crimes—and...
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot
‘Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman’s witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make you look at your relationship and wonder, “Could we be doing more this weekend than just going to IKEA?”’ CAITLIN MORAN
From millimetres to mountains – an inspirational story of triumph over adversity against the odds
In this piercing and unforgettable memoir, the award-winning poet reflects on a year of turbulence, fear, and hope.For acclaimed British-Guyanese writer Fred D’Aguiar, 2020...
A compelling and provocative essay collection that smashes stereotypes and redefines the meaning of the term “horse girl,” broadening it for women of all cultural backgrounds.As...
American Sniper meets Make Your Bed in these life lessons from decorated United States service members and New York Times bestselling authors Robert O’Neill...
An inspiring true story of barbarity, hope, and survival: the Holocaust memoir of a teenage boy imprisoned in Birkenau, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, and Buchenwald which illuminate the dark days...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes
The son of one of the greatest writers of our time—Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez—remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender...
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami...
Behind the tourist veneer of Bali and greater Indonesia: a foreign correspondent's memoirIn 2006, journalist Deborah Cassrels embarked on a personal odyssey to the Indonesian...
Ordinary Girls \ Muchachas ordinarias (Spanish edition)
Para las muchachas que fuimos, para la muchacha que fui, para las muchachas de todo el mundo que son como nosotras solíamos ser. Para las muchachas que nunca se vieron reflejadas en los libros....
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher
In the spirit of Devil in the White City comes a true detective tale of the highest standard: the haunting story of Eliot Ness's forgotten final case–his years-long hunt for "The...
Elizabethans: A History of How Modern Britain Was Forged
The Sunday Times bestsellerNow a major BBC TV series presented by Andrew Marr
Meet the Georgians: Epic Tales from Britain’s Wildest Century
Anne Bonny and Mary Read, pirate queens of the Caribbean
Tipu Sultan, the Indian ruler who kept the British at bay
Olaudah Equiano, the former slave whose story shocked the world
Mary Wollstonecraft, the feminist who fought for women’s rights
Ladies of Llangollen, the lovers who built paradise in a Welsh valley
London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
The irresistibly charming memoir of a young woman who started her own business as a dog walker for London’s busy, well-heeled dog lovers. A true love letter to London, dogs, and growing...
For all women looking to find “hope in a hopeless world and bravery in an age that seems to lack it,” comes a searing memoir by Shannon Dingle, a writer and disability advocate who has...
An award-winning, much-loved biologist turns his gaze on himself, using his long-distance running to illuminate the changes to a human body over a lifetimePart memoir,...
At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future.In How I Saved...
An unprecedented and heartfelt memoir that illuminates the lives of rural Chinese workers, offering a portrait of generational strife, family, love, and loss that crosses cultures and time.Cai...
One-half of the celebrated Men in Blazers duo, longtime culture and soccer commentator Roger Bennett traces the origins of his love affair with America, and how he went from a depraved, pimply...