Blurb Your Enthusiasm
The dazzling, staggering, astonishing, unputdownable* story of the book blurb, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets
They’re just a few words on books. But what are...
Books: Memoir
The Diary of a Bookseller
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100,000 books, spread over a mile of shelving, with twisting corridors and roaring fires, and all...
Nobody Tells You: Over 100 Honest Stories About Pregnancy, Birth and Parenthood
A no-holds-barred collection of more than 100 real-life accounts of pregnancy, birth, and life with a baby, brought together with simple advice from pregnancy and postnatal expert Becca Maberly and...
The Natural Health Service
In 2016, Isabel Hardman's mind, in her own words, 'stopped working' as she fell prey to severe depression and anxiety. She took time off on long-term sick leave and despite several...
Dancing in the Mosque
In the days before Homeira Qaderi gave birth to her son, Siawash, the road to the hospital in Kabul would often be barricaded because of the frequent suicide explosions. With the city and the military...
How Not to Be Wrong
In his bestselling How To Be Right, James provided an invigorating guide to how to talk to people with bad opinions. And yet the question he always gets asked is ‘If you’re so sure about...
A Life on Our Planet
I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.
As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world -...
My Name is Selma
Selma van de Perre was seventeen when World War Two began. Until then, being Jewish in the Netherlands had been of no consequence. But by 1941 this simple fact had become a matter of life or death....
Dear Reader
For as long as she can remember, Cathy Rentzenbrink has lost and found herself in stories. Growing up she was rarely seen without her nose in a book and read in secret long after lights out. When...
Letters on Motherhood
Letters on Motherhood is a collection of heartfelt and deeply poignant letters written by Giovanna to her three young sons Buzz, Buddy and Max, husband, Tom, and the family and friends who have...
The Librarian of Auschwitz
Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the TerezÃn ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror...
The Boy Who Followed his Father into Auschwitz
Where there is family, there is hope . . .
Vienna, 1939.
Nazi police seize Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer and his son, Fritz, and send the pair to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an...
When I Had a Little Sister
When did she decide to die? Was it before midnight on Friday the 6th, because she couldn’t face another night or was it before dawn on Saturday the 7th because she couldn’t face another...
Ask Me His Name
Dear Reader, When I found myself experiencing a motherhood that I never expected, one that I was terrified of living, I didn't know how I would carry on being "normal." I didn't...
Curious Pursuits Occasional Writing
Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 1970 to the present.
Atwood remembers moving to...
Homage to Catalonia
Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell...
The Choice
In 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimaginable experiences, including being made to dance for the infamous Josef Mengele.
During her time there, her...
The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela
Arrested in 1962 activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail.
During his incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to prison authorities,...
Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian My story of Rescue Hope and Triumph
Butterfly is the incredibly powerful memoir of young Syrian refugee Yusra Mardini.
Yusra has always dreamed of being an Olympic champion swimmer and trains hard trying to make that dream come true...
Bookworm a memoir of childhood reading
Lucy Mangan's love of books developed from an early age. In this book her childhood in terms of the books she read.
This is a must read for bookworms and a handy guide for anyone trying to...
