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Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its prof...

A dominant figure in pop since the early 1980s, Michael Jackson transformed the world of music and quickly became one of the most influential artis...

THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER 'Warmly funny, dry and mischievous . . . Genuine and brilliant.' Daily Mail Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best ...

Forget Torres, Rooney, Beckham and the like. This is what football is really about. One man’s story of a career in the lower leagues. Chris Hargrea...

Gervase Phinn is a school inspector in Yorkshire, including the Yorkshire Dales. He chronicles in this book his appointment to the local school ins...

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green capri pants. Others thi...

A modern-day Orlando -- edgy, funny and startlingly honest -- Self is the fictional autobiography of a young writer and traveller who finds his gen...

Eva, Peggy and Kathleen were sisters born into a close-knit working class family, living in a tiny terraced house in a London street so rough the p...

Britain's favourite writer of narrative non-fiction Bill Bryson travels back in time to a forgotten summer when America came of age, took centre st...

After nearly two decades in England, Bill Bryson returned to the country of his birth. Gathered here are 18 months worth of his Mail on Sunday colu...

In 1995, high-flying British journalist Toby Young left London for New York to become a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. Other Brits had taken M...

Recreates the author's own childhood through the story of the Maggie Tulliver and her spoilt, selfish brother. This novel combines images of family...

Margot Fonteyn - born plain Peggy Hookham - was dreamed into existence by the architects of British ballet: Ninette de Valois, Frederick Ashton and...

Explore the Tudor age& a brilliant time for trade& exploration and the theatre. Find out about the reigns of the five Tudor monarchs& h...

Travel back to the time of the Vikings! Where did they come from and where did they settle? What beliefs and traditions did they bring with them? H...

Learn all about the mighty Romans with this brilliant photographic book. From the rise of Rome and the growth of the Roman Empire to the great empe...

All the foul facts about the Rotten Romans are ready to uncover, including what Roman soldiers wore under their kilts and how ancient Britons got t...

History with the nasty bits left in! 'The Gorgeous Georgians' tells you all about the people who lived in these riotous times, from lords and ladie...

Go back into the really rotten times of the Romans, where there were beastly battles, deadly doctors and marvellous myths. Discover what Roman sold...

Here are the pirates during the 'golden age' between 1660 and 1730. Described are their motives, dress, the weaponry and ships of such figures as '...

The stormin Normans is bulging with fascinating facts about big bad Bill the Conqueror and his bully boys who battled at hastings stormed around Eu...