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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 ...

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...

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...

An alternate cover edition can be found here. ‘I grew as impudent a Thief, and as dexterous as ever Moll Cut-Purse was’ Born and abandoned in Newga...

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...

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

A genuine jester's joke? Why chickens had their bottoms shaved? What ten-year-old treacle was used for? Discover all the foul facts about the Me...

Want to know - Why Henry VIII thought he'd married a horse? All about terrible Tudor torture? Which shocking swear words the Tudors used? This titl...

All too often, books on Scottish history ignore the central questions about our past. All this and much, much more is tackled in 1314 and All That,...

Discover all The Natural History Museum in London, England has to offer.

The next title in the hugely successful series to get a marvellous make-over. With a bold new cover look and a heap of extra horrible bits at the b...

After fifteen fearsome years on the page, Horrible Histories are coming to the small screen - with all the nasty bits intact - of course. Twelve cl...

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 '...

A beautifully illustrated non-fiction picture book that explores the incredible life and legacy of Queen Elizabeth, the longest serving British mon...

On November 4, 2008, a new day dawned when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States. Hope for the World celebrates that great man, a...

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