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For Gervase Phinn growing old is not about a leisurely walk to the pub for a game of dominoes or snoozing in his favourite armchair. As this sparkl...

Strauss delves into the bizarre underworld of men who have devoted their lives to different techniques of seducing women. These are men with their ...

As a child, Clarissa Dickson Wright was surrounded by wealth and privilege. Her mother was an Australian heiress, her father a brilliant surgeon to...

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Judi Dench: the heartbreaking true story of an Irishwoman and the secret she kept for 50 years When she...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

History with twice the nasty bits!Want to know:How sniffing your own pee could save your life in the First WorldWar?Why wearing white knickers coul...