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A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.
A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR
AN OBSERVER BEST ART BOOK OF 2021
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2022
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There’s an activist in all of us, and you don’t have to shout about it to be heard. In Small World, Big Ideas, Satish Kumar collects the voices of some of the most passionate ...
Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From ‘Madame Bovary...
The Mongol Derby is the world’s toughest horse race. A feat of endurance across the vast Mongolian plains once traversed by the people of Genghis Khan, competitors ride 25 horses across a dis...
A profound, beautifully realised memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’...
‘Full of gems ? Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown’
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‘Entertaining and beautifully illustrated’
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With its heavy body and tiny wings, it seems the bumblebee should not be able to fly – yet it does so with grace and efficiency. Sweden can be compared to a bumblebee, seeming to defy the law...
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the heart of Moscow, holding a plastic carrier bag. In his grey suit and tie, he looked like any other So...
In 2008, Kamin Mohammadi found herself worn down – by the increasingly unrealistic expectations of her high-flying job in the magazine industry, by her fluctuating weight and health issues, a...
The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope.
...‘At the Existentialist Café’ is the story of existentialism as a story of meetings – of people and of ideas. It is a warm, witty and engaging biography of a philosophy about li...
In this entertaining and observant memoir, Johns takes us on a tour of his world during the heady years of the sixties, with beguiling stories that will delight music fans the world over, such as w...
Written by Naoki Higishida when he was only 13, this remarkable book explains the often baffling behaviour of autistic children and shows the way they think and feel – such as about the peopl...
Celebrated novelist Daphne Du Maurier and her sisters, eclipsed by her fame, are revealed in all their surprising complexity in this riveting new biography.
...In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outd...
In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of races,...
The first volume of Clive James’s autobiography.
...John Betjeman was the best-loved English poet since Tennyson and became an institution – a ‘teddy bear to the nation’. This biography takes the reader from Betjeman’s troubl...