Doug Gold   The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine   'An unforgettable love story set in...

Susan OrleanSusan Orlean first met John Laroche when visiting Florida to write for the New Yorker about his arrest for stealing rare ghost orchids from a nature reserve. Fascinated both...

Danniella WestbrookEven when she was at the top of her fame as a star of East Enders, behind the scenes Danniella was tearing her life apart. For a while she...

Amy LiptrotAfter a decade of heavy partying and hard drinking in London, Amy Liptrot returns home to Orkney, a remote island off the north of Scotland. The Outrun maps Amy’s...

Christabel BielenbergChristabel Bielenberg, a niece of Lord Northcliffe, married a German lawyer in 1934. She lived through the war in Germany, as a German citizen, under the horrors of Nazi...

People are compelled to keep diaries for a great many different reasons. Although they are the most private form of writing, there have been few diarists who have not in...

Primo Levi The Periodic Table by Primo Levi is an impassioned response to the Holocaust: Consisting of 21 short stories, each possessing the name of a chemical element, the collection...

Carrie FisherWhen Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved - plaintive love...

Chris GardnerThe astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the mean streets of San Francisco and went on to become...

Reva MannThe Rabbi's Daughter: A True Story of Sex, Drugs, and OrthodoxyIn this honest, daring, and compulsively readable memoir, Reva Mann paints a portrait of herself as a young woman...

Kay Wilson"Indelible mesmerizing a monumental debut." Julie Burchill, The Sunday Telegraph "An extraordinary account of survival against the terrorism that threatens us all today. Kay Wilson is one of the...

Bill Bryson   Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book...