Alan JacobsThe White Witch, Aslan, fauns and talking beasts, centaurs and epic battles between good and evil -- all these have become a part of our collective imagination through the...

Anthony BourdainFor all those Anthony Bourdain fans who are hungering for more, here is Nasty Bits - a collection of his journalism. As usual Bourdain serves up a well-seasoned hellbroth...

Daniel Drennam "Half my time and energy as a New Yorker is given to keeping all aspects of the outside world outside; to such a degree that it might seem...

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...

TE Carhart At first glance, The Piano Shop on the Left Bank is simply an autobiography covering the author's blissful years in Paris. This is actually something much rarer and more original:...

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...