Livia Bitton-Jackson   What is death all about?What is life all about?So wonders thirteen-year-old- Elli Friedmann, just one of the many innocent Holocaust victims, as she fights for her life...

Bill Bryson"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain-which is to say, all of it."After nearly two decades spent on British...

Lance Armstrong   It is such an all-American story. A lanky kid from Plano, Texas, is raised by a feisty, single parent who sacrifices for her son, who becomes one...

Ishmael BeahThe devastating story of war through the eyes of a child soldier. Beah tells how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered...

Homer HickamOctober Sky(Coalwood #1)The true story, originally published as Rocket Boys, that inspired the Universal Pictures film.It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small...

Jaycee Dugard   On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her...

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...

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...

Ruth HoThe evocative and well reviewed memoirs of a young Peranakan woman growing up in Melaka (Malacca) before and during the World War leading up to last years of British...

Edmund De Waal   264 wood and ivory carvings none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the...

Antoine De Saint ExuperyRecipient of the Grand Prix of the Académie Française, Wind, Sand and Stars captures the grandeur, danger, and isolation of flight. Its exciting account of air adventure,...

Get Off Your Arse and Grab that New Job: Straight-talking advice on how to get the perfect jobSteve MillerHate your job? Lost your job? Steve Miller - the man who...