You look awfully like the Queen: Wit and Wisdom from the House of Windsor
For fans of the ‘Windsors’ and ‘Now we are Sixty’: a beautifully illustrated collection of amusing and affectionate stories from inside the royal family.
Autobiography: historical, political & military
Unbroken
The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie.
Where I Was From
A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America.
War
From the author of The Perfect Storm, a gripping book about Sebastian Junger’s almost-fatal year with the 2nd battalion of the American Army.
Stanley I Presume?
A rip-roaring and hilarious memoir from Stanley Johnson – father of London mayor Boris Johnson.
It’s Our Turn to Eat
A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.
Comrade Jim: The Spy Who Played for Spartak
The true and remarkable story of the English double agent who ended up playing for Spartak Moscow.
My Father’s Watch: The Story of a Child Prisoner in 70s Britain
The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’ wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.
Alfred and Emily
Doris Lessing’s first book after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature revisits her childhood in Southern Africa and the lives, both fictional and factual, that her parents led.
Miracles of Life
J. G. Ballard was, for over fifty years, one of this country’s most significant writers. Beginning with the events that inspired his classic novel, ‘Empire of the Sun’, this revelatory autobiography charts the course of his astonishing life.
Miracles of Life: Abridged edition
‘Miracles of Life’ opens and closes in Shanghai, the city where J.G.Ballard was born, and where he spent the most of the Second World War interned with his family in a Japanese concentration camp.
The Speckled People
‘This is the most gripping book I’ve read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy Doyle