Ship Beneath the Ice
£25.00The extraordinary story of how the world’s most famous shipwreck was found, told by the man leading the search.
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Bedtime Story
£22.00When Chloe Hooper’s partner is diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer, they have to find a way to tell their two young sons. Can the news be broken as a bedtime tale? What practical lessons does children’s literature – with its innocent orphans and evil adults, magic, monsters and anthropomorphic animals – teach about grief and resilience in real life? As Hooper discovers, ‘the right words are an incantation, a spell of hope for the future.’
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Next to Nature
£25.00Ronald Blythe lives at the end of an overgrown farm track deep in the rolling countryside of the Stour Valley, on the border between Suffolk and Essex. His home is Bottengoms Farm, a sturdy yeoman’s house once owned by the artist John Nash. From here, Blythe has spent almost half a century observing the slow turn of the agricultural year, the church year, and village life in a series of rich, lyrical rural diaries. Beginning with the arrival of snow on New Year’s Day and ending with Christmas carols sung in the village church, ‘Next to Nature’ invites us to witness a simple life richly lived. With gentle wit and keen observation Blythe meditates on his life and faith, on literature, art and history, and on our place in the landscape.
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How to Be a Football Manager
£22.00In the joyful ‘How to Be a Football Manager’, Holloway weaves a fantastically rich tapestry of hilarious anecdotes to reveal what being the boss is really like. This is not a handbook to tell you when to play a Christmas tree formation or throw on a false nine – it’s about dealing with the ridiculous, fighting your corner and always having a comeback.
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Diego Maradona
£12.99The interviews collected here span the breadth of his life and career as a player, coach, and public figure, providing a panoramic and extremely candid accounting of his rollercoaster life, many translated into English for the first time. Included in the book are encounters with Pele, Fidel Castro and Gary Linker. The book also includes two unforgettable interviews in the last years of his life where he both retells, in both a jocular and deeply honest and emotional way, the story of his life.
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SAS Brothers in Arms
£22.00Using hitherto untold stories and new archival sources, Damien Lewis follows one close-knit band of warriors from the SAS foundation through to the Italian landings – chronicling the extraordinary part they played as the tide of the Second World War truly turned in the Allied’s favour. This is a narrative of wall-to-wall do-or-die action and daring, chronicling the exploits of some of the most highly-decorated soldiers of the twentieth-century.
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The Long Shot
£18.99How Covid-19 vaccines went from the laboratory to people’s arms – the inside story of an extraordinary national campaign against all odds
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Just Sayin’
£16.99The long-awaited autobiography of one of the world’s greatest children’s writers, and an empowering and inspiring account of a life in books. It is an account of her journey, from a childhood surrounded by words, to the 83 rejection letters she received in response to sending out her first project, to the children’s laureateship.
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What a Thing to Say to the Queen!
£9.99What a Thing to Say to the Queen! is a collection of anecdotes celebrating the lighter side of the royal family, specially updated to mark the passing of the much-loved monarch.
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The Secret Heart
£25.00The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life
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No Place Like Home
£10.99A thought-provoking and moving anthology in which writers from around the globe explore what our homes mean to us.
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The Waste Land
£25.00‘The Waste Land’ is the greatest poem of the age. But a century after its publication in 1922, T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece remains a work of comparative mystery. In this gripping account, award-winning biographer Matthew Hollis reconstructs the making of the poem and brings its times vividly to life. He tells the story of the cultural and personal trauma that forged the poem through the interleaved lives of its protagonists – of Ezra Pound, who edited it, of Vivien Eliot, who endured it, and of T.S. Eliot himself whose private torment is woven into the fabric of the work. The result is an unforgettable story of lives passing in opposing directions: Eliot’s into redemptive stardom, Vivien’s into despair, Pound’s into unforgiving darkness.