Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior
£9.99This autobiography gives a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile establishment.
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Shocking Life: The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli
£9.99Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) was one of the leading fashion designers of the 1920s and 1930s with a flair for the unusual. The first to use shoulder pads, animal print and the inventor of shocking pink, Schiaparelli collaborated with artists including Jean Cocteau, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali, to create extraordinary garments such as the Dali Lobster Dress. Schiaparelli’s fascinating autobiography charts her rise from resident of a rat-infested apartment to designer to the stars.
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Elephant In My Kitchen
£16.99A powerful, moving sequel to the bestselling The Elephant Whisperer that tells the story of one woman’s fight to protect a herd of elephants.
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Life In The Garden
£9.99Penelope Lively has always been a keen gardener. This book is partly a memoir of her own life in gardens: the large garden at home in Cairo where she spent most of her childhood, her grandmother’s garden in a sloping Somerset field, then two successive Oxfordshire gardens of her own, and the smaller urban garden in the North London home she lives in today. It is also a wise, engaging and far-ranging exploration of gardens in literature, from ‘Paradise Lost’ to ‘Alice in Wonderland’, and of writers and their gardens, from Virginia Woolf to Philip Larkin.
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Dad You Suck
£8.99Written with self-excoriating candour and the driest humour, comes a book about being a dad from one of our best loved journalists.
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Light Of Common Day
£9.99This volume of Lady Diana Cooper’s memoirs focuses on Diana’s life as a young married woman during the 1920s and the birth of her child John Julius Norwich. Almost every young man that she danced with pre-1914 was killed during the War. She married one of the few survivors, Duff Cooper, who went on to become an important minister under Churchill.
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The Owl At The Window
£9.99Part love story, part widower’s diary, part tales of single parenting, this book tells of Carl Gorham’s wife’s cancer, her premature death and his attempts to rebuild his life afterwards with his six-year old daughter.
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No Dream Is Too High
£9.99Now in paperback and updated with a new essay on his trip to Antarctica comes this best-selling inspirational memoir from Buzz Aldrin. -
Not The Whole Story
£20.00This short volume has turned out to be merely a handful of recollections of well-remembered times and stories – some probably misremembered, too – and a few people who have played a crucial part in my life. And some confessions: I have never before tried to write about my doll phobia, for instance, or about the effect synaesthesia has had over the years. I can only hope that this collection of stories from times past might give some idea of a mostly happy life that has gone, and is going, much too fast.
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Letters From The Suitcase
£9.99‘Letters From the Suitcase’ reveals the vivid, poignant and hugely detailed wartime correspondence between David and Mary Francis from 1938 to 1943.
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Look What You Made Me Do
£14.99Not all abuse leaves a mark – a powerful memoir of coercive control.
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How to Murder Your Life
£7.99At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication provided by her psychiatrist father. This led to a dependence on Xanax and other prescription drugs at boarding school, and she experimented with cocaine, ecstasy. whatever came her way. By 26 she was a talented ‘doctor shopper’ who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists into giving her never-ending prescriptions; her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, and trying to hold down a high profile job at Condé Naste during the day. With a complete lack of self-pity and an honesty that is almost painful, Cat describes the crazed euphoria, terrifying comedowns and the horrendous guilt she feels lying to those who try to help her.