Life Crime Memoirs High Court Judge
£12.99A frank and witty memoir of life at the Bar and on the Bench, from former High Court Judge The Hon. Sir Harry Ognall.
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Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary
£9.99This is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her loft. Working as a secretary for the BBC at the time, Sarah’s diary describes the life of a suburban girl who certainly wasn’t ‘swinging’ but who was, ironically, not only working on a cutting edge BBC survey on sex education but also in the throes of an unlikely affair with middle-aged, working-class, Irish lift attendant, Frank.
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Dear Cancer, Love Victoria
£18.99Renowned as a much-loved and highly respected BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she found herself at the heart of the news, with a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. With honesty and openness, she decided to live out her treatment and recovery in the spotlight in a series of video diaries that encouraged thousands to seek diagnosis and help. Victoria has kept a diary since she was nine years old and in ‘Dear Cancer, Love Victoria’ she shares her day to day experiences of life following her diagnosis and coming to terms with a future that wasn’t planned.
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Letters from the Suitcase
£18.99‘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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Calm
£3.50How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? Tim Parks – lifelong cynic and spirituality-sceptic – finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With brutal honesty and dry wit, he recounts his journey from disbelief to inner peace and tackles one of the great mysteries of our time – how to survive in this modern age.
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Dont Be A Dick Pete
£12.99Growing up, Stuart Heritage was always the favourite son; perfect student, mummy’s pet and all round good guy. His younger brother, Pete, could never hope to live up to expectations. But now, Stu has returned to his hometown after a decade away to discover that Pete has taken his place. Practical and resourceful where Stu is not, Pete has become a shoulder to lean on. He is now undoubtedly the best son. And all at once Pete and Stu have to re-evaluate their fraternal dynamic.
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I Had To Survive
£8.99My ways are the ways of the mountains. Hard, implacable, steeled over the anvil of an unrelenting wilderness in which only one thing matters: the fight to stay alive. On 12th October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the ‘Old Christians’ rugby team (and many of their friends and family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. This book offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world’s leading paediatric cardiologists.
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An Affair With My Mother
£8.99A moving and gripping story of love, denial, and a daughter’s quest for the truth. CaitrÃona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving adoptive parents. But when she was in her late twenties, she realised that she had a strong need to know the woman who had given birth to her. She was able to locate her birth mother, Sarah, and they developed a strong attachment. But Sarah set one painful condition to this joyous new relationship: she wished to keep it – to keep CaitrÃona – secret from her family, from her friends, from everyone.
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It ShouldnT Happen To A Vet
£10.99A Macmillan Collector’s Library edition of the second volume of James Herriot’s hilarious memoirs about life as a country vet.
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Boys In The Trees
£9.99Carly Simon has had a career that has spanned four decades, resulting in 13 Top 40 hits, including the Number 1 song ‘You’re So Vain’, numerous Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe and an Academy Award. She was also the first artist in history to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her song ‘Let the River Run’ (from the film ‘Working Girl’). ‘Boys in the Trees’ is a rhapsodic memoir of a young woman’s coming of age amongst the glamorous literati and intelligentsia of Manhattan, a reflection on a life begun amidst secrets and shame, and a powerful story of the strength to leave that all behind and forge a path of art, music and love in the golden age of folk and rock.
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