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‘I am Malala’ tells the inspiring story of a schoolgirl who was determined not to be intimidated by extremists, and faced the Taliban with immense courage. Malala speaks of her continuing campaign for every girl’s right to an education, shining a light into the lives of those children who cannot attend school.
For more than 30 years, no commentator on Irish sport, politics and culture has been the object of so much love, hatred and fascination as Eamon Dunphy. Now, in ‘The Rocky Road’, Dunphy takes us behind the scenes of a passionate life – from childhood poverty in Dublin to the Football League to the forefront of journalism and debate in Ireland.
Graham Nash, lead singer and principal songwriter of the Hollies, then member of supergroup Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, made the incredible and possibly unique journey from 60s Manchester to swinging London to sunny California. And along the way he created many of the iconic songs which defined a generation that began with the opening salvos of the British rock revolution and ended with the last embers of Woodstock. In this candid and riveting autobiography Nash tells it all.
From his post-war childhood in London through his undergraduate years at Oxford, Hawking was smart but (according to him) undistinguished. A great lover of jokes and bets, he made an art of doing as little work as possible. All that changed, however, when Hawking received a diagnosis of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, at the age of 21, and began his transformation into the (still fun-loving) explorer and explainer of the universe that we know today. Written with wit, humility, and warmth, ‘My Brief History’ gives us a candid examination of a life well-lived, including insight into his marriages and family life as well as a portrait of his intellectual evolution.
As editor of the Guardian, Alan Rusbridger’s life is dictated by the demands of the 24-hour news cycle. It is not the kind of job that leaves one time for hobbies. But in the summer of 2010, he was able to make his annual escape to ‘piano camp’. Here, he set himself an almost impossible task: to learn, Chopin’s Ballade No.1.
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she was seized by a moment of inspiration and tapped ‘second hand bookshop Scotland’ into Google. She clicked on the first link she saw. A month later, she arrived 2,000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown, on the west coast of Scotland, and knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month.
At once intimate, heartbreaking and laugh-out loud funny, this is a son’s poignant tribute to his complicated mother and a brilliant evocation of mid-century America.
Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine journalism, with the founding of fanzine ‘Sniffin’ Glue’, alongside friend Mark Perry. This is a biography of his life and career in television and radio.
Fairy Tale Interruptedis the story of an unlikely friendship between a blue collar girl from the Bronx and America’s favourite son.
Ahilarious memoir of growing up in 1950s suburbia by one of the UK’s best-loved columnists.
264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
This diary follows the journey of a midlife mum as she makes the transition from highly experienced television producer to completely inexperienced parent. Along the way she slips a disc, suffers from total exhaustion, tries to get back in shape, and when staring soulfully at her new baby, wonders what took her so long.
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