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A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants from poachers; finding homes for orphan elephants, all the while campaigning against the possibility that the ivory trade might be re-opened. ‘An African Love Story’ is Daphne’s memoir of her life.
If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people’s names at parties, to struggling with new technology.
Part memoir, part rant, ‘How To Be A Woman’ follows Caitlin Moran from her terrible 13th birthday, through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and beyond.
This is the story of Alex James’s transition from a leading light of the Britpop movement in the 1990s, to gentleman farmer, artisan cheese-maker and father of five.
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What British parent hasn’t noticed, on visiting France, how well-behaved French children are compared to our own? Pamela Druckerman, who lives in Paris with three young children, has had years of observing her French friends and neighbours, and with wit and style, is ideally placed to teach us the basics of French parenting.
‘The Last Holiday’ tells the story of Stevie Wonder’s 41-city tour of North America. The purpose of the tour was to lobby for Dr King’s birthday to be officially made into a national holiday.
This book is the story of a life’s work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother.
Christopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public intellectual, wit and controversialist. He provides vivid accounts of his friendships and famous feuds, as well as his attacks on Mother Teresa and the Almighty Himself.
Bringing the destruction of a war-torn Europe to life, ‘The World of Yesterday’ is Austrian writer Stefan Zweig’s final work, posted to his publisher the day before his tragic death.
A classic of travel writing, A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush is Eric Newby’s iconic account of his journey through one of the most remote and beautiful wildernesses on earth.
A spectacularly revealing and harrowing portrait of ordinary lives in the world’s least ordinary country, North Korea. Newly updated in 2013
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