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Phiz

The Man Who Drew Dickens

by Valerie Lester
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2011

'Phiz' - Hablot Knight Browne - was the great illustrator of Dickens' fiction. For over twenty-three years they worked together, and Phiz's drawings brought to life a galaxy of much-loved characters, from Mr Pickwick, Nicholas Nickleby and Mr Micawber, to Little Nell and David Copperfield. But, from...

A Good African Story

How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand

by Andrew Rugasira
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013

Since it was founded in 2003, Good African Coffee has helped thousands of farmers earn a decent living, send their children to school and escape a spiral of debt and dependence. Africa has received over $1 trillion in aid over the last fifty years and yet despite these huge inflows, the continent...

Chocolate

A Novel of the Malazan Empire

by Molly Bakes
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014

Chocolate is a magical ingredient. Everyone loves eating it. And if you can cook with it, your baking will rise to a whole new level. But – here’s an untold secret – cooking with chocolate can be incredibly easy. Here Molly Bakes shares with us 50 of her favourite recipes for chocolate...

Zeppelin Nights

London in the First World War

by Jerry White
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times 2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their...

Running Free

A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature

by Richard Askwith
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014

Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright prize for nature writing Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up extreme challenges, he looked for ways to liberate himself. His solution: running through muddy fields...

Night Games

A Journey to the Dark Side of Sport

by Anna Krien
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014

*Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* What does a sportsman do to cut loose? At night, some play what they think of as pranks, or games. Night games with women. In the closely-knit world of top-level sport, what happens when the bonds that join teammates on the pitch...

Divine Magnetic Lands

A Journey in America

by Timothy O'Grady
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010

In 1973, aged twenty-two, Timothy O'Grady left America. For the next thirty years he lived in and wrote about Europe. As he did, the American counter-culture crashed, Ronald Reagan came and went, wars were declared and the country was attacked by air. Much of the world began to look at America in...
by Gordon Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017

Former Prime Minister and the country’s longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignant and deeply relevant story. In describing his upbringing in Scotland as the son of a minister, the near loss...

The Bottom Corner

A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football

by Nige Tassell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

‘Not since The Football Man has a book so captured the passion of the game**.** The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid**. A** fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age’...
by John Pilger
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2010

In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works. From the invisible corners of Tony Blair's Britain to Burma, Vietnam, Australia, South Africa and...
by Jeremy Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

Few newspaper editors are remembered beyond their lifetimes, but David Astor is a great exception to the rule. Growing up surrounded by astonishing wealth (the family home was so large it included a miniature railway to transport meals to the dining room) Astor’s early life was far from idyllic....

Mansions of Misery

A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison

by Jerry White
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016

For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital’s most notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors’ Prison. In Mansions of Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the...
by Edward Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

Charles Greville (1794-1865) made his first occasional diary entries in 1814, but the diary only became a regular habit in the mid-1820s, continuing with occasional breaks, about which he is self-reproachful, through the reigns of George IV, William IV and Victoria. Finally, in 1860, after shaking...
by Nick Clegg
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017

*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* Keep calm – but do not carry on. There is nothing remotely inevitable about Brexit – except that it will be deeply damaging if it happens. Extricating Britain from Europe will be the greatest challenge this country has faced since the Second World War. And as negotiations...
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