Weidenfeld Nicolson imprint: 429 books
by Michael Palin
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
Michael Palin's terrific account of his journey through 18 countries bordering the Pacific Ocean, published by Phoenix for the first time.
For almost a year, Michael Palin travelled through 18 countries on the perimeter of the world's largest ocean, in a spectacular journey of contrasts, drama...
Victorian London
The Life of a City 1840-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
From rag-gatherers to royalty, from fish knives to Freemasons: everyday life in Victorian London.
Like its acclaimed companion volumes, Elizabeth's London, Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London, this book is the product of the author's passionate interest in the realities of everyday life...
by Liza Picard
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
'A Baedeker of the past, absorbing and revealing in equal measure' Peter Ackroyd
'Brings the age's tortuous splendours and profound murkiness vividly to life' Observer
When Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary in 1755, London was the biggest city in Europe. The opulence of the rich and...
Wellington
A Journey Through My Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
A highly personal, anecdotal family memoir of the Wellington legacy.
Jane Wellesley is a member of one of Britain's most illustrious families. Her father, the 8th Duke of Wellington, was born in 1915, a hundred years after the first Duke's momentous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo, but only...
Lady Bette and the Murder of Mr Thynn
A Scandalous Story of Marriage and Betrayal in Restoration England
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The true story of a sensational marriage and murder in 17th-century London. For fans of WEDLOCK, THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER and GEORGIANA: DUCHESS OF DEVONSHIRE.
Lady Bette, the 14-year-old heiress to the vast Northumberland estates, becomes the victim of a plot by her grandmother, the Countess...
by Gregoire Delacourt
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in front of you. This is what happens to Arthur Dreyfuss in the village of Long, population...
Arthur Hugh Clough
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Poems of religious doubt and closely-observed uncertainties, expressing the wants and feelings of man and women everywhere.
That's Another Story
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2009
The number-one Sunday Times bestseller
Her mum wanted her to be a nurse so that is what Julie did.
But in her heart she had always wanted to be an actress and soon she was on stage at the local theatre in Liverpool. Her career snowballed with highlights that include Educating Rita, Billy...
Welcome to Hell?
In Search of the Real Turkish Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
Ask a British football fan what they know about Turkish football, and they are unlikely to describe scenes of camaraderie, hospitality and humour. They are more likely to mention banners proclaiming 'Welcome to hell'. Or Leeds United supporters stabbed to death on an Istanbul street.
Frustrated...
Your Call
What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'Full of glorious examples of caller wisdom [with] laugh-out-loud anecdotes' Allison Pearson
Having taken over 25,000 listener calls on his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show, Jeremy Vine decided it was time to take stock of the wisdom his listeners have imparted over the airwaves. And it is clearer...
Going on the Turn
Being the Extraordinary Stories of My Life and Dodging Deaths Door
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In this book my father dies. I almost die.*** My showbiz career winds down. And yet everyone keeps telling me it's the funniest book I've ever written. If I'd known that's what the public wanted, I'd have cancelled Pets Win Prizes and just got sick sooner.
Along the way this time we encounter,...
A Spectacle of Dust
The Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2011
Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.
After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After...
Some Fantastic Place
My Life In and Out of Squeeze
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Longlisted for the Penderyn Music Book Prize
Over the course of a thirteen-album and multi-award-winning career with Squeeze, it was clear from the very beginning that Chris Difford has few peers when it comes to smart, pithy lyricism. In Some Fantastic Place, he charts his life from his childhood...
Emily Dickinson
Everyman's Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The best of Emily Dickinson's poems
Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of a lawyer and politician. Despite receiving a good education she returned home to Amherst, where she spent the rest of her life, writing more than a poem a day until her death. Her...