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ON THE ROAD: GROWING UP IN EIGHT JOURNEYS - MY EARLY YEARS is a new form of autobiography, in which TOP GEAR presenter Richard Hammond tells the st...

It was the shot that led to World War I and the death of countless millions: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. This historical account of wh...

More antics from the much-loved TOP GEAR presenter, and the No.1 bestselling author of ON THE EDGE."There is, I discovered, a technique to performi...

Can the past unlock the secrets of the present...? Anthony Price's most celebrated novel - winner of the CWA GOLD DAGGER.Paul Mitchell spends his d...

Thanks to countless films and books, an entire mythology surrounds the French Foreign Legion and the anonymous, desperate men who fought and died u...

The finest TV critic of our time talks about Sport, Sitcoms, News, the Weather, Children's programmes and 'Reality Television'.A.A. Gill has been t...

The first novel from the most infamous call girl in town...Game over? Belle is starting to wonder if she should call time on the call girl busines...

Republished in a form suitable for students and general readers alike.

No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassur...

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life.This startling new book concentrates on the twenty years between 59 and 79AD, ...

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group.'A brilliantly...

First the young schoolboy, gloriously immersed in make-believe in a shabby farmyard; then the budding poet with his thrilling friendships and dream...

A book about golf that will appeal to both players and non players, by Scottish poet and novelist.Surely golf is a game for posh people, country c...

King Charles's Pirate PrinceTo his fellow Royalists, fighting for King Charles I, Prince Rupert of the Rhine was the archetypal 'cavalier'. Young, ...

Elegant and sophisticated biography of Princess Margaret, the controversial sister of Queen Elizabeth II, the Princess Diana of her day'A fascinati...

'An excellent and important work' Literary Review'Anyone concerned about how the bear will respond will find this historically informative account ...

England from the perspective of its consort queens - a distaff history of the nation from 1066 to 1503.England's medieval queens were elemental in ...

R. S. Thomas was a major figure in the landscape of contemporary poetry - attested by his Nobel Prize for Literature nomination. His poetry, colour...

A captivating and haunting memoir by celebrated children's author Lauren St John about her childhood spent in rural Africa.In 1978, during the fina...

The controversial memoir of a top British spy which finally reveals what really went on behind the scenes of the Falklands WarFor five years before...

The bestselling story of Britain's most courageous and most famous flyer, the Second World War hero Sir Douglas Bader.In 1931, at the age of 21, Do...

The Dangerous Book for Men, not boysEvery man has faced that emergency where a car needs to be broken into and hot-wired; just as every man needs t...

A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL...

A sudden curtain of silence fell over the burning city. All that could be heard was the steady crackling of flames...Hitler's penal regiments advan...