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WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2011 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2011 ‘Profound, eloquent and searching’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Essential reading’ INDEPENDENT ‘Masterly’ GUARDIAN ‘Extraordinary’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AN OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF THE CENTURY SO FAR Riveting, audacious and now more urgent than ever in this vast update, The Emperor of All Maladies is...

Who was Nikola Tesla? Find out in this comprehensive volume that includes Tesla’s autobiography and scientific writings, as well as other works that examine his life and career in detail. Nikola Tesla came from a humble upbringing in what is now Croatia and reached the heights of science and technology in the United States at the turn of the twentieth...

The national bestseller, now in a stunning new hardback edition featuring artwork by Cressida Campbell, one of Australia's most successful contemporary artists. A beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that essential quality of internal happiness - the 'light within' - which will sustain us even through the darkest times. WINNER OF THE...

Dive into the tumultuous life of Robert Downey Jr., a Hollywood icon whose journey from stardom to the brink of destruction reveals the complexities of fame and redemption. This comprehensive account chronicles Robert Downey Jr.'s extraordinary life and career, exploring his rise to fame through iconic roles in Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes, alongside his early days in the Brat...

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Does a day without difficult news seem out of reach? Does this world seem topsy-turvy at best, toxic at worst? Max Lucado’s sound biblical insights and signature storytelling provide strength and encouragement amid the current chaos and exhaustion. In Take Courage, today's headlines and the truth of Scripture intersect in compelling fashion. Max offers...

Eat Pray Love meets Want. Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels, and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again after divorce. It's an entertaining, emotional, and geographical journey that bounces around the world from Florida to India, Lapland to Hong Kong. The authors, both leading travel writers, relay...

A fitting tribute to the most popular and provocative professional wrestler of all time. Step into the ring as David Shoemaker wrestles with the legacy of the iconic Hulk Hogan. Why Hulk Hogan Matters traces the explosive heat and heel turns of how Hulk Hogan became a true cultural phenomenon. Whether you’re a lifelong Hulkamanic or fascinated by the Hulk’s...

A groundbreaking shift in how we talk about women, love and relationships’ – Marian Keyes At 38, Louise O’Neill had the life she thought she wanted—until her long-term relationship ended, taking with it the home, future, and sense of certainty she’d built. Heartbroken but defiant, she made a radical decision: to say yes to everything, to take risks, and to...

New York Times Bestseller Natan Notable Book Award Winner Rabbi Sacks Book Prize Finalist 75th National Jewish Book Awards Winner Publisher's Weekly Best Books of 2025, Religion Honorable Mention, Religion News Service 10 Top Religion & Spirituality Books of 2025 An urgent exploration of how antisemitism has shaped Jewish identity and how Jews can reclaim their tradition, by the celebrated...

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year, New York Times "Editors Choice," and Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book" "This is the biography of Clint Eastwood we've been waiting for." — Sir Christopher Frayling, author of Sergio Leone From the acclaimed film critic and New York Times bestselling biographer of Paul Newman, a revelatory portrait of Hollywood legend Clint...

“Not to be missed.” —Stephanie Howes, Booklist (starred review) A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2026 The candid, definitive biography of professional tennis’s first openly transgender player, Renée Richards, featuring never-before-seen archival photos and untold stories nearly lost to history, until now. Fifty years ago, tennis player Renée Richards made international headlines in her fight to compete in...

The long-awaited and revelatory biography of Hannah Arendt — one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century — and the story of an intellectual icon whose character and ideas continue to captivate and challenge us to this day. Born in Germany in 1906 to a Jewish family, Hannah Arendt became a chronicler able to translate personal experience into concise...

It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. WINNER OF THE ABIA AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY 2023 I'm only in my mid-twenties, and some might think that's young to write a memoir. Who does that, right? But for me and my team,...

A beautiful collection of daily quotes from the Brontës. From the wild, windswept moors of Yorkshire emerged three sisters whose writing would change the literary world: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Fearless in their vision, they gave us some of the most passionately feminist and deliciously gothic literature ever written – works that continue to captivate, challenge and inspire. 🕊️...

Revealing the people behind the Rothschild name, The Rothschilds explores the lives and legacy of one of the best-known and most impactful families in modern history. The Rothschild name has long been synonymous with wealth and privilege, but as Jews the family has also been dogged by prejudice and hatred. Antisemitism followed them from their earliest beginnings in the oppressive...

The Times Sporting Legends is a must-read collection for all sports fans. Step into the exhilarating world of legendary athletes with this collection of obituaries from The Times. From the trailblazing athletes of the early 20th century to the celebrated champions of recent decades, this book brings to life the enduring legacies of sports’ brightest stars. Featuring era-defining obituaries and...

Discover the extraordinary life of Thomas Cochrane, the 18th century naval hero and political radical, inspiration for the characters of Jack Aubrey and Horatio Hornblower, whose sensational exploits at sea and on land shaped the course of history. Compelling... compulsively readable - THE TIMES I wish Patrick O'Brian was alive to read this - NIKOLAI TOLSTOY A master historian and...

The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers. 'It would be hard to think of a better biographer for this uniquely contradictory intellectual... piercingly intelligent... Lee's biography... has joie de vivre, high humour and energetic compassion for the multiplying complexities of the human mind' The Observer The groundbreaking biography...

A fascinating glimpse into both Robbie Robertson and Martin Scorsese's lives during an untamed period in American culture. Intense, exciting, delirious - THE TIMES Thrilling, beautiful, honest - TELEGRAPH A wild ride - ROLLING STONE For four decades, Robbie Robertson produced music for Martin Scorsese's films, a relationship that began when Robertson convinced Scorsese to direct The Last Waltz, the...

A son's reckoning with a formidable mother, Russia and the history that shaped them both. On 3 October 2023, beneath the dome of Les Invalides, the French Republic honours Hélène Carrère d'Encausse - renowned historian of Russia, member of the Académie Française, national figure. Among the mourners stands her son, Emmanuel Carrère, wondering who this formidable woman truly was: to...

What an incredible life of triumph and tragedy, faith, and love. — Anderson Cooper, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Vanderbilt A daughter’s tender homage to a consequential woman. — Kirkus Reviews A vivid, intimate biography of American icon Ethel Kennedy by her daughter Kerry Kennedy, told through her firsthand memories and exclusive access to Ethel’s personal papers. When...

OVER FIVE DECADES, JONI TOLD HER OWN STORY ON THE BBC. Throughout her career, Joni Mitchell graced BBC radio and television with magical performances and open, in-depth, at times controversial interviews. This illuminating collection of transcripts, conversations and appearances is a tapestry of Joni's thoughts and inspirations, a memoir told in moments across five decades. Individually captivating, together they offer...

Jimmy Chin's impressive career as a mountain athlete, National Geographic photographer, New York Times bestselling author, and Academy Award-winning film director has taken him all over the world, from summiting and skiing Mount Everest, to expeditions and climbs from the Sahara to the Himalayas—all while capturing these jaw-dropping endeavours, the people he meets along the way, and the adventures in...

The defining and uncompromising memoir from Super Bowl quarterback and renowned Civil Rights activist, Colin Kaepernick. On September 1, 2016, Colin Kaepernick took a knee during the national anthem, but the world has never fully understood the whole story. Not the "why." Not what it cost. Not what it took to become the man who was ready for that moment....

Nigel Farage is the most consequential politician of our age. It is possible that he will become the UK's prime minister after the next general election. But who is he? Farage's life has been one hell of a romp. The man who delivered Brexit makes the political weather like no one else. He talks saloon-bar English to voters, shows courage,...

Roll the Calls is as ferociously powerful as the iconic figure at its centre, Ari Emanuel – the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold, and one of the most legendary powerbrokers of all time – a man who made rage and chaos into the instruments of his success. Expertly written with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and biographer J. R. Moehringer, Roll the...

A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writers. For thirty years, Anne Enright has been paying attention: casting her lucid and distinctive gaze across the world, literature and her own life, and gifting us with her precise insights. Taking us from Ireland to Canada to Honduras, these essays delve into her family history,...

Kyle Sandilands and Jackie 'O' Henderson were the undisputed rulers of the airwaves until it all came crashing down. In this unmissable account, journalist Matthew Denby speaks to insiders, outsiders, hangers-on, and media powerbrokers as he rips open the seams of a pair long considered the most stitched together in radio. This is the story of a self-confessed Queensland bogan...

From an acclaimed music critic and author, an in-depth analysis of the rise and fall of rock n' roll through the lens of one of the best albums of the 21st century—The Strokes' Is This It. In 2001, The Strokes broke into the indie alt-rock scene with their debut album Is This It, a work that was supposed to "save"...

Incredibly evocative and compelling. - The Washington Post The most moving and chilling oral history you will read. - The Times Astonishing. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish. - Piers Morgan Updated 25th Anniversary edition with additional content The Only Plane in the Sky is the first comprehensive oral history of 9/11,...

In 1914, Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance. The object of the expedition was to cross the Antarctic overland. In October 1915, still half a continent away from their intended base, the ship was trapped, then crushed in ice. This is the story of...

An instant Sunday Times bestseller A smart, funny, anarchic and gripping memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents' bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk,...

He's a four-time Mr. Universe, seven-time Mr. Olympia. His films have grossed more than four billion dollars worldwide. He won the California governor's race by a landslide. He has one of the most recognisable faces in the world, an oft-imitated accent, and a physique still heralded as the most perfect ever built. He's Arnold, the one and only, with first-name...

Formed in 1991 in the heart of Suffolk, England, an ancient county steeped in witchcraft and dark folklore, CRADLE OF FILTH have spent more than three decades forging their reputation as one of the world's most successful and uncompromising metal bands. Blending the cold, anti-authoritarian fury of black metal with the raw energy of classic thrash, their music is matched...

From Arnold Schwarzenegger, the number one bestselling author of Be Useful, comes a master class in living in a dynamic state of continual improvement, perfect for fans of Diary of a CEO From the global icon and number one New York Times bestselling author of Be Useful, a candid and practical set of lessons for building a flywheel for endless...

'A warm, rich, generous book. A pleasure from first page to last.' KATHERINE RUNDELL'A moving, vulnerable portrait of love, nature and a life well-lived' RORY STEWART'Touching and extraordinary, this true story seems like a fairy tale' JOANNA LUMLEYThe long-awaited memoir of life and love on a Devon farm - Michael Morpurgo's most personal and moving book to dateFifty years ago,...

Backyard adventurer Beau Miles takes on four of Australia’s most human-impacted rivers to ask the uncomfortable question: why do we destroy the very thing that keeps us alive? When filmmaker Beau Miles was thirty-six years old, he had a mid-life adventure crisis. Instead of buying a sports car or having an affair, he decided to kayak the length of his...

This is the incredible untold story of four women who helped win World War II by generating a wave of black propaganda. Betty MacDonald was a 28-year-old reporter from Hawaii. Zuzka Lauwers grew up in a tiny Czechoslovakian village and knew five languages by the time she was 21. Jane Smith-Hutton was the wife of a naval attaché living in...

Six true stories of survival against the odds, to inspire and thrill young readers. Lost in the wilderness, desperate to survive, running out of time...A thrilling illustrated collection of true survival stories from all around the world. A young girl survives a plane crash only to find herself lost in the middle of a jungle. A sailor adrift at sea...

Song Jiaoren (1882-1913) was early-twentieth-century China's greatest champion of constitutional democracy. Fleeing the police after a failed plot in 1904, the young revolutionary found refuge in Japan, where his eyes were opened to new political possibilities. Along with Sun Yatsen, he was one of the founders of the Nationalist Party, turning an underground organisation into a nationwide force. After the...

Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023 ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.' THIS EDITION CONTAINS A NEW FOREWORD BY KYLIE MOORE-GILBERT The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018, British-Australian...

From the international supermodel, mother of successful businessman Elon Musk and bestselling author Maye Musk comes an empowering, intimate and inspiring exploration of reinvention that proves it’s never too late to embrace change, rewrite your story – and create a truly fabulous life. In her late seventies, Maye Musk is thriving like never before: walking runways, gracing magazine covers and...

A moving personal narrative from the late Grey’s Anatomy and Euphoria star Eric Dane, on the most impactful days of his life. In 2006, Eric Dane guest starred on Grey’s Anatomy as Dr. Mark ‘McSteamy’ Sloan, a moment that would change his life. What was intended to be a one-time guest appearance, landed him a recurring role on the Emmy...