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* Heroic attempt by US President Teddy Roosevelt to chart one of the largest and most dangerous tributaries of the Amazon - The River of Doubt.

(Paperback)

The new book by New Yorker journalist and author of Female Chauvinist Pigs, Ariel Levy.

"The Salt-Box House," first published in 1900, relates the story of the Shelton family--19th-century industrialists from Connecticut--and portrays an historically accurate account of life during and after New England's colonial period.

(, Main)

Whether playing to 10,000 fans in Ibiza or in a local pub function room, this is a cautionary tale for the rave generation whose days of pills, thrills, and bellyaches are behind them.

(Hardback, Main)

The extraordinary secret life of a great novelist, which his biographer could not publish while le Carr was alive

Alexander Norman offers an unrivalled insight into the phenomenon that is the Dalai Lama

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Investigative journalism at its best, telling the full story of the biggest leak in history and the forces that tried to stop them.

The first biography of an American master.

(Hardback)

First published as a signed Collector's Edition and sold out within a week, this is an unparalleled account of the life and times of Stan Lee, written and edited with the Godfather of comics himself. His tale is told by Roy Thomas, who brings "you are there" insights to Lee's journey alongside never-before-seen photographs, original comic...

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Bringing great writing back into print - a Faber Finds book.

Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest writers of 20th Century American fiction, had a life as darkly compelling as that of her favourite "hero-criminal," the talented Tom Ripley. The author maps out this richly bizarre life from her birth in Texas to Hitchcock's filming of her first novel, "Strangers On a Train", to her self-exile in Europe.

A critically acclaimed biography of a cultural titan who embodied an age.

(Paperback)

John Pearson's classic book about Donald Campbell is an extraordinarily compelling and moving portrait of a modern tragic hero, fighting a battle with inhospitable elements and the outer limits of technology - and, above all, with himself.

Explore the life and mind of Timothy Leary through his kaleidoscopic archive

(Paperback)

The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition.

(, New edition)

This text chronicles the story of Sir Roy Calne, the foremost pioneer of liver transplantation in Britain and the first to use drugs to control the body's natural process of rejection. Calne also discusses the moral dilemmas and ethical questions which the advancement of science makes more complex.

A rare, insider's look at the life of Donald Trump from Bill O'Reilly, the bestselling author of the Killing series, based on exclusive interview material and deep research.

(Hardback, Main)

A definitive and entertaining fan's-eye view of Liverpool Football Club by the man who has been the Anfield stadium announcer for 50 years.

Obstruction of justice, lies from the White House, sexism at work, shocking revelations: Jill Wine-Banks takes us inside her trial by fire as a Watergate prosecutor.

Originally published: Hollenstedt, Germany: Ankerherz Verlag GmbH, 2015.

Part portrait of Britain's greatest man of letters, part guide to life, a witty and erudite re-evaluation of Dr Johnson's enduring importance and relevance.

(Hardback)

Village rectories, the traditional family homes of church ministers, have had a long association with writers in Britain. In this book, each chapter explores the life of a writer during the time they lived at a particular rectory/ parsonage or vicarage and the effect it had on them.