
Biography and Autobiography
The Diana Chronicles
Reader: Jilly Bond
Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she ‘the people’s princess’, who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative,...
£26.50
Toute Allure
After saying goodbye to life as a successful fashion editor in London, Karen Wheeler is now happy in her small village house in rural France. Her idyll is complete when she meets the love of her...
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Steve Redgrave In His Own Words
A fascinating chance to hear Steve Redgrave talk about his life and career, in a selection of interviews taken from the BBC radio and TV archive. Sir Steve Redgrave is a former British rower who...
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The Stranger in the Mirror
Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn’t seen it coming, and she certainly wasn’t ready for it. She lives in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a...
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Mandela's Way
'Mandela's Way' presents 12 powerful lessons on life and leadership based on the life and work of Nelson Mandela, whose fight against apartheid in South Africa has become an enduring example of...
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The Grasmere Journals
This is perhaps one of the best-loved of all journals. William Wordsworth’s sister, Dorothy, began it in May 1800 and resolved to keep it for a short time. She continued it for nearly three...
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Roman's Journey
Reader: Bill Wallis
Roman Halter is a schoolboy in 1939, when he and his family watch the ‘Volksdeutsch’ neighbours in their small town in Western Poland greet the arrival of Hitler’s armies with kisses and...
£22.50
Wasted
With honesty, 'Wasted' documents Mark Johnson's descent into the depths of drug addiction and criminality, and how he somehow pulled himself through, and now runs his own thriving tree surgery...
£18.99
My Father's Fortune: A Life
‘An unknown place.’ This was what Michael Frayn’s children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land...
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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Reader: Bill Bryson
Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age...
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A Fine Day for a Hanging
Reader: Maggie Ollerenshaw
In 1955, former nightclub manageress Ruth Ellis shot dead her lover, David Blakely. Following a trial that lasted less than two days, she was found guilty and sentenced to death. She became the...
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Badgers in My Vest
Reader: Full Cast
Celebrating the genius of Dylan Thomas, these two productions shine very different lights on the renowned author. ‘Badgers in my Vest’ is a darkly funny play by John Fletcher, based on a true...
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Spike: An Intimate Memoir
In these memoirs of 35 years as agent and close friend, Norma Farnes portrays Spike Milligan in all his guises. 'Spike' reveals his extraordinary sense of humour, his battle with a restless mind...
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Tis
'Angela’s Ashes' was a publishing phenomenon. Frank McCourt’s critically–acclaimed, lyrical memoir of his Irish–American childhood won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics’...
£24.50
Rugby Rivals
In his 15-year career in Welsh rugby, Martyn Williams has captained his country on many occasions and was a key player in two Welsh Grand Slam-winning campaigns. In this book, he picks his...
£9.95
Life and Laughing
Michael McIntyre is Britain’s biggest comedy star. His stand-up DVD, ‘Live and Laughing’, was the fastest selling of all time, only to be eclipsed by his second, ‘Hello Wembley!’, which...
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Vet in a Spin
Reader: Christopher Timothy
Strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, James Herriot has swapped his wellingtons and breeches for sheepskin boots and a baggy flying suit ... But the vet-turned-airman is the sort of...
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Wainwright: The Biography
Reader: Stephen Thorne
Alfred Wainwright's unique hand-drawn and hand-written Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells have been an inspiration to walkers for over 40 years. Yet despite many bestselling books and three...
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Stephen Fry In His Own Words
Reader: Stephen Fry
In a fascinating collection of archive interviews with the celebrated writer, presenter and polymath, you can hear - in his own words - the beliefs and aspirations that have shaped him. The...
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War Stories
Having joined the BBC in 1984, Jeremy Bowen became a foreign correspondent four years later. He had witnessed violence already, both at home & abroad, but it wasn't until he covered his first war...
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Memoirs of an Unfit Mother
In this brave and shocking autobiography, the notorious grand inquisitor of ‘The Weakest Link' faces the demons that nearly destroyed her lifeAnnie rushed at life full tilt, but her early...
£23.50
Effie: The Passionate Lives of Effie Gray, John Ruskin and
Reader: Sophie Ward
Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her...
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Touch the Top of the World
Erik Weihenmayer was born with a degenerative eye disorder, and lost his sight by the age of thirteen. Yet he was determined to rise above this devastating disability and lead a fulfilling,...
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Arguably
Reader: Simon Prebble
For over 40 years, Christopher Hitchens wrote, with passionate commitment, on matters that others feared to broach. This volume of essays spans his whole career and encompasses his writing on...
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Road to the Dales
Gervase tells of a life full of happiness, conversation, music and books shared with his three siblings, mother and father. This title is a snapshot of growing up in Yorkshire in the 1950s, of...
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