True stories: general

Trauma Bonds

A fascinating journalistic exploration into the impact of intergenerational trauma on the descendants of both survivors and perpetrators

A Truce That Is Not Peace

THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

‘The best memoir you will read all year’ NICK HORNBY

‘A triumph – a meditation on writing, suicide, guilt and silence’GUARDIAN

‘A grief memoir in the vein of Joan Didion’s Blue Nights’ NEW YORK TIMES

‘Darkly moving and heart-wrenchingly funny’ MARIE CLAIRE

‘This is memoir perfection … I adored it’ CARIAD LLOYD

Three Weeks in July: 7/7, the aftermath and the deadly manhunt

‘A superb book’ – Observer

‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic

‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman

Three Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event.

I, Vera: The dangerous life of a radical princess

Princess Vera Giedroytz was a towering, sweet-faced lesbian Princess who habitually wore a man’s suit, played billiards with brilliance, and regularly performed true medical miracles of surgery, while on occasion forcibly ejecting an inquisitive Rasputin from her operating theatre by throwing him down the stairs.

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

This is the simplest tale in the world. Two people meet and fall in love. But the route which brought Larissa Salmina and Francis Haskell to a backstreet Venetian restaurant in 1962 was anything but straightforward.

The Lost Voices of Pompeii

Relive the last day in Pompeii in this immersive story, based on the city’s real residents

Songs of the Doomed

The third volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary ‘Gonzo Papers’.

Better Than Sex

The fourth volume of Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary ‘Gonzo Papers’.

Lifeboat at the End of the World

‘Do you really think all lives are worth saving?’

On the empty shingle beach of Dungeness, the volunteer crew of the lifeboat await her next launch. It might come in another week. Or it might even happen in the next few seconds…

Her Name Is Alice: My Daughter, Her Transition and Why We Must Remember Her

‘Thoughtful, beautiful, incredibly necessary. People need to read this book, especially if they feel a resistance to. I wish everyone would.’ Sofie Hagen

‘Uncompromising, anguished, combative: culture wars have victims, and this is an agonising story told with honesty and passion.’ Richard Beard

‘An intimate, beautifully told memoir’ Elinor Cleghorn

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