Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Biographies & Memoirs

McKenna, Neil

Historical

Faber & Faber Non-Fiction

The dramatic and controversial history of the world's leading tournament. Brian glanville's classic account is a celebration of the great players and matches from uruguay in 1930 to south africa in 2010 - and a bold attack on all those who have mismanaged the 'beautiful game'.

The Story of the World Cup by Glanville, Brian (2014) Paperback

Glanville, Brian

Sports & Outdoors

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

Part investigation, part travelogue, part elegy. A writer`s search for her mother`s story.

emma-brockes

Community & Culture

Brockes, Emma

Helen Castor tells afresh the gripping story of the peasant girl from Domremy who hears voices from God, leads the French army to victory, is burned at the stake for heresy, and eventually becomes a saint. But unlike the traditional narrative, a story already shaped by the knowledge of what Joan would become and told in hindsight, Castor's Joan of Arc: A History takes us back to fifteenth century France and tells the story forwards. Instead of an icon, she gives us a living, breathing woman confronting the challenges of faith and doubt, a roaring girl who, in fighting the English, was also taking sides in a bloody civil war. We meet this extraordinary girl amid the tumultuous events of her extraordinary world where no one-not Joan herself, nor the people around her-princes, bishops, soldiers, or peasants-knew what would happen next.

Joan of ARC: A History

The Blue Touch Paper

<p>Born in 1947, David Hare is one of Britains foremost playwrights and screenwriters. With warmth, humour, and characteristically dazzling prose, this memoir vividly evokes his Anglo-Catholic upbringing in a suburban Hastings as vanished as Victorian England, against the backdrop of a time in which faith in empire, Christianity, hierarchy and deference were being swept away. It also charts his early struggles to become a writer - and the high price he and those around him paid for that decision.</p>

The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir

HARE, David

Shadows on the Road

MICHAEL BARRY

Individual Sports

<p>Neil loves Sue. He also loves Doctor Who . But can he bring his two great loves together? And does he have the right? In January 2011, Neil Perryman set out on an insane quest to make his wife Sue watch every episode of the classic series of Doctor Who from the very beginning. Even the ones that didn't exist any more. And so, over the next two and half years, Sue gamely watched them all: William Hartnell (the Miserable Git); Patrick Troughton (the Scruffy Drunk); Jon Pertwee (the Pompous Tory); Tom Baker (the Mad One); Peter Davison (the Fit One); Colin Baker (the Court Jester); Sylvester McCoy (the Crafty Sod) and Paul McGann (the One-Night Stand). The result was a wildly successful and hilariously revealing blog called Adventures with the Wife in Space . But the adventure continues. From awkward years at school, terrified of giant insects, Daleks and rugby players, to even more awkward years as an adult, terrified of unexpected parenthood and being called a Whovian, here Neil tells the all too true story of life as a Doctor Who fan. Funny, honest and surprisingly brave, he also captures perfectly the joys - and fears - of sharing the thing you love with the people you love. Adventures With the Wife in Space is, at its heart, the story of Doctor Who , and its fans, seen through the eyes of two people - one who knows almost nothing about the programme and another who knows way too much.</p>

Adventures With the Wife in Space

Humor & Entertainment

Perryman, Neil

Humor

The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting and How to Make a Star

Parenting & Relationships

Tom Clynes

Parenting

Through it All I've Always Laughed: Memoirs of Count Arthur Strong

Strong, Count Arthur

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