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Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style Boris Johnson s Unleashed is an honest unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times Underlying everything in the book is Johnson s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future From trouncing Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral race in 2008 to becoming prime minister he takes readers through all the big decisions during his time in power and the reasons he took them The challenges and crises how they were resolved or not and how he nearly died from Covid Riots knife crime bikes buses the London Olympics and so much more He writes about his role in Brexit and the constitutional sea change that took place in British politics in 2019 with his landslide election victory and the massive expansion in the groups that think of themselves as Conservative This is the reality as he saw it unvarnished uncensored unleashed

A funny practical and crucial guide for women facing the life changing prospect of returning to work after having children Told by journalist creative consultant and mother of two Dolly Jones The Ladder Down aims to be the definitive companion for parents navigating this complicated juggle and for those thinking of doing so When Dolly had her children the idea of returning to work felt daunting The thought of having to combine the challenges of career and family was unfamiliar yet despite it being the experience of so many millions of women she struggled to find material to help galvanise and reassure her and to make her feel that anything was possible In this book Dolly aims to change all of that and provide women with practical advice as well interweaving her own personal experiences Told in an empowering and engaging way The Ladder Down is a gift for the next generation of women taking on the trials absurdities challenges and general amusement involved in combining work and motherhood one that will inspire and celebrate the women taking it on Dolly will also combine anecdotal stories life hacks and guilt avoidance strategies from a diverse range of women in a wide variety of industries from fashion designers to taxi drivers journalists to acto

An incredible read I laughed I cried and my heart was truly touched by this beautifully written true story of hope and humanity at its best Rosemary Conley CBE An extraordinary story Truly Inspirational Tim Vine An astonishing story of kindness self learning pain unbelievable hope and the sheer power of love to change a life Christmas 1975 and Queen s Bohemian Rhapsody is riding high in the charts In a residential street just outside Cardiff a persistent knocking breaks the stillness of the evening When Rob Parsons a young lawyer opens his door he finds a man standing before him clutching a bag of belongings and a frozen chicken Rob and his wife Dianne invite him into their home cook his chicken and offer him shelter for the night What happens next is an astonishing story of human kindness self learning incredible pain unbelievable hope and the sheer power of love to change a life A Knock at the Door is the true story of Ronnie Lockwood a homeless man who entered the home of a young couple became a dustman and lived as part of their family for over 45 years until his death But this is not just Ronnie s story it is also that of Rob and his family Outwardly the two men s lives were worlds apart as Ronnie emptied rubbish bins Rob flew

THE TELEGRAPH S BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 A glorious work of history a gripping and haunting tragedy There was no book published this year novels included that I found richer in character no plot more taut Tom Holland The Spectator A dazzling tour de force of epic royal history a compulsive unputdownable real life thriller a gripping portrait of ruthless power politics and a study of British tyranny written with the delicacy and elegance of one of Britain s most brilliant historians at the top of her game Simon Sebag Montefiore If ever a book of history was blessed with contemporary relevance this one is The dumbfounding delusional narcissistic King Richard the white knuckle ride of Henry IV dogged all the way by notions of illegitimacy I feel these men could have been ripped from today s headlines The book s great achievement is in the storytelling the unfolding drama the secrets of power and ambition so beautifully controlled in the telling The Eagle and the Hart will be a non fiction book of the year and will deserve the ovations it is certain to receive When history is this gripping there s nothing like it Andrew O HaganThe author of She Wolves chronicles the lives and reigns of Richard II and Henry IV two cousins whose r

A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR Exquisite a beautiful book one of the finest meditations on animal companionship that I have ever read Kathryn Hughes Guardian An instant New York Times bestseller this is an unforgettable story about love loss and redemption from a highly acclaimed writerCaleb Carr lived with cats ever since he was a young boy He grew up in a turbulent household where famous Beat poets artists and addicts came and went and his steadiest companions were pets Since then he had many feline companions with relationships that have outlasted most of his human ones But only after building a three story home in rural upstate New York did he encounter someone extraordinary Masha a Siberian Forest cat who had been abandoned as a kitten and was languishing in a shelter She had hissed and fought off all previous carers and potential adopters but somehow she chose him For the seventeen years that followed Caleb and Masha were inseparable Masha ruled the house and the dangerous wilderness surrounding it When she was hurt only Caleb could help her When he suffered long standing physical ailments Masha knew what to do Caleb learned to decode much of Masha s inner life but their bond went far beyond owner and pet Inspiring heart breakin

From one of our leading experts on disinformation the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer and what we can learn from him today BY THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE Lively and elegant THE TIMES History at its most urgent BEN JUDAH An essential read MAIL ON SUNDAYSummer 1941 Hitler and his allies rule Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea But inside Germany there is a notable voice of dissent Der Chef whose radio broadcasts skilfully question Nazi doctrine What listeners don t know is that Der Chef is a fiction a character created by the British propagandist Sefton Delmer As Peter Pomerantsev uncovers Delmer s fascinating lost story he is called into a wartime propaganda effort of his own the global response to Putin s invasion of Ukraine

Combining cultural history and honest memoir Dead Weight is a powerful exploration of disordered eating in the internet era

The new bestseller from Damien Lewis the Regiment s de facto historian

This is urgent compelling but also delightful writing Lauren ElkinIn the depths of winter Xiaolu Guo moves into a tiny dilapidated flat on the Hastings seafront a room of her own where she can spend time writing liberated from her domestic responsibilities in London She immerses herself in the English landscape and its past and becomes preoccupied by the violence between Normans and Saxons Filled with profound beautiful and wry reflections on war history migration and belonging My Battle of Hastings is a chronicle of Xiaolu s life in Hastings and a portrait of a dislocated artist seeking to connect with her local environment in the hope of finding a deeper connection to her adoptive nation Magnificent brutal and poetic Iain Sinclair There is nobody quite like Xiaolu Guo With My Battle of Hastings Guo shows us the effort that it takes to truly put down roots in a culture so different from the one she was born into The Times

WINNER OF THE WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2020 A moving story of love tradition and landscape Evening Standard Books of the Year A moving multilayered memoir extraordinary ambitious its scope is immense A book that is deep in riches Simon Callow Guardian A marvellous book an uplifting tale of tranquillity sought and found in the nearest Britain gets to paradise Simon Jenkins There are worlds on worlds within this lyrical and profoundly cultured book In an age of toxic artifice this is the most necessary medicine the tenderness of reality and the living elemental world Jay Griffiths A multi layered memoir of love acceptance finding home and the redemptive power of nature In 2006 Mike Parker and his partner Peredur were witnesses at the civil partnership of their friends Reg and George the first in the small Welsh town of Machynlleth Years later when Reg and George died within a few weeks of each other Mike and Peredur discovered that they had been left their home a whitewashed house from the children s stories buried deep within the hills On the Red Hill is the story of Rhiw Goch the Red Hill and its inhabitan

Buy this book DOUGLAS MURRAY An urgent call for reformation DAVID GOODHARTTHE EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NATIONAL POPULISM AND VALUES VOICE AND VIRTUE Depressed tutors and disillusioned students Funding crises and falling standards Culture wars and campus protests Welcome to the broken world of academia Welcome to Bad Education Our universities are broken Established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning they are now decaying institutions that are failing a generation of young people Consumed by funding and admissions crises mired in political scandal and governed by self interest their founding principles have been corrupted This explosive book shows us why and what we must do to fix them Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world s leading universities delivering underfunded courses to increasingly disengaged lecture theatres sitting on rudderless committees counselling depressed colleagues and concerned students watching standards slip and academic integrity decline At the heart of this crisis is an increasingly politicised campus Once bastions of free speech forums for open debate and incubators of bold new ideas our universities are increasingly

A feast for mind and soul a treasure trove of insights into the enigmatic and enchanting world of the birds we share our lives with but barely notice I have learnt so much Every page is a thrill Bird School has opened my eyes Isabella Tree author of Wilding Step into the hide for a glorious new encounter with the British wild Close to Adam Nicolson s home in Sussex there is a forgotten field overrun by bracken and thicketed by brambles It is the haunt of deer and many birds nightingales the occasional cuckoo ravens robins owls and in summer the sweet singing warblers that come north from Africa to breed in English woods This gorgeous book charts his attempt to encounter birds to engage with a marvellous layer of life he had previously almost ignored He wanted to look and listen to return to bird school and see what it might teach him He built a small shed amongst the trees with nesting boxes and bird feeders Cocooned inside season after season he got to know the birds where they nest how they sing how they mate and fight what preys on them what they are like as living things Beautifully written and woven through with philosophy literature science and a sense of wonder always conscious that that this is an age in which the natural world

Bex and Laura really have pieced together the parachute we all need to help us land safely after falling into the world of loss and fertility struggles Elle Wright author of A Bump In The RoadA practical and emotional self help guide for anyone affected by miscarriage and pregnancy loss from the co hosts of the successful podcast The Worst Girl Gang Ever Following pregnancy loss it can feel like you ve forgotten how to speak and need to learn a new language You can tell your story to a room full of people but if no one speaks this new language they won t understand They will try but ultimately they won t fully grasp what you are saying This is us This is our new language It is a language built from pain and it is a language we need to teach others Welcome to our gang We are so so sorry that you ve found yourself here It s the gang you d never chose to join but it is also a community chock a block full of kind supportive warrior women just like you We are here to tell you that you are entitled to grieve and that your grief is not disproportionate to your loss We are here to open up the dialogue around miscarriage so we don t perpetuate the shame judgement and isolation so many of us feel following pregnancy loss We are here to equip you with knowl

An important new voice DAVID YIP actor A vital resource PEYVAND SADEGHIAN actor and writer Important and poignant A brilliant read HELEN TSE MBE author of Sweet Mandarin

The new fostering memoir from the Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson

A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy Anyone interested in philosophy should read it Nigel Warburton Times Literary Supplement One of today s most readable intellectually nimble and scientifically literate philosophers Nature Who would have guessed that a philosopher s life could be so full of adventures Daniel C Dennett philosopher and cognitive scientist has spent his career considering consciousness I ve Been Thinking traces the development of Dennett s own intellect and instructs us how we too can become good thinkers Dennett s restless curiosity leads him from his childhood in Beirut to Harvard and from Parisian jazz clubs to tillosophy on his tractor in Maine Along the way he encounters and debates with a host of legendary thinkers and reveals the breakthroughs and misjudgments that shaped his paradigm shifting philosophies Thinking Dennett argues is hard and risky In fact all good philosophical thinking is inevitably accompanied by bafflement frustration and self doubt It is only in getting it wrong that we very occasionally find a way to get it right This memoir by one of the greatest philosophers of our time will speak to anyone who seeks a life of the mind with adventure and creativi

Moving funny remarkable Richard Eyre From Hanif Kureishi author of The Buddha of Suburbia a memoir about the accident that left him paralysed A few days ago a bomb went off in my life but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me My partner my children my friends On Boxing Day 2022 in Rome Hanif Kureishi had a fall When he came to in a pool of blood he was horrified to realise he had lost the use of his limbs He could no longer walk write or wash himself He could do nothing without the help of others and required constant care in a hospital So began an odyssey of a year through the medical systems of Rome and Italy with the hope of somehow being able to return home to his house in London While confined to a series of hospital wards he felt compelled to write but being unable to type or to hold a pen he began to dictate to family members the words which formed in his head The result was an extraordinary series of dispatches from his hospital bed a diary of a life in pieces recorded with rare honesty clarity and courage As Hanif wrote early on A few days ago a bomb went off in my life but this bomb has also shattered the lives of those around me My partner my children my friends This book takes these hospital d

The hilarious and headline stealing memoir from Kari Ferrell AKA the Hipster Grifter perfect for fans of Inventing Anna Tinder Swindler and Cat Marnell s How to Murder Your Life

Inconceivable combines memoir and investigative reporting to reveal an underground community of sperm donors and recipients who have chosen to circumvent traditional fertility avenues and meet up on their own terms As an active participant in this community Valerie Bauman uses her own story as a lens into this movement of people attempting to dodge the costly and often discriminatory world of sperm banks and fertility clinics Inconceivable is a window into the unfair legal financial and medical entanglements that compel many single women and LGBTQ couples to take their fertility into their own hands

From the podcast legends who brought you The Rest is History comes The Rest is History Returns This time Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook bring you an alphabetical miscellany taking on some of history s best and most bizarre moments Charge forth against the traitors of the American Revolution journey through Baghdad to discover the origins of the Arabian Nights and head to Sicily to witness the first face off between Carthage and Rome Along the way you ll find the answers to questions like Who was Jesus s wife What would it have been like to live tweet through the eruption of Vesuvius Why did the Romans inspire so much American science fiction Which Mitford sister tried to seduce her girlish crush Adolf Hitler Who are history s top 10 monkeys Was Henry V s great grandfather Edward III the biggest lad in British history But that s not all this book also includes puzzles and a pub quiz So dust off your tricorne hat grab your lasso and get ready for a rollicking rollercoaster through the past The world s most successful history podcast Holland and Sandbrook have pretty much reinvented popular history for the modern age The Times