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The first time Lara Marlowe interviewed Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko in Ukraine in 2023 Marlowe realized that the 28 year old woman army officer was one of the most extraordinary people she had encountered in 42 years of journalism Mykytenko was born in Kyiv in July 1995 She co founded the female squad of the 16th regiment of the Self Defence Force during the 2013 14 Euromaidan protests which overthrew the corrupt pro Russian president Viktor Yanukovych She married Illia Serbin a soldier in 2015 and joined the army to serve with him in Donbas the following year Mykytenko briefly left the army after her husband was killed in a Russian bombardment but re enlisted on the first day of the full scale Russian invasion of 24 February 2022 She commands a 25 man drone unit on the frontline in Donbas Drawing from a series of interviews with Mykytenko through the winter of 2023 24 Marlowe paints a searing portrait of life on the frontline and offers insights into Ukraine s past and possible future How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying is a compelling story of a country at war and a fearless woman fighting for its survival

Bosses Criminals Killers Up close and personal with the world s most dangerous women

In the aftermath of terrible crimes the public demand immediate justice Police and prosecutors rush to quickly close the case But in Framed John Grisham and Jim McCloskey unpick the reality Ten wrongful conviction cases Twenty one innocent people Ten stories with a truth more shocking than fiction Joe Bryan suffered the unbearable tragedy of his wife s murder only to be tried and found guilty of the crime himself despite being 120 miles away at the time it was committed Clarence Brandley spent nine years on Death Row coming to within six days of execution before new evidence cleared him of all charges And in the case of the Norfolk Four police and prosecutors continued to arrest innocent people until not one but four men were behind bars Impeccably researched and told with page turning conviction in Framed these cases are finally laid bare John Grisham the master of the legal thriller teams up with Jim McCloskey the founder of the first US organisation dedicated to exonerating innocent people to tell ten gripping and shocking true stories that shine an astonishing light on miscarriages of justice Framed is the story of how truth can prevail and how freedom can be won when all seems lost and the deck is stacked against you All the cases in thi

Unforgettable Independent Fresh and gripping TelegraphTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLEROn April 30 1980 six heavily armed gunmen burst into the Iranian embassy on Princes Gate overlooking Hyde Park in London There they took 26 hostages including embassy staff visitors and three British citizens A tense six day siege ensued as millions gathered around screens across the country to witness the longest news flash in British television history in which police negotiators and psychiatrists sought a bloodless end to the standoff while the SAS hitherto an organisation shrouded in secrecy laid plans for a daring rescue mission Operation Nimrod Drawing on unpublished source material exclusive interviews with the SAS and testimony from witnesses including hostages negotiators intelligence officers and the on site psychiatrist bestselling historian Ben Macintyre takes readers on a gripping journey from the years and weeks of build up on both sides to the minute by minute account of the siege and rescue Recreating the dramatic conversations between negotiators and hostages the cutting edge intelligence work happening behind the scenes and the media frenzy around this moment of international significance The Siege is the remarkable story of what really

A love letter to life on the remote British islands of Shetland and to a wilder way of living from one of our most celebrated poets

A gloriously evocative memoir of one family s journey from Samarkand and Riga to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv For fans of Claudia Roden Nigella Lawson and Stanley Tucci

Having lunch with Alain Ducasse in one of his beautiful Parisian restaurants is like playing golf with Tiger Woods or discussing politics with Winston Churchill or attending a reading by Mark Twain John Grisham A memoir and manifesto from the world s most Michelin starred chef Alain Ducasse with introductions by internationally renowned writer Jay McInerney and chef Clare Smyth At twelve years old Alain Ducasse had never been to a restaurant Less than fifteen years later he received his first Michelin star Today he is one of just two chefs to have been awarded twenty one stars Now for the very first time Ducasse shares a lifetime of culinary inspirations and passions in a book that is part memoir and part manifesto Good Taste takes us on a journey from his childhood where he picked mushrooms with his grandfather on a farm in Les Landes to setting up groundbreaking schools and restaurants across the world He is now taking off his chef s whites and passing on what he knows to the next generation

A Silent Tsunami is a unique combination of memoir and medicine Rowan forensically examines the development of her mother s illness and explores dementia in a frank but illuminating lyrical and mo

I ve never read a book like it It s as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote Phoebe Waller Bridge A terrific read Amy Liptrot author of The Outrun Remarkable As a stark insight into the disease In the Blood makes a mark The Sunday Times Culture Alcohol flows across families like water over a landscape Sometimes it moves in torrents sometimes in floods sometimes in trickles It always shapes the ground it covers in unmistakable ways In the Blood is a memoir in two voices those of a mother and daughter both in the grip of the disease that has ravaged generations of women in their family Julia aged sixty five and Arabella thirty eight ended up in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous just nine months apart In some ways it s a predictable story two addicts drank and destroyed and ransacked until they could drink no more In others it is entirely unlike any account of motherhood or addiction that has ever been told This is not a recovery memoir but rather an unflinching family drama spanning generations whilst looking pain and shame directly in the eye Confronting the difficulty of writing faithfully about those we love and the ways in which memory blurs the boundaries of fact this is the story

A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule This couldn t be more wrong

Donald McRae has followed boxing all his life In recent years his love has waned as criminality doping and dirty money gnaw away at the soul of boxing In 2018 grieving the death of his sister and with his parents seriously ill he sought refuge in boxing again At just this moment Tyson Fury completed one of the most shocking comebacks in the history of the sport proving that it still had the ability to offer thrills and redemption From Fury s comeback to the first undisputed heavyweight champion of this century McRae takes you ringside and into the to the inner sanctums of some of the greatest contemporary fighters He shows what s needed to become a champion like Katie Taylor or Oleksandr Usyk but he also reveals the physical and mental devastation of defeat and by telling the heartbreaking story of Patrick Day faces up to the very real threat of death in the ring In The Last Bell McRae s most personal and explosive book he tries to reconcile the contradictions which lie at the murky heart of a sport he s followed for 50 years and wonders if this might finally be the time to leave it all behind

My life has shocked me One of the shocks has been sadness death and other instances of impossibility But the greater shock has been joy I feel the hard flint of joy within my chest the strength of it It has stunned me with its refusal to be repressed A life is made up of many shocks the shock of birth of death the shock of love of happiness the shock of car crashes and finding yourself in a teenage body the shock of surviving each of these shocks and of what might bloom in their wake In this incredibly beautiful book Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the shocks she has experienced

Do we have the law we deserve Has justice improved for the victim the accused and society What even is justice Joseph is a natural storyteller but what makes it stand out is her point of view The Times A compelling read Lady Hale A more cerebral version of Kavanagh QC with sensitivity suspense and an easy style New Statesman Beautifully written immensely engaging powerful and disturbing insight into a judge s work and the choices faced Peter James If ever I was on trial I would want my judge to be this one Cherie Blair CBE KC Hot on the heels of her Sunday Times bestseller Unlawful Killings Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC skilfully reconstructs four courtroom dramas drawing on her many years experience as a murder judge to ask whether our justice system works and if it has improved over the centuries Have we got any better at delivering what is right and fair to both the perpetrators and the victims of society s most heinous crimes From the trial of a child charged with disposing of dismembered body parts to the woman accused of killing her own husband Joseph is utterly compelling as she sets out how the system works But as she compares these modern courtroom tales with eerily similar cases and miscarriages of justice from years ago m

When world class chef Pam first opened Inver her restaurant on the shores of Loch Fyne she set out to discover what makes modern Scottish food or if it even existed This book traces Pam s journey to answer that question and in doing so reveals what we can all gather from our culinary heritage Part memoir part manifesto on the future of feeding the world and a feminist critique of the food business it documents the difficult early days of her now multiple award winning restaurant reflecting on how the immersive experience of destination restaurants can both help and hinder our understanding of wider land and food culture From the soil to the kitchen Between Two Waters interrogates the influences on what we eat capitalism colonialism and gender as well as our own personal and cultural histories Yet it also captures with real heart all that the dinner table has to offer us sustenance both physical and imaginative challenges and adventure and most importantly communion with others More than anything it is a blisteringly original work from one of the world s most innovative thinkers about food sustainability and landscape

A warm reflective and uplifting memoir about healing wounds reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water The open water To the uninitiated it represents the unknown an expanse of mystery and uncertainty But to those who brave the wild waters it is so much more A space to heal A place of communion A balm to quieten the mind soothe the soul and allow you to reconnect with the world and yourself Emma Simpson discovered wild swimming after a period of immense pain Lost in grief disillusioned with life and feeling increasingly untethered from the world she instinctively felt the pull of the water There she found an unexpected source of hope and strength a profound sense of connection and a glorious sisterhood of women each with their own remarkable stories to tell Interweaving the tales of these inspirational women with reflections on her own experiences Emma explores themes ranging from devastating loss to birth and rebirth and from chronic illness to body confidence Whether describing the taste of an iceberg or a kiss from a baby whale Breaking Waves is a love letter to womanhood and the open water It s also a celebration of community renewal and the power of writing your own life story Above all else it is a joyous cel

A gripping and emotionally eloquent memoir about a family secret revealed by a DNA test the lessons learned in its aftermath and the transformative possibilities of growing plants

A glorious piece of rich romantic travel writing that takes the reader along old paths into ancient villages sharing rural homes and stables of farmers and shepherds in the Ligurian Alps Pyrenees Basque country and Galician coast from a brilliant new talent

The second novel in the Dirty Diana trilogy a story of desire within marriage from the stars of the hit feminist erotic podcast Dirty Diana

Witty tender and daring essays from the British David Sedaris A bold new voice in nonfiction writing Jenn Ashworth

I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration PHILIP PULLMAN One of Britain s greatest writers FINANCIAL TIMES Alan Garner s world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous GUARDIANIn this lyrical and revelatory memoir Alan Garner Booker shortlisted author of Treacle Walker reflects on the lifetime of learning and experience that has led him to become one of the best loved British writers of our time In dazzling essays poetry and stories we trace the line of his life from a working class childhood in the landscape of Cheshire during World War II through a grammar school education and on to the University of Oxford and then home to see if he could become what he most desired a writer We see the serendipitous moments that drove his course from coming of age in a period of great cultural change to crossing paths with a famous mathematician while out long distance running to the fateful day he chanced across Blackden the medieval hall miraculously located next to the giant telescope at Jodrell Bank that was to become his lasting home and the setting for Treacle Walker We also hear the influences and ideas that have shaped his work his Grandfather Joseph and family of craftsmen the history folklore and ancient landscape of Cheshire a profound