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From the acclaimed author of John F. Kennedy: An Unfinished Life, the biography of one of America's greatest presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 'Meticulously researched and authoritative, heroically objective and wide-angled ... Roosevelt is with us again in Dallek's outstanding cradle-to-grave study' Douglas Brinkley, Washington Post 'Assuredly the best single-volume Roosevelt biography' Eric Rauchway, The Times Literary Supplement 'Essential ... a master of the presidential biography captures Roosevelt's compassion and sense of solidarity' Greg Grandin, Guardian 'An insightful, incisive and intelligent one-volume work - and a pointed primer on how things in Washington get done. In a period defined by division, Dallek crafts a pointillist portrait of the four-term president, who knew almost intuitively how to reach consensus' Peter M. Gianotti, Newsday

Prize winning novelist and short story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse s harrowing urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape at the age of fifteen from the Rwandan massacres of 1994 in which 800 000 Tutsi were slaughtered Finalist for the Prix Du Livre Inter 2024 A non fiction book which must be recognised as a major work of literature for here along with the extreme violence and the story of survival in a time of horrors is a hitherto unrecorded truth Nathalie Crom Telerama A gripping story at once a personal account and a reflection on the indelible traces of genocide Sophie Rosemont Vogue France Bare bones deeply moving and crucial Olivier Mony Livres Hebdo A powerful indictment of cowardice in the face of cruelty Nelly Kaprielian Self Times Literary Supplement On the 18th of June 1994 weeks before the end of the massacres in which hundreds of thousands of her fellow Tutsi Rwanda s Bantu speaking ethnic group were slaughtered by the Hutu Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were fortunate to find a safe passage out of Rwanda with a convoy of children organised by a Swiss humanitarian organisation Fifteen years later after rebuilding her life and becoming a successful novelist Mairesse is ready to begin the long pro

A book about finding home amidst the ancient mountains and lakes of northern Greece A story of people pelicans borders and bears A story of shelter generosity and welcome A story of a shared wo

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

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

As a child Lucy Mangan was reading all the time using books to navigate the challenges and complexities of this world and many others As an adult she uses her new relationship with literature to seize upon the most important question how do books prepare us for life Bookish picks up where Bookworm left off at the cusp of teenage when everything including the way we read undergoes a not so subtle transformation Here Mangan vividly recounts her metamorphosis from young bookworm to bookish adult from the way GCSE curricula can impact our relationship with literature to the growing pains of swapping the pleasures of re reading for those of book hoarding Revisiting the books of all genres from thrillers and bonkbusters to historical sagas and apocalyptic zombie stories that ferried her through each important stages of life falling in love finding a job becoming a mother and navigating grief Bookish is a coming of age in books It s an ode to our favourite bookish spaces from the smallest secondhand bookstalls to libraries glorious big bookshops and our very own book rooms and a love story to how books not only shelter our souls through hard times and help us find ourselves when we feel lost but also help us connect with the people we love

A wise passionate heartfelt book An invaluable resource for those seeking greater attunement with the year s cycles Katherine May I learnt so much about the alchemy of the living world and the possibilities of relationship I finished the book newly awestruck by planet Earth and all the life that she carries Beautifully written nourishing evocative and inspiring Lucy Jones author of Losing Eden Poppy s fresh eyed look at her own little corner of the county gave me a renewed sense of wonder and delight at the joys and challenges of loving and on good days living off a small patch of land Plus some truly brilliant ideas for getting the most from it Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall This is an intimate look at building a true relationship with a garden and all that live in it Practical poetic political like the best conversations over tea in the garden Alys Fowler A Wilder Way is a memoir of a relationship with an ever changing garden of setting down roots and becoming embedded in nature and of how tending to a patch of land will not only grow us as individuals but can also help to grow a better world Join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon where over the course of a year she shares the inspiring the mundane and the mag

Deepa is the epitome of a woman living in her power Ask Me How It Works provides a stunningly vulnerable and poetic glimpse into her most intimate spaces and through her journey to sexual liberation If this book doesn t change your perspective on relationships nothing will GILLIAN ANDERSON Here is my husband Here is my boyfriend Here I am In the early hours of dawn in Amsterdam Deepa Paul rises from her boyfriend s bed She gets dressed slips away with a kiss and cycles home where she is welcomed into the arms of her husband whose contentment is mellow alongside her own There isn t a glimmer of shame deception or guilt only the honesty and compassion needed to make this kind of life possible even if it wasn t always this easy You might have questions Whose idea was it What are the rules Are you ever jealous In this memoir Deepa offers her answers openly and tenderly as she explores the truth to questions of her own Can I ask for what I want and still honour the life I have chosen Do I deserve it Is it worth it Unexpectedly relatable and joyfully vibrant this is one woman s story of discovering her own desires and how to liberate them of shifting identities from mother to lover and back again and of finding the courage to ask for the mar

A beautiful bracing gem of a book quite unlike any other family memoir I ve ever read Polly Morland author of A FORTUNATE WOMAN Beautifully written erudite and important Looking After is a love letter to an autistic brother and to family itself and a reminder of the power of empathy to save lives Christie Watson author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS held me captive to the very last page Wise compassionate and compellingly told Monica Ali author of LOVE MARRIAGE This life spanning memoir is an affecting and affectionate tribute Bookseller Editor s ChoiceMeet Lionel Caroline s older brother Born in the late 1940s when little was known about autism Lionel was considered a peculiarity From the beginning he was a silent child oblivious to the people around him and intent only on playing with his toy trucks By the time he turned four doctors declared him ineducable and advised that he be institutionalised a shockingly standard practise at the time No one could have predicted that Lionel would go onto music college and find his place in the world With the help of his mother who refused to send him away Lionel lived a life that was certainly unusual but never dull He had perfect pitch could multiply three figure numbers in his head or work

Warm relatable and moving What A Girl Wants is a gorgeous nostalgia drenched coming of age memoir by the editor of Diva the world s biggest magazine for LGBTQ women and non binary folk Think Dolly Alderton s Everything I Know About Love with a gloriously queer twist

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 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

A memoir of breakdown recovery growth and lessons from the earth

A skilful poetic and bleakly funny account of coping with a lifelong condition THE GUARDIAN Absolutely extraordinary writing JAMES O BRIEN So fantastic CHRIS EVANS Candid and compelling A must read BRYONY GORDON Brilliantly readable PATRICK MCGRATH My mind is full of scorpions A cerebral itch impossible to scratch I know these creatures well but they know me better They answer to another name this nest of scorpions the writhing black mass that lives inside my head For as long as Tuppence Middleton can remember she has struggled with obsessive thoughts and compulsions She visualises her OCD as scorpions inhabiting her mind something to be hidden that impacts her life daily Have I killed my cat When was the last time that person in front of me vomited How many people have touched this door handle since it was cleaned Should I tap the outside of the airplane to save my loved ones from harm Often used as a shorthand for tidiness or as the punchline of a joke OCD is one of society s most misunderstood disorders and it s rarely spoken about with such honesty and openness In this beautifully written moving and often darkly funny memoir Tuppence recounts what it feels like to share your mind with a nest of scorpions A fantastic memoir

What beautiful writing crafting and pacing And what a heart Amy Griffin has Your own heart will break and mend as you read Susan Cain 1 New York Times bestselling author With this powerful little book she joins the ranks of women who like the brilliant Gisele Pelicot in France are shaking off the stigma of abuse and reattaching it to the perpetrators The Times For such a long time people discussed my running It took up so much space in my life And yet nobody ever thought to ask What are you running from For decades Amy ran Through the dirt roads of Amarillo Texas where she grew up to the streets of New York where she built her adult life through marriage motherhood and a thriving career To outsiders it all looked in many ways perfect But Amy was running from something a secret she was keeping not only from her family and friends but unconsciously from something terrible in her past When her ten year old daughter confronts her on the distance between them Amy is propelled to confront what she has spent a lifetime trying to escape So begins Amy s journey through the world of MDMA assisted psychedelic therapy to the limits of the judicial system and ultimately home to Texas where her story began In her relentless search for the t

A perceptive exploration of poetry race and otherness from one of our most promising voices in criticism Vidyan Ravinthiran was born in the north of England to Sri Lankan Tamils and moved to the United States five years ago Considering identity in both its political and psychological senses as these concepts fuse or fail to at different times and in different places he leaps adventurously between memoir and criticism understanding his life through poetry and vice versa Ranging from Andrew Marvell to Divya Victor he writes both about and through poems discussing Sri Lanka experiences of racism and resilience intergenerational trauma pandemic parenting in an autism family relationships shaped by the internet growing up with a speech impediment and being sent by one s aspirational brown parents to elocution lessons and the relative invisibility of South Asians in Western television and film This electric compelling hybrid memoir discovers a new way of writing about the self and also literature

This book is not about aspirational living it s about practical living It s about looking at the world around you and finding where it s at fault rather than blaming yourself It s about dropping the comfortable prisons we create for ourselves to find the real freedom and happiness we deserve We live in a world that is overfed but malnourished sunlight deficient overly competitive sedentary and sleep deprived Our blood pressure and stress levels are at record highs our mental health at record lows Our eyes are strained from looking at screens all the time and our backs are killing us We buy far too much of what we don t need and we aren t even pooing in the right position Yet step outside maybe walk a few minutes down the road and you will inevitably see plants bursting with nourishment hear calming birdsong breathe in fresh air move your stiff body Perhaps we have the answer to all our modern malaises right here outside our own homes Perhaps it is time for a New Wild Order Join forager author dad and everyday fella Andy Hamilton as he answers his own call of the wild and discovers how it might just save his life and yours

A 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian and Sunday Times This strikingly original account from award winning food writer Bee Wilson charts how everyday objects take on deeply personal meanings