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The Invisible Woman: The Story Of Nelly Ternan And Charles Dickens

Claire Tomalin

“Captivating. . . . An absorbing book about…a character who helps to illuminate the life of a great artist and the...

Lacks Self-Control: True Stories I Waited Until My Parents Died to Tell

Roy Sekoff

I've read worse." - Larry David "Frank, fearless, and very funny." - Arianna Huffington "A modern Portnoy's Complaint ,...

The Mistress of Mayfair: Men, Money and the Marriage of Doris Delevingne

Lyndsy Spence

Lyndsy Spence is the author of The Mitford Girls' Guide to Life and the founder of The Mitford Society, an online...

House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time

Martin Kihn

This highly intelligent and deeply funny debut memoir skewers a segment of the economy that nearly every white-collar...

Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany

Richard Lucas

From Publishers Weekly Shortwave radio enthusiast Lucas carefully chronicles the life of Mildred Gillars, known to...

An Idiot Girl's Christmas: True Tales from the Top of the Naughty List

Laurie Notaro

Like her other titles, Laurie Notaro's An Idiot Girl's Christmas is a bon bon of a book--one that is so honestly...

Ranger Games: A Story of Soldiers, Family and an Inexplicable Crime

Ben Blum

An Amazon Best Book of September 2017: Ranger Games is a true crime novel that reads like a binge-worthy television...

Amelia's Story (Amelia Series)

D. G Torrens

D.G. Torrens is a UK & USA bestselling Author/Poet. D.G. has written and published 16 books over the last 8 years and...

Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother's Most Devoted Servant

Tom Quinn

About the Author Tom Quinn: Tom Quinn is the author of many titles including London’s Strangest Tales, Cocoa at...

Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops and Killers

Michael Connelly

Book Description : From No. 1 bestseller Michael Connelly's first career as a prizewinning crime reporter--the...

A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport

Kate Stewart

Review “Stewart is frank about Rappaport’s prickly personality…Those details, coupled with more admirable...

Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France

Nicholas Shakespeare

“Once I started it I was hooked. And when I realised that she hadn’t been a brave and beautiful spy, I was...

Robert Berdella: The True Story of a Man Who Turned His Darkest Fantasies Into a Reality (Real Crime by Real Killers)

Ryan Becker

A selection of comments left by Amazon reviewers: "Fine writing, expert investigation and documentation, and a pace...

Archie and Amelie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age

Donna M. Lucey

Review “Enchanting . . . An engrossing story told vividly and accurately. Lucey has given us an artistically composed...

Getting Out Alive: The Autumn Veatch Story

Tara Ellis

I was impressed with Autumn Veatch before I had the opportunity to interview her, and even more so after. It was...

People Are Unappealing: Even Me

Sara Barron

“These days, the market is pretty well saturated when it comes to memoir. Which means it has to be good; it has to be...

Seriously Mum, Where's that Donkey?

Alan Parks

My name is Alan Parks and I decided to write my book, Seriously Mum, What's an Alpaca? after being told by friends that...

Mosquito Mayhem: de Havilland’s Wooden Wonder in Action in WWII

Martin W. Bowman

About the Author Martin Bowman is one of Britain’s foremost aviation historians and has written many books and...

The Spider and the Fly: A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder

Claudia Rowe

“Extraordinarily suspenseful and truly gut-wrenching, The Spider and the Fly is not just a superb true-crime story...

Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama

David J. Garrow

“Impressive. ... [A] deeply reported work of biography.” — New York Times Book Review “Rigorous. ... Thorough....

The Amazing Mrs Livesey: The Remarkable Story of Australia's Greatest Imposter

Freda Marnie Nicholls

Freda Marnie Nicholls is a journalist. Luita Frances Aichinger is Ethel Livesey's granddaughter and has her father's...

Secrets of an Essex Girl

Lauren Goodger

Lauren Goodger grew up in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. She starred in the hit ITV show The Only Way is Essex for six series...

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering

Dave Eggers

For 40 years readers have been waiting around on J. D. Salinger to send down a new manuscript from high atop his...

It Seemed Important at the Time: A Romance Memoir

Gloria Vanderbilt

From Publishers Weekly Not surprisingly, it takes an older woman to write a great kiss-and-tell memoir—who else would...