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Anne Watts grew up in a village in north Wales in the 1940s. She trained as a nurse & midwife, joined the Save the Children Fund & was posted to Vietnam in 1967. Here, Anne was faced with a vision of hell that her training couldn't prepare her for.

The French Foreign Legion at Camerone, Scott of the Antarctic, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Mirbat, the Gloster's Last Stand: full of courage, adventure and sacrifice these are the stories that every boy should know.

Taking in old age, the context of one's life and times, memory, reading and writing, and the identifying cargo of possessions - two ammonites, a cat, a pair of American ducks and a leaping fish sherd, amongst others - this is an elegant, moving and deeply enjoyable memoir by one of our most loved...

Harriet Sergeant's friendship with a South London teenage gang began when she met them while researching a report on why black Caribbean and white working class boys fail. Over three years the issues that she had written about took on new meaning as she encountered the reality of these very young...

Here is the long-awaited first autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer. Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but f...

A wittily told journey through time as the author walks a series of famous historical journeys, uncovering British heritage and discovering the contemporary landscape.

An outstanding piece of historical detective work, 'And the Band Played On' is also a moving account of how the author's quest to learn more about his grandfather revealed the shocking truth about a family he thought he knew, a truth that had been hidden for nearly a hundred years.

Angela's Ashes is the memoir of retired schoolteacher Frank McCourt. McCourt grew up in New York in the 1930s and in Ireland in the 1940s, in a large family, and with an alcoholic father.

As he travels from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico to a slum outside of Nairobi and to a meditation retreat deep in the Massachusetts woods, Oliver Burkeman introduces us to a group of people who share a surprising way of thinking about life.

This is the heartbreaking story of the abduction and murder of five-year-old April Jones, which sparked the biggest police search in UK history. The nation was shocked by her disappearance from the tiny Welsh village of Machynlleth in October 2012. Her body was never fully recovered but paedophil...