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Over nine million people suffer from arthritis in the UK. Are you one of them? In this book you can learn how genetics, age, infections, diet, excess weight, previous injuries and stress contribute.

Dan Farnworth brings vividly to life his astonishing experiences as a medic working on the frontline of the UK Ambulance Service. When the 999 call goes out, he has little idea what he will find - and how he will cope with the challenges he faces when he gets there. Having worked in the emergency...

Mothers Against Drugs may have been a mad idea for a small church in Chadsmoor. But Carol Hathorne recognised the need in her community to set people free from the grip of heroin, and started on a course that would capture the imaginations of many.

With affection and a clear eye, Eve Day looks back on her younger years fragmented partly by the Second World War and by the untimely death of her mother.

Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical frontline. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered. Prompted by his retirement from his full-time job in the NHS, and through his continuing work in Nepal an...

Elephants have fascinated man since early civilisation. They have been used as symbols of wisdom and power, in legends, because they exhibit the most human characteristics of any animal.

With access to personal letters and papers that have rarely been seen, Lucy Worsley's biography is both authoritative and entertaining and makes us realise what an extraordinary pioneer Agatha Christie was - truly a woman who wrote the twentieth century.

In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals Hitchcock to be: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films.

'All Before Me' is a moving and absorbing account of the struggle to know oneself on the journey into adulthood, intertwined with the stories of the Wordsworth siblings at Dove Cottage. In the beautiful hamlet of Town End, where a cultural epoch was borne that would forever shape the way we exper...

First published in 1936, the story of Elizabeth von Arnim's life, and her extraordinary dogs, is now reissued after many years. The author leads the reader on a witty and poignant journey of canine companionship.

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.

This text tells the story of Flight 93, the final plane to crash on September 11. It reconstructs the story of the flight on a technical level, as well as on a personal level, profiling the passengers, the captain, co-pilots, the hijackers and more.

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...

For 13 years, 22 series and 175 shows, Richard Porter was script editor of 'Top Gear,' from the first faltering pilot episode in 2002 until the very last show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May in 2015. Along the way they destroyed cars, sparked diplomatic incidents, set ...

The memoirs of Joan Plowright have no holds barred. The book includes Joan's life married to Laurence Olivier and their fight against his cancer.

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.

For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims.

Before she was a bestselling musician and writer, Tracey Thorn was a typical teenager: bored and cynical, despairing of her aspirational parents. Her only comfort came from house parties, meaningful conversations and the female pop icons who hinted at a new kind of living. Returning more than thr...

A child of the Blitz, Rose's youngest days are shaped by iconic experiences of wartime and post-war Britain - evacuation, grinding poverty and seemingly endless years of rationing. But she also faces other, more unconventional challenges in the form of her eccentric and unpredictable family. As R...

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...

'Around the World in 80 Trades' offers an exciting insight into the human story behind the money in our pockets, and reminds us that making a living is about exactly that - living.

As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although D...

This is a biography of Arthur Lowe, the legendary Captain Mainwaring of TV's 'Dad's Army'. Lowe's hold on the public's imagination and affection is as strong as ever despite his death as far back as 1982.

The Adventure World Championship is a 430-mile race through the Amazon rainforest; one of the most gruelling endurance events on the planet. As Mikael Lindnord and his team collapsed one night, exhausted and starving, he noticed a scruffy but stoical stray dog out of the corner of his eye. Impres...

Between these pages is everything you need to know about our oceans, explained in 25 questions. In 'Ask An Ocean Explorer' marine biologist of over 20 years and advisor for the BBC's 'Blue Planet II', Dr Jon Copley, explains the science and wonder of the deep ocean. Combining untold history of oc...

Written with the full consent and collaboration of Ronnie Barker himself, this biography is full of interviews and unseen personal illustrations from his own collection.

London, 1963. Angela Patrick was 19 years old and pregnant. Being under 21, she was still under the governance of her parents, strict Catholics who sent her to an imposing-looking convent for unmarried mothers. At eight weeks, her son was taken away from her and put up for adoption. 30 years late...

Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these wome...