Salman Rushdie is one of the world’s most acclaimed, award-winning contemporary authors. Translated into over forty languages, his sixteen works of fiction include Midnight’s Children – for which he won the Booker Prize in 1981, the Booker of Bookers on the 25th anniversary of the prize and Best of the Booker on the 40th anniversary – Shame, The Satanic Verses, Quichotte and Victory City. His latest book, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder was a number one Sunday Times bestseller. A former president of PEN American Center, Rushdie was knighted in 2007 for services to literature and was made a Companion of Honour in the Queen's last Birthday Honours list in 2022.

Salman Rushdie

Salman Khan is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. His lessons on YouTube have revolutionized learning, garnering billions of views globally. Recognized as one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, Khan is also the founder of schoolhouse.world, Khan Lab School, and Khan World School, and the author of The One World Schoolhouse. He holds three degrees from MIT and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Ian Rush

In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he surpassed football legends such as Fowler, Keegan, Owen, Smith, Carragher and Hansen. Ian Rush is quite simply Liverpool's greatest goalscorer and, along with Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law, one of the finest natural penalty-box predators the game has ever seen. 
 
This is the story of a rough-edged Welsh teenager thrust into the ranks of an already great side, who didn't feel up to it, but who learned how to grow as a player and a man until he became the most devastating finisher in English football. Rush's story is bursting with honesty and insight, emotional turmoil and tragedy, and hilarious tales and asides. It is a near-mythical tale of triumph and tragedy. Of an era when Liverpool FC became nigh on invincible, made the League title their own, and rode the highs of European and FA Cup Finals alongside the devastating tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough. The drama of Rush's time at Liverpool during the 80s - the decade that defined the club more than any other - is thrillingly captured in this autobiography, which takes you into the thick of the action, as well as offering a frank and insightful analysis of football today.

Rush

The Autobiography

Asma Khan

* The Times Cookbook of the Year 2022 * 
 
'Asma Khan... is one of the most articulate, powerful voices in the world of food, and this book is her masterpiece...More than a cookbook, this is a meditation on the power of food to nourish and heal.' - Bee Wilson, The Times 
 
'An entrancing book' - Nigella Lawson 
 
Indian family food with heart - the mouthwatering new cookbook from Asma Khan, founder of the iconic Darjeeling Express 
 
This book is a joyful celebration of the universal power of food to restore, and to comfort. It is a tribute to Ammu, Asma's mother, to the simple home cooking from her kitchen in Calcutta, and an exploration of the inextricable link between food and love. 
 
These dishes will bring warmth to your kitchen when you need a meal or dish to share with your family and friends - from quick-and-easy Baghare Aloo and Shahi Paneer, a vegetarian staple all ages love, to Ammu's Chicken Biriyani the much-requested Darjeeling Express favourite. 
 
With over 100 recipes, easy-to-follow instructions and a photograph for every dish Ammu is an essential book for anyone wanting to make Indian comfort food at home. 
 
'This is the food I cook for my family every day, meals to restore and nourish. I give these recipes to you, with love.' - Asma

Ammu

Indian Homecooking to Nourish Your Soul

Madhur Jaffrey

'I was born in a sprawling house by the Yamuna River in Delhi. When I was a few minutes old, Grandmother welcomed me into the world by writing "Om", which means "I am" in Sanskrit, on my tongue with a little finger dipped in honey. When the family priest arrived to draw up my horoscope, he scribbled astrological symbols on a long scroll and set down a name for me, Indrani, or "queen of the heavens". My father ignored him completely and proclaimed my name was to be Madhur ("sweet as honey").' 
 
So begins Madhur Jaffrey's enchanting memoir of her childhood in India. Her description of growing up a in a very large, wealthy family (half a train was booked to transport the family from Delhi to the mountains for the summer) conjures up the spirit of a long lost age. Whether climbing the mango trees in her grandparents' orchard, armed with a mixture of salt, pepper, red chillies and roasted cumin, or enjoying picnics in the foothills of the Himalayas, reached by foot, rickshaw, palanquin or horse, where meatballs stuffed with sultanas and mint leaves, cauliflowers flavoured with ginger and coriander, and spiced pooris with hot green mango pickle were devoured, food forms a major leitmotiv of this beautifully written memoir. With recipes drawn from memories of dinners, lunches, breakfasts, weddings and picnics, moving effortlessly from the lamb meatballs of Moghul emperors to the tamarind chutneys of the streets, this book will appeal to keen armchair cooks, as well as fans of Madhur the world over.

Climbing the Mango Trees

A Memoir of a Childhood in India

Madhur Jaffrey - the queen of curries - proves yet again how easy it is to cook authentic Indian food at home in this stunning cookbook showcasing meat-free recipes, complete with gorgeous full-colour photography and hassle-free step-by-step instructions. 
 
'Tantalising recipes' -- Waitrose Kitchen 
'Authentic, tasty and uncomplicated' -- ***** Reader review 
'I love this book. Made most of the recipes at least once, and several are house staples now' -- ***** Reader review 
'These curries are just amazing!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another winner from Madhur Jaffrey' -- ***** Reader review 
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In this delicious collection of recipes, Madhur Jaffrey shows us that Indian food need not be complicated or involve hours in the kitchen. 
 
Offering over 200 simply delicious recipes, Madhur cooks a tantalising, mouth-watering array of meat-free dishes. You could be knocking up such delights as: 
*Spiced Potato Ball-Fritters 
*Kodava Mushroom Curry with Coconut 
*Rice with Aubergine 
*South Indian Daal with Vegetables 
*Spinach with Fresh Indian Cheese 
 
Whether you are cooking curry for the first time or have plenty of culinary experience and are looking for quick and easy recipe ideas, Madhur Jaffrey brings you all the tastes of India with the minimum of work - it really is Curry Easy Vegetarian!

Curry Easy Vegetarian

200 recipes for meat-free and mouthwatering curries from the Queen of Curry

Niki Lauda

Niki Lauda drove a car for sport, but crossed the line between life and death and fought back to even greater glory. Even people who know nothing of Formula One have heard of his crash at Nurburgring in 1976, when we was dragged from the inferno of his Ferrari so badly injured he was given the last rites. Within 33 days, he was racing again at Monza. His wounds bled, he had no eyelids. He was terrified. A year later, he reclaimed his World Championship title. 
 
In To Hell and Back he reveals how he battled fear to stage a comeback that seemed beyond human endurance. Then it’s Lauda vs Hunt, an epic rivalry later dramatized in 2013’s Hollywood blockbuster Rush, and he looks back on the strict childhood and parental disapproval that he believes gave him an ‘addiction to excellence’. There’ll never be another like him.

To Hell and Back

An Autobiography

Say goodbye to the takeaway and master the art of curry yourself with this collection of recipes from bestselling author and curry expert Madhur Jaffrey: 175 clear, accessible and simple recipes guaranteed to make your mouth water! Beautifully written and fully illustrated with stunning photography, this is cookbook that you'll reach for time and time again. 
 
'A true classic - fresh, intelligent and simply scrumptious' -- ***** Reader review 
'Transforms Indian food into something relatively speedy to prepare at home' -- ***** Reader review 
'Jaffrey is my 'go to' if I want something Indian and tasty' -- ***** Reader review 
'This is definitely one of our best/favourite cookery books' -- ***** Reader review 
'This is our go to recipe book for all Indian food' -- ***** Reader review 
'Clear, concise recipes. Curry Easy is exactly what it says' -- ***** Reader review 
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In this delicious collection of recipes, Madhur Jaffrey shows us that Indian food need not be complicated or involve hours in the kitchen. 
 
Take a few well chosen spices and readily available ingredients, and in a few easy steps you can make a delicious prawn curry from Goa; succulent chicken baked in an almond and onion sauce; hearty Sri Lankan beef with coconut milk; a creamy potato and pea curry; tasty swiss chard stir fried with ginger and garlic; and a spicy dip with beans (canned of course), cumin, chillies and lime.... 
 
 Whether you are cooking curry for the first time or have plenty of culinary experience and are looking for quick and easy recipe ideas, Madhur Jaffrey brings you all the tastes of India with the minimum of work - it really is Curry Easy!

Curry Easy

175 quick, easy and delicious curry recipes from the Queen of Curry

Nazir Afzal

The outsider who transformed our justice system 
 
Nazir Afzal knows a thing or two about justice. As a Chief Prosecutor, it was his job to make sure the most complex, violent and harrowing crimes made it to court, and that their perpetrators were convicted. From the Rochdale sex ring to the earliest prosecutions for honour killing and modern slavery, Nazir was at the forefront of the British legal system for decades. 
 
But his story begins in Birmingham, in the sixties, as a young boy facing racist violence and the tragic death of a young family member - and it's this that sets him on the path to his groundbreaking career, and which enables him to help communities that the conventional justice system ignores, giving a voice to the voiceless. 
 
A memoir of struggle and survival as well as crime and punishment, The Prosecutor is both a searing insight into the justice system and a powerful story of one man's pursuit of the truth.

The Prosecutor

Shaparak Khorsandi

It's 1977 and life in Iran is becoming unpredictable. The Shah will be overthrown and events are about to take place on the world stage. But for five-year-old Shappi Khorsandi all this means is that she must flee, leaving behind a mad extended Iran clan and everything she has ever known. 
 
Shappi and her beloved brother Peyvand arrive with their parents in London - all cold weather and strange food - without a word of English. If adapting to a new culture isn't troubling enough, it soon becomes clear that the Ayatollah's henchmen are in pursuit. With the help of MI5, Shappi's family go into hiding. So apart from checking under the family car for bombs every morning, Shappi's childhood is like any other kids' - swings in the park, school plays, kiss-chase and terrorists. 
 
'An extraordinary story...really funny and warm' 
Graham Norton

A Beginner's Guide To Acting English

Miles Jupp

** Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award ** 
 
Fanatical about cricket since he was a boy, Miles Jupp would do anything to see his heroes play. But perhaps deciding to bluff his way into the press corps during England's Test series in India wasn't his best idea. 
 
By claiming to be the cricket correspondent for BBC Scotland and getting a job with the (Welsh) Western Mail, Miles lands the press pass that will surely be the ticket to his dreams. Soon, he finds himself in cricket heaven - drinking with David Gower and Beefy, sharing bar room banter with Nasser Hussain and swapping diarrhoea stories with the Test Match Special team. 
 
But struggling in the heat under the burden of his own fibs, reality soon catches up with Miles as he bumbles from one disaster to the next. A joyous, charming, yet cautionary tale, Fibber in the Heat is for anyone who's ever dreamt about doing nothing but watching cricket all day long.

Fibber in the Heat

Rosemarie Jarski

There's nothing much left to feel good about these days if you're British, but one of the few things where we all agree that we're still a world leader is our defining sense of humour. Thematically covering every subject imaginable, from God to dogs, this collection is the seminal gathering of our national wit and a picture of who we are as a nation - a monument to our monumental silliness. 
 
'An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.' George Mikes 
 
Jane Austen, Jo Brand, Craig Brown, Winston Churchill, Alan Clark, Jeremy Clarkson, Billy Connolly, Peter Cook, Tommy Cooper, Stephen Fry, A.A. Gill, Boris Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Maureen Lipman, Spike Milligan, Eric Morecambe, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Skinner, Sue Townsend, Peter Ustinov, Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, P.G. Wodehouse, Victoria Wood and many more.

Great British Wit

Nisha Katona

All the secrets to cook authentic family-style and takeaway favourite curries at home from Mowgli founder and curry evangelist Nisha Katona. 
 
 'Nisha's book is brilliant - stunning recipes' -- Tom Kerridge 
 Beautiful, tasty, delicious food that I could eat every day. - Simon Rimmer 
Nisha's food is good for the soul - bowls of comfort and platefuls of joy. Her recipes are simple and utterly delicious -- Lorraine Kelly 
'This is simply one of the best books on Indian food I've come across' -- ***** Reader review 
'By far the best cookery book I've ever bought' -- ***** Reader review 
'Every recipe has been a hit!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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 Mowgli founder and 'curry evangelist' Nisha Katona shares all the secrets from her Indian family kitchen, passed down through the generations, so you can cook your favourite curries at home. 
 
 Introducing her concept of the 'spice tree' - a simple infographic formula to show you which spices and ingredients go best together - Nisha will demonstrate how to get that authentic curry flavour every time. 
 
 Discover new and inventive recipes that showcase the perfect flavour pairings of the Indian kitchen, including: 
*Steamed Bengali Trout 
*Salmon and Cauliflower Curry 
*Mackerel with Nigella and Tomato 
*Goan Fish Curry 
*Butter Chicken 
*Quail Masala 
*Railway Goat Curry 
*Spiced Ginger Lamb Raan 
*Green Dahl with Rhubarb and Ginger 
*Puy Lentils with Cardamom and Garam Masala 
*Peanut and Potato Powa 
 
With stunning photography, easy to follow recipes and accessible explanations of flavour pairings, this will change the way you approach Indian cuisine!

The Spice Tree

Indian Cooking Made Beautifully Simple

Shadi Faleel

Make your own restaurant-style Indian dishes with these delicious recipes! 
 
Recreate your favourite Indian and Sri Lankan dishes at home and discover exciting new authentic favourites with this vibrant collection of easy recipes. 
 
With over 1.5M followers online, Shadi Faleel is beloved for her delicious dishes, and she knows exactly how to create the very best Indian recipes in the most low-effort way. With recipes including Chicken Tikka Masala, Goan Fish Curry, Lamb Korma and Paneer Kofta Biryani, these are filling, flavour-packed dishes that'll get you in the kitchen instead of calling for a takeaway. 
 
With a passion for making the cuisine of her heritage accessible to everyone, Shadi's debut cookbook is an essential collection for anyone who loves Indian food.

Easy Indian Food Anyone Can Make

Everyday delicious recipes for rice, curries, snacks and more!

Paul Sinha

'That night, I'd survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact. 
Yes, this chaotic life has always been a gamble. 
... But what a gamble.' 
 
Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a quizzing mastermind and a happily-married husband. But for much of his life none of these seemed remotely imaginable. 
 
As a boy, Paul struggled to find his place in a world where he didn't quite fit. Who was he? An over-achieving schoolkid with the world's knowledge at his fingertips? A traditional Bengali son, destined for a career in medicine that he never once craved? A young gay man yearning to breathe freely? Or was he yet another flawed human being on a self-destruct mission? 
 
Amid life's mayhem, it was frequently Paul's love of facts in which he found solace, whether funding his lifestyle through quiz machines or simply trying to show off to his mates. Stumbling serendipitously into both a career in stand-up and a clandestine network of competitive quizzers introduced him to a new sense of purpose, a new identity, and, eventually, new love... 
 
A hilarious and moving coming-of-age memoir of one man's search for fulfilment, One Sinha Lifetime is an unconventional odyssey through love, family, and the joy of general knowledge.

One Sinha Lifetime

Comedy, disaster and one man’s quest for happiness

Lucien Young

In the grand tradition of The Diary of a Nobody comes the secret diary of the twenty-first century’s most unlikely leader: Jeremy Corbyn. 
 
Jeremy Corbyn is a committed allotment holder, expert jam maker, dedicated manhole cover inspector… oh, and occasional Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition. When not cycling around his beloved Islington or tending to his courgettes, he spends his time frantically dodging MPs, spin doctors and vicious journalists craving his opinion on Brexit. In these tumultuous times, everyone wants a piece of the beardy firebrand. So who is the man behind the corduroy? 
 
The Secret Diary of Jeremy Corbyn plunges readers into a world of dizzying highs, crushing lows, fervent loyalty and bitter treachery – and that’s just the section about the Highbury Pottery Club. Readers will be moved, amused and astonished by the wit and insight of politics’ greatest outsider: the man, the legend, Jeremy Corbyn.

The Secret Diary of Jeremy Corbyn

A Parody

Anthony Summers

For nearly fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover held great power in the United States. The creator of the FBI and its Director until his death, he played a role in nearly every major tragedy and scandal in America during the twentieth century. 
 
Hoover was lauded when he died as an American hero. Anthony Summers' controversial bestseller, Official &amp; Confidential, The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, draws on more than 800 interviews to explode the myths, exposing the dark secrets that remained hidden throughout Hoover's lifetime. 
 
Hoover used his intimate knowledge of the John F. Kennedy's sex life to ensure that Lyndon B. Johnson became Vice President, and suppressed evidence about J.F.K's assassination. Hoover himself, meanwhile, was a closet homosexual, which allegedly led to him being blackmailed by the Mafia. 
 
This fascinating book reveals that even Hoover's death, on the eve of Watergate, was clouded with mystery. Witnesses have indicated that, in the panic over the secrets he was holding over President Nixon, an operation was mounted to break into his house - possibly even to murder him.

Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J Edgar Hoover

100 essential curries from Madhur Jaffrey - the Queen of Curry. This recipe collection - containing 100 full-colour photographs - is not only incredible value for money but the perfect introduction to mastering the art of curry making! 
 
'A classy production' -- Sunday Telegraph Magazine 
'Exactly what I was looking for in a curry book' -- ***** Reader review 
'A little treasure of a book' -- ***** Reader review 
'Love this little book, full of easy recipes to follow in a very simple format' -- ***** Reader review 
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Madhur Jaffrey is the unsurpassed Queen of Curry and here she has collected 100 curry recipes catering to all tastes and abilities. 
 
From dals to biryanis, spicy vegetable fritters to lamb shanks braised in a yoghurt sauce, vegetable pullao to silken chicken tikka kebabs and catering for vegetarian and meat-based diets, the recipes are both simple and elaborate and sure to become household stalwarts and family favourites. 
 
Everybody loves a curry - and this easy to follow cookbook has a recipe to suit every taste. Guaranteed to get your mouth watering and you itching to get in the kitchen!

My Kitchen Table: 100 Essential Curries

Winston S. Churchill

Churchill (1874-1965) was one of the 20th century's most charismatic and controversial characters. He escaped from capture as a prisoner of war in the Boer War, was a Nobel Prize-winning author and was twice prime minister. He is best remembered as the astute and powerful orator who inspired a battered Britain to victory against Nazi Germany during World War 2 and led the post-war, shattered nation to recovery. 
 
Richard Langworth, co-chairman and editor of The Churchill Centre, has spent over 20 years researching Churchill's written and spoken words. In Churchill in His Own Words, which is fully authorised by the Churchill Estate, Langworth has edited and annotated this library to make the definitive collection of Churchill's words, thematically arranged. He also highlights the myriad quotations commonly mis-attributed to Churchill. 
 
From his meetings with world leaders such as Roosevelt, de Gaulle and Stalin, his verbal engagements with Hitler and the Third Reich, to his wit and oratory on the floor of the Commons, every facet of Churchill's life and times is explored with his own pragmatic intelligence, sharp humour and legendary wisdom. 
 
Previously published in hardback as Churchill in His Own Words. This edition fully revised and updated.

Churchill in His Own Words

The most comprehensive book ever published on curries, written by Madhur Jaffrey - the Queen of Curry. With 150 exciting, easy-to-follow recipes within the reach of everyone, and beautifully illustrated throughout, this is an outstanding addition to any cook's library. 
 
'The perfect gift for those who warm to the thrills of a well-made curry, it is the definitive guide' -- Tom Parker Bowles, Mail on Sunday 
'A majestic book' - Independent on Sunday 
'What more could you want?' - Daily Telegraph 
'The word bible in the title isn't hyperbole - this is one of the best and most comprehensive curry recipe books I've come across' -- ***** Reader review 
'A joy to use'-- ***** Reader review 
'If you are a curry lover this book is A MUST'-- ***** Reader review 
'Possibly the ONLY curry cookbook you will ever need'-- ***** Reader review 
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The influence of the Indian curry has been far-reaching: Indian immigrants and traders influenced the cooking of many other great cuisines of the world, including those of Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and China. History blends with recipes in this meticulously researched book, which will prove fascinating reading for food lovers everywhere. 
 
 With over 150 mouthwatering recipes, Madhur starts with the best curry recipes in India today, moves on to Asian curries, and even includes European curry ideas such as French curry sauces. 
 
As well as including stunning recipes like fish seasoned with tamarind and coconut and lamb braised with oranges, Madhur also shares her tips for the best accompanying foods - she gives us recipe ideas for rice, bread, chutneys, relishes and sweets - the perfect complement for any curry.. 
 
Whether you are cooking curry for the first time or have plenty of culinary experience and are looking to delve and explore deeply, Madhur Jaffrey brings you the ultimate guide to curry in this groundbreaking cookbook.

Madhur Jaffrey's Ultimate Curry Bible

the definitive curry cookbook from the Queen of Curry

Lucy Edge

A sharply funny travelogue from a fantastic travel writer. Lucy Edge tells the story of her personal quest for serenity and yogic flexibility through the ashrams and gurus of India. 
 
After over a decade spent working and drinking too much in the world of advertising, Lucy decided she had to leave town for an altogether more spiritual and, well, meaningful way of life - And whilst she was at it, she could acquire a newly lithe and supple body. 
 
Would she come home looking like Christy Turlington and pick up some Buddhist serenity on the way? Or did something much funnier, interesting and complicated happen? Did she fall in love - with a place and its people? 
 
A divine comedy of the Western obsession with life's deeper meaning, a yogic experiment and a love letter to India, this is a very funny book from a wonderful travel writer.

Yoga School Dropout

Mark Felt

John O'Connor

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Liam Neeson. 
 
It was the biggest mystery of American history. A shadowy source deep within Washington had leaked crucial information to two journalists, helping them uncover the historical Watergate Scandal of 1972. But who was this elusive source and what were his motivations? Thirty-three years later, the FBI’s Mark Felt would finally identify himself as Deep Throat, the Watergate Whistleblower. This is his story. 
 
Mark Felt learnt spy craft tracking Nazi and Soviet spies, tackled mobsters in Kansas City and took down the FBI’s most wanted list, rising through the ranks under J Edgar Hoover to one of the FBI’s top positions. 
 
A life spent watching pivotal moments of history unfold, Mark Felt was the eyes and ears of the intelligence service. Drawing on his memoirs, FBI memos, secret files and conversations with his family and friends, this is the account of a G-Man’s life and his struggle for honour in Washington. 
 
This new edition is updated with the help of Mark’s lawyer, John O’Connor, drawing on new developments and why now, the role of Deep Throat, is even more important than ever.

Felt

The Man Who Brought Down the White House – Now a Major Motion Picture

Rohan Candappa

Rohan Candappa, author of bestselling humour books such as the Little Book of Stress and The Curious Incident of the Weapons of Mass Destruction, is the son of a Sri Lankan father and Burmese mother. He grew up small and round in South London, riding his chopper bike and supporting Leeds United. But every day his mother would conjur delicious meals out of thin air. His father cooked too, with fiery flavourings, black curries and green coriander chutneys. Their home became the focus for family gatherings and feasts of such delicacy and exoticism that you'd never have known Norwood lay outside the window. 
 
Yet somewhere in his twenties Rohan forgot his culinary heritage and it wasn't until he was bringing up his own young family that he began to think more about his identity as a second generation immigrant and the binding, identifying power of the family meal caught his imagination. 
 
And so he began this beautifully written, funny, poignant memoir of his heritage and his home. Of curry leaves and curried chips. Hot chillis and hot dogs. Pataks and Heinz. About the past and the present - and the place where time should cease to matter... the family kitchen.

Picklehead

From Ceylon to suburbia; a memoir of food, family and finding yourself

Alasdair Fotheringham

Miguel Indurain is Spain’s greatest cyclist of all time and one of the best Tour racers in history. He is the only bike rider to have won five successive Tours de France, as well as holding the title for the youngest ever race leader in the Tour of Spain. This is his story. 
 
As the all-conquering hero of the 90s, Indurain steadfastly refused to be overwhelmed by fame; remaining humble, shy and true to his country roots. Along with his superhuman calmness, iron will-power and superb bike handling skills, he was often described as a machine. Yet 1996 saw Indurain, the Tour’s greatest ever champion, spectacularly plummet, bringing his career and supremacy to an abrupt end. 
 
In Indurain, Alasdair Fotheringham gets to the heart of this enigmatic character, reliving his historic accomplishments in vibrant colour, and exploring how this shaped the direction taken by generations of Spanish racers - raising Spanish sport to a whole new level.

Indurain

The Week

Read about the man who convinced Einstein there was a God, the newspaper publisher who brought down a president and the code-cracking genius who helped foil the Nazis, and remember the lives of those that created the extraordinary moments in our modern history. 
 
Based on the obituaries that appear in every issue of The Week, here is a book that brings together the famous and infamous figures of our generation. From the world’s influential leaders and thinkers of the day, such as Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs, Margaret Thatcher and Sir Patrick Moore, to the more infamous and eccentric, this is a fascinating compendium of the lives of our times.

The Lives of the Famous and the Infamous

Everything You Need To Know About Everyone Who Mattered

Mark Rowlands

'It's Schopenhauer and the will. It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The Matrix 
 
The Philosopher at the End of the Universe allows anyone to understand basic philosophical concepts from the comfort of their armchair, through the plots and characters of spectacular blockbusting science-fiction movies. Learn about: The Nature of Reality from The Matrix; Good and Evil from Star Wars; Morality from Aliens; Personal Identity from Total Recall; The Mind-Body Dilemma from Terminator; Free Will from Minority Report; Death and the Meaning of Life from Blade Runner; and much more. As someone once said, things must be said and knowledge known, and the cast list assembled to tell us does not disappoint: Tom Cruise, Plato, Harrison Ford, Immanuel Kant, Sigourney Weaver, Friedrich Nietzsche, Keanu Reeves and Rene Descartes. From characters in the biggest films (with lots of explosions and bad language) to Ludwig Wittgenstein (no explosions and too much language in general), hear all the arguments. I think, therefore... I'll be back!

The Philosopher At The End Of The Universe

Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Films

Madhur Jaffrey, television's most-loved Indian cook, returned to our screens for a major new series for the Good Food Channel in October 2012. 
 
 Travelling across Britain, visiting local Indian and South Asian communities, Madhur revealed how it's possible to sample virtually the whole of Indian cuisine without ever leaving the British Isles. 
 
In the official tie-in book to the series, Madhur Jaffrey showcases her favourite curry recipes with influences from all over the subcontinent: Punjabi, Goan, Parsi and Bengali amongst others. Carefully selected and adapted by Madhur, the recipes conjure up the colour and vitality of this vibrant culture, but keep to her mantra that Indian food doesn't need to be complicated. Always innovative and contemporary, Madhur will even give some of these traditional Indian recipes a twist - pairing Aloo Gobi with a very British roast lamb, for example. 
 
Whether it's the spicy, lentil-based specialities of Rajesthan, kebabs and kormas from Delhi, or coconut-infused curries from Kerala, we accompany Madhur Jaffrey on her very personal tour of our modern-day Curry Nation.

Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Nation

William Middleton

Karl Lagerfeld reinvented Chanel, revitalising and restoring it to its rightful place as one of the top fashion houses in the world, leading the brand for 35 years. 
 
He also served as the creative director for Fendi and launched his own brand, using his larger than life personality, unique vision and constant focus on the now to change fashion forever. 
 
But who was the man behind the myth? 
 
In this deliciously entertaining book, Middleton draws on his personal relationship with Lagerfeld to take us inside the most exclusive rooms in the fashion industry, behind the catwalk, and into a world of brilliantly talented artists, stylish socialites, and famous stars-some of the most elusive and unforgettable figures of fashion's inner circle for the past four decades.

Paradise Now

The Extraordinary Life of Karl Lagerfeld

Svenja O’Donnell

'A lyrical, engrossing and essential read' - Sathnam Sanghera 
 
'A superbly nuanced reclamation of history and family secrets' - Brian Van Reet, author of Spoils 
 
What does it mean to be on the wrong side of history? 
 
Svenja O'Donnell’s beautiful, aloof grandmother Inge never spoke about the past. All her family knew was that she had grown up in a city that no longer exists on any map: Königsberg in East Prussia, a footnote in history, a place that almost no one has heard of today. But when Svenja impulsively visits this windswept Baltic city, something unlocks in Inge and, finally, she begins to tell her story. 
 
It begins in the secret jazz bars of Hitler’s Berlin. It is a story of passionate first love, betrayal, terror, flight, starvation and violence. As Svenja teases out the threads of her grandmother’s life, retracing her steps all over Europe, she realises that there is suffering here on a scale that she had never dreamt of. And finally, she uncovers a desperately tragic secret that her grandmother has been keeping for sixty years. 
 
Inge's War listens to the voices that are often missing from our historical narrative – those of women caught up on the wrong side of history. It is a book about memory and heritage that interrogates the legacy passed down by those who survive. It also poses the questions: who do we allow to tell their story? What do we mean by family? And what will we do in order to survive?

Inge's War

A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

Michael Dillon

Meet the most powerful leader in the world. 
 
Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery. 
 
From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi Jinping is a man obscured by caricatures. In this short, essential primer, historian and writer Michael Dillon unveils the character of Xi Jinping - arguably the world's most powerful man - to truly understand his grip on China, what he wants and how the West gets him wrong. 
 
But this is not just the story of Xi; this is the story of today's largest economic powerhouse, which dives into the crux of the issue - what does Xi's leadership of China mean for the rest of the world, and what will he do next?

We Need To Talk About Xi

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Mindy Kaling

‘Where have you been all our lives, Mindy?’ Glamour 
 
Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: comedienne, actress, obedient child of immigrant professionals and, now, writer. With a blend of witty confessions and unscientific observations, Mindy writes about everything from being a timid young chubster afraid of her own bike to living the Hollywood life, dating, friendships and planning her own funeral – all executed with several conveniently placed stopping points for you to run errands and make phone calls. 
 
‘Hilarious’ Elle

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