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Pam Ayres has spent a lifetime providing hilarious and profound insights into the delights and tribulations of everyday life. As a young woman in the seminal decade of 1960’s Great Britain, she doggedly pursued a career as a performer and writer, stepping far outside what was expected of her. In doing so she created a ... Pam Ayres – Doggedly Onwards: The Collected Poems

A funny, touching, challenging and campaigning book about our prisons' crisis by the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Bit of a Stretch.British prisoners have to endure the most inhumane and barbaric conditions imaginable, so why do so many of them keep going back?80% of criminals who receive cautions or convictions are reoffenders.46% of ex-prisoners ... Chris Atkins – Time After Time

On 6 June 1924, George Mallory donned an oxygen set and set off for the summit of Everest with his young partner Andrew Irvine. Two days later they were glimpsed through clouds heading upwards, but after that, they were never seen again. Whether they died on the way up or on the way down no ... Mick Conefrey – Fallen

This authoritative biography by Tom Baldwin provides answers by drawing deeply on many hours of interviews with the Labour leader himself, as well as unprecedented access to members of his family, his oldest friends and closest colleagues.Together, they tell an unexpectedly intimate story filled with feelings of grief and love that has driven him on ... Tom Baldwin – Keir Starmer, The Biography

The internationally renowned human rights barrister shows us how the powerto change the world is in the hands of people, not the people in power.'I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand ... Michael Mansfield – The Power in the People

June 1944. Operation Bagration: the greatest defeat ever suffered by the German Armed Forces. More than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German adversaries, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa three years earlier. In the ensuing three weeks, Hitler’s Army Group Centre lost 28 of its 32 divisions.While the same month saw the ... Jonathan Dimbleby – Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War