Catch Me if You Can

Frank Abagnale

Frank Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters and escape artists in history. During his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and co-piloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practised law wihtout a licence, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged cheques - all before he was twenty-one. An hilarious, stranger-than-fiction account of his sumptuous life on the lam, international escapades and ingenious escapes, Catch Me if You Can is a captivating tale of deceit.
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Spygirl

True adventures from my life as a private eye, Amy Gray

Amy tells what it's like to work in a man's world; she describes the initiation new gumshoes are put through; the unique dynamics of her workplace (do you really want to fight over the last biscuit with someone who's packing heat?) and what happens when her professional and private lives collide.

Spygirl is a chronicle of the real-life adventures of a single girl in New York - trying to find a clean, sheap apartment, a satisfying career and a boyfriend who isn't the kind of guy she should probably be investigating.
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Captain James Cook

Richard Hough

James Cook was the last and greatest of the romantic navigators. In his relatively short and short and adventurous life (1728-79)he voyaged to the eastern and western seaboards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its peoples. He was the linking figure between the grey speculation of the early eighteenth century and the industrial age of the first half of the nineteenth century.

Richard Hough has written an exciting and marvellously readable biography, full of new insights and interpretations of one of the world's greatest mariners. - book cover
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Billy

Pamela Stephenson

If anyone knows Billy connolly better than himself, it's his wife, Pamela Stephenson. In this extraordinary book, she combines the very personal with a frank objectivity that makes for a compellingly moving - yet hugely entertaining - biography. This is the real Billy Connolly. - book cover
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A Foreign affair

Valerie Barnes

"Trapped in the austerity of post-war London, 20-year-old Valerie Barnes yearned for the good times promised by the wartime songs. Then two chance meetings catapulted her into a high-flying career at the newly-formed United Nations in Geneva and the arms of a glamorous Frenchman...

Joining an elite breed of independent women who travelled the world in the 1950s and 1960s, Valerie lived a jet-setting life as an intepreter, working in exotic locales and rubbing shoulders with prime ministers and presidents. At the same time she was juggling a Swiss chalet home, three children and a love-rat of a husbnd back in Geneva. But whatever Valerie did, she threw herself into it with zest. From dancing Flamenco to being kidnapped in Cairo, being wooed by an African president or falling for a passionate Pole, Valerie's gift for storytelling makes A Foreign Affair a lively, funny, utterly delightful memoir." - book cover
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Katey

by Lucinda Hawksley
The prospective reader on seeing the subtitle "The life and Loves of Dickens's Artist Daughter" might, might assume that it will be deadly dull but they couldn't be more wrong. The author, the great-great-great niece of Dickens, has produced a thoroughly entertaining insight into the family life of the Dickens family, who were among the A-listers of their generation. Far from being fuddy-duddy Victorians we are introduced into a family life full of complexities and problems,passions and pain. -- A good read for a long summer's day.


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