* The sixth volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with publication of her new book

This is the story of a Spitfire pilot, Robbie Robertson, who was shot down and badly injured, having achieved Ace status, during the fighting in North Africa

The third son of a coalminer, David Storey takes us from his tough upbringing in Wakefield, to being 'sold' to Leeds Rugby League Club, to his escape to the Slade School of Art and his life in post-war London.

As London swelters in a heatwave - sunstroke strikes, meat rots, ice is coveted - a glamorous coterie of writers and artists spend their summer wining, dining and opining. With the ringletted 'face of an Egyptian cat goddess', Elizabeth Barrett is courted by her secret fiance, the poet Robert Browning, who plots their elopement to Italy;

The influence of Aldeburgh and the Suffolk Coast on the poet behind 'Peter Grimes'.

Journalist Clodagh Finn meticulously pieces together the story of the brave Irish woman who risked her life and spent time in a Gestapo prison for saving the lives of hundreds of people - adults and children - bound for Nazi concentration camps.

The confessions of a midlist writer - what nobody sets out to be, but the destination of most.

Standing over two graves, Rigoberto Gonzalez studies the names 'Ramon' and 'Maria' under the family name 'Gonzalez.' 'She was Maria Carrillo, not Maria Gonzalez', he thinks. His grandmother is missing. So begins Gonzalez's memoir, a journey to recover a more complete picture of his grandmother, who raised him following his mother's death.

The memoir from the writer and music PR legend, Barbara Charone