Chosen as one of Sight & Sound's 'Best Film Books of the Year' John Boorman is one of the cinema's authentic visionaries, drawn to myths and dreams. In Conclusions Boorman summarises what he has learned about the craft of film-making, and wishes to pass on to the next generation of film-makers.

Preorder the definitive account of the rise and fall of the world's fastest plane from British Airways' former Chief Concorde Pilot.

Features the biography of Condoleezza Rice. Based on interviews with her former colleagues such as George Schultz, as well as her close family - this work offers an insight into her childhood in Birmingham Alabama, lynching capital of the US.

The full, frank and shocking autobiography of Judas Priest's Metal God.

The immigration man read my deportation order, looked at it and handed it back to me. Not only is it the last instalment of a unique and unorthodox autobiography, but of a unique and unorthodox life that was as touched with genius as it was with doom.

In the aftermath of the Great Famine, the Martin Estate in the West of Ireland was put up for sale. Its mortgagees, the London Law Life Insurance Society, evicted many of the tenants, and in February 1853 sent Thomas Colville Scott to conduct a survey of their property. This is his journal, recently discovered at an auction-house in England.

A revised edition of this landmark 1988 illustrated biography of one of the great women of Irish history, and Europe's first elected female politician.