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Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in the 1970s

Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in the 1970s

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Author: Bruce Fogle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Arriving in 1970s' London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would...
Mummy, Please Don't Leave

Mummy, Please Don't Leave

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Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A heartbreaking true story of a broken family and the foster carer who wants to keep them together... The...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
The World I Fell Out Of

The World I Fell Out Of

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Author: Melanie Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny,...
The Second Life of Tiger Woods

The Second Life of Tiger Woods

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Author: Michael Bamberger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Tiger Woods's long descent into a personal and professional hell reached bottom in the early hours of Memorial Day...
The Senecans

The Senecans

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of...
Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant

Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant

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Author: Marc Forgione Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The eagerly awaited first cookbook from one of Food Network's favourite competitors on the wildly popular Iron Chef America. Chef Marc...
Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes

Tokyo New Wave: 31 Chefs Defining Japan's Next Generation, with Recipes

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Author: Andrea Fazzari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Showcasing the new talent of Tokyo's vibrant food scene, Andrea Fazzari profiles 31 chefs who are shaping the future of one...
The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

The Second Most Powerful Man in the World: The Life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's Chief of Staff

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Author: Phillips Payson O'Brien Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief...
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton

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Author: Philip Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

Alone: Lost Overboard in the Indian Ocean

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Author: Brett Archibald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Solitude is terrifying and awe-inspiring in Alone. --The Wall Street Journal In April 2013, fifty-year-old Brett Archibald was on board a...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

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Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 A fascinating exploration of the character of Adolf Hitler- the most powerful and destructive man in history. Accompanies the...
The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Following the hugely successful hardback, this extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology looks set to be the...
The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

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Author: Tommy Caldwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A climber's journey of endurance, risk and going beyond limits A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

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Author: Adeline Yen Mah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death,...
Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

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Author: Peter Scott-Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that...
Born to Run: My Story

Born to Run: My Story

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Author: Cathy Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hi guys, ever since I was little I only had one dream - to win a gold medal at...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...
The Confessions

The Confessions

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Soldier Spy

Soldier Spy

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Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Granta 145: Ghosts

Granta 145: Ghosts

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang,...
Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
Behind the Lens: My Life

Behind the Lens: My Life

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Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

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Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

When Time Stopped: A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains

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Author: Ariana Neumann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'It's not always a grim story. Alongside anger and despair there is love and hope. But the message is...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

Journey to the Abyss: The Diaries of Count Harry Kessler, 1880-1918

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Author: Harry Kessler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 976 These fascinating, never-before-published early diaries of Count Harry Kessler--patron, museum director, publisher, cultural critic, soldier, secret agent, and diplomat--present a sweeping...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

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Author: Juno Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'It's a boy!' or 'It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world....
In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

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Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

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Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful...
Seneca: A Life

Seneca: A Life

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Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
Suarez - 2016 Updated Edition: The Extraordinary Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent

Suarez - 2016 Updated Edition: The Extraordinary Story Behind Football's Most Explosive Talent

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Author: Luca Caioli Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Luis Suarez is one of the most brilliant and controversial players in world football.Signed by Barcelona in 2014 despite...