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Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to

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'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived...
Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood

Beautiful Country: A Memoir of An Undocumented Childhood

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The New York Times bestselling memoir a girl who learns to live - and then escape - an invisible life In China she was the daughter of professors. In Brooklyn...
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?: A memoir

Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?: A memoir

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The book we've all been waiting for, national treasure Judi Dench opens her almost inexhaustible collection of memories from life and acting. You might think you know Judi Dench. In...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
The Education of an Idealist

The Education of an Idealist

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'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world' Barack Obama THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE...
An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

An Unexpected Life: A Memoir

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Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and her path to becoming one of the world's most influential voices, with reflections on hope, happiness and...
When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood

When Skateboards Will Be Free: My Reluctant Political Childhood

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The revolution is not only inevitable, it is imminent. It is not only imminent, it is quite imminent. And when the time comes, my father will lead it. Said Sayrafiezadeh's...
Politics On the Edge

Politics On the Edge

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From the former Cabinet minister and co-presenter of hit podcast The Rest is Politics, a searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament A political journey through turbulent times...
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne's Most Notorious Cold Case

Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne's Most Notorious Cold Case

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1977, Collingwood. Two young women are brutally murdered. The killer has never been found. What happened in the house on Easey Street? On a warm night in January, Suzanne Armstrong...
Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

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A deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black...
What Have They Done to the Rain

What Have They Done to the Rain

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'My name is Patrick John Duggan and I was - am - a soldier.' So begins the story of Pat Duggan's life in the Army, and service in the Vietnam...
Through the Leopard's Gaze

Through the Leopard's Gaze

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In her captivating memoir Through the Leopard's Gaze , Njambi McGrath details the harrowing circumstances of her life as a young girl in Kenya, who one fateful night was beaten...
The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

The Gift of a Radio: My Childhood and other Train Wrecks

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Critically acclaimed, candid, unsparing, surprising and darkly funny, this memoir of a 1970s upbringing by the much-loved broadcaster Justin Webb is as much a portrait of that strange decade as...
Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

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Wry, off-beat and subversive - a Jewish family memoir like no other, from the author of the cult classic novel Submarine Joe Dunthorne's great-grandfather was a family legend: the eccentric...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one of...
Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the

Not Your Average Nurse: From 1970s London to Outback Australia, the

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'Over time, I nursed victims of war, the posh, the poor, the famous and the infamous . . . Oh, the stories I tell!' To a young girl the life...
Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

Life Inside: The Hard Reality of Prison and What It Takes To Survive

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"A gripping and powerful account of what prison is like and what it takes to make it through... Make sure you read it." Kimberley Chambers Widely known in the criminal...
Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival

Goodbye Sarajevo: A True Story of Courage, Love and Survival

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May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her twenty-one-year-old sister, Atka, staying...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

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It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
The Porcelain Thief

The Porcelain Thief

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In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze...
Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

Foreign Fruit: A Personal History of the Orange

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A sharp-sweet memoir of change, identity and hybridity. I loved it - KATHERINE MAY, author of Wintering The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked...
Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity

Possessions: A Memoir of Transformation in an Era of Precarity

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'I was so thirsty for the prize of academia, so thrilled to defy the fates, that I suffocated my own history and culture, my Burmese heritage and my mother's language....
Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir

Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My 90s Rock Memoir

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Thanks to a thrown beer bottle and a fan letter to a P.O. box, Melissa Auf der Maur's first band scored an opening slot for the Smashing Pumpkins in her...
Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

Behind the Door: The Dark Truths and Untold Stories of the Cecil Hotel

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The disturbing true story of the notorious Cecil Hotel in downtown LA, by its general manager for a decade and star of the controversial Netflix documentary series Crime Scene: The...
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to

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'A fresh, unexpected, and revealing portrait of Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM , Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Red Famine 'A century of Russian history told through the women who lived...
Lessons I've Learned

Lessons I've Learned

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"I am a work in progress. There are times when I feel in control and like I know what I'm doing...and there are times (quite a few)(actually lots) when I've...
Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia

Memoirs of a Survivor: The Golitsyn Family in Stalin's Russia

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When the Revolution broke out in 1917, Sergei Golitsyn was just 8 years old. His memoir of the Revolution and the years that followed constitute one of the most powerful...
Once a King: The revelatory unpublished memoir of Edward VIII: a

Once a King: The revelatory unpublished memoir of Edward VIII: a

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''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'. --- The Telegraph 'Tippett has made a remarkable archival discovery...the...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

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'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning

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'Written in gorgeous, sparse prose, We Survived the Night reads like a novel. [...] A book I've been waiting my whole life to read.' Tommy Orange, author of There ThereAs...
Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the

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The book titled Journey to a Revolution: A Personal Memoir and History of the by the author Michael Korda. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
Undiscovered

Undiscovered

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Alone in an ethnographic museum in Paris, Gabriela Wiener is confronted with her unusual inheritance. She is visiting an exhibition of pre-Columbian artefacts, the spoils of European colonial plunder, many...
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944

War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944

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War in Val D'Orcia is the elegantly simple chronicle of daily life at La Foce, a manor in a Tuscan no-man's land bracketed by foreign invasion and civil war. Writing...
Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars

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From the stylist behind David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust look, an electrifying peek behind the curtains during a legendary chapter of pop culture history. Suzi Ronson was working in a Beckenham...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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"A pioneering member of the Windrush generation of Caribbean migrants who marked the symbolic beginning of a multicultural Britain." - The Guardian RAF Veteran and Prince's Trust Awardee, Alford Dalrymple...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be - as incarnated by trailblazing Black...
Trials of Hope: An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache

Trials of Hope: An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache

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Winner of the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope tells the story of a shepherd boy turned human-rights academic set against the backdrop of the author's beloved...
For Love or Money

For Love or Money

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'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...
Coasting

Coasting

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'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...
The Music Room

The Music Room

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From the bestselling author of "The Snow Geese" comes a mesmerizing tribute to an adored older brother. When William Fiennes was a small boy, his parents inherited an extraordinary home:...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...
My Left Foot

My Left Foot

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My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and his determination to learn to read, write, and paint,...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

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It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...