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An Unseemly Man
This autobiography details the story of Larry Flynt's rise from small town beginnings to become one of the richest men in America, owning a string of nightclubs, sex outlets and,...
Killing Zone
A man who was once licensed to kill, and in 1995 is qualifying to be a barrister, tells his story of a life in the Paras, the South African Special...
Family Wanted: Adoption Stories
Family has always been fertile ground for writers. To the usual familial themes, adoption adds its own potent elements: mystery, luck, the questing for origins, the yearning for a child,...
Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival
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On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is...
Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad
Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Inspiring Men of the Faith
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Ratchet up your faith with these riveting accounts of four mighty Christian men. Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on a cathedral door and sparked the fire of the German...
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace
In 2000 Rye Barcott spent part of his summer living in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. He was a college student heading into the American Marines, and he sought...
God's Callgirl
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Traumatised by a terrible event in her childhood, Carla van Raay entered a convent at the age of eighteen. Expecting to find understanding and inner peace amongst her fellow nuns,...
This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female,
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of The Roots' 28 Brilliant Books by Black Authors in 2018 "A writer to be reckoned with." -Roxane Gay Named one of the Most Anticipated...
Seeking Rapture: A Memoir
Now a mother herself, Harrison has written a memoir about the ties that bind mothers to their children - and the forces that can drive them apart. She reveals the...
The Odd Woman and the City
Every night when I turn the lights out in my sixteenth-floor living room before I go to bed, I experience a shock of pleasure as I see the banks of...
The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing
'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love, to share, to protect others - can triumph in the worst...
The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Learning to Be Free
Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. He has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as the men and women he works with...
The Lost Son: A Life in Pursuit of Justice
An astonishing story of bravery and honour: One man's quest-against incredible odds-to make a stand against crime...and to uncover the painful truths of his own background. From the sagging row...
Desert Dawn
Now in B format. I wanted to return to the place where I was born and see it with new eyes. I had no idea where my family was in...
A Child Called It
Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games ' games that left one of her three sons nearly...
My Forbidden Face
Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her...
Straight Up and Dirty
When Stephanie Klein hit her twenty-fourth birthday she thought she had everything she could possibly have wanted from life- A good job, a succesful husband, a Manhattan apartment and a...
My Travels with Mrs. Kennedy
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The #1 New York Times bestselling authors of Mrs. Kennedy and Me reveal never-before-told stories of Secret Service Agent Clint Hill's travels with Jacqueline Kennedy through...
The Other Side of the Dale
Gervase Phinn - "your name sounds like a brand of French yoghurt" he is told - is appointed as school inspector in North Yorkshire, visiting schools in and around the...
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations
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Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the difficulties she faced in reconciling her two worlds. With...
All Fired Up: Tales of a Country Fireman
Nothing about the county fire service was quite what Malcolm expected when he joined the watch in Shrewsbury. As the newest member of the service he was first in line...
Bridge Across My Sorrows
On the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, the destitute children swarm and the rich turn a blind eye. To these needy children "Mama Tina" has become an irrepressible, unorthodox...
Back on the Block: Bill Simon's Story
Stolen, beaten, deprived of his liberty and used as child labour, Bill Simon's was not a normal childhood. He was told his mother didn't want him that he was 'the...
Zoya's Story: A Woman's Struggle for Freedom in Afghanistan
Zoya grew up in Kabul during the wars that ravaged Afghanistan. The daughter of activists, she was to lose both parents to the mujaheddin at an early age. She then...
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
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Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her...
A Promise To Nadia
Ten years ago Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride, leaving behind her baby son,...
Criminal
When Caspar Walsh was three years old his mother rejected him in favour of a boyfriend. His father became his primary carer. But Caspar's father robbed banks. He dealt drugs...
Liverpool Miss
The second volume of Helen Forrester's powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool during the Depression.
Playing in the Dark
** PUB DELAYED DUE TO UK LEGAL ISSUES** hen Siobhan Kennedy-McGuinness first ventured into Eamonn Cooke's garage, to her seven-year-old eyes it was like an Aladdin's cave. Filled with broadcasting...
A Girl Called Karen: A True Story of Sex Abuse and Resilience
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"A Girl Called Karen" is one woman's shocking yet inspirational story of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and later, her foster father. Despite the trauma and anguish...
Touched by Evil: The true story of the psychic powers that saved me
Michele's childhood was a nightmare. Growing up in the 1970s, her mother was a gifted psychic but highly unstable, unable to control the dark forces her powers unleashed or to...
Hey Mum, What's a Half-Caste?
Lorraine McGee-Sippel was just a small girl when she asked her parents what a half-caste was. It was the 1950s and the first step on a journey that would span...
Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths
A rare and extraordinary glimpse into the reality of life in North Korea, by a member of the powerful elite SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER Dear Leader contains astonishing new...
Destroyed
When eight-year-old Jayne returned to England from bomb-torn Northern Ireland, her family stayed with relatives and a distant cousin began a campaign of abuse so horrifying that her world was...
Raising My Voice
Malalai Joya has been described as the bravest woman in the world. As a teenager she worked as a woman's rights activist under the Taliban, running underground classes and clinics...
Bad Men: Guantanamo Bay and the Secret Prisons
Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-old human-rights lawyer who has famously - some would say notoriously - spent more than twenty years in the United States representing prisoners on Death...
Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American
Stubborn Twig is a classic American story, a story of immigrants making their way in a new land. It is a living work of social history that rings with the...
The Joyous Patriot: Correspondence of Sir Ralph Verney
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Just A Boy: The True Story Of A Stolen Childhood
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Beware of the Dog: Rugby's Hard Man Reveals All
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Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner-a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty,...
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner-a gripping memoir about college, motherhood, poverty,...
I've Been Thinking
One of philosophy's finest minds looks back over a life in thought 'Who would have guessed that a philosopher's life could be so full of adventures?' Daniel C. Dennett, philosopher...