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From the Ground Up: Stories from the men and women who built, serviced and flew aircraft in WWII
Author: Edward Smithies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Fascinating ... this collection illuminates corners of the wartime world ... it provides a valuable and often entertaining window' GUARDIAN 'The...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control
Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace
Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ... Compelling' Daily...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave
Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major...
Things I Learned from Falling
Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth
Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
Doctors Get Cancer Too: A Doctor's Diary of Life and Recovery From Cancer
Author: Doctor Dr Philippa Kaye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 It s cancer. Dr Philippa Kaye was 39 years old when she heard those dreaded words. The diagnosis of...
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...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia
Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband...
The Flying Vet: The extraordinary inspiring true story of life as a female vet and farmer in the remote Australian outback, perfect for fans of Muster Dogs and Back Roads
Author: Ameliah Scott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 My journey to the skies and the people and animals of the Australian outback The inspiring story of the intrepid Dr...
An Innocent Baby: Why would anyone abandon little Darcy-May?
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 When foster carer, Cathy Glass, is asked to foster Darcy-May, a two-day old baby, she is very concerned. The...
Freedom
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
The Hard Road Out: One Woman's Escape From North Korea
Author: Jihyun Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. 'A...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis
Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
Freedom
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to...
Relentless: Secrets of the Sporting Elite
Author: Alistair Brownlee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his quest to define 'sporting greatness', double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and...
Rising Hope: Recipes and Stories from Luminary Bakery
Author: Luminary Bakery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 252 'inspiring stories ... alongside beautifully illustrated sweet and savoury recipes.' BBC GOOD FOOD '[An] inspiring London bakery ... empowering tales are...
More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short
Author: Katie McCabe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, or worse, 'mistress' of a...
Murder: The Biography
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof....
Mummy, Please Don't Leave
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...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue
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...
Tuesdays with Morrie: The international bestseller
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Mitch Albom Format: Paperback...
Deadly Quiet City: Stories From Wuhan, COVID Ground Zero
Author: Murong Xuecun Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From one of China's most celebrated and silenced literary authors, Murong Xuecun, Deadly Quiet City is an unforgettable collection of true...
This House Of Grief
Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration...
Forever Boy: A Mother's Memoir of Autism and Finding Joy
Author: Kate Swenson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An honest and inspiring memoir of autism, motherhood, and love from the creator of Finding Cooper's Voice. When Kate Swenson's son...
Will You Take Me Home?: The brave rescue dog from the puppy farm who became a movie star
Author: Julie Tottman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A moving true story that will pull at the heartstrings' - Woman & Home The first book in the Paws of...
Liking Myself Back
Author: Jacey Duprie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Entrepreneur and lifestyle influencer Jacey Duprie shares her inspiring journey of going from farm girl to fashion icon and...
The Mother Project: Making it to parenthood the (very) long way round
Author: Sophie Beresiner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Impossible to put down, makes you laugh and cry, Sophie's story is inspirational. It gives us so much hope and encouragement....
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
Author: John Volanthen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Read about the daring mission documented in the award-winning film, The Rescue. In this first-hand account, John Volanthen reveals...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'The farewell calls from the planes... the mounting terror of air traffic control... the...
The People Smuggler: The True Story Of Ali Al Jenabi,
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Code Name Blue Wren
Author: Jim Popkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls
Author: Joe Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block...
SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden
Author: Chuck Pfarrer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 On May 2, 2011, at 1:03 a.m. in Pakistan, a satellite uplink was sent from the town of Abbottabad crackling into...
Three Women
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Flak
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby-Dick'
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A Scandal in Bohemia
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Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets
Author: Burkhard Bilger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply...
Too Young to be a Mum: Can Jess learn to be a good mummy, when she is only a child herself?
Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 When sixteen-year-old Jess arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep with her newborn son Jimmy, she has nowhere else to go....
Women of the Outback
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Austerlitz
Author: W. G. Sebald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Austerlitz is W. G. Sebald's haunting novel of post-war Europe. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to...
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris
Author: Holly Tucker (Vanderbilt University) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In the late 1600s, Louis XIV assigns Nicolas de la Reynie to bring order to the city of Paris...