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Coppin The Great

Coppin The Great

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Author: Alec Bagot Format: Hardback Published: 1965, MUP Condition Remarks: Very Good. ,First Edition,,Some wear and tear on dustjacket,Bright and clear text on unmarked pages Description: "Coppin the Great" by...
The Illustrated Pepys

The Illustrated Pepys

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Author: Robert Latham (ed) Format: Hardback Published: 1978, Bell and Heyman Condition Remarks: Excellent. ,,,Unblemished dustjacket,Bright and clear text on unmarked pages Description: Pepys's Diary has long been recognised as...
A Short Ride in the Jungle: The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Motorcycle

A Short Ride in the Jungle: The Ho Chi Minh Trail by Motorcycle

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Author: Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 It was Sunday morning and the pavements were splashed with colour: piles of fuchsia dragon fruit, ripe green mangoes, scented white...
The Moth: This Is a True Story

The Moth: This Is a True Story

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Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches,...
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island

From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island

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Author: Lorna Goodison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Lorna's great-grandfather, William Harvey, discovered a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of escaping slaves,...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

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Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
Great Bales of Fire: More Tales of a Country Fireman

Great Bales of Fire: More Tales of a Country Fireman

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Author: Malcolm Castle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 More tales of a country fireman, from the author of ALL FIRED UP. Perfect for fans of HEARTBEAT or the brand...
Homelands: The History of a Friendship

Homelands: The History of a Friendship

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Author: Chitra Ramaswamy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 THE SALTIRE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR A GUARDIAN'S BEST MEMOIR AND BIOGRAPHY OF 2022 'Remarkable' - The Times 'Achingly beautiful'...
A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons

A Yorkshire Vet Through the Seasons

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Author: Julian Norton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Warm and heartfelt stories and amusing anecdotes from the life of a vet in God's Own County. Julian Norton has been...
Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo

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Author: Hettie Judah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Step into the world of Frida Kahlo: behind the portraits and the surrealist art discover the fascinating woman who has transfixed...
The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods

The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods

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Author: Greg King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The definitive story of the California redwoods, their discovery and their exploitation, as told by an activist who fought to protect...
Never Stop Dreaming: My Euro 96 Story - SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

Never Stop Dreaming: My Euro 96 Story - SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021

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Author: Stuart Pearce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Stuart Pearce became the face of England's bid to win the 1996 European Championships when his maniacal explosion of joy and...
The South Bank Show: Final Cut

The South Bank Show: Final Cut

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Author: Melvyn Bragg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 What drives a musician to write extraordinary songs? How do writers create their worlds? How does an actor achieve greatness? For...
Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

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Author: Jonathan Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, ?lm...
Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

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Author: Leigh Hosy-Pickett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Hilarious' Russell Brand 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring 'Totally engaging, highly inspiring and impossible to put down' Nazir Afzal OBE Leigh...
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

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Author: Jasper Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the...
I Laughed, I Cried: One Woman, One Hundred Days, The Mother of all Challenges

I Laughed, I Cried: One Woman, One Hundred Days, The Mother of all Challenges

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Author: Viv Groskop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The working mum's version of Eddie Izzard's 50 marathons in 50 days. Hilarious.' Sally Phillips 'Absolutely hilarious' Jennifer Saunders 'Brilliant' Jo...
Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between

Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between

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Author: Dan Jarvis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020 'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage...
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it....
Take Nothing For Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

Take Nothing For Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

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Author: Ross Kemp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Jaw-dropping experiences' - THE SUN *** Readers are also LOVING Take Nothing For Granted . . . 'So so good! Am...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
SCOOPS: NOW A MAJOR MOVIE ON NETFLIX

SCOOPS: NOW A MAJOR MOVIE ON NETFLIX

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Author: Sam McAlister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Sam McAlister is the woman who clinched the 2019 interview with Prince Andrew described as 'a plane crashing into an oil...
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

Home: A Memoir of My Early Years

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Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Over the years Julie Andrews has been much interviewed in the press and on television, but she has never before revealed...
Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

Call The Midwife: A True Story Of The East End In The 1950s

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Author: Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The...
Catherine de Medici: Now the major TV series THE SERPENT QUEEN

Catherine de Medici: Now the major TV series THE SERPENT QUEEN

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Orphaned in infancy, Catherine de Medici was the sole legitimate heiress to the Medici family fortune. Married at fourteen to the...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

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Author: Neil McKenna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Uproarious.' - The Times 'Terrifically entertaining.' - Evening Standard 'Irresistible.' - Daily Mail 'Gripping.' - Sunday Telegraph London, April 1870: Fanny...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

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Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
Breathtaking: The story you haven't been told - now a major ITV series

Breathtaking: The story you haven't been told - now a major ITV series

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Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Vera Brittain: A Life

Vera Brittain: A Life

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Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem -...
Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Author: Robert Pirsig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon...
Managing Difficult People in a Week

Managing Difficult People in a Week

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Author: David Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Mr Nice

Mr Nice

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Author: Howard Marks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 He was Britain's most wanted man, and spent seven years in America's toughest prison. You'll like him. The incredible story of...
Tales from the Secret Footballer

Tales from the Secret Footballer

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Author: Anon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 **From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Footballer** FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS The Secret Footballer is...
Being Elvis: The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's major biopic

Being Elvis: The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's major biopic

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Author: Ray Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The perfect companion to Baz Luhrmann's forthcoming biopic Elvis, a major motion picture starring Tom Hanks and Austin Butler. What was...
Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

Trust Me, I'm a (Junior) Doctor

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Author: Max Pemberton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 If you re going to be ill, it s best to avoid the first Wednesday in August. This is the day...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

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Author: Philip Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'Frisell plays guitar like Miles Davis played trumpet.' -NEW YORKER Over a period of forty-five years, Bill Frisell has established himself...
Beeswing

Beeswing

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Author: Richard Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Richard Thompson came of age at an extraordinary moment in British culture. It was 1967 and popular music was reflecting a wide...
Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

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Author: Catrina Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It's about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you're...
Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man

Self-Made Man: My Year Disguised as a Man

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Author: Norah Vincent Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Norah Vincent really did date women as a guy named Ned, retreat to a monastery, infiltrate a men's therapy group, get...
King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical

King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical

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Author: Pat Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 On 2nd February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dlamini (known as 'King Kong')...
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it....
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens...
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death

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Author: Caitlin Doughty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 As a practising mortician, Caitlin Doughty has long been fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies. In FROM HERE TO...
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

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Author: Osman Yousefzada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautifully observed and funny book' - Guardian 'Compelling and humane' - Sathnam Sanghera A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest

Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest

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Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...