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Wired Up Wrong

Wired Up Wrong

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Author: Rachael Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Hoping to better understand her own brain, award-winning comic-creator Rachael Smith set about documenting her experiences and struggles with...
Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness

Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness

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Author: Bridget Pitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience - a cousin being dragged away by a...
Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

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Author: Simon Kuper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.'...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian...
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022

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Author: Katherine Rundell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity preacher and establishment darling, John Donne was incapable of being just one thing....
Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God

Cult Following: My escape and return to the Children of God

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Author: Bexy Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bexy Cameron grew up in the notorious Children of God cult, where the concept of family means something very different to...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

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Author: Markiyan Kamysh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'A voice that must be heard' - Patti Smith For many, the 1,000-square-mile Chornobyl Exclusion Zone is a symbol of total...
Unforgettable: Rugby, dementia and the fight of my life

Unforgettable: Rugby, dementia and the fight of my life

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Author: Steve Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In 2003, England won the rugby world cup. Steve Thompson was there, in England's front row, at the heart...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A...
After A Funeral

After A Funeral

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Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life. When...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect...
Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Thirteen Lessons that Saved Thirteen Lives: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

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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...
Small World, Big Ideas: Eco-Activists for Change

Small World, Big Ideas: Eco-Activists for Change

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Author: Satish Kumar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Small World, Big Ideas collects twelve of the most inspiring and courageous activists together to share their stories and...
A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons

A Gentle Radical: The Life of Jeanette Fitzsimons

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Author: Gareth Hughes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Jeanette Fitzsimons was a visionary, a pioneer and a radical. This is the story of someone who battles National...
John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP

John Stonehouse, My Father: The True Story of the Runaway MP

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Author: Julia Stonehouse Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Clear, dispassionate and selfless.' - Spectator 'A compelling account of an extraordinary political scandal, written from inside the Stonehouse...
No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

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Author: Jennifer Noonan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009,...
Tom Stoppard: A Life

Tom Stoppard: A Life

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Author: Professor Dame Hermione Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 In this gripping narrative, Hermione Lee builds a unique portrait of one of our greatest playwrights. Her...
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

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Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read...
Allegorizings

Allegorizings

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden

Grounding: Finding Home in a Garden

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Author: Lulah Ellender Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lulah Ellender's garden in Sussex is an unruly but beloved place. It is also not permanently her own. When just a...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

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Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An authoritative book, written with two close friends of Diana: Inspector Ken Wharfe was Diana's police protection officer for...
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood

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Author: Christa Parravani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In the wake of Texas enacting a bill to deny abortions after 6 weeks, Loved andWanted shines a light...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living - The Story of Windsor Hill Wood

A Place of Refuge: An Experiment in Communal Living - The Story of Windsor Hill Wood

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Author: Tobias Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Five years ago, Tobias Jones and his wife set up a woodland sanctuary for people in a period of crisis in...
The Barefoot Woman

The Barefoot Woman

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Author: Scholastique Mukasonga Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 153 From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, ahaunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction,...
Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far-flung places (a travel memoir)

Shape of a Boy: Family life lessons in far-flung places (a travel memoir)

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Author: Kate Wickers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Shape of a Boy is an inspirational parenting travel memoir from travel journalist and mother of three, Kate Wickers, as she...
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A memoir of family, war and peace

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A memoir of family, war and peace

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Author: Wayetu Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MUST-READ...
Autobibliography

Autobibliography

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Author: Rob Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In Autobibliography, Rob Doyle recounts a year spent rereading fifty-two of his favourite books ? from Dhammapada and Marcus Aurelius, via...
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller A searingly honest memoir of life, policing and falling apart 'Every contact leaves a trace' John...
The Shard: The Vision of Irvine Sellar

The Shard: The Vision of Irvine Sellar

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Author: Howard Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'We were told we would never get planning consent and we did. We were told we would never be able to...
Blasphemy: The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water

Blasphemy: The true, heartbreaking story of the woman sentenced to death over a cup of water

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Author: Asia Bibi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Punjab, Pakistan, June 2009. The temperature is 45 degrees; and Asia has been out picking fruit for several hours....
Rugby: The Game of My Life: Battling for England in the Professional Era

Rugby: The Game of My Life: Battling for England in the Professional Era

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Author: Rob Andrew Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Rob Andrew is one of the key figures in modern rugby history: an outstanding international who won three Grand Slams with...
Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America's First Bohemians

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Author: Justin Martin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy saloon changed American society and helped set...
Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

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Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships...
Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

Finding the Raga: An Improvisation on Indian Music

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Author: Amit Chaudhuri Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Supple, intricate and uncompromising, full of delicate observation andinsight, Amit Chaudhuri's Finding the Raga immerses us in the rigorousbeauty and cosmology...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

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Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

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Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Remarkable lives in extraordinary times - a gripping and exceptional literary journey.' - Philippe Sands In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander...
Snatched: Trapped by a Woman to Be Sold to Men

Snatched: Trapped by a Woman to Be Sold to Men

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Author: Elizabeth Harper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled 'one of the most abused girl in Rotherham', now...
Available: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce

Available: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce

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Author: Laura Friedman Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Gripping' Vogue 'Empowering' Cosmopolitan 'Joyful' Financial Times 'Eye-popping' Daily Mail When her 22-year-marriage suddenly ended, 47-year-old mother of...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. His dad kept it...
Notes from an Island

Notes from an Island

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Author: Tove Jansson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunstrom, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

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Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

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Author: Jennie Bond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For the first time, all 70 of the Queen's Christmas speeches are published together in full, along with six additional feature...