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An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer

An Officer and a Gentlewoman: The Making of a Female British Army Officer

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Author: Heloise Goodley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 When Heloise Goodley ditched her City job and decided to attend officer training at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, she had...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author

Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author

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Author: Joan Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'I'm lucky to have an inexhaustible appetite for life. I've had many amazing adventures in Hollywood and beyond, but some stories...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

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Author: Mark Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I...
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 THE INSTANT NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
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: Hardback 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,...
Till Wrong Feels Right

Till Wrong Feels Right

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Author: Iggy Pop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Iggy Pop Lyrics
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

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Author: Katherine May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the...
Limited Edition of One

Limited Edition of One

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Author: Steven Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do...
Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

Rob Delaney: Mother. Wife. Sister. Human. Warrior. Falcon. Yardstick. Turban. Cabbage.

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Author: Rob Delaney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Rob Delaney is a father, a husband, a comedian, a writer. He is the author of an endless stream of beautiful,...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

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Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'She is the cur's cods, the terrier's testicles, the business. I will go farther and declare that Atkins is the finest...
The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

The Literary Larrikin: A Critical Biography of T.A.G. Hungerford

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Cholas in Bowlers: Journey to Bolivia

Cholas in Bowlers: Journey to Bolivia

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A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance

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Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

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Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

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The Argonauts

The Argonauts

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Elliot: A Biography of John Elliot

Elliot: A Biography of John Elliot

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Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet

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Howard Hughes: The Untold Story

Howard Hughes: The Untold Story

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

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Just as I am

Just as I am

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Ransacking Paris

Ransacking Paris

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The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Life of Kingsley Amis

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One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

One Common Enemy: The Laconia incident: A survivor's memoir

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Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer

Fragile Paradise: The Discovery of Fletcher Christian, Bounty Mutineer

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Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

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Author: Selma Blair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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Author: Michael Daly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that...
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

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Author: Stevie Van Zandt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography' Paul McCartney 'An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones...
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

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Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...
Free Radical: A Memoir

Free Radical: A Memoir

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Author: Vince Cable Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Today Vince Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston), revered for...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the...
Sista Sister

Sista Sister

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Author: Candice Brathwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance....
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

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Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

Motherwell: The moving memoir of growing up in 60s and 70s working class Scotland

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Author: Deborah Orr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 'A fitting legacy...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
To Be Honest

To Be Honest

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Author: Michael Leviton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A memoir about one man's strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty Raised in what he affectionately calls "our...
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

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Author: John Densmore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the...
The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series

The Serpent Queen: Now a major TV series

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 NOW THE TV SERIES 'THE SERPENT QUEEN', STARRING SAMANTHA MORTON The bestselling revisionist biography of one of the great women of...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'My life was changing and I didn't like it. Everything was so out of my control, even...
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

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Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...
Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

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Author: Matt Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Serial Griller and South's Best Butts, a cookbook of more than 125 everyday specialty recipes plus meaty...