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The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

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Author: Hannah Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it...
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

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Author: Alastair Sawday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron...
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...
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

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Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

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Author: Niall Breslin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his book, Niall Breslin speaks openly about living with depression and anxiety, and his crippling journey to finally acknowledging 'Jeffrey'...
Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities:...
Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

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Author: Samuel Meffire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The extraordinary and exciting story of East Germany's first Black police officer. Samuel Meffire grew up as a Black German in...
The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

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Author: Lee Sansum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection....
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

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Author: Eddie Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From Eddie 'The Beast' Hall, the winner of World's Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off...
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...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

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Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

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Author: Phillipe Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes...
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

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Author: Jackie Malton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' -...
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...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

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Author: Phil Mews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Letters to Gil

Letters to Gil

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Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to...
Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

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Author: Laura Canty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 *** As recommended by Josh Widdicombe on the PARENTING HELL podcast "It's staggeringly honest but also really funny - I laughed...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

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Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

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Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

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Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Sink: A Memoir

Sink: A Memoir

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Author: Joseph E Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

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Author: Darryl Pinckney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

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Author: Haley McGee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long...
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

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Author: Stuart Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

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Author: Chris Paling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory - the remarkable story of the scientific friendships that changed the world forever

The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory - the remarkable story of the scientific friendships that changed the world forever

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Author: Andrew Ramsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
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...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

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Author: Anna Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Divide is well written and thought-provoking.' Sunday Telegraph This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn...
The Boy in the Book

The Boy in the Book

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Author: Nathan Penlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that...
Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

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Author: James Newton, Dfc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'I couldn't see the tank. I couldn't see it... Someone was screaming over the radio. "Scream all you want, I...
My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave

My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave

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Author: Dave Pelzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A CHILD CALLED IT is Dave Pelzer's story of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

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Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 He was one of the most eminent literary figures in the world. She was the kind of pioneering woman who knew...