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What a Flanker

What a Flanker

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful - I am just hugely fond...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World

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Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news...
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor...
Majak

Majak

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Author: Majak Daw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other....
The Coffin Confessor

The Coffin Confessor

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Author: William Edgar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

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Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
For the Record

For the Record

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Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
The Chiffon Trenches

The Chiffon Trenches

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Author: Andre Leon Talley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
Pocket Audrey Hepburn Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes From a Film Icon

Pocket Audrey Hepburn Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes From a Film Icon

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Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Audrey Hepburn is one of Hollywood's greatest icons, and still one of the world's most recognisable actresses. In addition to...
Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

Jimmy Page: The Definitive Biography

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Author: Chris Salewicz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Founder of one of the most influential and successful rock bands of all time, legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy...
Scrappy Little Nobody

Scrappy Little Nobody

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Author: Anna Kendrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene

Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene

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Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Freedom

Freedom

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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 Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

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Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After reading The Good Hand...
James Herriot's Animal Stories

James Herriot's Animal Stories

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Author: James Herriot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This collection of tales about the beloved veterinarian's encounters with various members of the animal kingdom is the perfect gift for...
Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

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Author: Andrea di Robilant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught...
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good...
Things I Learned from Falling

Things I Learned from Falling

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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...
Esther's Notebooks 1: Tales from my ten-year-old life

Esther's Notebooks 1: Tales from my ten-year-old life

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Author: Sam Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 56 Every week, the comic book artist Riad Sattouf has a chat with his friend's daughter, Esther. She tells him...
Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival

Slave: The True Story of a Girl's Lost Childhood and Her FIght for Survival

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Author: Mende Nazer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Mende Nazer's happy childhood was cruelly cut short at the age of twelve when the Mujahidin rode into her...
The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens

The Day the Music Died: A Life Lived Behind the Lens

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Author: Tony Garnett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'An extraordinary book by an extraordinary man' Ken Loach Tony Garnett's story begins in working-class, war-torn Birmingham where he...
Can I Carry Your Bags?: The Life of a Sports Hack Abroad

Can I Carry Your Bags?: The Life of a Sports Hack Abroad

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Author: Martin Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In nearly 25 years as a sports journalist for the Independent, Daily Telegraph, and The Sunday Times, Martin Johnson...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

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Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...
Life on Air

Life on Air

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Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma

Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma

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Author: Matthew Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

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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...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

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Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
Rising Hope: Recipes and Stories from Luminary Bakery

Rising Hope: Recipes and Stories from Luminary Bakery

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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...
Lenin the Dictator

Lenin the Dictator

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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in...
Born On a Blue Day

Born On a Blue Day

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Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date...
The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear,...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

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Author: Rod Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and...
The Very Busy Spider

The Very Busy Spider

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Author: Eric Carle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 24 A book to feel as well as to read, this bestselling companion title to The Very Hungry Caterpillar appears...
Island Home

Island Home

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world,...
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia

The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia

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Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living...
The American Duchess

The American Duchess

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Author:Anna Pasternak Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Who was the real Wallis: an opportunistic American social climber, a master manipulator or the true love of Edward's life?...
Inside Out: A Memoir

Inside Out: A Memoir

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Author: Demi Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the...
Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography

Faster than Lightning: My Autobiography

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Author: Usain Bolt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The autobiography of the fastest man of all time and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him...
The Life of Charlotte Bronte

The Life of Charlotte Bronte

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Author: Elizabeth Gaskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 544 Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and remains...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Charles Chaplin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 As a child, Charlie Chaplin was awed and inspired by the sight of glamorous vaudeville stars passing his home,...
One-Way Street and Other Writings

One-Way Street and Other Writings

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Author: Walter Benjamin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers...