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When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
The End of an Earring

The End of an Earring

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Author: Pam St Clement Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 In January 2012, one of EastEnders' longest-serving and best-loved characters breathed her last when Pat Butcher succumbed to...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

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Author: Casey Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
Louis: My Story So Far

Louis: My Story So Far

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Author: Louis Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics. In...
The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

The Girl with the Self-Esteem Issues: A Memoir

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Author: Rosie Mercado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Latina superstar and daytime television host, Rosie Mercado, tells the story of her incredible life. When Rosie Mercado was only nineteen,...
Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons

Being Gazza: Tackling My Demons

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Author: Hunter Davies Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The nation has commented on and devoured Paul Gascoigne for years. But until now no one has ever known...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

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Author: Justin Spring Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of...
Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

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Author: Rebecca Front Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'I was completely captivated' David Sedaris People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations....
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

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Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

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Author: Emma Brockes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Emma Brockes was ten years old, her mother said 'One day I will tell you the story of...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior...
Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

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Author: Joe Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer

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Author: Sarah Bakewell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist How to get...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

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Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

Dear Fatty: The Perfect Mother's Day Read

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Author: Dawn French Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The number one bestselling autobiography of Britain's best-loved comedienne ___________________________ A hilarious, heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved...
Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

Sold To Be A Wife: Only a determined foster carer can stop a terrified girl from becoming a child bride

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Author: Maggie Hartley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The powerfully moving new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maggie Hartley. Fourteen-year-old Shazia has been taken into care...
Never Mind the Bullocks, One Girl's 10,000 km Adventure around India in the Worlds Cheapest Car

Never Mind the Bullocks, One Girl's 10,000 km Adventure around India in the Worlds Cheapest Car

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Author, Vanessa Able Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 288 **A Scotsman Non-Fiction Book of the Year** Vanessa Able wanted a truly independent Indian adventure, but nothing prepared her...
A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books: Christopher Columbus, His Son, and the Quest to Build the World's Greatest Library

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Author: Edward Wilson-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 This impeccably researched and "adventure-packed" (The Washington Post) account of the obsessive quest by Christopher Columbus's son to create...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

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Author: Adeline Yen Mah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death,...
Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

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Author: Raynor Winn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlister, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Author: Alison Bechdel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The new masterpiece from the bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist and feminist icon, whose fans include Gloria Steinem and Laura Marling *A...
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

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Author: Robert Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The fascinating royal and social history that inspired Seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, written by the show's...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent

Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent

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Author: Emma Baxter-Wright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Little Book of Yves Saint Laurent is the pocket-sized and exquisitely illustrated story of 60 years of innovative fashion design. An...
Unquiet

Unquiet

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Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

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Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing

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Author: Robert A Caro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting...
We Of The Never-Never

We Of The Never-Never

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Author: Aeneas Gunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The 100th year anniversary of this well loved Australian Classic. In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left...
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...