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Lights of Liverpool

Lights of Liverpool

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Author: Ruth Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Three families in post-war Liverpool, connected by history, separated by circumstance. The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels...
My Mother's Life

My Mother's Life

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Author: None Format: Paperback Number of Pages: With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organised into chapters based on her life, My Mother's Life guides your mother to...
The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

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Author: Catherine Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Truthful, modern and real' - Stylist magazine 'Hilarious, sharp, spitfire writing' - Sacha Z. Scoblic, Senior Editor at The Atlantic and...
Bullshit!: Amazing Lies and Unbelievable Truths from Around the Globe

Bullshit!: Amazing Lies and Unbelievable Truths from Around the Globe

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Author: Michael Getz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book brings together some of the most weird and wonderful true and not so- true tales that will confound, delight...
The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss

The Little Guide to Bruce Springsteen: The Boss

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Bruce Springsteen arrived on the world's stage in 1973 with two incredible albums in one year, a prolificacy that would define...
The Little Book of Compassion: For when life gets a little tough

The Little Book of Compassion: For when life gets a little tough

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The virtue of compassion is universally valued. Derived from the Latin 'com' and 'passio' and meaning 'to suffer together', practising compassion...
The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your palms

The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your palms

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Predict your future, reveal your past and understand your personality, talents and secrets with the art of chiromancy. Palmistry is not...
Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story

Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story

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Author: Lysa Walder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her...
Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

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Author: P.P. Arnold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 P.P. Arnold's story is that of a rich and varied life. From her early musical origins in powerhouse church gospel, the...
Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

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Author: Esme Young Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 To any self-respecting sewing fan, Esme Young needs no introduction. The diminutive judge of The Great British Sewing Bee has a...
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

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Author: Colin Grant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian...
Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World: Protecting The Princess Around The World

Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World: Protecting The Princess Around The World

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Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In public Diana was feted wherever she went, greeted by adoring crowds and fawned over by the media. In private she...
Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

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Author: Claire Ratinon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food...
My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream

My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream

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Author: Janine Marsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France....
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-ravaged Hospital

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Author: Sheri Fink Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 In the tradition of the best writing on human behaviour and moral choices in the face of disaster, physician and reporter...
The Durrells of Corfu

The Durrells of Corfu

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Author: Michael Haag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Simon Nye's TV series, The Durrells, is based loosely on Gerald Durrell's Corfu Trilogy and in particular his much-loved bestseller, My...
Carpenters: The Musical Legacy

Carpenters: The Musical Legacy

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Author: Michael Cidoni Lennox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Here's the story of one of the most successful and revered recording artists in pop-music history: the Carpenters - told...
Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

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Author: Rachel Holtzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer remnants,...
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio 'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war'...
The Man Who Loved Siberia

The Man Who Loved Siberia

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Author: Roy Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when...
Dead Men Don't Tell Tales

Dead Men Don't Tell Tales

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Author: Guy Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world's only million-copy-selling truck fitter is back, faster than ever Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing...
A Funny Life

A Funny Life

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Author: Michael McIntyre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Laugh along with Michael McIntyre as he lifts the curtain on his life in his long-awaited autobiography. Michael's first book ended...
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

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Author: Neil Samworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Britain's prison system is in crisis. Prisoners catatonic on Spice, prison officers under extreme stress, overcrowding, riots, fatal stabbings - barely...
My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography

My Life and Rugby: The Autobiography

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Author: Eddie Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Winner of the Daily Telegraph Rugby Book of the Year The Sunday Times bestselling rugby book of the year Brilliant, honest,...
My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography

My Life in Red and White: The Sunday Times Number One Bestselling Autobiography

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Author: Arsene Wenger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 There is only one Arsene Wenger - and for the very first time, in his own words, this is his story....
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

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Author: John Bercow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the...
Hometown Tales: Birmingham

Hometown Tales: Birmingham

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Author: Maria Whatton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most...
The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres: The Autobiography

The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres: The Autobiography

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Author: Hairy Bikers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Brilliant' MAIL ON SUNDAY Si King and Dave Myers, AKA the Hairy Bikers have travelled an interesting road. Born in the...
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Monty Don Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times, Times 'Every page a joy.' Nigel Slater 'From...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies 'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian 'This powerful tell-all from...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

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Author: Kit de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes **A BOOK OF THE YEAR -...
The Champ & The Chump: A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family

The Champ & The Chump: A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family

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Author: James McNicholas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 **Winner of Best Sports Entertainment book at the British Sports Book Awards 2022** 'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster 'Funny, moving...
Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

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Author: Roger Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'I never usually know what to give the men in my life but I've found the perfect book: VINTAGE ROGER by...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

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Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

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Author: Alan Partridge Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative'...
Strange Things Are Happening

Strange Things Are Happening

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Author: Richard Norris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field....
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Send Yourself Roses

Send Yourself Roses

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Author: Kathleen Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Strong, feisty, brave and brilliant, Kathleen Turner is a woman to be reckoned with. One of the most revered actresses of...
Farewell To The East End

Farewell To The East End

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Author: Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her...
The Lost Boy

The Lost Boy

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Author: Dave Pelzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The New York Times bestseller - a sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and...
For the Love of Farming: Farmer Will's Guide to Life in the Fields

For the Love of Farming: Farmer Will's Guide to Life in the Fields

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Author: Farmer Will Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 In For the Love of Farming, Farmer Will reveals his life on the farm, season by season. It's relentless: the mornings...
You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

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Author: Pyae Moe Thet War Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A fresh and insightful debut' New York Times 'Incisive and exciting' Shondaland In this electric debut essay collection, a...
The First Half

The First Half

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Author: Gabby Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A brilliant book. Read immediately' Claudia Winkleman A fascinating, inspiring and funny memoir from much-loved broadcaster Gabby Logan When I sat...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
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 Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy....
Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as told to me) Story: 'I loved this book more than I can say' Nigella Lawson

Nobody Will Tell You This But Me: A True (as told to me) Story: 'I loved this book more than I can say' Nigella Lawson

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Author: Bess Kalb Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 **I HAVE NOT BEEN AS PROFOUNDLY MOVED BY A BOOK IN YEARS' JODI PICOULT** **I LOVED THIS BOOK MORE THAN I...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

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Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of...