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Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

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Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the World

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Author: James Proud Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 - DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO...
Animal House

Animal House

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Author: James Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade....
Journal 1887-1910 (riverrun editions): an exclusive new selection of the astounding French classic

Journal 1887-1910 (riverrun editions): an exclusive new selection of the astounding French classic

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Author: Jules Renard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'As a mayor, I am responsible for the upkeep of rural roads; as poet, I prefer to see them neglected.' Jules...
Hidden Valley Road

Hidden Valley Road

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Author: Robert Kolker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Unforgettable' The Times 'Grippingly told and brilliantly reported' Mail on Sunday 'Startlingly intimate' Sunday Times 'Fascinating' Daily Mail 'Groundbreaking' Evening Standard...
The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

The ISIS Hostage: One Man's True Story of 13 Months in Captivity

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Author: Puk Damsgard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along...
Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

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Author: Iain Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Twnety-five years on from the legendary Knebworth concert, read the true story of the birth of Oasis and life on the...
The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End

The World According to Danny Dyer: Life Lessons from the East End

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Author: Danny Dyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'I've had an up and down life - and I've tried to write down some of the stuff I've learned along...
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

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Author: Robert Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys,...
Harry Potter Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

Harry Potter Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter: Slytherin Hardcover Ruled Journal-one of Insight Editions' best-selling Harry Potter...
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...
The Meaning of Mariah Carey

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

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Author: Mariah Carey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the...
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

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Author: Stuart Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the...
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

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Author: Patricia Highsmith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1024 'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of...
Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

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Author: Colin MacIntyre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque THIS PAPERBACK FEATURES...
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

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Author: Leo Houlding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton)...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian...
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World

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Author: Suzy Hansen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Deeply honest and brave . . . A sincere and intelligent act of self-questioning . . . Hansen is doing something...
Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

Fast Forward: Confessions of a Post-Punk Percussionist: Volume II

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Author: Stephen Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . ....
The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography

The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah: The Autobiography

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Author: Benjamin Zephaniah Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 *BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now...
The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

The Last Act of Love: The Story of My Brother and His Sister

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Author: Cathy Rentzenbrink Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The Sunday Times bestseller "Profoundly moving ... it falls into a tradition of beautifully written accounts of grief, such as Joan...
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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Author: Jenny Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1...
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

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Author: Thomas Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history-Henry Ford and Thomas Edison-and their attempt to create an electric-powered city...
The Half of It: A Memoir

The Half of It: A Memoir

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Author: Madison Beer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Discovered at twelve years old, Madison Beer was one of the first artists to have her entire life documented online. Over...
Wildlings: How to raise your family in nature

Wildlings: How to raise your family in nature

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Author: Steve Backshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Conjures up a world of pre-internet fun, a compendium of lost outdoor arts with an eclectic list of contributors' The Times...
Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII

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Author: Jane Marguerite Tippett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 ''An astonishing account...' --- The Daily Mail '... an extraordinary new portrait of the former King, his recollections and feelings'....
Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain's most violent prison

Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain's most violent prison

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Author: David Berridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Return to HMP Parkhurst in this raw and fascinating account of life as a prison officer. David Berridge returns with more...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
Being Lolita: A Memoir

Being Lolita: A Memoir

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Author: Alisson Wood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Have you ever read Lolita?" So begins seventeen-year-old Alisson's metamorphosis from student to lover and then victim. A lonely and vulnerable...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

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Author: Theresa May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARR As...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top Gun

Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top Gun

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Author: Nathan Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee...
Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy

Elizabeth and Philip: A Story of Young Love, Marriage and Monarchy

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Author: Tessa Dunlop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A riveting take on an extraordinary relationship' - Richard Eden, Daily Mail 'A fresh and original approach' - Hugo Vickers, Royal...
At the Coalface: My life as a miner's wife

At the Coalface: My life as a miner's wife

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Author: Catherine Paton Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But...
That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian...
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom

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Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of...
Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face

Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
Advocate: A voice from the margins

Advocate: A voice from the margins

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Author: Lennina Ofori Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' -...
Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember - the New York Times bestseller from the Gilmore Girls star

Have I Told You This Already?: Stories I Don't Want to Forget to Remember - the New York Times bestseller from the Gilmore Girls star

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Author: Lauren Graham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER from the beloved star of Gilmore Girls 'Insightful, honest, funny, and moving' BUZZFEED 'Candid, genuine and...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

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Author: Victoria Belim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and...
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...
All that Glitters

All that Glitters

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Author: Pearl Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Pearl Lowe has been a singer in a hugely successful pop group, a fashion model and a friend to some of...
Born On a Blue Day

Born On a Blue Day

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Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date is blue...
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

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Author: Susan Hendricks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens...