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The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life

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Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

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Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave,...
A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

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Author: Rosemary Penfold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the...
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

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Author: Hadley Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study...
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 Life in Football, My Autobiography

A Life in Football, My Autobiography

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Author, Ian Wright Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures...
The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

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Author, Lan Yan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
The Girl Who Climbed Everest: Lessons learned facing up to the world's toughest mountains

The Girl Who Climbed Everest: Lessons learned facing up to the world's toughest mountains

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Author: Bonita Norris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we are...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win

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Author: Mark 'Billy' Billingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark...
Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

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Author: David Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want:...
My Life in Plants: Flowers I've Loved, Herbs I've Grown, and Houseplants I've Killed on the Way to Finding Myself

My Life in Plants: Flowers I've Loved, Herbs I've Grown, and Houseplants I've Killed on the Way to Finding Myself

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Author: Katie Vaz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 From Katie Vaz, author of Don't Worry, Eat Cake, the beloved Make Yourself Cozy, and The Escape Manual for Introverts, comes...
The World I Fell Out Of

The World I Fell Out Of

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Author: Melanie Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny,...
The Senecans

The Senecans

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A year after the death of Margaret Thatcher, a young woman arrives to ask Peter Stothard, former Editor of...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

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Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
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...
Born to Run: My Story

Born to Run: My Story

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Author: Cathy Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hi guys, ever since I was little I only had one dream - to win a gold medal at...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...
Soldier Spy

Soldier Spy

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Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

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Author: Elli H. Radinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

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Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

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Author: Michelle Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

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Author: Tess Holliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Plus-size supermodel Tess Holliday's passionate plea for modern women, whoever and wherever they are, to be comfortable in their own...
The Innocence of Memories

The Innocence of Memories

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Author: Orhan Pamuk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 136 The Innocence of Memories is an important addition to the oeuvre of Nobel Prize-winning author Orhan Pamuk. Comprised of...
Runner: A short story about a long run

Runner: A short story about a long run

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Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

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Author: James Naughtie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book - droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.' Bill Bryson 'A revealing and at...
Australia Day

Australia Day

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

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Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

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Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
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...
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...
The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

The Resilience Project: Finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness

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Author: Hugh van Cuylenburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The key steps to leading a happier, more contented and fulfilling life Hugh van Cuylenburg was a primary...
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 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...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers

Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers

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Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
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...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...