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Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

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Author: Laura Canty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 *** As recommended by Josh Widdicombe on the PARENTING HELL podcast "It's staggeringly honest but also really funny - I laughed...
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

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Author: Marc Randolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Engaging and insightful.' Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix 'Charming, fascinating and very funny. Marc Randolph demystifies the world of Silicon Valley...
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom

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Author: Slavomir Rawicz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

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Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...
The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle

The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle

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Author: Mary Considine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *** 'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea. He can't see where he is going, but...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

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Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

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Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

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Author: Nedd Brockmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10...
Only: A Singular Memoir

Only: A Singular Memoir

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Author: Caroline Baum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always...
Sink: A Memoir

Sink: A Memoir

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Author: Joseph E Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

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Author: Darryl Pinckney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

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Author: Haley McGee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long...
Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage

Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change and Courage

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Author: Tori Amos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Since the release of her first, career-defining solo album Little Earthquakes, Tori Amos has been one of the music industry's most...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

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Author: Iain Dale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

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Author: Lawrence Anthony Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve...
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

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Author: Stuart Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

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Author: Chris Paling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
Francis: Pope of Good Promise: From Argentina's Bergoglio to the World's Francis

Francis: Pope of Good Promise: From Argentina's Bergoglio to the World's Francis

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Author: Jimmy Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's Basilica for the first time, a global audience...
The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory - the remarkable story of the scientific friendships that changed the world forever

The Basis of Everything: Before Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project there was the Cavendish Laboratory - the remarkable story of the scientific friendships that changed the world forever

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Author: Andrew Ramsey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

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Author: John Densmore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

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Author: Anna Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Divide is well written and thought-provoking.' Sunday Telegraph This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn...
Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming

Letting Magic In: A Memoir of Becoming

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Author: Maia Toll Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 What is the word for craving a relationship with the earth, plants, rocks, and stars? What do you call someone who...
Legally Blonde What Like It's Hard? Journal

Legally Blonde What Like It's Hard? Journal

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Author: Running Press Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 * DELUXE PACKAGE: Special effects cover with metallic stock and leopard pattern creates a very Elle Woods package -- it's an...
The Boy in the Book

The Boy in the Book

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Author: Nathan Penlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that...
Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

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Author: James Newton, Dfc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'I couldn't see the tank. I couldn't see it... Someone was screaming over the radio. "Scream all you want, I...
Galileo Antichrist: A Biography

Galileo Antichrist: A Biography

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Author: Michael White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A giant of science, Galileo's achievements allow him to be bracketed alongside Newton, Einstein and Darwin. A devout Roman Catholic, his...
My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave

My Story: A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, A Man Named Dave

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Author: Dave Pelzer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 A CHILD CALLED IT is Dave Pelzer's story of a child beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a...
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

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Author: Katherine May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

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Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 He was one of the most eminent literary figures in the world. She was the kind of pioneering woman who knew...
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.

The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.

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Author: James Spooner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of The Washington...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

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Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

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Author: Susanna Kaysen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR 'Girl, Interrupted is a beautiful, complex story that truly led the...
Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

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Author: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

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Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
My Stroke of Insight

My Stroke of Insight

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Author: Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D. Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 On the morning of the 10th December 1996, Jill Bolte Taylor, a thirty-seven-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist experienced a massive...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Witness to Dignity: The Life and Faith of George H.W. and Barbara Bush

Witness to Dignity: The Life and Faith of George H.W. and Barbara Bush

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Author: Jeb Bush Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 George and Barbara Bush belonged to and were active members of a Houston church for more than 50 years. The rector...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

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Author: M. John Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece. Formally inventive, constantly surprising, M John Harrison has written an archaeology of fragments...
When I Grow Up: conversations with adults in search of adulthood

When I Grow Up: conversations with adults in search of adulthood

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Author: Moya Sarner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When do we become adults? What does it mean to grow up? And what are the experiences that propel us forward...
Uncommon People
The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars 1955-1994

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Author: David Hepworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

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Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...