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The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

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Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

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Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

Arianna Huffington: Media Visionary and Wellness Evangelist

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Author: Leah McGrath Goodman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Arianna Huffington is one of the world's most prominent business leaders in media. As co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 720 One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, 'Wild Swans' is an epic true story of how...
Lenin the Dictator

Lenin the Dictator

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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Born On a Blue Day

Born On a Blue Day

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Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date...
A Brief Guide to Jane Austen: The Life and Times of the World's Favourite Author

A Brief Guide to Jane Austen: The Life and Times of the World's Favourite Author

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Author: Charles Jennings Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Jane Austen is a mystery. The first incontrovertibly great woman novelist, she is, among other things, one of the...
Love Like Salt: A Memoir

Love Like Salt: A Memoir

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Author: Helen Stevenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 CHOSEN BY MAGGIE O'FARRELL IN THE GUARDIAN AS ONE OF HER BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'It's a slice...
Spring

Spring

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Author: Karl Ove Knausgaard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "Spring features Knausgaard unbound, writing for the first time without a gimmick or the crutch of extravagant experimentation...Fall in love...
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

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Author: Phyllis Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 250 'What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir this is. Phyllis writes of longing, suffering, family, and food with such delicate...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

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Author: Debora Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van,...
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl

This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl

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Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith

American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith

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Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You're Gonna Be Okay

Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: A Memoir of Learning to Believe You're Gonna Be Okay

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Author: Sean Dietrich Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From celebrated storyteller "Sean of the South" comes an unforgettable memoir of love, loss, the friction of family memories, and the...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...
Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917

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Author: Michael Punke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear,...
Why I Love My Sister

Why I Love My Sister

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Author: Daniel Howarth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 Featuring children's own words and heart-warming pictures, this book is the perfect gift for a sister, or for children expecting a...
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

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Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...
The Cancer Journals

The Cancer Journals

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie...
Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019

The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019

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Author: Jack Fairweather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage...
American Scoundrel

American Scoundrel

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Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power

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Author: Rod Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45

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Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Boy Behind the Curtain

The Boy Behind the Curtain

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and...
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...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Personal Writings

Personal Writings

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Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that'  Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2

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Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS The dead do not hide the truth...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel

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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
Down and Out in Paris and London

Down and Out in Paris and London

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia

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Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
Island Home

Island Home

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Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world,...
How to Make Gravy

How to Make Gravy

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Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Phizzwhizzing new cover look and branding for the World's NUMBER ONE Storyteller! As a boy, all sorts of unusual...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed...
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

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Author: Stephanie Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in...
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who...
The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

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Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
Attila The Hun

Attila The Hun

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Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...