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Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

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The Ice Master (HB)

The Ice Master (HB)

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Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

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Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

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The Ice Master (HB)

The Ice Master (HB)

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Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

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Rod Laver: A Memoir

Rod Laver: A Memoir

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Skeletons on the Zahara

Skeletons on the Zahara

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Standing My Ground

Standing My Ground

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Journey from Venice

Journey from Venice

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Author: Ruth Cracknell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288
Pocket Bowie Wisdom: Witty Quotes and Wise Words From David Bowie

Pocket Bowie Wisdom: Witty Quotes and Wise Words From David Bowie

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Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 'I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose.' 'I change every day. I'm not outrageous. I'm David Bowie.' 'I'm an instant...
The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip

The Wicked Wit of Prince Philip

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Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh, KG, KT, OM, GBE has been at the forefront of British public life since...
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

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Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...
My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

My Lost Brothers: The Untold Story by the Yarnell Hill Fire's Lone Survivor

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Author: Brendan McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A unique and bracing (Booklist) first-person...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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Author: Cleve Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was part of the last generation of gay people who grew up not knowing if there...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City

Vigilance: My Life Serving America and Protecting Its Empire City

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Author: Ray Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In his gripping memoir, former New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly opens up for the first time about his life fighting...
Louis: My Story So Far

Louis: My Story So Far

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Author: Louis Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2008, Louis Smith was the first Briton in over 100 years to win an Olympic medal in individual gymnastics. In...
Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

Vessels: A Memoir of What Wasn't

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Author: Daniel Raeburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 When Dan, a writer, met Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, they swiftly fell in love. 'Of all the...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

Casting Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful, Broken World

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Author: Susan Silverman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Susan Silverman grew up with parents who were, both before and after a devastating loss, atheists. Yet, as a young adult,...
London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: 'Charming, funny, heartwarming' - Adam Kay

London's No 1 Dog-Walking Agency: 'Charming, funny, heartwarming' - Adam Kay

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Author: Kate Macdougall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Kate Macdougall always knew her heart wasn't really in her job at Sotheby's. All around her, her friends were finding their...
Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America

Women of the White House: The Illustrated Story of the First Ladies of the United States of America

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Author: Amy Russo Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Women of the White House looks at the work, lives and times of the 47 women officially recognized as America's first...
Falling is Like Flying

Falling is Like Flying

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Author: Manon Uphoff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 This is a story she never wanted to tell, but in the end she had no choice. When her older sister...
Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

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Author: Larissa Pham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 '...I don't know what comes after, once I decide to let desire have its way with me. How to un-melt the...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

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Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...
Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real

Perfectly You: Embracing the Power of Being Real

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Author: Mariana Atencio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In this much-needed book, which is part self-help and part autobiography, award-winning correspondent Mariana Atencio digs into what makes each of...
Simply Delicious the Classic Collection: 100 timeless, tried & tested recipes

Simply Delicious the Classic Collection: 100 timeless, tried & tested recipes

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Author: Darina Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'Ireland's answer to Delia and Nigella' Sunday Telegraph Stella magazine 'Our first lady of food' Irish Independent 'There's not much this...
The Harbour Within: A Book of Simple Spirituality

The Harbour Within: A Book of Simple Spirituality

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Author: Sister Consilio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 In today's busy world, we can get caught up with the worries and stresses of life. We live in our heads,...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes

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Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
The Best in the World, At What I Have No Idea

The Best in the World, At What I Have No Idea

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Author, Chris Jericho Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 320 The two-time bestselling author, wrestler and metal rocker returns with another insightful and hilarious memoir of his latest wild adventures in...
More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short

More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short

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Author: Katie McCabe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, or worse, 'mistress' of a...
Home in the World: A Memoir

Home in the World: A Memoir

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Author: Amartya Sen, FBA Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers 'A completely superb and magisterial life of...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

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Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Mozart: The Reign of Love

Mozart: The Reign of Love

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Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

The Infiltrators: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis

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Author: Norman Ohler (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'An astonishing story... brilliantly told' - Antony Beevor Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out...
IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD

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Author: Russ Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Instant National Bestseller! Wall Street Journal bestseller; USA Today bestseller; Publishers Weekly bestseller; international bestseller. An inspirational book by self-made musical superstar,...
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...
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...