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The Life of George Bass: Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment

The Life of George Bass: Surgeon and Sailor of the Enlightenment

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My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

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The Hannah: The Complete Story

The Hannah: The Complete Story

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Olga's Story

Olga's Story

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A Play of Passion: Life of Sir Walter Raleigh

A Play of Passion: Life of Sir Walter Raleigh

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Rembrandt's House

Rembrandt's House

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Cecil Beaton's Diaries (SIGNED) (Six-Volume Set)

Cecil Beaton's Diaries (SIGNED) (Six-Volume Set)

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A Trinity Biographical Register For The Green And The Gold And The Mitre (Three-Volume Set)

A Trinity Biographical Register For The Green And The Gold And The Mitre (Three-Volume Set)

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The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy

The Life and Letters of Raja Rammohun Roy

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Souvenir

Souvenir

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Author: Michael Bracewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 'The best evocation I've read of London in the '80s' Neil Tennant 'I loved Souvenir . . . it rescued some...
Take Nothing For Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

Take Nothing For Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

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Author: Ross Kemp Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Jaw-dropping experiences' - THE SUN *** Readers are also LOVING Take Nothing For Granted . . . 'So so good! Am...
The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

The Baby Boom: How It Got That Way...And It Wasn't My Fault...And I'll Never Do It Again

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Author: P. J. O'Rourke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Baby Boom - over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and all over the place, from Donovan to Obama. The generation that said...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author

Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The captivating, candid and hilarious new memoir from the legendary actress and bestselling author

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Author: Joan Collins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'I'm lucky to have an inexhaustible appetite for life. I've had many amazing adventures in Hollywood and beyond, but some stories...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

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Author: Mark Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I...
Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Beyond Supervet: How Animals Make Us The Best We Can Be: The New Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 THE INSTANT NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this inspiring, uplifting and heart-warming memoir, world-renowned veterinary surgeon Professor Noel Fitzpatrick...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
Till Wrong Feels Right

Till Wrong Feels Right

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Author: Iggy Pop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Iggy Pop Lyrics
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 6: 1932-1933

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Author: John Haffenden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 896 Despairing of his volatile, unstable wife, T. S. Eliot, at 44, resolves to put an end to the torture of his...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

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Elliot: A Biography of John Elliot

Elliot: A Biography of John Elliot

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Just as I am

Just as I am

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Sirio

Sirio

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The Life of Kingsley Amis

The Life of Kingsley Amis

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The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

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Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

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Author: Eddie Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From Eddie 'The Beast' Hall, the winner of World's Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

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Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

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Author: Phillipe Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes...
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

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Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...
To Be Honest

To Be Honest

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Author: Michael Leviton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A memoir about one man's strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty Raised in what he affectionately calls "our...
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...
The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

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Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...
Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

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Author: Matt Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Serial Griller and South's Best Butts, a cookbook of more than 125 everyday specialty recipes plus meaty...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...