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You Don't Need a Dick to DJ
Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's...
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024
'[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann NapolitanoA deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying mother - and the trail of letters and gifts she left...
Frank and Fearless: A Life in Boxing
The story of my life would be a bloody sight shorter if the man who tried to murder me outside the Broadway Theatre in Barking on a winter's evening in...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
The Admiral's Baby
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A Trick of the Light
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Grace
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The King of Vodka: The Story of Pyotr Smirnov and the Upheaval of an Empire
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Imperial China
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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: [...]
'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...
The Story Smuggler
'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew [...]
A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century
From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging [...]
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent'Visceral and honest' Telegraph'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day'Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, [...]
A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka
'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head
"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
The Anxiety Project
"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life
In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story
On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the [...]
The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
HONEST: The (Uncut) Memoirs of Boris Johnson
*The memoirs of Boris Johnson, complete and unabridged, including all the great material he had to take out for being either too incendiary or too obviously made up*Ghostwritten by Lucien...
Darwin: The Story of the Man and His Theories of Evolution
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The Memoirs of Louis De Rouvroy Duc De Saint Simon Covering the Years 1691 - 1723
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Author: Louis de Rouvroy, Duc de Saint-SimonBinding: HardbackPublished: Heritage Press, 1959Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis monumental work provides a vivid and detailed account of life...
Combat Recon: My Year with the ARVN
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Author: Robert D. ParrishBinding: HardbackPublished: St. Martin's Press, 1991Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCombat Recon: My Year with the ARVN is a firsthand account of the...
Operation Willi: The Nazi Plot to Kidnap the Duke of Windsor
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Author: Michael BlochBinding: HardbackPublished: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1986Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book uncovers the chilling details of 'Operation Willi', a Nazi plan to kidnap the...
Before the Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905
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Author: Geoffrey C. WardBinding: HardbackPublished: New York Book-of-the-Month Club, 1997Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers an insightful look into the early life of Franklin D. Roosevelt,...
The Village of Longing
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Handling Edna: The Unauthorised Biography
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Lisa: THE INSPIRING #1 BESTSELLING MEMOIR
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A Very Private School
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...
Graft: How to Smash Life
GET OUT THERE, GIVE IT 110% AND ABSOLUTELY SMASH IT!. Tom Skinner is a grafter. Born and bred in Romford, he's spent a lifetime on market stalls and has always...
Paolo Beni
Author: P.B. Diffley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 290 This is the first detailed life of the Italian humanist Paolo Beni (1553-c.1625), who in his lifetime was famous as a...
Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine's Confessions
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Author: Kate Cooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 FINALIST: THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 The vibrant and surprising lives of the women in Augustine's Confessions While many know of...
Belief: From prison to premiership glory; this is Marlion Pickett's extraordinary story
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I Asked Cathleen to Dance
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Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life
A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as...
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives
Author: Tim Vivian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 390 Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi...
Einstein: A Life in Science
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A Soldier's View of Empire: The Reminiscences of James Bodell 1831-92
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Author: Keith SinclairBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head, 1982Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book is a collection of reminiscences from James Bodell, covering his experiences...
Lee: The Last Years
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Author: Charles Bracelen FloodBinding: HardbackPublished: Houghton Mifflin , 1981Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book covers a range of topics including the military and general history...
D. H. Lawrence in Australia
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Author: Robert DarrochBinding: HardbackPublished: MacMillan Australia, 1981Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerThis book explores D. H. Lawrence's time in Australia and his experiences that influenced his novel...
Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir
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Author: Stewart AlsopBinding: HardbackPublished: The Bodley Head Ltd, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsStay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir is a reflective work by Stewart Alsop,...
Because it is There
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Author: George LoweBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell & Co, 1959Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markings-
The World of Henry Lawson
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Author: Walter Stone (ed)Binding: HardbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1980, Fifth Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe World of Henry Lawson, edited by Walter Stone, is a non-fiction...
KNOCKING ABOUT - Being Some Adventures of Augustus Baker Peirce in Australia
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Author: Augustus PeirceBinding: HardbackPublished: Shoestring Press, 1984Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is an autobiography of Augustus Baker Peirce, detailing his adventures in Australia. It...
The Life and Adventures of Mrs. Christian Davies commonly called Mother Ross
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Author: Daniel DefoeBinding: HardbackPublished: Peter Davies Limited, 1929, Second Impression Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis biography recounts the life of Christian Davies, also known as Mother...