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The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

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Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist

The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist

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Author: Douglas Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both

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Author: Juno Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'It's a boy!' or 'It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world....
Pushing the Limits: The Two-Time World MotoGP Champion's Own Explosive Story

Pushing the Limits: The Two-Time World MotoGP Champion's Own Explosive Story

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Author: Casey Stoner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Casey Stoner, the two-time World MotoGP champion, tells his own explosive story. Showing anything is possible when determination meets...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Seneca: A Life

Seneca: A Life

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Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
White Nights: A Colombian Odyssey

White Nights: A Colombian Odyssey

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Author: Austin Galt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'God made Colombia the most beautiful country in the world so he had to balance it by inhabiting it...
Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

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Author: Michelle Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

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Author: Tess Holliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Plus-size supermodel Tess Holliday's passionate plea for modern women, whoever and wherever they are, to be comfortable in their own...
On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

On the Road: Adventures from Nixon to Trump

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Author: James Naughtie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Everything you would expect of a James Naughtie book - droll, absorbing and wonderfully perceptive.' Bill Bryson 'A revealing and at...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

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Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
Australia Day

Australia Day

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

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Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

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Author: Anna Fifield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE GREAT SUCCESSOR is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
For the Record

For the Record

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Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood 1941-1981

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood 1941-1981

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Author: William J. Mann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 In the 60s, Elizabeth Taylor's affair with the married Richard Burton knocked John Glenn's orbit of the moon...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown

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Author: Michael Patrick F. Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy' DAVID LIPSKY 'After reading The Good Hand...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

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Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

Harry's Last Stand: How the world my generation built is falling down, and what we can do to save it

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Author: Harry Leslie Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 In November 2013, 91-year-old Yorkshireman, RAF veteran and ex-carpet salesman Harry Leslie Smith's Guardian article - 'This year,...
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good...
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Life and Adventures: Text Classics

Life and Adventures: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), 'the wild white man?, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. In...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

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Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
On Grand Strategy

On Grand Strategy

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Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...