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Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

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Author: Roger Mortimer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'I think prison has done me very little harm and some good. I am now far better read, far less smug...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

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Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior...
Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot

Bloody Brilliant People: The Couples and Partnerships That History Forgot

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Author: Cathy Newman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Sometimes, 1+1 = changing the world. Cathy Newman's witty, warm history on the power of determined couples will make...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

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Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography

Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography

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Author: Tricky Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His...
My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me: A Memoir

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Author: Jason Rosenthal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

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Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern...
Quite

Quite

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Author: Claudia Winkleman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'A delight' Stylist 'Funny, real and caring' YOU Magazine 'Funny, irreverent and moving... everything you would expect from the...
Charles: Our Future King

Charles: Our Future King

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Author: Robert Jobson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Exploring beyond the banal newspaper headlines that have caricatured our future king over the years, Robert Jobson's biography provides...
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: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew

This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew

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Author: Julia Copus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The British poet Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers, including...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
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...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

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Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Fresh and vital ... Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion ... A remarkable pioneer ... A hugely important memoir from...
Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

Bring Back Our Girls: The Astonishing Survival and Rescue of Nigeria's Missing Schoolgirls

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Author: Joe Parkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Bounty hunters, the manpower of western militaries and special Swiss agents were all deployed but they either met road block...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

Jump: From the Streets to the Suites

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Author: Larry Miller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan Brand from a $200M...
The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings

The Flame: Poems Notebooks Lyrics Drawings

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Author: Leonard Cohen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER Named a Fall Read by Vogue, Esquire, The Washington Post, TIME, Vanity Fair and O, the...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
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...
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...
A Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM

A Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 The festive standalone from James and Bob, the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob. Now a...
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...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss

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Author: Jenna Bush Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Jenna Bush Hager, the former first daughter and granddaughter, #1 New York Times bestselling author, and coanchor of the Today...
American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History

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Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's...
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...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

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Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

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Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
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: Hardback 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 a glittering...
A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

A Field Full of Butterflies: Memories of a Romany Childhood

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Author: Rosemary Penfold Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Rosemary Penfold was born in 1938 in a traditional Gypsy wagon and grew up in the fields of the...
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which...
Wicked Lord Lyttelton

Wicked Lord Lyttelton

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Author, Thomas Frost Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 192 A drug addict and debaucher of women, Thomas Lyttelton, 2nd Baron Lyttelton, indulged in all the vices and libertinism...
Bitter Experience Has Taught Me

Bitter Experience Has Taught Me

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Author, Nicholas Lezard (Non Fiction Reviews, guardian) Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 304 In 2007, Nicholas Lezard was kicked out of his home, for reasons we need not...
Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

Good Vibrations: My Life as a Beach Boy

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Author: Mike Love Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 The New York Times Bestseller Mike Love tells the story of his legendary, raucous, and ultimately triumphant five-decade career as the...
Not The Whole Story: A Memoir

Not The Whole Story: A Memoir

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Author: Angela Huth Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A delightful memoir' Kate Saunders, The Times 'Fabulous . . . dazzling' Tatler 'Enchanting . . . movingly lyrical'...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave...
Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

Giving It All Away...and Getting It All Back Again: The Way of Living Generously

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Author: David Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 David Green believes that generosity and building a legacy based on giving can lead to getting back what you really want:...
Edison

Edison

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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...