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Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction

Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction

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A former drug addict turned behavioural neuroscientist reveals how drugs work in the brain - and what we can do to fight addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user...
To The One I Love The Best

To The One I Love The Best

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Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News. Foreword by Christiane Amanpour

Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.

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Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Late Light: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Late Light: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

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WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2023 RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING'Inspirational' - THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A bright, fierce hope for the future' - THE IRISH TIMES'An astonishing...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

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'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors

Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
Counterfeit Countess, The: The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust

Counterfeit Countess, The: The untold story of the Jewish heroine who

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The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish...
Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online

Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online

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'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Warm, juicy, and eye-opening, like having a chat with a best friend'...
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

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Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

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There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...
Main Character Energy: An Empowering Guide From TikTok Megastar Fats Timbo

Main Character Energy: An Empowering Guide From TikTok Megastar Fats

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Ten commandments, ten chapters, ten ways to change your lifeFats Timbo is a comedian and podcaster who rose to prominence for her snappy sketches, quick wit and disability-advocacy.You can find...
Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend

Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend

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In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment that changed his life forever. It was the first time...
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

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Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa...
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism

The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience

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*** The Sunday Times Bestseller ***'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades,...
This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

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Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital,

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A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.Managing Expectations is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt essays, described as a...
Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

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*Twnety-five years on from the legendary Knebworth concert, read the true story of the birth of Oasis and life on the road with Liam and Noel*Oasis were a band like...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

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There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

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'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME...
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

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'Warm, funny, touching, uplifting' CLARE BALDINGOLIVE & MABEL: two of the internet's favourite dogs!ANDREW COTTER: one of our best-loved commentators.In a year like no other, the antics of two beautiful...
Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to  lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL

Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller,

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'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth DayWhat if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad?Ten years on from first...
Little Book of Fendi: The story of the iconic fashion brand

Little Book of Fendi: The story of the iconic fashion brand

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Founded in 1925, Fendi is a luxury brand rooted in elegance and experimentation.Renowned for its attention to detail, innovative design and signature 'double F' logo, the family firm has conquered...
Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman - the true story of Ava's fight for survival, from the No.1 bestseller, for fans of Cathy Glass

Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman - the true

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Ava Thomas knew she had hit rock bottom after being helped to a women's refuge with her children. Coming to terms with a relationship dominated by domestic violence, Ava knew...
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny

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Legendary producer and co-founder of Chic, Nile Rodgers wrote 'We Are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm Coming Out' for Diana Ross before producing Let's Dance for David Bowie and...
To The One I Love The Best

To The One I Love The Best

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Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism,  Identity and Hope

Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope

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'Truly inspirational' The SunSabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 44-year-old mother of four and grandmother of three, an award-winning businesswoman, an ultrarunner, a social justice activist and a recovering alcoholic. She is...
Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker

Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker

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THE POWERFUL AND UPLIFTING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brain cancer. This story is his legacy, in...
A Portrait of the Piss Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Piss Artist as a Young Man

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It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...
The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps

The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner

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Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly turns...
Without Hope: A Childhood Ruined by the Man she should Trust the Most

Without Hope: A Childhood Ruined by the Man she should Trust the Most

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Barbara's father was a sadistic man at the best of times - his idea of fun was to kill the family dog by tying it to the back of his...
Dear Oliver: An unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks

Dear Oliver: An unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks

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When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters.Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to...
Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk

Tomorrow's Here Today: Lightning Seeds, Football and Cosmic Post-Punk

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From post punk Liverpool and Big in Japan to producing and working with acts like Echo & The Bunnymen and The Fall, Ian Broudie established a cult following early in...
The Celestial Realm: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR IRISH BOOK AWARDS

The Celestial Realm: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER

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"Phil doesn't like physical affection. She doesn't love you because you don't exist. She doesn't care if you have something important coming up. A busy week, a daunting appointment, a...
Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under

Clanlands in New Zealand: Kiwis, Kilts, and an Adventure Down Under

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*With a foreword by Sir Peter Jackson*Buckle up, grab a dram, and get ready for another unforgettable wild ride. They're back! Stars of Outlander, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish are...
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

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Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the...
What's That Lady Doing?

What's That Lady Doing?

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Author: Lou Sanders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The acclaimed comedian reflects on a lifetime of mistakes and bad decisions and how she just might be turning things around in...
Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

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Author: Lawrence Grobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Trumbo

Trumbo

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Author: Bruce Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Now a multi-award nominated film starring Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and Elle Fanning. Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous...
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

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La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

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Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

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Bomb Girls

Bomb Girls

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Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity

Unsung: A Compendium of Creativity

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The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon

The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon

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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

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Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six

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Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

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