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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

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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...
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...
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...
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

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In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen...
There Is No Blue

There Is No Blue

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The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister. A bookish and artistic family living in a beautiful old house in a pleasant part...
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...
To the Greatest Heights

To the Greatest Heights

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'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing'...
Bacon in Moscow

Bacon in Moscow

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'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson PerryThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount...
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...
Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

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In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman's memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human...
Last Stop Auschwitz- My Story Of Survival From Within The Camp

Last Stop Auschwitz- My Story Of Survival From Within The Camp

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Author: Eddy De Wind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Last Stop Auschwitz, with its many details, written at speed and with all the immediacy that comes with describing events still...
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 life Fats Timbo is a comedian and podcaster who rose to prominence for her snappy sketches, quick wit and disability-advocacy.
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

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Author: Lawrence Grobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

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Motherwell: A Girlhood

Motherwell: A Girlhood

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Remarkable People: Extraordinary Stories of Everyday Lives

Remarkable People: Extraordinary Stories of Everyday Lives

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XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

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Dear Departed: A Memoir

Dear Departed: A Memoir

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They're a Weird Mob

They're a Weird Mob

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Shades of Difference: Transition in South Africa

Shades Of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa

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I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

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Open Book

Open Book

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Behind The Voice: Dietro La Voce

Behind The Voice: Dietro La Voce

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The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence

The Book of Emma Reyes: A Memoir in Correspondence

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This astonishing memoir of a childhood lived in extreme poverty in Latin America was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombia in 2012, nine years after the...
On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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'Emotional, insightful, beautifully written. A story of making saves and being saved. The best football book I have read this year.' Henry WinterSir Alex Ferguson looked at Joe Sealey: 'You...
Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

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'Every person - parent or not - ought to read this . . . beautifully written and searingly honest'iLike grief or falling in love, becoming a mother is an experience...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

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'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas...
Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic

Intensive Care: A GP, a Community & a Pandemic

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An Observer, New Statesman, Financial Times, Irish Times and Scotsman 2021 Non-Fiction Highlight'Searing yet beautiful ... less a hot take that an astute manifesto for what matters most in life,...
Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life, Love and Loss

Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life,

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Now is Not the Time for Flowers is the beautiful and honest memoir from writer Stacey Heale. With the death of her husband Greg as the catalyst, Stacey explores the...
Save Me from the Waves: An adventure from sea to summit

Save Me from the Waves: An adventure from sea to summit

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An adventure story - with a difference Jessica Hepburn is an unlikely athlete - she was labelled the arty' not the sporty' one in school. She hates exercise and believes...
An Extravagant Life

An Extravagant Life

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Over the last forty years, Stuart Woods has written more than ninety novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots...
Nights in White Castle: A Memoir

Nights in White Castle: A Memoir

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It begins in Bloomington, Minnesota, with a 13-year-old kid staging his own author photo that he hopes will someday grace the cover of a book jacket. And it ends at...
Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits and What Really Goes On in the Kitchen

Spiced: A Pastry Chef's True Stories of Trials by Fire, After-Hours Exploits and What Really Goes On in the Kitchen

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