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Within the White Lines: How the Beautiful Game Saved my Life

Within the White Lines: How the Beautiful Game Saved my Life

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Author: Ruth Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 200 Growing up, Ruth was on track for an ideal life - she had the grades, friends, great sporting potential, and a...
We Need to Talk: The Number 1 Bestseller: SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 - Biography of the Year

We Need to Talk: The Number 1 Bestseller: SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2023 - Biography of the Year

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Author: Dr Tony Holohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Dr Tony Holohan served as Chief Medical Officer in Ireland for 14 years, but only really became known to the...
The Unthinkable: A Story of Control, Violence and My Mother

The Unthinkable: A Story of Control, Violence and My Mother

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Author: David Challen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'David is one of the most courageous men I know . . . His book is one that everyone should read...
The Scientist Who Wasn't There: A true story of staggering deception

The Scientist Who Wasn't There: A true story of staggering deception

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Author: Joanne Briggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A page-turner with a mystery to solve, and a meditation on what it means for a child to know their parents'...
The Eighth House: A mother, a murder, an obsession

The Eighth House: A mother, a murder, an obsession

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Author: Elizabeth Clark Wessel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced...
School Blues

School Blues

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Author: Daniel Pennac Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his...
Riding Through The Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour de France

Riding Through The Storm: My Fight Back to Fitness on the Tour de France

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Author: Geoff Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Geoff Thomas's heroic battle to overcome leukaemia, and then take on the toughest sporting challenge: to ride the Tour de France...
Pipe Dreams: Secret Diaries of a Neighbourhood Plumber

Pipe Dreams: Secret Diaries of a Neighbourhood Plumber

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Author: Nicholas James Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Over more than twenty years working as a plumber, Nick has shared thousands of mugs of tea with hundreds of fascinating...
One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR

One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR

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Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'A memoir that captivates and delights. Fabulous' - Nina Stibbe Autumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21...
On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

On Days Like These: The Lost Memoir of a Goalkeeper

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Author: Tim Rich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Emotional, insightful, beautifully written. A story of making saves and being saved. The best football book I have read this year.'...
My Autobiography

My Autobiography

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Author: Davy Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'An outstanding insight into the life and career of one of the greatest National Hunt jockeys. The bad days, the good...
Land Beneath the Waves: How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging

Land Beneath the Waves: How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging

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Author: Nic Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 One of BBC Wildlife's books of the year "A book of great courage, curiosity, discovery and connection." - Amy-Jane Beer, author...
Justice For My Father: 'A must-read' - Paul Williams

Justice For My Father: 'A must-read' - Paul Williams

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Author: Austin Stack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1983 an off-duty prison officer was shot by the IRA in cold blood on a Dublin street. Over 40 years...
Ghosting: A Double Life

Ghosting: A Double Life

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Author: Jennie Erdal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Ghosting is a remarkable account of one woman's life - or, to be more accurate, lives. For fifteen years, Jennie Erdal...
Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

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Author: Holly Marie Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white...
Don't Let it Break You, Honey: A Memoir About Saving Yourself

Don't Let it Break You, Honey: A Memoir About Saving Yourself

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Author: Jenny Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Not simply a memoir. It is an indictment of failure at the highest levels of police, press and politics' Tom Watson...
Kafka: Letters to Milena

Kafka: Letters to Milena

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Author: Franz Kafka Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 220 Kafka first made the aquaintance of Milena Jesenska in 1920 when she was translating his early short prose into Czech, and...
What You're Made For: Powerful Lessons from a Life in Sports

What You're Made For: Powerful Lessons from a Life in Sports

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Author: Ryan Holiday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Coach George Raveling is a living icon in the fields of sport and leadership. His story begins in the 1930s, under...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan

War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan

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Author: Andrew North Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying...
Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World

Trailblazer: The First Feminist to Change Our World

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Author: Jane Robinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Acclaimed historian, Jane Robinson brings out of the shadows one of Victorian Britain's most influential but forgotten women. First wave feminist,...
The Vet 2: the big wild world

The Vet 2: the big wild world

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Author: Luke Gamble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 No longer a newbie vet, Luke Gamble takes over Pilgrims veterinary practice in Dorset and establishes an international veterinary charity, Worldwide...
The Eighth House: A mother, a murder, an obsession

The Eighth House: A mother, a murder, an obsession

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Author: Elizabeth Clark Wessel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced...
Stone Lands: A Telegraph Best Book of 2025

Stone Lands: A Telegraph Best Book of 2025

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Author: Fiona Robertson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 One of the Telegraph's 'Greatest Books of 2025' 'Superb' Telegraph 'There's a real sense of peace and magic in this beautiful...
Stolen: An Adolescence Lost to the Troubled Teen Industry

Stolen: An Adolescence Lost to the Troubled Teen Industry

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Author: Elizabeth Gilpin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A gripping chronicle of psychological manipulation and abuse at a "therapeutic" boarding school for troubled teens, and how one young woman...
SAS: Duty Before Glory: The True WWII Story of SAS Original Reg Seekings (as featured on SAS Rogue Heroes)

SAS: Duty Before Glory: The True WWII Story of SAS Original Reg Seekings (as featured on SAS Rogue Heroes)

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Author: Tony Rushmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The biography of remarkable SAS Original Reg Seekings, from his humble beginnings in the Cambridgeshire Fens to his instrumental role in...
I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and resilience

I Will Come Back for You: A powerful true story of wartime love and resilience

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Author: Daniel Huhn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph...
Granta 164: Last Notes

Granta 164: Last Notes

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Featuring non-fiction by Lydia Davis, Brian Dillon, Peter Englund (tr. Sigrid Rausing) Diana Evans, Wiam El-Tamami, Tabitha Lasley, Adele Rosenfeld (tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman), Anjan Sundaram, Ed Vulliamy, Ada Wordsworth. Fiction...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell book' Daily Mail 'A breath-taking review of WWII's greatest...
A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

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SHORT LISTED FOR THE ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY *** 'This astonishing book describes a cruel, feral existence and is worthy of standing on the shelf next to George Orwell's Down...
Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation's most iconic criminal cases

Drawn Testimony: Sketching a generation's most iconic criminal cases

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EDITOR'S PICK ON AMAZON.COM ' As captivating and nuanced as the drawings themselves' - The New York Times ' Against the odds, her prose keeps pace with her pastels' -...
My Family and Other Seedlings: A Year on a Dorset Allotment

My Family and Other Seedlings: A Year on a Dorset Allotment

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'A tender but substantive family memoir' Sunday Independent 'An acute eye and a lightness of touch ensures that this is never anything other than truly engrossing' The Field A few...
Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer: The warmest, most charming

Me, Family and the Making of a Footballer: The warmest, most charming

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'a wonderful book ... a great read' Daily Mail 'a fascinating book ... I really enjoyed it' Piers Morgan, Good Morning Britain 'a heart-warming, funny and insightful read. Perfect for...
Rough Patch: How a Year in the Garden Brought Me Back to Life

Rough Patch: How a Year in the Garden Brought Me Back to Life

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'Warm, humorous, nature-packed restoration ... a story you can neither put down nor stop thinking about' Delicious 'Book of the Month' 'Full of hope and joy' - Garden News 'A...
Leading From The Back: The autobiography of former Lionesses & Man

Leading From The Back: The autobiography of former Lionesses & Man

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SHORTLISTED FOR *AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR* AT THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS FOREWORD BY FELLOW LIONESS JILL SCOTT *One of Waterstones' Best Sport Books of the Year 2024* 'Steph...
Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury

Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury

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In his first book professional boxer and social media star, Tommy Fury, reveals what life is like juggling his many identities: boxing champion, TV star, mental health advocate, and father,...
Fahrenheit-182: the Sunday Times bestselling memoir from blink-182

Fahrenheit-182: the Sunday Times bestselling memoir from blink-182

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*An instant Sunday Times bestseller* A smart, funny, anarchic and gripping memoir from Mark Hoppus, the vocalist, bassist, and founding member of pop-punk band blink-182. This is a story of...
Cat On The Road To Findout: The Official Autobiography

Cat On The Road To Findout: The Official Autobiography

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Embark on an extraordinary journey through the life, music and spiritual adventures of Yusuf/Cat Stevens, one of the iconic figures of our time. CAT ON...
1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left

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1967 explores how that pivotal slice of time tastes to a bright, obsessive/compulsive boy who is shipped off to a hothouse academic boarding school as he reaches the age of...
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F.

Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F.

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Still deeply grieving the loss of her husband, President John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy sat down with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in early March 1964 to record a total...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

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'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I found out through failure, disappointment, mortification. I'm writing it...
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

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The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir was thirteen, he was forced to flee his village...
I Am A Mob Boss: The Last Confession of a Criminal Kingpin

I Am A Mob Boss: The Last Confession of a Criminal Kingpin

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I could've died a thousand times. People were out to get me, as they always are when you run the show. It's kind of silly that it's cancer that's going...
Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The

Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong: The

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'This book is both heart-rending and gorgeous. It crosses the line many times but ultimately, it's about love. He teaches us humanity.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Thank you, Joey, for getting your...
Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

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Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world. 'But what has politics got to do with me?' I hear you ask. Well, quite a lot really. Whether...
Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

Now What?: On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain

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Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world. 'But what has politics got to do with me?' I hear you ask. Well, quite a lot really. Whether...
The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a

The Librarians of Rue de Picardie: From the bestselling author, a

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The New York Times bestselling author returns with a moving new novel based on the true story of a New York librarian determined to bring books to the children of...
Mad Woman: Binge Eating. Menopause. OCD: How To Survive a World That

Mad Woman: Binge Eating. Menopause. OCD: How To Survive a World That

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'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day In the hotly anticipated follow-up to her SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*, MAD GIRL, Bryony Gordon shares her experiences of binge eating disorder...
Was This in the Plan?

Was This in the Plan?

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In 2004 Stephanie Nimmo was a career-focused, suburban mother of three, happily married to the love of her life, Andy. In December that year their fourth child was born and...