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Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Music, and Family

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Author: Daniel Bergner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The New York Times bestseller about a young black man's journey from violence and despair to the threshold of...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

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Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE On 3 June 1947, as British India descended into chaos, its division into...
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945

The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945

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Author: Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

See Ya Later: The World According to Arron Crascall

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Author: Arron Crascall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Arron Crascall is one of the UK's leading social media stars. Millions watch his videos online and he's guaranteed...
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...
Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

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Author: Mitchell S. Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'A mesmerising book, full of story, truth, pain, lyricism, humour and astonishment: the stuff of a difficult life,...
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,...
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

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Author: Brett Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil Tennant The trajectory of Suede - hailed in...
Back in the Frame: Cycling, belonging and finding joy on a bike

Back in the Frame: Cycling, belonging and finding joy on a bike

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Author: Jools Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'We'll all recognise ourselves somewhere in this book' Emily Chappell 'One of the best cycling books of all time'...
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...
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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Author: Rebekah Taussig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories...
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...
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...
The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

The Women of the Bible Speak: The Wisdom of 16 Women and Their Lessons for Today

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Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The women of the Bible lived timeless stories-by examining them, we can understand what...
The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue

The Dive: The untold story of the world's deepest submarine rescue

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Author: Stephen McGinty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13. They were out of...
The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border

The Book of Rosy: A Mother's Story of Separation at the Border

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Author: Rosayra Pablo Cruz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 "Offers hope in the face of desperate odds" - ELLE Magazine, ELLE's Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2020...
Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life

Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life

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Author: Ray Richmond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life is a visual salute to the First Lady of Television, spanning her...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man

Unspoken: Toxic Masculinity and How I Faced the Man Within the Man

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Author: Guvna B Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Men are bold. Men are brave. Men are strong in the face of fear. But what happens when that...
Walking the Americas

Walking the Americas

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Author: Levison Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304  'A wildly entertaining account of his epic journey' - Daily Mail. Levison Wood begins his biggest challenge yet. Beginning...
Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

Listen: How to Find the Words for Tender Conversations

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Author: Kathryn Mannix Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Powerful, humane and wise' JULIA SAMUEL 'Everyone should read it' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Beautiful ... This is a book for...
The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 The captivating life of Margaret Douglas - a life of scandal, political intrigue and royal romance that spanned five...
Experience

Experience

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Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 Britain's foremost female historian reveals the true story of this key figure in the Wars of the Roses and...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
Silence: In the Age of Noise

Silence: In the Age of Noise

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Author: Erling Kagge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 From the Norwegian explorer, a stunning meditation on the power of silence and how to shut out the world....
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World

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Author: Frank McLynn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The greatest story of military conquest in history from a 'master storyteller' (Guardian) Genghis Khan was by far the...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach

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Author: John Eliot Gardiner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such...
Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

Rudolf Nureyev: The Life

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Author: Julie Kavanagh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 The incredible story of the 20th century's superstar ballet dancer, soon to be a major film by Ralph Fiennes...
Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces

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Author: Laura Tunbridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An authoritative and refreshing account of Beethoven's life and music Ludwig van Beethoven- to some, simply the greatest ever...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
Real Estate

Real Estate

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Fearless and essential - the highly anticipated final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography' Following the international...
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Soren Kierkegaard

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Author: Clare Carlisle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Engrossing ... Carlisle has pulled off the feat of writing a truly Kierkegaardian biography of Kierkegaard' (Julian Baggini, Financial...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life

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Author: Robert Dallek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A superb one-volume biography by the Number One New York Times bestselling biographer of JFK, explaining Roosevelt's career as...
Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom

Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli's Lifelong Quest for Freedom

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Author: Erica Benner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 An enjoyably revisionist biography and a warning from the past about our world today Niccol Machiavelli lived in a...
Augustus: The Biography

Augustus: The Biography

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Author: Jochen Bleicken Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when...
God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

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Author: Christopher Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The classic life of Cromwell by one of Britain's great radical historians A nuanced biography of Oliver Cromwell, breaking...