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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...
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...
Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

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Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together...
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

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Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as...
Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

Where There's A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across a Continent

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Author: Emily Chappell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year Non-Fiction Award 2020 'Chappell is a gifted storyteller' - Observer In...
The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family

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Author: Ron Howard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron's and Clint's early careers...
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...
How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

How to be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

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Author: Sarah Millican Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'The naughtiest, helpiest, laughieoutloudiest and goodest book I've ever done reading on. Give that girl a banana!' DAWN FRENCH...
Wishful Drinking

Wishful Drinking

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

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Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...
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...
Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media, from The Resilience Project

Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media, from The Resilience Project

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Author: Hugh van Cuylenburg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 From the bestselling author of THE RESILIENCE PROJECT comes this deeply personal book about the importance of letting...
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...
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...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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Author: Isabel Wilkerson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The epic story of how millions of black Americans fled the Jim Crow south, told through the journeys of...
Thomas Cromwell: A Life

Thomas Cromwell: A Life

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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'This is the biography we have been awaiting for 400 years' - Hilary Mantel Born in obscurity in Putney,...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle

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Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

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Author: Janet L. Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks,...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Author: Alison Bechdel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The new masterpiece from the bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist and feminist icon, whose fans include Gloria Steinem and Laura Marling *A...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

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Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
The Fry Chronicles

The Fry Chronicles

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Jeremy Dronfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust In...
Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed

Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The inspiring and universal true story of the transformative power of a mother's love. On Mother's Day, 2002, Glennon...