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Call of A Coward: The God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife

Call of A Coward: The God of Moses and the Middle-Class Housewife

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Moses never wanted to be a leader. Jonah ran away from his missions call. And when Marcia Moston's husband came home with a call to foreign missions, she was sure...
High Heels and Gumboots: A city girl and a lot to learn

High Heels and Gumboots: A city girl and a lot to learn

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For anyone who has dreamed of living in the country ... here's the hilarious, heart-warming brutal reality. Rebecca Hayter was a high-profile yachting journalist based in Auckland when she followed...
Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER " This funny, insightful, and deliciously dishy memoir" ( Town & Country ) from the director...
Tea and Scotch with Bradman

Tea and Scotch with Bradman

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Discovering the man behind the legend 'Conversations with Bradman were, like his batting, never dull and often unpredictable.' - From the Introduction In 1995, journalist and author Roland Perry wrote...
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely

Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely

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A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends... Would you brave gun-toting militias for a cut and...
Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want

Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want

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"In this hilarious, uplifting memoir, Wolfe describes her intense bond with Harlow...as she grapples with the chaos of her 20s, marriage, and eventually new motherhood."- Washington Post "An engaging debut...
The Good, the Bad & the Rugby - Unleashed

The Good, the Bad & the Rugby - Unleashed

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'I want absolutely nothing to do with this book.' - Owen Farrell THREE RUGBY MEGASTARS. ONE EPIC BOOK. Welcome to the wild world of The Good, The Bad & The...
The Point of Distraction

The Point of Distraction

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A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of eight piano pieces. 'A brief yet elegant excursion into the nature and execution of...
Zig-Zag Boy: A Mother's Love & A Journey Through Madness

Zig-Zag Boy: A Mother's Love & A Journey Through Madness

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'[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life' BOB ODENKIRK'Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary' NATHAN FILER, author of THE SHOCK OF THE FALL 'At its heart...
The Philosophy of Modern Song

The Philosophy of Modern Song

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The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One -and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. The audio...
Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed

Fourteen: My year of darkness, and the light that followed

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The bestseller optioned for a major film and adapted to the stage, Fourteen is this generation's Holding the Man - a moving coming-of-age memoir about a young man's search for...
Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her

Seventeen: The shocking true story of a teacher's affair with her

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'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - Karen Joy Fowler, author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves 'So compelling and shocking...
Possible Side Effects

Possible Side Effects

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National Bestseller From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Running with Scissors comes Augusten Burroughs's most provocative collection of true stories yet. From nicotine gum addiction to lesbian...
Uptown Girl: A Memoir

Uptown Girl: A Memoir

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"A thoroughly engaging glimpse into a colorful life well lived." - Kirkus Reviews "A bighearted new memoir . . . Uptown Girl tells the story of a glamorous, resilient, and...
In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction

In the Blood: On Mothers, Daughters and Addiction

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'I've never read a book like it. It's as if they tore their own hearts out and asked the other to hold it for them while they wrote.' Phoebe Waller-Bridge...
Out of the Blue: Everything this Wiggle journey has taught me

Out of the Blue: Everything this Wiggle journey has taught me

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Music is brain food and emotional sustenance for little ones. It's audible beauty. Want to give something special to your kids? Surround them with beauty and inspiration. Out of the...
Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert

Working Stiff: The Misadventures of an Accidental Sexpert

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A twenty-two-year-old perennial virgin, Englishman Grant Stoddard didn't know what to do with his life in America--until he won an X-rated online contest, the prize being intercourse with an infamous...
Behind a Velvet Light Trap

Behind a Velvet Light Trap

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As the editor of the classic films Wake in Fright, Age of Consent and Nureyev's DonQuixote, and producer of such masterly films as Caddie, Bliss, Oyster Farmer,The Night The Prowler...
The Gladiator Mindset: Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve

The Gladiator Mindset: Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve

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Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the world's greatest swimmers 'The most dominant sportsperson in Great...
A Year on Our Farm: How the Countryside Made Me

A Year on Our Farm: How the Countryside Made Me

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Matt Baker's first ever book is a year spent on the farm; told through the seasons this is his diary of the natural world, his farm and his family, now...
Fletchers on the Farm: Mud, Mayhem and Marriage

Fletchers on the Farm: Mud, Mayhem and Marriage

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'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a husband whose knowledge of farming you could write on...
The Eighth House: A mother, a murder, an obsession

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

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'This is an extraordinary book. It moves in and around you like a ghost. I feel lucky to have experienced it' -- Daisy Johnson - author of Everything Under In...
My Steve

My Steve

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My Steve is a deeply personal and moving tribute to a man adored by millions of people who never met him, and cherished by those who did. I'd never, ever...
My Steve

My Steve

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My Steve is a deeply personal and moving tribute to a man adored by millions of people who never met him, and cherished by those who did. I'd never, ever...
Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of how joy and pain are the perfect ingredients for a happy and funny life."-Amy Poehler...
My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis and Teamwork

My Dream Time: A Memoir of Tennis and Teamwork

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It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where and who I am today. I'm only in my...
Lucky

Lucky

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'What a story and what an inspirational human. Ed is a total legend.' Joe Wicks 'A life-affirming story . . . inspirational' Tim Peake As seen in the Daily Mail...
Stepladder to Hindsight: An Almost Memoir

Stepladder to Hindsight: An Almost Memoir

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Stepladder to Hindsight is about a fascinating man who has reached a turning point in his life and looks back. In this work, renowned academic and life-writer Richard Freadman turns...
Footfalls Echo in the Memory: A Life with the Colonial Education

Footfalls Echo in the Memory: A Life with the Colonial Education

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The Education Service was a vital arm of the British Colonial Service while the British Council has been paramount in promoting the English language and culture overseas. But are both...
Blood Ties

Blood Ties

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Adele Robinson is in prison, convicted for the murder of her abusive father. Her brother Peter is building his criminal empire on the outside, but when he gets involved in...
Rebel With a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions

Rebel With a Cause: Roots, Records and Revolutions

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'Essential reading' RECORD COLLECTOR 'Darcus Beese is a formidable cat' CHUCK D 'An inspiration' ANNIE LENNOX The must-read memoir from Darcus Beese - the first black president of Island Records...
Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel

Dog Days: A Year with Olive & Mabel

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Are you sitting nicely? Good. Let's discover exactly what happened after two superstar Labradors chewed up the lockdown internet and found it really quite tasty. He's not kept a diary...
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: A Memoir

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A beautifully told, deeply personal growing-up memoir from the BBC presenter about life, death, love and nature. Voted the UK's Favourite Nature Book The memoir that inspired Chris Packham's BBC...
Rod Laver: A Memoir

Rod Laver: A Memoir

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Rod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton became one of Australia's greatest every sporting champions. Rod was a dominant force...
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

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'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written ... Packed with clarity, curiosity and courage' FELIX WHITE'It turned on so many lights for...
Matters of the Heart: The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from

Matters of the Heart: The inspirational and deeply moving memoir from

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The moving story of an Indigenous woman who beat disadvantage and violence to become one of Australia's most influential political voices. Jacinta Nampijinpa Price was nine months pregnant and due...
Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain

Love Brought Me Back: A Journey of Loss and Gain

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IN THIS LUMINOUS MEMOIR, LEGENDARY SINGER AND ACTRESS NATALIE COLE TELLS A REMARKABLE STORY OF LIFE-THREATENING ILLNESS AND RECOVERY, AND THE STORY OF A DEATH THAT BROUGHT NEW LIFE. In...
Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

Sympathy for the Devil: Four Decades of Friendship with Gore Vidal

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A generous, entertaining, intimate look at Gore Vidal, a man who prided himself on being difficult to know Detached and ironic; a master of the pointed put-down, of the cutting...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

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The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that he will lose everything he loves. His husband. His family. His...
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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The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler on the Trump campaign in 2016 to assuming top...
The Fame Game: An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes

The Fame Game: An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes

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Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II shares insightful tales of his remarkable four-decade career plotting and overseeing fame, success, crisis and spinning for seminal talents at the...
Notes to John

Notes to John

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'A profound, rich document' NEW STATESMAN 'An act of intimate storytelling' VOGUE A recently discovered journal from one of America's...
As the Crow Flies: My Journey to Ironman World Champion

As the Crow Flies: My Journey to Ironman World Champion

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Millions of triathletes around the world know Craig Alexander as 'Crowie' - the formidable triathlete whose sheer talent and disciplined work ethic have earned him three Ironman (R) World Championships...
Not On My Patch, Lad: More Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby

Not On My Patch, Lad: More Tales of a Yorkshire Bobby

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Mike Pannett used to work the beat in Central London - tackling drugs and knife crime - so when he moved back to Yorkshire he was hoping for a quieter...
Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

Send Me: The True Story of a Mother at War

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The extraordinary story of American special operator and trailblazer Shannon Kent, who hunted high value targets on classified missions in the most dangerous locales on earth while trying to balance...
When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

When Death Becomes Life: Notes from a Transplant Surgeon

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"With When Death Becomes Life , Joshua Mezrich has performed the perfect core biopsy of transplantation--a clear and compelling account of the grueling daily work, the spell-binding history and the...
Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs

Street Hearts: An Extraordinary Story of Saving Street Dogs

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A heartwarming tale of abandoned dogs and their saviours Among the cobblestone villages and towns of rural Bulgaria, a dedicated team of unsung heroes led by Emma and Anthony Smith...
Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

Out of Character: From Abigail's Party to Gavin and Stacey, and

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A Waterstones Best Book of 2024 'Marriage to Mike Leigh, the minutiae of working on Gavin and Stacey : it's a tribute to her range that there's something here to...