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Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities:...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

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Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 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...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

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Author: Anna Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Divide is well written and thought-provoking.' Sunday Telegraph This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn...
The Boy in the Book

The Boy in the Book

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Author: Nathan Penlington Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Nathan discovered a job lot of the first 106 adventures for sale on eBay, there was never any question that...
Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

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Author: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

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'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When -...
Advocate: A voice from the margins

Advocate: A voice from the margins

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Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a working woman, a survivor, above all, she is an...
The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World

The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World

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Author: Bob Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Utterly fascinating and intriguing' Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness 'A captivating dive into the mysteries of nature' Lee Schofield,...
Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression

Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression

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Author: Alastair Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost...
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale

Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale

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Author: Victor Gregg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington,...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

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Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

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Author: Marianne Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Until I had my first child, and this is to my shame, I had little understanding of just how much mothers...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

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Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Rising to the Surface: 'Moving and honest' OBSERVER

Rising to the Surface: 'Moving and honest' OBSERVER

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Author: Lenny Henry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'The king of character comedy.' Good Housekeeping'A lynchpin of British comedy.' Alan MooreThe nation's favourite comedian opens up about two extraordinary...
Something More: A Spiritual Misfit's Search for Meaning

Something More: A Spiritual Misfit's Search for Meaning

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Author: Siobhan Curham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Have you ever wondered if there might be something more to life? When Siobhan Curham decided to write a book about...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Something More: A Spiritual Misfit's Search for Meaning

Something More: A Spiritual Misfit's Search for Meaning

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Author: Siobhan Curham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Have you ever wondered if there might be something more to life? When Siobhan Curham decided to write a book about...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers

How Animals Saved My Life: Being the Supervet: The perfect gift for animal lovers

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Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE MASSIVE NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER It has been 30 years since Noel Fitzpatrick graduated as a veterinary surgeon,...
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN

Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN

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Author: Georgina Lawton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly... a gripping, thought-provoking book.' The Sunday Times 'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

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Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear...
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults): A Story of Race and Inheritance

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Author: Barack Obama Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 BRAND-NEW EDITION of the multi-million-copy bestseller, now adapted for YA readers and complete with never-before-seen colour photos. A revealing portrait of...
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

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Author: Mark T. Esper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure...
Remember the Ramrods: An Army Brotherhood in War and Peace

Remember the Ramrods: An Army Brotherhood in War and Peace

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Author: David Bellavia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The Iraq War's only living Medal of Honor recipient reveals the untold story of the remarkable brotherhood behind one of the...
We All Go into the Dark

We All Go into the Dark

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Author: Francisco Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A captivating, eloquent and deeply original book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across...
Talking with Margaret Throsby

Talking with Margaret Throsby

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Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

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Author: Mark Noble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton...
Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild

Return: A Journey Back to Living Wild

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Author: Lynx Vilden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In this stunning memoir, beloved internationally acclaimed earth advocate chronicles her journey to reconnect with the earth, offering a model for...
Raven Smith's Men

Raven Smith's Men

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'A brilliant writer.' Russell Tovey'Thoroughly entertaining.' OTEGHA UWAGBA'Funny and beautifully revealing.' BELLA MACKIE'Wise, sharp and naughty.' THE OBSERVER 'Herein lie the men of Raven Smith. Each of them has left...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

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Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
Telling Tales

Telling Tales

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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

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Heroes Next Door

Heroes Next Door

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Grazing: The Ramblings and Recipes of a Man Who Gets Paid to Eat

Grazing: The Ramblings and Recipes of a Man Who Gets Paid to Eat

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My Effin' Life

My Effin' Life

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Author: Geddy Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The long-awaited memoir, generously illustrated with never-before-seen photos, from the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Rush bassist, and bestselling...
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

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Author: Mark T. Esper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure...
Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

Origin Africa: Safaris in Deep Time

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Author: Jonathan Kingdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 A major new look at how Africa's geological history, climate, geography and biology resulted in the wonderful diversity of life found...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

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Author: Colm O'Regan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now...