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Riding With The Rocketmen: One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of

Riding With The Rocketmen: One Man's Journey on the Shoulders of

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' Humble and very funny ' - Ned Boulting ' Essential reading for any Etape rider ' - Daniel Friebe, co-host of The Cyclist Podcast An Everyman dropped into the...
Joyful, Anyway: Finding Delight in Impossible Times

Joyful, Anyway: Finding Delight in Impossible Times

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times bestselling author and Duke University professor Kate Bowler offers a profound, funny and deeply human case for joy that doesn't depend on everything getting...
Things I Told My Notes App: Secret Diary of an Oversharer

Things I Told My Notes App: Secret Diary of an Oversharer

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The candid, laugh-out-loud guide on self-love and learning to choose yourself from a self-proclaimed oversharer - perfect for fans of Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love. Milly Goldsmith is...
You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024

You Can't Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024

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This volume covers four decades: The Eighties and Nineties when the author was no longer engaged in active politics as a party-member of any sort, but had moved sideways to...
Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with

Eight Million Ways to Happiness: Find your own way to inner peace with

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'A timely and moving pilgrimage through Japan's spiritual traditions' RUTH OZEKI, Women's Prize-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author 'A fascinating dive through hidden layers of the Japanese worldview' KATHERINE MAY, author...
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

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The #1 Irish Times bestseller WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards 'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes 'Sweeping, authoritative and profoundly intelligent' Colm Toibin, Guardian 'With the pace...
Tough Broad: From Bird-Watching to BASE Jumping-How Outdoor Adventure

Tough Broad: From Bird-Watching to BASE Jumping-How Outdoor Adventure

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From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl , a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in...
Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking-How Outdoor

Tough Broad: From Boogie Boarding to Wing Walking-How Outdoor

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From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl , a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in...
I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further

I Want to Die but I Still Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Further

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_______________ THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR 'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they...
Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted

Strong Roots: A Ukrainian Family Story, Interrupted

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' An instant classic' NIGELLA LAWSON 'Sweeping, intimate, defiant and brimming with love' LOUISE KENNEDY 'It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm. Olia Hercules...
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World

The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World

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'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and] inner journeys told through extraordinary exteriors' Washington Post One...
Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells

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We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's...
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge

Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge

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Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of the SAS and fought a bloody guerrilla war in...
Unfinished Woman

Unfinished Woman

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA 2024 SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN AUSTRALIA 'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' THE TIMES 'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an...
The House on Carnaval Street

The House on Carnaval Street

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From Kabul to a home by the Mexican sea ... A life-affirming, sea-change memoir by the author of the international bestseller The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul. From Kabul to...
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life

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A magical memoir from the New York Times bestselling writer about coming back from the brink of cancer and finding love second time around. If you pitched a movie about...
Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at

Name Drop: The Really Good Celebrity Stories I Usually Only Tell at

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From Ross Mathews, the nationally bestselling author of Man Up! , judge on RuPaul's Drag Race , and alum of Chelsea Lately , a collection of hilarious and irreverent essays...
Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

Dear Eddie: God, Turtles and Letters About Mum

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"How do you prepare a pre-schooler for his mother's death? How do you preserve her memory so he'll never forget? These were the troublesome questions that compelled journalist Danny Russell...
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for

Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for

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ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks...
The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

The Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American

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A thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American...
The Chain

The Chain

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'Back in 2012, everyone knew who Bradley Wiggins was. Everyone, that is, but me. Thirteen years after the summer that defined me, I have finally defined myself. The disguises have...
Happy Days

Happy Days

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Natalie Cassidy has been on our screens for over three decades. We've grown up alongside Sonia on EastEnders , but what about Nat's life beyond Albert Square? 'Everyone knows and...
The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

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It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...
The Making of a Chef

The Making of a Chef

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p>The Making Of A Chef takes us through the highs and lows of Lukes career and gives us insight into the life of a working chef, beyond the glamour and...
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden

When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden

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A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2025 IN THE INDEPENDENT, GQ, NEW STATESMAN, FINANCIAL TIMES AND BBC CULTURE When the Going Was Good is Graydon Carter's lively recounting of how he...
How Not to Be a Political Wife

How Not to Be a Political Wife

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'You think you've married a journalist, then, horrors, he becomes a politician.' 'Sarah Vine is the Bridget Jones of politics.' Plum Sykes 'Everyone in Westminster is talking about it.' The...
Homework: A Memoir

Homework: A Memoir

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'Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly...
All of Us Atoms

All of Us Atoms

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You tell me we are made of seven billion billion billion atoms. I can feel every one of them as I write this all down. It's a rush to feel...
The Friday Afternoon Club: The 'wise, funny and generous' New York

The Friday Afternoon Club: The 'wise, funny and generous' New York

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THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Wise, funny and generous' - The Times 'Warm and perceptive' - New York Times 'So honest and funny and smart' - Observer 'Griffin Dunne...
Bad Bad Girl

Bad Bad Girl

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My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a...
Man Enough to Be a Woman

Man Enough to Be a Woman

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'If you stay alive long enough, people eventually catch up' Born in rural Georgia in 1947, Jayne moved to New York and became part of the 60s art scene surrounding...
Mania: Tartan, Turmoil and My Life as a Bay City Roller

Mania: Tartan, Turmoil and My Life as a Bay City Roller

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Stuart Wood's love of music was ignited at fourteen when he, along with three schoolmates, formed a band. By the time he turned fifteen, he had left school to pursue...
A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria

A Body Made of Glass: A History of Hypochondria

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A fascinating and revelatory cultural history of hypochondria, from Hippocrates to wellness influencers - for fans of Andrew Solomon and Siddhartha Mukherjee "There is a twilight zone between illness and...
What You Into?

What You Into?

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'What you into?' 'I can host if ur looking?' 'What you into?' 'Do you like straight married men?' 'What you into?' 'Wanna meet in the bushes at the park?' So...
The World Is Waiting for You: Embrace Your Calling and Manifest the

The World Is Waiting for You: Embrace Your Calling and Manifest the

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With a foreword by Viola Davis, award-winning actress Edwina Findley Dickerson presents a faith-filled, laugh-out-loud guide for manifesting your "God Dream" and creating the life you've always envisioned. Were you...
Children of the Volcano: Making a Life for Three in Sicily

Children of the Volcano: Making a Life for Three in Sicily

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'Immensely enjoyable... Ros's experiences are fascinating. She's clearly a woman and who doesn't let the obstacles life throws at her get her down' Chris Stewart, author of Driving Over Lemons...
Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets

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Three months after Kyo Maclear's father dies in December 2018, she gets the result of a DNA test showing that she and the father who raised her are not biologically...
The City and the World

The City and the World

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In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas...
Bad Bad Girl

Bad Bad Girl

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My mother had died, but still I heard her voice... Growing up in an affluent neighbourhood in 1930s Shanghai, Loo Shu-hsin is told that it is 'no good for a...
Last Words

Last Words

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Richard Holloway has been the archetypal 'turbulent priest'. Having risen to be the Primus (Head) of the Scottish Episcopal Church, he abandoned religion and ecclesiastical office to fight for the...
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops

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Everyone knows who you find in bookshops: people who want to buy books. But, as Shaun Bythell, author of the bestselling Diary of a Bookseller and Confessions of a Bookseller,...
It's Okay Not to Get Along with Everyone: The Korean Non-Fiction

It's Okay Not to Get Along with Everyone: The Korean Non-Fiction

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It's Okay Not to Get Along with Everyone explores the necessity of maintaining a healthy distance in relationships and surrounding yourself with people you are comfortable with. It delves into...
Raising Brows: My Story of Building a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire

Raising Brows: My Story of Building a Billion-Dollar Beauty Empire

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An esthetician and single mother with no connections, Anastasia Soare risked her life escaping communist Romania to come to America. Raising Brows tells the remarkable story of how she built...
Playground Duty

Playground Duty

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In the baking heat of February 1973, wearing a purple nylon bodyshirt and an expression of confidence that belied his nerves, Ned Manning faced down a classroom full of kids...
Warrior Brothers My Life in the Australian SAS

Warrior Brothers My Life in the Australian SAS

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A red-hot memoir from an Australian ex-SAS soldier, full of the action, fear and camaraderie of combat. For the first time, an ex-SAS soldier tells all- what it means to...
Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World

Adventures of an Accidental Sociologist: How to Explain the World

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This is a witty, insightful, and intelligent memoir from one of the most influential and important social thinkers of the 20th century. Peter Berger is arguably one of the best...
The Black Girl Next Door

The Black Girl Next Door

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"A powerful, beautifully written memoir about coming of age as a black girl in an exclusive white suburb in "integrated," post-Civil Rights California in the 1970s and 1980s." At six...
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction,

Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction,

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A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love...