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Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths

Wayfarer: Love, loss and life on Britain's ancient paths

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Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Book of the Year 2025 A Financial Times best summer travel book of 2024 'A powerfully delicate book of love, loss and discovery, along...
Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

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The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby 'There's no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JAMES 'I love this book' DOLLY ALDERTON How much of your life...
Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

Four Stars: A Life. Reviewed.

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The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby 'There's no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JAMES 'I love this book' DOLLY ALDERTON How much of your life...
War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan

War & Peace & War: Twenty years in Afghanistan

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'Andrew North has a deep empathy and understanding for Afghanistan and has seen sides of it - both good and horrifying - that very few international observers have encountered' -...
Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry

Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry

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Andrew Motion has been close to the centres of British poetry for over fifty years. Sleeping on Islands is his clear-sighted and open-hearted account of this remarkable career. It takes...
Lifeform: from the bestselling author of Little Weirds

Lifeform: from the bestselling author of Little Weirds

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Praise for Jenny Slate and Little Weirds 'Magical' Mindy Kaling 'Delicious' Amy Sedaris 'This book is something new and wonderful. It made me remember I was alive' George Saunders From...
Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World

Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. _ Hope taught me the meaning of life, Tina taught me the meaning of love....
Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water

Breaking Waves: Discovery, Healing and Inspiration in the Open Water

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A warm, reflective, and uplifting memoir about healing wounds, reclaiming a voice and discovering freedom through the open water. The open water. To the uninitiated, it represents the unknown, an...
All of It: Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between

All of It: Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between

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Brooke Boney has been in the public eye for well over a decade, first as a recognisable voice on triple j, and then as a recognisable face on The Today...
Billabong Boy

Billabong Boy

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This is Arron's story, from a boy who loved to explore his local billabong to international award-winning speaker, and his struggles to keep balanced while being an inspiration to those...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

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The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian , Times , Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer...
Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

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A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor J zsef Debreczeni A lost classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first...
Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the

Scars and Stripes: An Unapologetically American Story of Fighting the

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From decorated Green Beret sniper, UFC headliner, and all around badass, Tim Kennedy, a rollicking, inspirational memoir offering lessons in how to embrace failure and...
Dare to Dream: The Story of One Man's Inspiring and Colourful Journey

Dare to Dream: The Story of One Man's Inspiring and Colourful Journey

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The story of one man's inspiring and colourful journey to education in adulthood. Lack of opportunity is the common reason people give for their inability to attain their potential. This...
Brazen: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR FROM THE STAR OF NETFLIX'S

Brazen: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING MEMOIR FROM THE STAR OF NETFLIX'S

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** THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** From the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life, a riveting, inspiring memoir. Julia Haart tells the story of her extraordinary journey, from leaving an ultra-Orthodox...
Desire Paths

Desire Paths

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A story about family, connection and the distance we will go to be with the ones we love. In 2020, as the world is closing its borders, journalist Megan Clement...
The Invisible Life of Us

The Invisible Life of Us

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The surprises, challenges and delight of parenting kids with additional needs Kate Jones and Mandy Hose have experienced the highs and lows of parenting - and they wouldn't change a...
You're Not Alone

You're Not Alone

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Author Aana Mila Bella grew up in a small Bosnian village surrounded with green forest, rolling hills, meadows, mountains, and lots of fresh air. She felt freedom, and everything seemed...
The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York

The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York

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In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly...
Cracking the Code

Cracking the Code

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As seen on Australian Story on the ABC A family doctor shares a mother and father's determination to save their son This story of a father's search to find a...
The Worst Date Ever: or How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Joseph

The Worst Date Ever: or How it Took a Comedy Writer to Expose Joseph

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When scriptwriter Jane Bussmann (South Park, The Fast Show, Brass Eye and Smack the Pony) moved to Hollywood, it was supposed to be the start of something better. But a...
Question 7

Question 7

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**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...
Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of

Goodbye Christopher Robin: A. A. Milne and the Making of

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Goodbye Christopher Robin is drawn from Ann Thwaite's acclaimed biography of A. A. Milne, one of the most successful English writers ever, and the creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, and of Piglet,...
Lexie's Village: A New Kind of Family

Lexie's Village: A New Kind of Family

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What would you do to have a family? At 43, time was running out for Natalie Lovett. A demanding career, combined with a series of failed relationships, and years of...
A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories

A Swag of Memories: Australian bush stories

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What bush life was really like before the days of motorbike and helicopters. Brian Taylor has lived in the Queensland bush almost all his life, and knows it well: the...
Not Like Other Dads

Not Like Other Dads

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A fearless, frank and funny memoir about reinventing the rules of parenting Sean had wanted to be a mum since the age of four, when he fell in love with...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

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A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ' Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and home. I loved it and it will haunt...
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...
Heart to Heart

Heart to Heart

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Read the heartwarming story of Pea Horsley, the UK's first professional animal communicator, as she tracks lost animals, tackles troublesome pets and helps people to truly understand their devoted friends....
Beautiful Things: A Memoir

Beautiful Things: A Memoir

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love," Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and "unflinchingly honest" (...
No One's Child

No One's Child

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In her compelling memoir, The Girl with the Cardboard Port, Judith McNeil shared the incredible story of her life in the turbulent world of Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s....
KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans

KANDAK: Fighting with Afghans

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From the author of the top ten bestseller The Junior Officers' Reading Club. When Patrick Hennessey returned home from Afghanistan, battle-worn, exhilarated, unsure if he'd see anything like it in...
Blood Ties

Blood Ties

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An uncannily brilliant evocation of the falconer's art and a moving story of a man's discovery of how to be a father. 'I was moved to tears by Ben Crane's...
No Filters: a mother and teenage daughter love story

No Filters: a mother and teenage daughter love story

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Honest, funny, moving conversations about mental health, identity and contemporary issues between bestselling author and her teenage daughter 'Fascinating... a much needed conversation between generations' THE TIMES How can we...
A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir

A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir

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#1 New Zealand bestseller #1 Amazon bestseller #2 Audible bestseller #3 New York Times bestseller #3 Sunday Times bestseller #4 Australian bestseller From the former prime minister of New Zealand,...
A Doctor's Dream: A Story of Hope from the Top End

A Doctor's Dream: A Story of Hope from the Top End

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When Dr Buddhi moved to Arnhem Land to run a health program for Aboriginal children, he had no idea he would face the challenge of his life. Six months into...
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's

These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's

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Bayo Akomolafe explores some of the world's most complex concepts--the myths and rituals of modernity, what it means to be human, what we can do about climate change, and what...
That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

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So relevant in today's evolving cultural climate, Fahmy's story offers a perceptive and personal glimpse into the sometimes sticky but ultimately rewarding balance of independent choice and tradition.
The Power Of Hope

The Power Of Hope

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A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we...
Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible

Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible

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The ultimate guide to mental toughness by James 'Iron Cowboy' Lawrence-the greatest endurance athlete in human history. Lawrence's accomplishments are nearly impossible to comprehend. In 2015, he set a Guinness...
Tiger Woman: A Wild Life

Tiger Woman: A Wild Life

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Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty...
A Moment of War

A Moment of War

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90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books In one of the great English war memoirs, we learn what it is to cross the Pyrenees through freezing snow to...
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...
Things in Nature Merely Grow

Things in Nature Merely Grow

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'Unforgettable' SUNDAY TIMES 'Courageous' OBSERVER 'One of the most important books to be published in years' SARA COLLINS 'There are few writers with Li's power' DOUGLAS STUART The best book...
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...
Crooked

Crooked

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In a music and publishing industry first, acclaimed musician Kristin Hersh releases her new studio album, CROOKED, as a book. Kristin Hersh, lead singer of Throwing Muses and successful solo...