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Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction

Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction

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A former drug addict turned behavioural neuroscientist reveals how drugs work in the brain - and what we can do to fight addiction. Judith Grisel was a daily drug user...
To The One I Love The Best

To The One I Love The Best

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Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News. Foreword by Christiane Amanpour

Charles Wheeler - Witness to the Twentieth Century: A Life in News.

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Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...
Late Light: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

Late Light: WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING

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WINNER OF THE 2024 WAINWRIGHT PRIZEWINNER OF THE 2023 RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD FOR NATURE WRITING'Inspirational' - THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE'A bright, fierce hope for the future' - THE IRISH TIMES'An astonishing...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

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'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME...
Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authors

Bear Woman: The brand-new memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling

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For readers of Rachel Cusk, Lisa Taddeo and the essays of Zadie Smith, Bear Woman is a beautifully wrought memoir from one of Sweden's bestselling authorsA beautifully written and astonishing...
Counterfeit Countess, The: The untold story of the Jewish heroine who defied the Holocaust

Counterfeit Countess, The: The untold story of the Jewish heroine who

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The Holocaust has given rise to many accounts of resistance and rescue, but The Counterfeit Countess is unique. It tells the remarkable, untold story of 'Countess Janina Suchodolska', a Jewish...
Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online

Bad Influence: The buzzy debut memoir about growing up online

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'Equal parts insightful and entertaining - whatever your take on influencers, Bad Influence is a great read' YOMI ADEGOKE'Warm, juicy, and eye-opening, like having a chat with a best friend'...
Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

Beyond the High Blue Air: A Memoir

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Aged 29, Lu Spinney's son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

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There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...
Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British Sewing Bee

Behind the Seams: The perfect gift for fans of The Great British

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*** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great British Sewing Bee, go behind the scenes of Esme Young's amazing life...At age five, Esme was...
Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography

Starman: David Bowie - The Definitive Biography

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David Bowie - famously described as rock's greatest chameleon - has lived an extraordinary life. From his early years in post-war, bombed out Brixton to a troubled later childhood in...
The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a heartbreaking true story of courage, resilience and survival

The Daughter of Auschwitz: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - a

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A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half...
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

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In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the writer's way of being. Over the course of sixteen...
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940

Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940

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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder- an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one...
There Is No Blue

There Is No Blue

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The three protagonists in this memoir are dead: a mother, a father, and a sister. A bookish and artistic family living in a beautiful old house in a pleasant part...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...
To the Greatest Heights

To the Greatest Heights

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'What a wonderful, honest, refreshing book, full of free-spirited adventure, humour and profound thoughts to provide inspiration to anyone who simply dreams of getting out and doing their own thing'...
Bacon in Moscow

Bacon in Moscow

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'A rollicking cultural adventure... fascinating and true' - Grayson PerryThis funny and personal memoir is the account of an audacious attempt by James Birch, a young British curator, to mount...
Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism,  Identity and Hope

Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope

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'Truly inspirational' The SunSabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 44-year-old mother of four and grandmother of three, an award-winning businesswoman, an ultrarunner, a social justice activist and a recovering alcoholic. She is...
I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

I'll Just Be Five More Minutes: And Other Tales from My ADHD Brain

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A hilariously-honest, heart-warming essay collection about life, love, and discovering you have ADHD at age 35 Despite being a published writer with a family, a gaggle of internet fans, and...
None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman

None of this Rocks: The brilliant first memoir by Fall Out Boy

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None of This Rocks is a memoir by Joe Trohman - lead guitarist and cofounder of Fall Out Boy - that reads like a double album full of revealing stories...
Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness

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In the vein of Educated and Hillbilly Elegy comes a young woman's memoir chronicling her harrowing journey from despair to salvation that showcases the depths and resilience of the human...
All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise

All at Sea: Another Side of Paradise

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"Sayarer is a precise and passionate writer . . . The vast energy of his commitment to discover, observe and communicate makes for engrossing, often incandescent prose. We need writers...
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 Andy...
An Indian Love Affair: A Septuagenerian Odyssey from Taj to Taj

An Indian Love Affair: A Septuagenerian Odyssey from Taj to Taj

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In the early 1960s, travel-writer Simon Gandolfi drove a VW from England to Goa where he rented a bungalow on the beach at Calangute. And it was on Calangute beach...
A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

A Lucky Child: A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

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Thomas Buergenthal is unique. Liberated from the death camps of Auschwitz at the age of eleven, in adulthood he became a judge at the International Court in The Hague. In...
Liar's Poker

Liar's Poker

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Author: Michael Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael LewisÕ pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of...
Last Stop Auschwitz- My Story Of Survival From Within The Camp

Last Stop Auschwitz- My Story Of Survival From Within The Camp

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Author: Eddy De Wind Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Last Stop Auschwitz, with its many details, written at speed and with all the immediacy that comes with describing events still...
Main Character Energy: An Empowering Guide From TikTok Megastar Fats Timbo

Main Character Energy: An Empowering Guide From TikTok Megastar Fats

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Ten commandments, ten chapters, ten ways to change your lifeFats Timbo is a comedian and podcaster who rose to prominence for her snappy sketches, quick wit and disability-advocacy.You can find...
Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend

Different Aspects: The magical memoir from the West End legend

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In 1989, a young Michael Ball landed the lead role in the musical Aspects of Love. It was a moment that changed his life forever. It was the first time...
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

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Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies.In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa...
The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience and Optimism

The Strength of Love: Embracing an Uncertain Future with Resilience

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*** The Sunday Times Bestseller ***'Intimate, tender and brutally honest ... a remarkable book.' Decca Aitkenhead, The Sunday Times'These are probably the toughest times we have faced in many decades,...
This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

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Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister, each grief threatening to drown her. But instead of going under she discovered the lessons...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital,

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A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver.Managing Expectations is a collection of delicately crafted, hilarious and heartfelt essays, described as a...
Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

Oasis: What's The Story?: Life on tour with Liam and Noel Gallagher

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*Twnety-five years on from the legendary Knebworth concert, read the true story of the birth of Oasis and life on the road with Liam and Noel*Oasis were a band like...
Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

Kitty's Salon: Sex, Spying and Surveillance in the Third Reich

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There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin 'salon' run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final SolutionSalon...
Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Pandamonium!: How (Not) to Run a Record Label

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'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY A Virgin Radio Book of the Year It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death?As a one-time NME...
Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

Olive, Mabel & Me: Life and Adventures with Two Very Good Dogs

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'Warm, funny, touching, uplifting' CLARE BALDINGOLIVE & MABEL: two of the internet's favourite dogs!ANDREW COTTER: one of our best-loved commentators.In a year like no other, the antics of two beautiful...
Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to  lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL

Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging bestseller,

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'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth DayWhat if our notion of what makes us happy is the very thing that's making us so sad?Ten years on from first...
Little Book of Fendi: The story of the iconic fashion brand

Little Book of Fendi: The story of the iconic fashion brand

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Founded in 1925, Fendi is a luxury brand rooted in elegance and experimentation.Renowned for its attention to detail, innovative design and signature 'double F' logo, the family firm has conquered...
Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman - the true story of Ava's fight for survival, from the No.1 bestseller, for fans of Cathy Glass

Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman - the true

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Ava Thomas knew she had hit rock bottom after being helped to a women's refuge with her children. Coming to terms with a relationship dominated by domestic violence, Ava knew...
Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny

Le Freak: An Upside Down Story of Family, Disco and Destiny

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Legendary producer and co-founder of Chic, Nile Rodgers wrote 'We Are Family' for Sister Sledge and 'I'm Coming Out' for Diana Ross before producing Let's Dance for David Bowie and...
To The One I Love The Best

To The One I Love The Best

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Ludwig Bemelmans came to the California home of famed interior decorator Elsie de Wolfe, Lady Mendl, for cocktails. By the end of the night, he was firmly established as a...
Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism,  Identity and Hope

Black Sheep: A Story of Rural Racism, Identity and Hope

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'Truly inspirational' The SunSabrina Pace-Humphreys is a 44-year-old mother of four and grandmother of three, an award-winning businesswoman, an ultrarunner, a social justice activist and a recovering alcoholic. She is...
Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker

Hope: Read the inspirational life behind Tom Parker

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THE POWERFUL AND UPLIFTING NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERIn March 2022, much-loved pop star, father and son Tom Parker died from incurable brain cancer. This story is his legacy, in...
A Portrait of the Piss Artist as a Young Man

A Portrait of the Piss Artist as a Young Man

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It was love at first taste for fifteen-year-old Tadhg Hickey when he drank a can of Scrumpy Jack on the night of his exam results. Straight away it provided a...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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"A remarkable and important story" BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour"Unputdownable . . . Urbach has also retold the tragic Holocaust story in quite unforgettable lines" A.N. Wilson"In a remarkable new...