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Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mornings With My Cat Mii

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A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing life, and how cats can change our lives. The...
Under A Rock

Under A Rock

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'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've learned over the fifty or so years...
The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen: Foreword by Keith Richards,

The Rolling Stones Rare and Unseen: Foreword by Keith Richards,

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FOREWORD BY KEITH RICHARDS 'ICONIC... DAZZLING.' -MOJO 'SPECTACULAR... YOU TRULY FEEL THE INSANE PACE OF LIFE AS A STONE.' -VARIETY 'Gered was at one with the band. More than that,...
My Cousin Maria Schneider

My Cousin Maria Schneider

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"Lovingly written" Deborah Harry "An exquisite portrait of a tragic heroine" Violaine Huisman A spare, heartbreaking memoir and tribute to Maria Schneider, the 1970s movie starlet who catapulted to fame...
An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island

An Island to Oneself: Six Years Alone on a Desert Island

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A South Seas classic since 1966, this is the story of one New Zealander brave enough to do what we have all now and then dreamed of doing - live...
A Forager's Life: A tender and spellbinding debut memoir

A Forager's Life: A tender and spellbinding debut memoir

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A memoir about belonging and motherhood, told through the author's lifelong passion for wild food When Helen Lehndorf moves to the city after a childhood living off the land in...
Adventures of a Country Vet: True stories from the horse's mouth, from

Adventures of a Country Vet: True stories from the horse's mouth, from

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Funny and heartwarming stories from a Northland country vet In the rolling green hills of Kaipara, Scottish vet Rory Dean and his two fox terriers, Scrappy and Alfie, are on...
Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine,

Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine,

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"Truth is always stranger than fiction... A stunning, riveting and extraordinary real-life story of life in the shadows." #1 International Bestselling Author Don Winslow The gripping true story, that reads...
Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

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" Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff...
Clint: The Man and the Movies

Clint: The Man and the Movies

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New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...
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...
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

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'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo & the Bunnymen hit the studio to record their ground-breaking...
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and after the Islamic revolution. CHOSEN BY EMMA WATSON FOR 'OUR SHARED...
Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome

Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome

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This is a black and white reissue edition of Five Quarters, previously published as a full-colour cookbook in 2015. This edition contains no photography. WINNER of the Andre Simon Food...
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That Changed History Forever

The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That

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Sunday Times Bestselling author of The Traitor of Colditz Robert Verkaik reveals the incredible never-before-told story of the role played by the Cambridge Spies in the British defeat at Arnhem"A...
The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater

The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go

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Triumphs and disasters in the deep seaThis is a journey through time and water, to the bottom of the ocean and the future of our planet. We do not see...
Kew - Parched: 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden

Kew - Parched: 50 plants that thrive and survive in a dry garden

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Dazzling, diverse, durable - discover the remarkable drought-proof plants that flourish in the driest environments.With rainfall unpredictable and summers increasingly hot, plants that survive and thrive in these conditions have...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the world

A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the

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A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book for 2024The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain -...
Under A Rock

Under A Rock

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ONE OF WATERSTONES BEST ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS OF 2024'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from what I've...
The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life story

The Doctor of Hiroshima: His heart-breaking and inspiring true life

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With what this poor woman had been through the sight of her crying tore at my heartstrings. What if something should happen to her; who would care for her little...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea

My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea

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'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary'A beautifully...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

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"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

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'An entertaining first-hand account of pure rock 'n' roll madness.' The Daily Telegraph'Hundreds of exclusive photos and brilliant one-liners make for a sensational read.' the Sun'We are the biggest band...
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

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Author: Leila GuerrieroFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 160 pagesPublished: Pushkin Press, United Kingdom, 2017For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist...Every...
The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby

The Recollections Of Rifleman Bowlby

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Author: Alex Bowlby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great Second World War memoirs ... will be read as long as that war is remembered' John Keegan...
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

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Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...
The History of Magic

The History of Magic

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Author: Chris Godsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Three great strands of practice and belief run through human history: science, religion and magic. But magic - the idea that we...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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Author: Justine Picardie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden...
Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

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Author: Kim Reed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. By night, she scrambled into Manhattan...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

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Author: Sarah M. Broom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 'A major book that I suspect will...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW

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Author: J. T. Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ****** THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY 'You will laugh and cry,...
Cold-Water Eden

Cold-Water Eden

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Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...
Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

Mad about Shakespeare: Life Lessons from the Bard

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Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

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Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

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Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

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Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

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Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

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Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond

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Author: Geezer Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Rough Trade Book of the Year The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

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Author: Alan Gallay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 Sir Walter Ralegh was the favourite of Queen Elizabeth, who showered him estates, jewels, monopolies, and political appointments earning him the...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the...