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Where the Light Fell: A Memoir
'Not until college days do I discover the shocking secret of my father's death.' With a journalist's background Philip Yancey is widely admired for taking on the more difficult and...
The Lucy Family Alphabet
Judith Lucy has been cracking jokes about her parents for much of her career. But when a birth relative's casual comment implied that she must despise them, Judith was shocked....
Who am I, again?
A child of the Jamaican diaspora, Lenny Henry was one of seven children in a boisterous, complicated family. With honesty, tenderness and a glorious sense of humour, he conducts a...
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370
'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of...
Coward: Why We Get Anxious & What We Can Do About It
After a decade of living with panic attacks and anxiety, Tim Clare made a promise to himself - he would try everything he could to get better, every method and...
Tough Outback
A Kiwi's stories of misadventure, mining and mayhem In 1989 Mike Bellamy set off for the remote town of Wiluna, on the edge of the Western Desert. Keen to make...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will
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From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights humans' insatiable desire to continually push into new and...
Breaking the Stereotype: Chinese Indonesian Women Tell Their Stories
Dewi Anggraeni wrote this book because she saw that many things which did not fit the ethnic Chinese stereotype in Indonesia were rarely brought to the public's attention, as they...
Madonna
PACKED WITH STARTLING REVELATIONS AND METICULOUS RESEARCH, THIS IS THE BIOGRAPHY EVERYONE WANTS TO READ... Madonna is the undisputed female icon of our age. Widely admired for her independence, self-confidence,...
A First Rate Tragedy: A Brief History of Captain Scott's Antarctic
On November 12, 1912, a rescue team trekking across Antarctica's Great Ice Barrier finally found what they sought - the snow-covered tent of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott. Inside,...
Cacophony of Bone
LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF 2023: NATURE AND TRAVEL When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage...
Smuggler: My Life as One of America's Most Wanted International Drug
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Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into...
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land
A gorgeously written reflection, set in Tasmania, on motherhood, farming, nature and home. In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if...
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are: Essays and Other Stuff
'One of the funniest books of the year' - Guardian A collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and...
Dreams of a Refugee: From the Middle East to Mount Everest
Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugee parents, a chance meeting led Mostafa Salameh first to London and then to Edinburgh, where he partied to excess, despite having little money. Islam...
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who
'As ferociously rude as anything Bourdain has done before' Guardian 'Terrific ... His love for his subjects - both the food and the cook - sings' Telegraph 'Bourdain has insight,...
Migrant with a Mission: Benjamin Short: 1883-1912 Grandfather's Story
The book titled Migrant with a Mission: Benjamin Short: 1883-1912 Grandfather's Story by the author Wilsie Short. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...
Marching with the Devil: Legends, Glory and Lies in the French Foreign
'In 1894 a French Foreign Legion General said, Legionnaires, vous etes faits pour mourir, je vous envoie la ou on meurt. Legionnaires, you are made for dying, I will send...
Stay Alive, My Son
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In Stay Alive, My Son , Pin Yathay provides an unforgettable testament of the horror that ensued and a gripping account of personal courage, sacrifice and survival. Documenting the 27...
The Winds of Havoc: A Memoir of Adventure and Destruction in Deepest
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When eight-year-old Adelino Serras Pires first arrived on a boat from Portugal in 1936, Mozambique was a tropical paradise, where native tribes and Portuguese colonists lived in harmony, and vast...
I Wrote This For Attention
'Raw, provocative, chaotic, and - dare I say - slutty' COLLEEN HOOVER A thrilling memoir by The White Lotus and Euphoria actor, Lukas Gage, which chronicles his upbringing in a...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Dazzling' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN An...
Uneven: Nine Lives that Redefined Bisexuality
Uneven tells the stories of nine pioneering bisexual artists, writers and musicians that will change our understanding of the world's largest sexual minority. Bisexuality is often seen as something temporary,...
The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary
Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with...
The Dry Season: Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex
'Brilliant and powerful' ELIZABETH GILBERT 'S o full of wisdom and pleasure that you don't want it to end' MAGGIE NELSON In the wake of a disastrous two-year relationship, Melissa...
Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink and Deviant Desire
The smell of leather. The flash of a harness. The snap of a latex glove. Welcome to the radical, vibrant world of sexual fetishists. In 21st century commodity culture, we...
The Koran and the Flesh: The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam
'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him' - Observer Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay. In this...
My Illustrated Career
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The book titled My Illustrated Career by the author Shane Warne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia
Combining personal and professional experience, A Silent Tsunami is a moving exploration of the development of Dementia and its impacts on a mother-daughter relationship. A Silent Tsunami is a unique...
Outback Astronomer: The extraordinary story of how an amateur
Born and raised in remote Broken Hill, Trevor Barry left school after year ten to work in the mines. Years later, a single glimpse of Saturn through a colleague's telescope...
More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising culture commentator and writer for Vogue. Millions of us use restrictive diets, intermittent fasting, IV...
You Can't Joke about That: Why Everything Is Funny, Nothing Is Sacred,
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What happens when we can't joke about some of the most important stuff in life? In a 2019 study, 40% of people reported censoring themselves out of fear that voicing...
Why We Travel: 12 reasons we travel and what they reveal about
INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good Housekeeping Travel Book of the Month A LoveReading Best Book of 2024 Smithsonian Magazine Top Ten Best Travel Books 2024 'Travel at its...
Inside the Box: My Life with Test Match Special
A celebration of three decades of cricket and a unique insight into the world of radio and broadcasting. Test Match Special is both a sporting and broadcasting institution that has...
Dear Writer: Pep Talks and Practical Advice for the Creative Life
'How I wish I'd had access to this book when I was first starting out as a writer! Maggie Smith has created an offering here of great substance and generosity...
The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting
Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire - or even a kind of madness? In this mosaic of fiction, philosophy,...
Frighten the Horses: A Memoir of Transition
'This book is as sharp as razors, but it also pulses with a passionate, desperate, human urgency for truth and liberation. I am deeply grateful to have read it' Elizabeth...
Crossing: A love story between Italy and Palestine
WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak 'A special and original voice, one for our times' Philippe Sands 'A moving and tender story...
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum - THE INSTANT BESTSELLER
From the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY and THINKING IN NUMBERS'Bursting with feeling and possibility' TELEGRAPH'Nine Minds offers something that autistic people urgently need: it humanises us'...
The Koran and the Flesh: The Pilgrimage of a Gay Imam
'A moving, courageous voice ... Muslims and others alike need to listen to him' - Observer Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed is an imam and Koranic scholar. He is also gay. In this...
Somebody's Daughter: The International Bestseller and an Amazon.com
' Beautifully written, searingly honest, and deeply affecting ... when the book ended, I only wanted more' - Roxane Gay 'The gravity and urgency... anchored me to my chair and...
Men Have Called Her Crazy: The New York Times bestselling memoir
'A stunning self-portrait of a woman trying to make sense of the misogyny and sexism she has faced throughout her life.' - TIME Magazine In early 2021, popular artist Anna...
Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life,
When Stacey Heale's husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's first birthday, it felt like her life as she knew it was drawn to a halt. Confronted...
Now is Not the Time for Flowers: What No One Tells You About Life,
When Stacey Heale's husband, Greg, was diagnosed with incurable cancer on their daughter's first birthday, it felt like her life as she knew it was drawn to a halt. Confronted...
No Autographs, Please!: Backstage antics, onstage disasters and the
In all theatre, the spotlight follows the leads, making it easy for the audience to overlook the role of the singers, dancers and actors who bring a production to life....