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The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

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Author: Thomas Dolby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Thomas Dolby is a five-time Grammy nominee, whose 'She Blinded Me With Science' reached number 5 on the US Billboard charts...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Around the Village Green: The Heart-Warming Memoir of a World War II Childhood

Around the Village Green: The Heart-Warming Memoir of a World War II Childhood

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Author: Dot May Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The heart-warming tale of a wartime childhood. It's 1939 and little Dot May Dun is playing with her brothers in...
Anyone Can Do It: My Story

Anyone Can Do It: My Story

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Author: Duncan Bannatyne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 At 30, Duncan Bannatyne had no money and was enjoying life on the beaches of Jersey. He saw a story of...
Everything in Moderation

Everything in Moderation

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Author: Daniel Finkelstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book is such good company - sane,...
The Autobiography

The Autobiography

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Author: Mary King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Mary King s success in the world of eventing (now officially classed as the most dangerous sport in the world) has...
Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities

Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities

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Author: Rebecca Front Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine ....
A Tuscan Childhood

A Tuscan Childhood

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Author: Kinta Beevor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wonderful ... I fell immediately into her world' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Kinta Beevor was five years...
Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe

Goddess: The Secret Lives Of Marilyn Monroe

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Author: Anthony Summers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 She was born Norma Jeane but the world knew and loved her as Marilyn. Her life was one of unprecedented fame...
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited

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Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville 'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review 'The best single-volume life of the author...
Jane Austen

Jane Austen

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Author: Carol Shields Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The prizewinning novelist Carol Shields, whose novels have themselves been compared to the works of Jane Austen, gives us a beautifully...
Single-Minded: My Life in Business

Single-Minded: My Life in Business

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Author: Claude Littner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Claude Littner is known as the mercilessly tough interviewer on TV's The Apprentice. Few candidates have risen to his standards of...
Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

Cadel Evans: Close to Flying

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The Railway Man

The Railway Man

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Eric Lomax Format: Paperback...
The Ice Master (HB)

The Ice Master (HB)

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Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

Keith Murdoch: The War Correspondent Who Founded an Empire

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: R m Younger Format:...
Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

Bringing Mulligan Home: The Long Search for a Lost Marine

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Author: Dale Maharidge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Sergeant Steve Maharidge returned from World War II an angry man. For a long time, the only evidence that remained of...
A Woman In Berlin

A Woman In Berlin

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Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Between April 20th and June 22nd of 1945 the anonymous author of A Woman in Berlin wrote about life within the falling...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

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Author: Sir Alan Lascelles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator...
KP: The Autobiography

KP: The Autobiography

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Author: Kevin Pietersen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Outrageous, audacious, jaw-dropping' SUNDAY TIMES 'An essential read' DAILY MAIL 'Utterly captivating' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Hugely entertaining' GUARDIAN...
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

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Author: Marc Randolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Engaging and insightful.' Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix 'Charming, fascinating and very funny. Marc Randolph demystifies the world of Silicon Valley...
Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

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Author: Nic Ray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'There is a voice that whispers to me on the pillow. I have no idea if it is part of the...
Nobody's Child: Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood

Nobody's Child: Against All the Odds, He Managed to Escape the Horrors of a Stolen Childhood

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Author: Michael Seed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Abused by those who were supposed to love and cherish him, Michael Seed had to fight for survival against his violent...
Letters To Poseidon

Letters To Poseidon

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Author: Laura Watkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 I had been looking for someone to write to for a long time, but how does a man write letters to...
Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television

Gotta Get Theroux This: My life and strange times in television

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Author: Louis Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic...
Let Love Rule

Let Love Rule

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Author: Lenny Kravitz Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'I see my story as a suite of songs that have a magical connection. I never understood that connection until I...
The Drowned And The Saved

The Drowned And The Saved

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
Michelle Mone - My Fight to the Top

Michelle Mone - My Fight to the Top

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Author: Michelle Mone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Michelle's journey to the top hasn't been easy. Born in the east end of Glasgow, Michelle left school at the age...
The Queen

The Queen

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In this entertaining and insightful biography of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana,...
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50

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Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own...
Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM

Saving Safa: Rescuing a Little Girl from FGM

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Author: Waris Dirie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Waris Dirie, the Somalia nomad who became a supermodel, and an anti-FGM activist, first came to the world's attention...
Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

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Author: Rebekah Taussig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics)

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics)

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

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Author: Richard A. Fortey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
Billie Eilish, Rebel Teen to Alt-Pop Queen

Billie Eilish, Rebel Teen to Alt-Pop Queen

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Author, Mr Kevin Pettman Format, Hardback Number of Pages, 64 The must-have celebration of Billie Eilish, the most talked about teen on the planet. This book takes fans up close...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave...
Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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Author: Henri Charriere Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure - a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder...
In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby-Dick'

In the Heart of the Sea: The Epic True Story that Inspired `Moby-Dick'

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Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the nineteenth century - and inspiration...
Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of The Doors

Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of The Doors

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Think you know how Jim Morrison died? Think you know who wrote all their hits? Think you know why...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

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Author: Thomas Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what...
Gangbuster

Gangbuster

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Author: Peter Bleksley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Four million quid. There it was, inches away from me on a hotel table. Not in conventional currency, but...
Igni: A restaurant's first year

Igni: A restaurant's first year

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Author: Aaron Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 "a stunning work of art, and the most beautiful cookbook I've seen in years." - Savuer From the first six months,...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

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Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...