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The Message

The Message

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Author: Ta-Nehisi Coates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner who survived three concentration camps

The Last Survivor: The miraculous true story of the Holocaust prisoner

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Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly turns...
Without Hope: A Childhood Ruined by the Man she should Trust the Most

Without Hope: A Childhood Ruined by the Man she should Trust the Most

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Barbara's father was a sadistic man at the best of times - his idea of fun was to kill the family dog by tying it to the back of his...
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...
What's That Lady Doing?

What's That Lady Doing?

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Author: Lou Sanders Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The acclaimed comedian reflects on a lifetime of mistakes and bad decisions and how she just might be turning things around in...
Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

Authorized Biography of Al Pacino

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Author: Lawrence Grobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Trumbo

Trumbo

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Author: Bruce Cook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Now a multi-award nominated film starring Bryan Cranston, Helen Mirren and Elle Fanning. Dalton Trumbo was the central figure of the infamous...
The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

The Patagonian Hare: A Memoir

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La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

La Belle Saison (Air/Exp/Ire)

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Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

Gentleman Jack: A biography of Anne Lister, Regency Landowner, Seducer and Secret Diarist

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The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon

The Man Who Loved Pink Dolphins: A true story of life and death in the Amazon

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The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women: An Inside Look at Women & Sex in Medieval Times (Human Sexuality, True Stories, Women in History)

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Anne Frank: The Biography

Anne Frank: The Biography

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Mrs Kennedy

Mrs Kennedy

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King Charles II

King Charles II

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Alexander

Alexander

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Daddy's Little Secret: Pregnant at 14 and there's only one man who can be the father

Daddy's Little Secret: Pregnant at 14 and there's only one man who can be the father

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