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The Art of the Publisher

The Art of the Publisher

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An interior look at Roberto Calasso's work as a publisher and his reflections on the art of book publishing In this illuminating volume, Roberto Calasso reflects on more than half...
The Anxiety Project

The Anxiety Project

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"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
Call Me Jimmy: The Life and Death of Jockey Smith

Call Me Jimmy: The Life and Death of Jockey Smith

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Storms and Dreams

Storms and Dreams

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Head Over Heel: Seduced by a Southern Italian

Head Over Heel: Seduced by a Southern Italian

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Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

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As Good as Gold: The Chemistry of Life, Love, and Business

As Good as Gold: The Chemistry of Life, Love, and Business

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Believing it All: What My Children Taught Me About Life

Believing it All: What My Children Taught Me About Life

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Foreigners: Three English Lives

Foreigners: Three English Lives

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My Broken Language: A Memoir

My Broken Language: A Memoir

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Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest

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A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her Hands documentary.'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author...
Katarina Johnson-Thompson / Dina Asher-Smith (Ultimate Sports Heroes) - Going for Gold

Katarina Johnson-Thompson / Dina Asher-Smith (Ultimate Sports Heroes) - Going for Gold

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Author: Melanie Hamm (Author), Charlotte Browne (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Dina Asher-Smith is the fastest British woman in recorded history, an Olympic medallist and the 2019 World Champion...
The Legend of Colton H Bryant

The Legend of Colton H Bryant

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My Colombian Death

My Colombian Death

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Bagamoyo: Here I Lay Down My Heart

Bagamoyo: Here I Lay Down My Heart

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Marrow: A Love Story

Marrow: A Love Story

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Granta 104: Fathers The Men Who Made Us

Granta 104: Fathers The Men Who Made Us

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Some Girls Do . . .: My Life as a Teenager

Some Girls Do . . .: My Life as a Teenager

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Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia

Forever Today: A Memoir Of Love And Amnesia

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The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty

The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynasty

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This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon...
Love and Other Gods: Adventures Through Psychosis

Love and Other Gods: Adventures Through Psychosis

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Michael Nangla was the first of his family to be born in England and has always been torn between two cultures; that of his mother's homeland and that of the...
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

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In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out...
Take Nothing for Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

Take Nothing for Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life

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Famous for his portrayal of the iconic hardman Grant Mitchell and as the presenter of various documentaries exploring the most dangerous people and places on the planet, BAFTA-winning actor Ross...
Yorkshire: There and Back

Yorkshire: There and Back

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In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain's most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner,...
This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete

This Girl Ran: Tales of a Party Girl Turned Triathlete

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Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018If you had told Helen two years ago that she would be getting up at 6 a.m. on Sundays to...
If Not Now, When?

If Not Now, When?

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TV personality, founder of Childline, writer and broadcaster, Esther Rantzen has spent her life tirelessly campaigning on behalf of children and mental health sufferers. In this personal and anecdotal handbook,...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday

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'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece' Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk'It will surprise you, sometimes astound you, and leave you profoundly changed' Jonathan Coe, author of...
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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__***From the number-one bestselling author***'It's a constant cycle of loving and losing, gratitude at surviving and grief for what's been lost. I think we all emerged from the last few...
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...
Love and Fury: The Magic and Mayhem of Life with Tyson

Love and Fury: The Magic and Mayhem of Life with Tyson

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Gypsy Queen to the Gypsy King, Tyson Fury's wife Paris reveals the magical highs and epic lows of life with the Heavyweight Boxing World Champion, as she shares their life...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's

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'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs saying "hilarious" on them. This is infinitely funnier than...
The Yorkshire Shepherdess

The Yorkshire Shepherdess

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Amanda Owen has been seen by millions on ITV's The Dales, living a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, a life ruled by the seasons and her...
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

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I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless journey.

I Must Belong Somewhere: Three men. Two migrations. One endless journey.

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Like A Virgin

Like A Virgin

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Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson

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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...