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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

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Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...
Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

Queen Bees: Six Brilliant and Extraordinary Society Hostesses Between the Wars - A Spectacle of Celebrity, Talent, and Burning Ambition

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Author: Sian Evans Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 QUEEN BEES looks at the lives of six remarkable women who made careers out of being society hostesses, including...
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: Paperback / softback 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...
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

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Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944,...
It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life -  Foreword by Michael Whitehall

It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life - Foreword by Michael Whitehall

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive,...
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth

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Author: Adam Zamoyski Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 752 'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad A landmark new...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

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Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

Red Sea Spies: The True Story of Mossad's Fake Diving Resort

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Author: Raffi Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE TRUE STORY THAT INSPIRED THE NETFLIX FILM THE RED SEA DIVING RESORT. In the early 1980s on a...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one...
The Year of Magical Thinking

The Year of Magical Thinking

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Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

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Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

Marshall: Lessons in Leadership

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Author: H. Paul Jeffers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 General George C. Marshall was a skillful and compassionate leader with a unique legacy. He never fired a...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

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Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell...
Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953

Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters Volume 2: 1939-1953

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Author: Dylan Thomas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Dylan Thomas's letters bring the fascinating and tempestuous poet and his times to life in a way that no...
Samuel Johnson: A Life

Samuel Johnson: A Life

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Author: David Nokes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century....
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Sunday Times bestselling author, Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that totally transform our perception of Wallis Simpson....
The Throwaway Boy

The Throwaway Boy

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Author: Alix Chapel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When Alix Chapel's husband Billy suffered a mental breakdown, he was forced to admit the truth of his tormented...
Taking Command Book

Taking Command

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Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

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Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
Another Bloody Love Letter

Another Bloody Love Letter

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Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

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Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

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Author: Chris Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major...