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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands

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First time in Penguin Classics for the remarkable autobiography of 'the black Florence Nightingale' Written in 1857, this is the autobiography of a Jamaican woman whose fame rivalled Florence Nightingale's...
Fourteen Ways of Looking

Fourteen Ways of Looking

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Fourteen Ways of Looking, written in fragments, looks at the year Erin's parents died. It is also the story of a writer reflecting on her life and her grief and...
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

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Goodwin can write as well as she can cook, and this candid memoir had me both in fits of giggles and waterfalls of tears ... I fell a little bit...
Trials of Hope: An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache

Trials of Hope: An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache

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Winner of the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope tells the story of a shepherd boy turned human-rights academic set against the backdrop of the author's beloved...
V13: Chronicle of a Trial

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

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A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...
Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mornings With My Cat Mii

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The perfect gift for cat lovers- a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime...
The Women

The Women

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Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...
Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

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Across history, women were told to sit down, smile and stay quiet. Spoiler alert- they didn't. They spoke out, stood tall - and ruined the patriarchy's day. Because of them,...
A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides

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The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman's rallying call for 'shame to change sides'. For the very first time, Gis le Pelicot tells her story. The extraordinarily...
Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

Would that be funny?: Growing up with John Clarke

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John Clarke was best known as Fred Dagg in New Zealand and for 'The Games' and 'Clarke and Dawe' in Australia. He was a performer, actor, writer, satirist and commentator....
Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

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The must-read memoir of the end of a marriage and the start of a personal revolution, based on the iconic 'Modern Love' essay in the New York Times and perfect...
True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

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Author: Lance Richardson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 736 The first major biography of Peter Matthiessen, celebrated author of The Snow Leopard, founder of the Paris Review, towering figure of...
Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives

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Gerald Durrell's beloved account of his childhood in Corfu, now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time 'Another tiger-golden day lay ahead of us. It was as though England...
Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

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The now-classic account of Orwell's experiences in the Spanish Civil War, in a stunning new cover look for his great works 'Every line of serious work that I have written...
The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy

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A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...
Nobody's Girl

A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Nobody's Girl

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Author: Virginia Roberts Giuffre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The extraordinarily powerful and unforgettable memoir by the woman who stood up and spoke out about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell....
My Beloved Monster

My Beloved Monster

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An instant New York Times bestseller, this is an unforgettable story about a cat, love and loss from a highly acclaimed writer Caleb Carr lived with cats ever since he...
Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

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How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled 'a second Newton'. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the...
The Other Girl

The Other Girl

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WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's profound investigation into the life of her mysterious older sister, who died at six, two years before Annie was born....
Menagerie Manor

Menagerie Manor

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A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth...
Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

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Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders

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Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

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The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producer Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in...
Beyond A Boundary

Beyond A Boundary

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C L R James's infamously great 1963 cricket masterpiece - voted the third best sports book ever by the Observer - reissued in Vintage Classics for the Cricket World Cup...
Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles

Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles

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Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story 10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the...
Lucky: Learning to live again

Lucky: Learning to live again

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A powerful and inspiring life story of survival and endurance from hugely popular star of TV and Instagram. This edition is updated with a new chapter, updating on Louise's life...
The Panic Years: dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions

The Panic Years: dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions

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A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title, but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply.' - Daisy Buchanan...
Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home

Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home

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Jeremy takes us back to another year of life as a gentleman farmer at Diddly Squat - what could possibly go wrong this time? Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At...
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

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From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

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The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
Odd Boy Out

Odd Boy Out

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The long-awaited autobiography from the man who's been at the heart of the entertainment establishment for 50 years In Odd Boy Out Gyles Brandreth provides an extraordinarily revealing account of...
The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

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The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

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This is the story of one woman's descent into an insanity. In Brain on Fire she pieces together the terrifying lost month of her life, asking what happens when your...
The Gift: A survivor's journey to freedom

The Gift: A survivor's journey to freedom

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Reflections on hope, healing and finding freedom by celebrated therapist, Holocaust survivor and author of the award-winning international bestseller The Choice 'An incredible human being with an extraordinary story to...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

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A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
A Del of a Life: The hilarious #1 bestseller from the national

A Del of a Life: The hilarious #1 bestseller from the national

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A hilarious and heartfelt new autobiography from the national treasure Sir David Jason 'There are British telly icons and then there is Sir David Jason. This book is such gold...
Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook

Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook

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A beautiful, full-colour compendium of Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and life in Dungeness - with a Foreword by Tilda Swinton 'I planted a dog rose. Then I found...
And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life

And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life

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From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of...
The Outside: Cheating death, chasing waves and growing up in one of

The Outside: Cheating death, chasing waves and growing up in one of

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'Mum once admitted that the only time she thought I was truly safe was when I was out in the water, beyond the breaking waves, in the tranquillity of "The...
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

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The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef...
MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

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Much-loved artist Paloma Faith's raw, funny and personal account of motherhood, working and not having it all ***THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'The most raw, funny and liberating look...
The In-Between: Stories of Care and Connection in Life's Final Moments

The In-Between: Stories of Care and Connection in Life's Final Moments

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In this #3 New York Times bestselling memoir, TikTok star and hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos demystifies death with inspiring patient stories. What can people at the end of their lives...
A Thousand Threads

A Thousand Threads

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The joyous and electric, Women's Prize for Non-Fiction-longlisted memoir from beloved music icon Neneh Cherry A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW STATESMAN, EVENING STANDARD, UNCUT AND ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE...
The Gold: The real story behind Brink's-Mat: Britain's biggest heist

The Gold: The real story behind Brink's-Mat: Britain's biggest heist

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The definitive account of the Brink's-Mat Robbery to publish alongside a prime-time BBC 1 series. The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The Gold On Saturday, 26 November 1983,...
Be Useful: Seven tools for life

Be Useful: Seven tools for life

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Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER The seven rules...
More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller

More Than a Woman: The instant Sunday Times number one bestseller

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The follow-up to the international bestseller and multi-award-winning How To Be a Woman, with Caitlin exploring the lives of older women in her inimitable style. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE...
The Penguin Lessons

The Penguin Lessons

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Now a major film, this is the true story of an unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth. . . When schoolteacher Tom Michell...
A Promised Land

A Promised Land

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A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of...