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The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

The Push: A Climber's Journey of Endurance, Risk and Going Beyond Limits to Climb the Dawn Wall

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Author: Tommy Caldwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A climber's journey of endurance, risk and going beyond limits A dramatic, inspiring memoir by legendary rock climber Tommy...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

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Author: Adeline Yen Mah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death,...
Autobiography of Malcolm X

Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Author: X Malcolm Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Compelling, controversial, angry, startling - one of the fundamental books of the Twentieth Century Civil Rights Movement They called...
Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

Peter 2.0: The Human Cyborg

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Author: Peter Scott-Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The extraordinary true story of the man who decided to live forever Peter, a brilliant scientist, is told that...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Born to Run: My Story

Born to Run: My Story

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Author: Cathy Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Hi guys, ever since I was little I only had one dream - to win a gold medal at...
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

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Author: Tom Wolfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tom Wolfe's genre-defining ride through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth...
As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning

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Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The beautiful and moving follow-up to the acclaimed Cider with Rosie 'The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in...
The Confessions

The Confessions

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
Soldier Spy

Soldier Spy

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Author: Tom Marcus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Soldier Spy is to the war against the enemy at home what Bravo Two Zero was to Gulf War...
The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human

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Author: Elli H. Radinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 What wolves can teach us about being human Love your family, care for your those around you, never...
Warhol: A Life as Art

Warhol: A Life as Art

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Author: Blake Gopnik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive biography of one of the most famous and influential artists the world has ever seen When critics...
The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

The Wild Silence: The Sunday Times Bestseller 2021 from the author of The Salt Path

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Author: Raynor Winn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The second instalment to the hugely successful Costa prize shortlister, The Salt Path, and the continued, powerful true story...
The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

The SS Officer's Armchair: In Search of a Hidden Life

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A historical detective story and a gripping account of one historian's hunt for answers as he delves into the...
Seneca: A Life

Seneca: A Life

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Author: Emily Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a...
The Journals of Captain Cook

The Journals of Captain Cook

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Author: Captain James Cook Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 Cook led three famous expeditions to the Pacific Ocean between 1768 and 1779. In voyages that ranged from...
The Secret to Superhuman Strength

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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Author: Alison Bechdel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The new masterpiece from the bestselling, award-winning graphic novelist and feminist icon, whose fans include Gloria Steinem and Laura Marling *A...
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 176 The first ever graphic novel treatment of Orwell's seminal fable, now in paperback When the downtrodden animals of Manor...
Majak

Majak

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Author: Majak Daw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 From AFL stardom to attempting to take his own life, Majak Daw's is a football story like no other....
The Coffin Confessor

The Coffin Confessor

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Author: William Edgar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the...
Unquiet

Unquiet

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Author: Linn Ullmann Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 An astonishingly beautiful work of autofiction from one of Norway's most prominent literary writers Each summer of her childhood,...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique...
A History of My Brief Body

A History of My Brief Body

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Author: Billy-Ray Belcourt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Dazzling collection of personal essays from internationally acclaimed First Nations Canadian writer Billy-Ray Belcourt, who mines his own personal...
I Saw A Strange Land

I Saw A Strange Land

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Author: Arthur Groom Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 While living in Central Australia Arthur Groom fell under the spell of our harsh and fascinating country, captivated by...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Life and Adventures: Text Classics

Life and Adventures: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), 'the wild white man?, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. In...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

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Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World

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Author: Ramachandra Guha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1152 The magnificent biography of Gandhi by India's leading historian Gandhi lived one of the great 20th century lives. He...
On Grand Strategy

On Grand Strategy

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Author: John Lewis Gaddis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy...
Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

Augustine: Conversions and Confessions

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Author: Robin Lane Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 'Give me chastity, but not yet', Augustine famously prayed. His intimate spiritual masterpiece, The Confessions, has inspired millions...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
The Monk of Mokha

The Monk of Mokha

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Author: Dave Eggers Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From San Francisco to Yemen, the gripping true story of a young American immigrant and his quest to resurrect...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

The Three Emperors: Three Cousins, Three Empires and the Road to World War One

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Author: Miranda Carter Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 'An entertaining study of power and personality portrays the strutting absurdity and grotesque glamour of the last emperors on...
Raising Demons

Raising Demons

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Author: Shirley Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In the uproarious sequel to Life Among the Savages, the author of The Haunting of Hill House confronts the...
The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

The People Smuggler: The True Story of Ali Al Jenabi

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Author: Robin de Crespigny Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Robin de Crespigny's The People Smuggler is the gripping, inspiring story of one man's escape from Saddam's Iraq...
The Fry Chronicles

The Fry Chronicles

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Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed

Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The inspiring and universal true story of the transformative power of a mother's love. On Mother's Day, 2002, Glennon...
Life on Air

Life on Air

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Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
Home in the World: A Memoir

Home in the World: A Memoir

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Author: Amartya Sen, FBA Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world's leading public intellectuals Where is 'home'? For...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
The Life of Samuel Johnson

The Life of Samuel Johnson

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Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District

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Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...