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Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

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Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

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Author: Adam Kay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction...
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege

Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege

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Author: Marcus Luttrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture...
Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Coming Undone: A Memoir

Coming Undone: A Memoir

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Author: Terri White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else, Terri White...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
The Drowned And The Saved

The Drowned And The Saved

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
Ayoade on Ayoade

Ayoade on Ayoade

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Author: Richard Ayoade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he...
Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless...
Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

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Author: Sophie L Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton 'Everyone should...
Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an...
Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

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Author: Max Dickins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Where have all my friends gone?' When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one...
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson

Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson

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Author: Alison Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In...
The Mauritanian

The Mauritanian

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Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture. The...
The Moth: This Is a True Story

The Moth: This Is a True Story

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Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches,...
Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

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Author: David Nolan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Since his emergence into the music industry, Ed Sheeran has gone on to become a household name, with sell-out tours and...
Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah...
Letters to Sarah

Letters to Sarah

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Author: Sara Payne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had...
Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

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Author: Tom & Nicola Ray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'There is a voice that whispers to me on the pillow. I have no idea if it is part...
Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
All in a Don's Day

All in a Don's Day

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Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Her central themes are the classics, universities and teaching - and much else besides. In this second collection following on...
The Instant

The Instant

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Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island...
GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

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Author: Frankie Bridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it doesn't...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

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Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris...
The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

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Author: Rachel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of...
Menuhin: A Life

Menuhin: A Life

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Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens...
Letters of Note: Mothers

Letters of Note: Mothers

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Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour...
A Woman in Defence: My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army

A Woman in Defence: My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army

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Author: Karina Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A searing, honest and courageous account of professional soldiering in a toxic military culture' Senator Tom Clonan, retired army captain During...
Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

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Author: Doreen Cunningham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN 'Wonderful ......
Storm in a D Cup

Storm in a D Cup

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Author: June Kenton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 182 From the early days selling garments in an open-fronted shop in Brixton, to the QueenÕs private apartmentÐwhere she attends Her Majesty...
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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Author: Jamie Raskin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at...
I'm Glad My Mom Died

I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Author: Jennette McCurdy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way

Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ... Damian is just seven when he is taken in...
Blood, Sweat and Steel

Blood, Sweat and Steel

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Author: Curtis McGrath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 From Afghanistan to Paralympic gold -- an extraordinary tale of tragedy, resilience and triumph In 2012, Combat Engineer Curtis McGrath was...
The Woman in Me

The Woman in Me

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Author: Britney Spears Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June...
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life

Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life

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Author: Kristine Philipp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office...
Riverman: An American Odyssey

Riverman: An American Odyssey

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Author: Ben McGrath Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub, author of All Adults Here...
From The Heart: The inspirational memoir of how a captain became a leader

From The Heart: The inspirational memoir of how a captain became a leader

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Author: Trent Cotchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 When Trent Cotchin was handed the reins of Richmond Football Club's team in 2013, he was a 22-year-old star, skilful and...
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health

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Author: Michael Milken Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's...
Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down

Love in the Blitz: A Woman in a World Turned Upside Down

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Author: Eileen Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 'Her voice is absolutely, beguilingly conversational ... Intelligent, allusive, iconoclastic, captivatingly intense ... This is the news from the...
Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

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Author: J. M. Thompson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 *...