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Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine

Fifty Miles Wide: Cycling Through Israel and Palestine

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BY THE AUTHOR OF INTERSTATE, WINNER OF THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR"Sayarer's thoughtful, meditative travelogue feels very important . . . [An] exploration of how people persevere...
Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism

Ira Hayes: The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of

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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life haunted by being a war hero. IRA...
These Foolish Things: A Memoir

These Foolish Things: A Memoir

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Few people can say they have shaped the cultural landscape of the last four decades while crossing paths with some of the most extraordinary personalities on the planet. But then,...
The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

The Chain: The Relationships That Break Us, the Women Who Rebuild Us

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'Jaw-dropping . . . Read then pass it on' STYLIST, Book of the Month'I was utterly floored by The Chain. It has the pace of a thriller and the weight...
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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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent'Visceral and honest' Telegraph'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day'Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

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'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUDOnce Upon a Raven's Nest is the story of a working class man, one Thomas...
You Don't Need a Dick to DJ

You Don't Need a Dick to DJ

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Before she became Smokin Jo - the most famous and visible of the first generation of 'superstar DJs' - Joanne Joseph was a young girl growing up in a children's...
Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away

Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away

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'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and...
The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - Lessons in Living

The Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams - [...]

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The phenomenal international bestseller - with over 8 million copies sold.What legacy would you choose to leave behind for your children?When Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon,...
Touching the Void

Touching the Void

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Author: Joe Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his climbing partner, Simon,...
Ruin of Witches

Ruin of Witches

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Author: Malcolm Gaskill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: n the mid 17th century, 100 miles west of Boston, Springfield‰Ûs fledgling community lived a fragile existence, under threat from illness, natural...
How to Change Your Mind

How to Change Your Mind

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Author: Michael Pollan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most admired writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of...
All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: Shortlisted for the 2024 Nero Book Awards

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: [...]

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'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...
The Story Smuggler

The Story Smuggler

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'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist

The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist

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'A brave process of healing and self reconstruction' Observer'Simply one of the best writers working today. Here's to family, to glamour, and to love' Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic...
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of overcoming an eating disorder

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of [...]

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'As well as charting her adolescent battle with anorexia, it offers a darkly compelling, highly topical account of journeying from girlhood to womanhood in the spotlight of global celebrity.' The...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew Miller

My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew [...]

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A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely [...]

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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant...
Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir

Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir

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For fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don't want to miss.'Honest....
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free

Wavewalker: Breaking Free

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES'A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing' SIMON...
Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard

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An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...
The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives

The Life of Bishoi: The Greek, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic Lives

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Author: Tim Vivian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 390 Four translations of major accounts of the life of the fourth-century Egyptian desert father St. Bishoi, in one volume Saint Bishoi...
Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal

Wonder Drug: The Hidden Victims of America's Secret Thalidomide Scandal

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Longlisted for the Andrew 2024 Carnegie Medal for Non-FictionThe shocking, never-before-told story of America's thalidomide victims In Germany on Christmas Day 1956 a baby girl was born without ears. She...
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map from the award winning author of BANJO, BANKS, THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY AND HUDSON FYSH

Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map

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  The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map, now with a foreword from Flinders' great-great-great-grand-daughters on the 250th anniversary of his birth...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

Love Stories: Uplifting True Stories about Love from the Internationally Bestselling Author of Boy Swallows Universe

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WINNER, INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2022 BOOK OF THE YEARTrent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct question: 'Can you please tell me a...
Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the legendary Australian screen icon beloved by all

Dropping the Mask: The long-awaited inspiring new memoir from the legendary Australian screen icon beloved by all

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An icon. A household name. One of our best-loved actors. Noni Hazlehurst is finally telling a story of her own. A fourth-generation performer, Noni Hazlehurst has storytelling in her blood....
Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME

Highways and Byways: Tall tales and short stories from the long way round from Australian rock legend & bestselling author of WORKING CLASS BOY, WORKING CLASS MAN & KILLING TIME

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The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE NONFICTION CROWN AWARD 2024GUARDIAN: BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024'GRIPPING' THE TIMES This is an immersive and revelatory history of the survivors of the Clotilda, the...
Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China

Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China

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Author: Kwang-Ching Liu Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Cultural and intellectual protests, while rare, were recurrent in Chinese society. This impressive and comprehensive work traces the origins of dissent to...
The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana

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Author: Michael AzerradFormat: Hardback, 178mm x 229mm, 1100g, 624 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2024 A downright revolutionary 30th-anniversary deluxe edition of the iconic bestselling biography of Nirvana, updated...
Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

Losing Young: How to Grieve When Your Life is Just Beginning

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Author: Rachel WilsonFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 216mm, 180g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023'An incredibly useful take on facing grief as a young person' CARIAD LLOYD'Brilliantly, brilliantly written ......
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth RussellFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 230g, 240 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, 2023A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022This is a biography of...
Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin

Alexander McQueen: Blood Beneath the Skin

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Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, aged just 40, a shocked world mourned the loss of its most visionary...
Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand

Shoemaker: The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became a Global Brand

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Author: Joe Foster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of the world's most famous sports brands, having started from...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

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Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...
I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

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Author: Kevin Hart Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Superstar comedian and Hollywood box office star Kevin Hart turns his immense talent to the written word by writing some words....
Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

Dinners with Ruth: A Memoir on the Power of Friendships

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Author: Nina Totenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship...
A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life

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Author: Jaycee Dugard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for...
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

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Author: Beverly Gage Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Winner of...
The Operator: The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World

The Operator: The Seal Team Operative And The Mission That Changed The World

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Author: Robert O'Neill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A riveting, unvarnished and wholly unforgettable portrait of America's most storied commandos at war.' - Joby Warrick, author of Black Flags:...
Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

Israel: A Simple Guide to the Most Misunderstood Country on Earth

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Author: Noa Tishby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A "fascinating and very moving" (Aaron Sorkin, award-winning screenwriter of The West Wing and The Social...
Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

Turns Out, I'm Fine: How Not To Fall Apart

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Author: Judith Lucy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Judith Lucy was just GREAT! Sure, the last remaining member of her immediate family had died, she was menopausal, she suspected...
The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

The Lion and the Fox: Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy

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Author: Alexander Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author of Washington's Spies, the thrilling story of the Confederate spy who came to Britain...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

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Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

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Author: John L Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in...