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Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

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Author: Mary Laura Philpott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a...
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...
Stories I Might Regret Telling You

Stories I Might Regret Telling You

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Author: Martha Wainwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother....
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...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

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Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations is a collection...
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

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Author: Phil Mews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived...
The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at...
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...
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

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Author: Sheridan Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented,...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Brief Lives 3 - Newton

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

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Author: Rachel Holtzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer remnants,...
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...
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

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Author: Charles Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next...
The Making of You: A guide to finding your identity and bossing motherhood

The Making of You: A guide to finding your identity and bossing motherhood

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Author: Binky Felstead Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Magical highs and messy lows - motherhood is a rollercoaster of emotions, but it can be The Making of You. From...
An Octopus in My Ouzo: Loving Life on a Greek Island

An Octopus in My Ouzo: Loving Life on a Greek Island

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Author: Jennifer Barclay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Escape to the sunlight and colour of a wild island in the south Aegean. When Jennifer moves alone into the Honey...
How to Think Like Churchill

How to Think Like Churchill

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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War, Churchill's commitment to 'never surrender', along with his stirring speeches and radio...
Mindhunter: Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series)

Mindhunter: Inside the FBI Elite Serial Crime Unit (Now A Netflix Series)

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Author: John Douglas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Mindhunter is a real-life, fascinating insight into the life of a FBI Special Agent, and the minds of the psychologically disturbed...
The Ungrateful Refugee

The Ungrateful Refugee

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Author: Dina Nayeri Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question few in the West give much thought, and yet...
Things I Learned from Falling: The must-read true story

Things I Learned from Falling: The must-read true story

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Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'What a story - never heard a story like that before' - Chris Evans 'Uplifting and brave' - Stylist 'Claire Nelson...
Milton Berle: An Autobiography

Milton Berle: An Autobiography

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Author: Milton Berle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 When Milton Berle died in the Spring of 2002, THE NEW YORK TIMES declared that the legendary comic "may have had...
The Night Alphabet: the electrifying debut novel from the award-winning poet

The Night Alphabet: the electrifying debut novel from the award-winning poet

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Author: Joelle Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana Souhami A Cosmo best books to look forward to in 2024 pick...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

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Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich*...
Memoirs and Reflections

Memoirs and Reflections

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Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Kissin's musicality, the depth and poetic quality of his interpretations, and his extraordinary virtuosity have earned him the veneration and...
Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life

Waiting for the Albino Dunnock: How birds can change your life

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Author: Rosamond Richardson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautiful book' Tim Birkhead, author of BIRD SENSE 'A glorious, beautifully written pilgrimage into the soaring world of birds' Bel...
Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the 2023 Orwell Prize Finalist

Who Cares: The Hidden Crisis of Caregiving, and How We Solve It - the 2023 Orwell Prize Finalist

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Author: Emily Kenway Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 *FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023* 'A visceral, unsparing picture of our current situation' ROB DELANEY 'A radical...
Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

Supersonic: The Complete, Authorised and Uncut Interviews

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Author: Oasis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'An entertaining first-hand account of pure rock 'n' roll madness.' The Daily Telegraph 'Hundreds of exclusive photos and brilliant one-liners make for...
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

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Author: Ben Jacob Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'A daring, delightful and galvanising call to save the...
Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica

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Author: Duncan Mackay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS 'Duncan has...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

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Author: Brian Herbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

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Author: Hollie McNish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly...
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

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Author: Cin Fabre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabre ran with the wolves of Wall...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

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Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

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Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life

Above Head Height: A Five-A-Side Life

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Author: James Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'The Fever Pitch of five-a-side' TONY PARSONS A must-have for anyone who has ever played and enjoyed amateur football. James Brown...
Harry Potter: Slytherin Ruled Pocket Journal

Harry Potter: Slytherin Ruled Pocket Journal

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Decorated with striking imagery from the beloved Harry Potter film series and featuring a refreshing new design, this...
His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

His Finest Hour: A Brief Life of Winston Churchill

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Author: Christopher Catherwood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A gem. Brief, authoritative and fair in its judgements - an intensely readable introduction to this most complex and fascinating man'...
Animal House

Animal House

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Author: James Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Music, Magazines & Mayhem Between 1994 and 1997, James Brown's loaded magazine became the must-buy and must-be-in publication of the decade....
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

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Author: Robert Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys,...
The Man Who Loved Siberia

The Man Who Loved Siberia

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Author: Roy Jacobsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when...
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks

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Author: Patricia Highsmith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1024 'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of...
Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

Hometown Tales: Highlands and Hebrides

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Author: Colin MacIntyre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Original tales by remarkable writers Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most...
From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

From Our Own Correspondent: Dispatches of a Decade from Across the World

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Author: Polly Hope Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

Mortal Monarchs: 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

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Author: Suzie Edge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque THIS PAPERBACK FEATURES...
Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

Closer to the Edge: Climbing to the Ends of the Earth

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Author: Leo Houlding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Leo Houlding started climbing at ten years of age in the Lake District and was the youngest person (and first Briton)...