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Double Take: Rivals for the Crown

Double Take: Rivals for the Crown

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Author: Margaret Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Mary Tudor and Elizabeth Tudor race for the English Crown. Bloodshed and betrayal is on the wayÉ Two princesses, born seventeen years...
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

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Author: Vashti Bunyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Magical and transporting . . . Wayward proves that Bunyan has lived the best possible life, on her own idiosyncratic terms'...
Seven Cats I Have Loved

Seven Cats I Have Loved

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Author: Yardenne Greenspan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

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Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends

Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing: The powerful memoir from the beloved star of Friends

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Author: Matthew Perry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir . . . and it may just save lives' Daily Mail 'Funny,...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Inspiring' - GUARDIAN 'Heartbreaking' - INDEPENDENT 'Beautiful' - MATT HAIG A Best Book for Summer in The Times, Guardian and The...
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

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Author: Osman Yousefzada Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between...
The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism

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Author: John Barnes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'brilliantly written ... a genuinely important book' Jonathan Ross, The Jonathan Ross Show 'something we all need to be reading ......
Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: The heartwarming story that inspired a nation, now an international bestseller

Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: The heartwarming story that inspired a nation, now an international bestseller

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Author: Alba Donati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Alba Donati's Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop is not only a work of significant beauty, it's inspiring. It's inspiring about the...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

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Author: Debora Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Extraordinary' - Kate Mosse 'Electric' - Lemn Sissay 'Searing' - Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - Shirley Hazzard's writing reflects her life. The acclaim it attracts is immeasurable. Brigitta Olubas tells...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

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Author: Shaun Bythell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real...
An Accidental Icon: How I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale

An Accidental Icon: How I dodged a bullet, spoke truth to power and lived to tell the tale

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Author: Norman Scott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Compelling' The Daily Mail 'So many gripping moments... a real cracker' The Evening Standard The jaw-dropping and inspiring story of accidental...
You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

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Author: Pyae Moe Thet War Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A fresh and insightful debut' New York Times 'Incisive and exciting' Shondaland In this electric debut essay collection, a...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of the hidden muse - Emily Hale - the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem -...
A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope

A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope

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Author: Gulchehra Hoja Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY 'A memoir of...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A New York Times Critics' Pick for 2023 Born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1919, George Weidenfeld fled to...
Forever in the Sunshine: The Story of Morecambe and Wise as Only Family Can Tell It

Forever in the Sunshine: The Story of Morecambe and Wise as Only Family Can Tell It

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Author: Gary Morecambe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Relive the laughter with this definitive book on Morecambe and Wise - the most famous and best-loved British comedy double-act of...
The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time

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Author: Catherine Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 No life exists outside the times. This is a story about one young woman coming of age, and about the place...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

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Author: Darryl Pinckney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

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Author: Zarifa Ghafari Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights, as seen in Netflix's In Her...
Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

Mad Girl: A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

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Author: Bryony Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A brilliant fast, funny and frank look at something that absolutely needs to be talked about in this way' - Matt...
Limited Edition of One

Limited Edition of One

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Author: Steven Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The more I thought about it, the more I realised my career has been unusual. How did I manage to do...
The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres: The Autobiography

The Hairy Bikers Blood, Sweat and Tyres: The Autobiography

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Author: Hairy Bikers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Brilliant' MAIL ON SUNDAY Si King and Dave Myers, AKA the Hairy Bikers have travelled an interesting road. Born in the...
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell

Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell

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Author: Francois Kersaudy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of...
Choose Your Own Disaster

Choose Your Own Disaster

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Author: Dana Schwartz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A hilarious, quirky, and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman's terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping (and sometimes failing) to...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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Author: Jill Nalder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023* 'I read the book in...
Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man

Mr Five Per Cent: The many lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the world's richest man

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Author: Dr Jonathan Conlin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known...
The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

The Wild Year: a story of homelessness, perseverance and hope

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Author: Jen Benson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This book tells the uplifting true story of a family who left their old life behind to spend a year living...
Facing the Music: A searingly candid memoir from S Club 7 star, Hannah Spearritt

Facing the Music: A searingly candid memoir from S Club 7 star, Hannah Spearritt

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Author: Hannah Spearritt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There has been a lot of fun and adventure in my five decades on earth. There are also things from my...
Paused in Cosmic Reflection: The definitive, fully illustrated story of The Chemical Brothers

Paused in Cosmic Reflection: The definitive, fully illustrated story of The Chemical Brothers

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Author: The Chemical Brothers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Paused in Cosmic Reflection is the definitive story of The Chemical Brothers....
Nailing It

Nailing It

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Author: Rich Hall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'An uproariously funny collection of true stories from one of the comedy greats' - BILL BAILEY 'I loved this book. Absolutely...
Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside

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Author: Rebecca Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'Eye-opening and persuasive' SUNDAY TIMES 'Brilliant ... I loved it' KIT DE WAAL 'Thoughtful, moving, honest'...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
A Pocketful of Happiness

A Pocketful of Happiness

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Author: Richard E. Grant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a...
Where the Seals Sing

Where the Seals Sing

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Author: Susan Richardson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

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Author: Scott Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Wild Hope

Wild Hope

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Author: Marisa Bate Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Retracing my mother's footsteps in search of women's freedom 1974. A 22-year-old Jacqui French stands for a photograph in...
Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar

Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar

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Author: Deborah FitzGerald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The official biography of Australian poet and writer Dorothea Mackellar, author of the celebrated poem 'My Country.' 'I love a sunburnt...
Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of His Century

Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of His Century

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Author: Ingrid Seward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Book Description For more than 70 years, Prince Philip has been the Queen's constant companion and support, but his vital role...
GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

GIRL: On Black Womanhood and Belonging

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Author: Kenya Hunt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Powerful, intelligent and vital - one of the year's must-reads' Hannah Nathanson, Features Director, ELLE Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica...
Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art

Odd Roads to be Walking: 156 Women who shaped Australian Art

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Author: Paul Finucane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'It was an odd road to be walking, this of painting' .....so wrote Virginia Woolf in her classic 1927 novel, To...
Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)

Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)

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Author: John Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to...
The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power

The Bidens: Inside the First Family's Fifty-Year Rise to Power

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Author: Ben Schreckinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Coming off of the 2020 election, THE BIDENS tells the Biden Family story in full, from the secrets lurking in the...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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Author: Michael Daly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless efforts of Detective Steven McDonald, Nurse Justiniano, Jack...
Troy Deeney: Redemption: My Story

Troy Deeney: Redemption: My Story

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Author: Troy Deeney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Footie book of the year.' - The Sun TROY DEENEY is best known as Watford FC's former captain and a...