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Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

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Author: Kit de Waal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... Kit's depiction of her parents' dynamic is both painful and comforting to read' Marian...
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

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Author: Thomas Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history-Henry Ford and Thomas Edison-and their attempt to create an electric-powered city...
Wildlings: How to raise your family in nature

Wildlings: How to raise your family in nature

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Author: Steve Backshall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Conjures up a world of pre-internet fun, a compendium of lost outdoor arts with an eclectic list of contributors' The Times...
Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain's most violent prison

Inside Parkhurst - The Final Stretch: More stories from behind the bars of Britain's most violent prison

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Author: David Berridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Return to HMP Parkhurst in this raw and fascinating account of life as a prison officer. David Berridge returns with more...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...
The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life

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Author: Theresa May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER 'So boldly different it creates a mini-genre all of its own' - ANDREW MARR As...
Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top Gun

Hazard Spectrum: Life in The Danger Zone by the Fleet Air Arm's Top Gun

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Author: Nathan Gray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL 'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITE On 5 December 2002, trainee...
At the Coalface: My life as a miner's wife

At the Coalface: My life as a miner's wife

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Author: Catherine Paton Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Growing up in a mining family, Cath's husband Doug promised his father he wouldn't follow in his dangerous footsteps. But...
Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom

Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom

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Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of...
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: Hardback 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...
Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face

Same Old Girl: 'a relatable read by a phenomenal writer' The Face

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
Advocate: A voice from the margins

Advocate: A voice from the margins

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Author: Lennina Ofori Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 THE UNTOLD STORY OF PRINCESS DIANA'S STEPMOTHER 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' -...
The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

The Rooster House: A Ukrainian Family Memoir

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Author: Victoria Belim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Wild Swans for Ukraine ... rich and magnificent' Bookseller 'A paean to hope and...
All that Glitters

All that Glitters

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Author: Pearl Lowe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Pearl Lowe has been a singer in a hugely successful pop group, a fashion model and a friend to some of...
Born On a Blue Day

Born On a Blue Day

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Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date is blue...
Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

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Author: Susan Hendricks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-dive into the still-unsolved double homicide of two teens...
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: Paperback 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...
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...
Forgotten Women

Forgotten Women

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Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...
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...
Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

Notes on Heartbreak: The Must-Read Book by Vogue's Dating Columnist

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Author: Annie Lord Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality' DOLLY ALDERTON, author of EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE 'Annie Lord tells...
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...
Great Rides According to G

Great Rides According to G

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Author: Geraint Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Across the UK, into Europe and further afield, these are the training rides, races and journeys closest to his heart. From...
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...
A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions

A Hard Kick in the Nuts: What I've Learned from a Lifetime of Terrible Decisions

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Author: David Peisner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Stephen "Steve-O" Glover-social media icon, comedy-touring stalwart, and star of Jackass-delivers a hilarious and practical guide to recovery, relationships, career, and...
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...
Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS

Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS

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Author: Laurence Leamer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES 'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.'...