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Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir

Leslie F*cking Jones: A Memoir

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Author: Leslie Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "You are Black; you are female," Leslie Jones' father once said. "But if you work harder and you're better than everybody...
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

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Author: Nigel Farndale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from...
My Mother and I

My Mother and I

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Author: Ingrid Seward Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A vivid and revealing portrait of the real relationship between King Charles III and his mother, by the esteemed royal biographer...
Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

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Author: Wendy Law-Yone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 80 POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi,...
Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life

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Author: Justine Picardie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 SLEEK. CHIC. NOTORIOUSLY GUARDED. WELCOME TO THE SECRET WORLD OF COCO CHANEL. Justine Picardie's definitive biography explores the dark mysteries hidden...
Happiness Becomes You: A guide to changing your life for good

Happiness Becomes You: A guide to changing your life for good

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Author: Tina Turner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We...
Say It Again in a Nice Voice: The funny and relatable memoir about motherhood from the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Sorrow & Bliss, for readers of Ann Patchett and Dolly Alderton

Say It Again in a Nice Voice: The funny and relatable memoir about motherhood from the Women's Prize shortlisted author of Sorrow & Bliss, for readers of Ann Patchett and Dolly Alderton

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Author: Meg Mason Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From the author of the much-acclaimed novels Sorrow and Bliss and You Be Mother, Meg Mason, comes a hilarious and endearing...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. A GUARDIAN...
How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

How I Learned to Understand the World: BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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Author: Hans Rosling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness. This...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

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Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
Hell West and Crooked

Hell West and Crooked

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Author: Tom Cole Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. the bestselling story of a real-life Crocodile Dundee. In this remarkable memoir, tom...
Killing Time

Killing Time

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Author: Jimmy Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer...
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

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Author: Eric Metaxas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith As Adolf Hitler and...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 New York Times Bestseller A poignant love letter to Bloom's husband and a passionate outpouring of grief, In Love reaffirms the...
Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

Hazzard and Harrower: The letters

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Shirley Hazzard and Elizabeth Harrower met in person for the first time in London in 1972, six years after they began...
How to Knit a Human: A memoir

How to Knit a Human: A memoir

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Author: Anna Jacobson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it....
Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging

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Author: Cher Tan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and...
John Bsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

John Bsst: Bohemian artist and saviour of reef and rainforest

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Author: Iain McCalman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Busst. Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born...
Quietly Hostile

Quietly Hostile

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Author: Samantha Irby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You 'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious' - ELIZABETH DAY 'SO...
Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

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Author: Michael Frayn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say...
This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

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Author: Octavia Bright Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though, of course,...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail 'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times 'A...
Trump: The Art of the Deal

Trump: The Art of the Deal

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Author: Donald Trump Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 President Donald J. Trump lays out his professional and personal worldview in this classic work, a first-hand account of the rise...
Some Answers Without Questions

Some Answers Without Questions

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Author: Lavinia Greenlaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The place I went to when I could not speak was also where my voice came from. Part memoir, part manifesto,...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD

The Madness: A Memoir of War, Fear and PTSD

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Author: Fergal Keane Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An Irish Times book of the year 2022 A powerful, probing book about PTSD. As a journalist Keane has covered conflict...
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'...
A Pocketful of Happiness

A Pocketful of Happiness

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Author: Richard E. Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
Long Hard Road Out Of Hell

Long Hard Road Out Of Hell

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Author: M Manson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The best-selling autobiography of America's most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his...
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable...
Managing Difficult People in a Week

Managing Difficult People in a Week

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Author: David Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four years before...
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

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Author: Selma Blair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman...
Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir

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Author: Stevie Van Zandt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A wonderfully original take on a Rock and Roll autobiography' Paul McCartney 'An inimitable Rock 'n' Roll life told as...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

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Author: Nedd Brockmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10...
The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

The Elephant Whisperer: Learning About Life, Loyalty and Freedom From a Remarkable Herd of Elephants

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Author: Lawrence Anthony Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 When South African conservationist Lawrence Anthony was asked to accept a herd of 'rogue' elephants on his Thula Thula game reserve...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

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Author: Anna Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Divide is well written and thought-provoking.' Sunday Telegraph This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn...
Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age

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Author: Katherine May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Our sense of enchantment is not only triggered by grand things. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the...
Under the Knife

Under the Knife

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Author: Arnold Van Der Laar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

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Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear...