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Chaos- The Truth Behind The Manson Murders

Chaos- The Truth Behind The Manson Murders

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Author: Tom O'Neill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation...
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

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Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life...
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 Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

The Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

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Author: Anthony Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Lenny McLean - an infamous name, but forever a legend. He is arguably one of the most notorious and feared prize-fighters...
Slash - Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Rock's Snake Pit: Excess: The Biography

Slash - Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Rock's Snake Pit: Excess: The Biography

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Author: Paul Stenning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The updated biography of one of the most iconic guitarists in rock 'n' roll.One of the most iconic guitarists of all-time,...
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...
Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

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Author: Jeremy Langmead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This book has brokered the perfect peace deal!" - Graham Norton...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

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Author: Billy Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And...
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

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Author: Billy Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life....
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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Author: The Secret Barrister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported...
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

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Author: Geraint Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of...
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...
Motherwell: A Girlhood

Motherwell: A Girlhood

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Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is unusual, even in...
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...
Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past

Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past

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Author: Gail Simmons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'I loved this memoir' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'A whole new way of looking at a familiar...
Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

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Author: Fanny Singer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice...
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

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Author: Roger Mavity Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . ....
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,...
The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard

The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard

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Author: Marc Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the...
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...
Don't Ask Me About My Dad: An Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret

Don't Ask Me About My Dad: An Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret

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Author: Tom Mitchelson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would...
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...
The Incurable Romantic: and Other Unsettling Revelations

The Incurable Romantic: and Other Unsettling Revelations

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Author: Frank Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Frank Tallis brings a lifetime's clinical experience and wise reflection to a condition that, by its own strange routes, leads us...
I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)

I Wouldn't Do That If I Were Me: Modern Blunders and Modest Triumphs (but Mostly Blunders)

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Author: Jason Gay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Like many of us, Jason Gay didn't see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything,...
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

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Author: Aidan Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 784 Sonny Rollins has long been considered an enigma. Known as the "Saxophone Colossus," he is widely acknowledged as one of the...
Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England

Sex Lives of the Kings & Queens of England

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Nigel Cawthorne traces the antics of the various royal dynasties from Henry VIII to the present in a humorous style. He deals...
Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

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Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Today, twenty-five years since Diana's death, seems the right moment for a reassessment of this remarkable woman. Did the Royal Family...
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...
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch

Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort, Tudor Matriarch

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Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 As the battle for royal supremacy raged between the houses of Lancaster and York, Margaret Beaufort, who was descended from Edward...
Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition

Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition

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Author: Cathy Park Hong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Chosen as a Guardian BOOK OF 2020, picked by AnOther as a Book You Should Read This Year, BBC Best...
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam

Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam

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Author: Julia Blackburn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the...
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...
On Bowie

On Bowie

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Author: Simon Critchley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 What made Bowie special? What made him the cultural icon he is today? And what made millions of people around the...
Harry Potter Gryffindor Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

Harry Potter Gryffindor Hardcover Ruled Journal: Redesign

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Gryffindor Hardcover Ruled Journal-one of Insight Editions' best-selling Harry Potter...
Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

Afterglow: A Dog Memoir

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Author: Eileen Myles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In 1990, Myles chose Rosie from a litter on the street, and their connection instantly made an indelible impact on the...
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*...
William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

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Author: Casey Rae Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 William S. Burroughs's fiction and essays are legendary, but his influence on music's counterculture has been less well documented-until now. Examining...
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...
Journeys to the Other Side of the World: further adventures of a young David Attenborough

Journeys to the Other Side of the World: further adventures of a young David Attenborough

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Author: Sir David Attenborough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'a wondrous reminder of Attenborough's pioneering role . . . full of delightful tales' Daily Express 'An adventure that sparked...
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...