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Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mornings With My Cat Mii

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The perfect gift for cat lovers- a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime...
Himmler's Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment

Himmler's Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment

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A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...
Myself and Other Animals

Myself and Other Animals

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A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and...
Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence

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An intimate look at Elie Wiesel, author of the seminal Holocaust memoir Night and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize As an orphaned survivor and witness to Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel...
Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from

Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from

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The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animals Deep in the forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as...
The Women

The Women

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Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...
Days in the Caucasus

Days in the Caucasus

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We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...
For Love or Money

For Love or Money

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'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...
Coasting

Coasting

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'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...
Periodic Bitch

Periodic Bitch

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Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor...
How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to

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New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we're in is no longer a room where...
Who Me!: A memoir of fandom, publishing, and six decades of Doctor Who

Who Me!: A memoir of fandom, publishing, and six decades of Doctor Who

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Embark on a journey through time, space, and the enduring magic of Doctor Who history. Embark on a journey through time, space, and the enduring magic of Doctor Who history....
Waiting for the Monsoon

Waiting for the Monsoon

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By the New York Times 's legendary war correspondent, written while battling terminal brain cancer: a life-affirming memoir of high adventure, deep wisdom, and finding true happiness amid the unlikeliest...
A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the

A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the

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Shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, Christopher Bland Prize and The People's Book Prize A Waterstones Best Memoir of 2024 An Independent and Stylist Best Non-Fiction Book The captivating true...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

Animal Joy: A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation

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Laughter shakes us out of our deadness. An outburst of spontaneous laughteris an eruption from the unconscious that, like political resistance, poetry, orself-revelation, expresses a provocative, impish drive to burst...
King Kong Theory

King Kong Theory

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'I write from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the frigid, the unfucked and the unfuckables, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh, and...
Dysphoria Mundi

Dysphoria Mundi

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In Dysphoria Mundi, Paul B. Preciado has written a mutant text assembled from essays, philosophy, poetry and autofiction that captures a moment of profound change and possibility. Rooted in the...
The Book Against Death

The Book Against Death

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In 1937, Elias Canetti began collecting notes for the project that 'by definition, he could never live to complete', as translator Peter Filkins writes in his afterword. The Book Against...
In Memory of Memory

In Memory of Memory

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With the death of her aunt, Maria Stepanova is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository...
Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

Women Who Win: Celebrating courage, conviction and change

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Across history, women were told to sit down, smile and stay quiet. Spoiler alert- they didn't. They spoke out, stood tall - and ruined the patriarchy's day. Because of them,...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid

Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid

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Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving Prime Minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the YearA Guardian Politics Book of the Year 2023 'An insightful and at...
To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

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From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" ( The Washington Free Beacon ) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a...
Drawing Hell: The Life of War Artist - Alan Moore

Drawing Hell: The Life of War Artist - Alan Moore

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"From the sweltering battlefields of the South Pacific to the devastated cities of Europe, Alan Moore witnessed the greatest war in human history-not with a rifle, but with a paintbrush."...
Greyhound

Greyhound

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In 2006, in the wake of several miscarriages, Joanna Pocock travelled by Greyhound bus across the US from Detroit to Los Angeles. Seventeen years later, now in her 50s, she...
Bless the Messy: Life Lessons from a Work in Progress

Bless the Messy: Life Lessons from a Work in Progress

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For readers of Hyperbole and a Half and Am I There Yet ?, Bless the Messy is a compassionate, distinctive, and voice-driven illustrated personal growth book, one that gives readers...
It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent

It's (Almost) Always Sunny in Philadelphia: How Three Friends Spent

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In the bestselling traditions of Seinfeldia and Top of the Rock comes a fascinating deep dive into the longest-running live-action sitcom in television history, from its humble beginnings to its...
Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A 2024 BOOK OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND BOOKLIST AN AUDIE AWARD FINALIST "Paul Scheer delivers a deeply funny, personal and moving account of...
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times , Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for its searing frankness, framed in wistfully beautiful prose'...
Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section

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An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common surgery performed in America-the cesarean section-and an expose on the disturbing state of maternal medical care...
Sonita: My Journey from Child Bride to Global Changemaker

Sonita: My Journey from Child Bride to Global Changemaker

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Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award One woman's extraordinary journey from child bride to global changemaker At just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage....
Never Had a Dad: Adventures in Fatherlessness

Never Had a Dad: Adventures in Fatherlessness

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Fatherless, friendly 31yoF looking for intrepid M50s-70s who wants to try being a father figure (not sugar daddy). Georgie Codd never had a dad. And she didn't think that would...
An Apartment on Uranus

An Apartment on Uranus

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Uranus is the coldest planet in the solar system, a frozen giant named after a Greek deity. It is also the inspiration for Uranism, a concept coined by the writer...
Bandidos: Past, Present and Future

Bandidos: Past, Present and Future

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This is the story of the Bandidos Motorcycle Club, penned by their National Presidente, Tony Vartiainen of Australasia and is a look at how the club started through to the...
In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some

In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some

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In Gad We Trust is a heartfelt and hilarious collection of essays, pairing scenes from Josh's life and career in the entertainment industry with "pontifications" on evergreen yet topical issues...
Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

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The goddaughter of Igor Stravinsky and a graduate of Hollywood High, Eve Babitz posed in 1963, at age twenty, playing chess with the French artist Marcel Duchamp. She was naked;...
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

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A New York Times Editors' Choice One of NPR's Best Books of the Year "A beautifully wrought ode to life...a precious gift to the world." - The Washington Post From...
Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music

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A powerful memoir of a true Australian legend: stolen child, musical and lyrical genius, and leader. Not many have lived as many lives as Archie Roach - stolen child, seeker,...
What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the

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"You will devour these beautifully written-and very important-tales of honesty, pain, and resilience" (Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and City of Girls ) from...
How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

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The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book....
Accidental Feminists

Accidental Feminists

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How one generation became feminists-by accident Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from...
The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories

The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories

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The Paris Trilogy is celebrated French author Colombe Schneck's first English language publication, translated by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer. Writing in response to Annie Ernaux and in conversation with...
First, We Make The Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety

First, We Make The Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety

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New York Times Bestseller "Probably the best book on living with anxiety that I've ever read." - Mark Manson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of...
Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred

Women Who Wear Only Themselves: Four Travelers on Their Sacred

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In this inspiring book of divine discovery, poet and seeker Arundhathi Subramaniam gives us a glimpse into the lives of four self-contained, unapologetic female spiritual travelers. "Among the finest pieces...
The City and the World

The City and the World

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In The City and the World Gregor Hens considers the phenomenon of the contemporary city and our place within it. Hens travels the world - from Berlin to Las Vegas...
This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

This is My Sea: The Number 1 Bestseller

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'Prose written with the pen of a poet' - Desmond Morris, author of The Naked Ape 'Full of wisdom and poetry and epic emotion, This is My Sea explores grief,...
Turning to Stone

Turning to Stone

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WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...
The Power in You: How to Live and Love Your Life

The Power in You: How to Live and Love Your Life

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Your guide to finding your inner power and living a life you LOVE Finding light in the dark can be hard when life takes you on a rollercoaster of highs...