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Edith's Story: The true story of how one young girl escaped the

Edith's Story: The true story of how one young girl escaped the

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THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST 'It holds you with the same intensity as The Diary of Anne Frank and leaves you heart-broken, illuminated,...
Cut Short: Why We're Failing Our Youth - and How to Fix It

Cut Short: Why We're Failing Our Youth - and How to Fix It

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An acclaimed author and youth worker explains the reasons behind the UK's crisis of youth violence - and how it can be solved Demetri wants to study criminology at university...
Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

Eight Weeks: Looking Back, Moving Forwards, Defying the Odds

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A deeply moving and inspiring memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black...
Crossing: A love story between Italy and Palestine

Crossing: A love story between Italy and Palestine

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WINNER OF THE FOOTNOTE X COUNTERPOINTS WRITING PRIZE 2023-24 'Vivid, compassionate, captivating' Elif Shafak 'A special and original voice, one for our times' Philippe Sands 'A moving and tender story...
The Bullet: A Memoir of Madness, Family and the Asylums of the Past

The Bullet: A Memoir of Madness, Family and the Asylums of the Past

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Like many people, Tom Lee remembers the presence - somewhere out of sight, on the outskirts of town - of the local psychiatric hospital. It was a place that inspired...
Cheng Lei: The extraordinary memoir of surviving China's secret

Cheng Lei: The extraordinary memoir of surviving China's secret

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The extraordinary true story of journalist Cheng Lei whose life was abruptly transformed when she was detained in China on false charges of espionage. Journalist Cheng Lei spent more than...
One Day at a Time: An inspiring memoir about the power of hope and

One Day at a Time: An inspiring memoir about the power of hope and

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A treasured son. A rare condition. A memoir of loss and joy and everything in between. My mind is racing. I'm trying to make sense of what the doctors have...
Clint: The Man and the Movies

Clint: The Man and the Movies

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New York Times "Editors Choice," Los Angeles Times "Must Read Book for Summer," and a New Yorker "Best Book of the Year So Far" "This is the biography of Clint...
The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream

The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream

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A fascinating biography of the drugmaker Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America's soul From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a compelling...
The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World

The Outsider: The Life and Work of Lafcadio Hearn: The Man Who Introduced Voodoo, Creole Cooking and Japanese Ghosts to the World

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Author: Steve Kemme Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Born in Greece and abandoned as a child, Lafcadio Hearn lived the life of an exile. He travelled the world and...
Confessions of a Minor Poet

Confessions of a Minor Poet

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Author: Phil Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'What a life. What a book. When it's not making your ribs rattle with laughter, it's making your heart ache with...
Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies: The Outsiders Who Shaped Modern Japan

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Author: Robert Whiting Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades -...
The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories

The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories

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Author: Osamu Dazai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Dazai's brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of...
The Jewel Garden

The Jewel Garden

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THE JEWEL GARDEN is the story of the garden that over the past decade has bloomed from the muddy fields around the Dons' Tudor farmhouse, a perfect metaphor for the...
All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden

All My Wild Mothers: Motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden

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'A beautifully written and wisely laid out memoir . . . a treasure map back to 'living', for those who have been away too long ' Donna Ashworth, author of...
Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over

Lady in Waiting: The charming, word-of-mouth bestseller, with over

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** SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** ** SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal book by miles . . . funny, gossipy and riveting' JANE RIDLEY, SPECTATOR...
Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from

Blowing the Bloody Doors Off: The Sunday Times bestselling memoir from

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Hollywood legend and British national treasure Michael Caine shares the wisdom, stories, insight and skills that life has taught him in his remarkable career. One of our best-loved actors Michael...
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity

Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity

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In May 1997, the world watched as Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess player in the world, was defeated for the first time by the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue. It was...
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised

From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised

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From Cradle to Stage shares stories and exclusive photos featuring mothers of rock icons, the icons themselves, and their Behind the Music-style relationships While the Grohl family had always been...
Into the Uncut Grass: The instant New York Times bestseller

Into the Uncut Grass: The instant New York Times bestseller

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AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'What will we find in the uncut grass? 'It depends on what we're looking for.' From the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime...
In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey

In Search of Sheba: A John Murray Journey

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Introduced by Lois Pryce, author of Lois on the Loose , Red Tape & White Knuckles and Revolutionary Ride . In 1959 Barbara Toy, famous for her solo overland travels...
Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story

Churchill's D-Day: The Inside Story

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'Do you realise that by the time you wake up in the morning twenty thousand men may have been killed? '- Winston Churchill to Clementine Churchill, 5 June 1944 2024...
Finding Me: The Grammy-winning, inspiring, deeply personal memoir by

Finding Me: The Grammy-winning, inspiring, deeply personal memoir by

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A mind-blowing and emotionally honest tale of survival against all odds.' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A breathtaking memoir...I was so moved by this book.' Oprah 'It is...
Naked

Naked

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A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No.1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favourite Humorist. A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd...
When You Are Engulfed In Flames

When You Are Engulfed In Flames

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David Sedaris remarkable ability to uncover the hilarious absurdity teeming just below the surface of everyday life is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this new...
Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

Genius: Richard Feynman and Modern Physics

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Richard Feynman was the most brilliant and influential physicist of our time. Architect of quantum theories, enfant terrible of the atomic bomb project, caustic inquisitor on the space shuttle commission,...
The Rest is Still Unwritten

The Rest is Still Unwritten

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Author: Natasha Chloe Muller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: What would it be like to cope with a life-threatening disease? How would it feel to be abandoned by your fiancŽ...
Vagabond

Vagabond

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Author: Tim Curry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT. The outrageous,...
What Did I Miss?

What Did I Miss?

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Author: Holly Brunnbauer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Can she cram a wild decade into a few months without losing her mind ... or her heart? A witty rom-com for...
Things I Didn't Throw Out

Things I Didn't Throw Out

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Lamps, penknives, paperbacks, mechanical pencils, inflatable headrests. Marcin Wicha's mother Joanna was a collector of everyday objects. She found intrinsic - and often idiosyncratic - value in each item. When...
Mama Mia: A Memoir

Mama Mia: A Memoir

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Mia Freedman -- her life without the air-brushing 'this is a book about Mia the person ... It's not often we get to see our idols in this light' Sydney...
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod

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Henry Beston planned to spend only two weeks in his newly built cottage on the outer beach of Cape Cod. As summer drifted into autumn, however, he found himself so...
Tested: Reflections and conversations on leadership and resilience

Tested: Reflections and conversations on leadership and resilience

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Australia's Test Cricket Captain in conversation with remarkable leaders and achievers - from Julia Gillard to Dennis Lillee. Finalist at the Australian Business Book Awards - Leadership Category 2025 When...
Memories of an SOE Historian

Memories of an SOE Historian

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Michael (MRD) Foot enjoys the rare distinction of being the only person referred to by his real name in a John Le Carre novel. A highly significant tribute to the...
The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

The Year of the Tiger: The Major Run That Made Tiger Woods

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The inside story of legendary golfer Tiger Woods' magnificent run, when he won all four major tournaments in a single calendar year, becoming the greatest player of his generation-a show...
The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

The Last Kilo: Willy Falcon and the Cocaine Empire That Seduced

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From true-crime legend T. J. English, the epic, behind-the-scenes saga of "Los Muchachos," one of the most successful cocaine trafficking organizations in American history-a story of glitz, glamour, and organized...
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a

Mummy Told Me Not to Tell: The true story of a troubled boy with a

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ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN. OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING. THE STORY OF ONE CHILD SHE COULD NEVER FORGET. Seven-year-old Reece is the last of six siblings to be taken into foster...
In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever

In Search of Mr Darcy: Lessons Learnt in the Pursuit of Happily Ever

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A coming-of-middle-age memoir, about the search for love, friendship and the ever-elusive Mr Darcy. Prince Charming? Happily ever after? Childhood fairy tales are full of promises, but the reality -...
Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

Twelve Years a Slave (New edition)

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With a new introduction, Northup's memoir reveals the living truth of slavery, poverty and racism in a world set apart from elite metropolitan lifestyles. The 1853 memoir and slave narrative...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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'Kuper is a shrewd observer in this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting...
Women Leading the Way: Women are taking the lead, stepping into their

Women Leading the Way: Women are taking the lead, stepping into their

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Is there a calling within you to step into your power? This book provides you with the inspiration, motivation and practical advice to show up as a leader and take...
The Curious Diplomat: A memoir from the frontlines of diplomacy

The Curious Diplomat: A memoir from the frontlines of diplomacy

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From India to the Info-Pacific, a riveting insider's account of diplomacy and politics, and Australia's position in the world. Lachlan Strahan spent his career as a diplomat and an ambassador...
All The Worst Humans: Shady Confessions of a PR Fixer

All The Worst Humans: Shady Confessions of a PR Fixer

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'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down' Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking 'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph 'A spin doctor to the...
Days in the Caucasus

Days in the Caucasus

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A rediscovered classic memoir - the scintillatingly witty account of one extraordinary woman's life during a turbulent century 'A voice so vivid it seems impossible that it should ever have...
Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum - THE INSTANT BESTSELLER

Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum - THE INSTANT BESTSELLER

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From the bestselling author of BORN ON A BLUE DAY and THINKING IN NUMBERS A Japanese researcher in psychology sets out to measure loneliness while drawing on her own experience...
Blood, Sweat and Glitter

Blood, Sweat and Glitter

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Em Rusciano - singer, stand-up comedian and podcast maven - didn't mean to write a memoir. She meant to write something fun. Light. Maybe erotic. Instead, she bled onto the...
Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics

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How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled 'a second Newton'. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the...
Menagerie Manor

Menagerie Manor

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A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth A classic Gerald Durrell title reissued by Penguin to celebrate the centenary of his birth...