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Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

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Author: Roger Mavity Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A terrific read, bubbling with anecdotes and insight' Daily Mail, 2021's best biographies 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design...
Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia within the Most Powerful Political Group in America

Inside the NRA: A Tell-All Account of Corruption, Greed, and Paranoia within the Most Powerful Political Group in America

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Author: Joshua L. Powell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Joshua L. Powell is the NRA--a lifelong gun advocate, in 2016, he began his new role as a senior strategist...
The Compassion Project: A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness

The Compassion Project: A case for hope and humankindness from the town that beat loneliness

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Author: Julian Abel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A wonderful book' - Dr. Rangan Chatterjee 'Highly convincing' - Daily Express 'Pioneering' - The Telegraph 'The strength of the book...
The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing

The Power of Women: A doctor's journey of hope and healing

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Author: Dr Dr Denis Mukwege Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'These women are each a light and an inspiration, demonstrating how the best instincts of humanity - to love,...
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

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Author: Sarah M. Broom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 'A major book that I suspect will...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate

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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In one short...
The Gladiator Mindset: Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve Your Goals.

The Gladiator Mindset: Push Your Limits. Overcome Challenges. Achieve Your Goals.

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Author: Adam Peaty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Think like Britain's greatest living Olympian: Ten steps to push your limits and achieve the impossible from the one of the...
Consumed: A Sister's Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021

Consumed: A Sister's Story - SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021

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Author: Arifa Akbar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2021 * 'If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there...
Politically Homeless

Politically Homeless

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Author: Matt Forde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Rarely is such an important book this funny. And rarely is such a funny book this important' - RICHARD OSMAN 'The...
Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton

Malice in Wonderland: My Adventures in the World of Cecil Beaton

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Author: Hugo Vickers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The witty and perceptive diaries kept by Cecil Beaton's authorised biographer during his many fascinating encounters with extraordinary - often legendary...
What Makes Us Stronger

What Makes Us Stronger

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Author: Freya Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The Manchester Arena attack nearly destroyed her. Love and courage saved her. Freya Lewis was just three metres away from the...
Older and Wider: A Survivor's Guide to the Menopause

Older and Wider: A Survivor's Guide to the Menopause

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Author: Jenny Eclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! (June 2020) 'If you're after an in-depth medical or psychological insight into the menopause, I'm afraid you've...
Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline

Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline

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Author: Loretta Lynn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends--country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta...
Murder in the Neighbourhood: The true story of America's first recorded mass shooting

Murder in the Neighbourhood: The true story of America's first recorded mass shooting

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Author: Ellen J. Green Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 On September 6,1949, twenty-eight-year-old Howard Barton Unruh shot thirteen people in less than twelve minutes on his block in East...
The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose

The Pursuit of Porsha: How I Grew Into My Power and Purpose

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Author: Porsha Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Porsha Williams is a remarkable voice in the television and podcast communities. In The Pursuit of Porsha, she takes readers on...
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...
Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control

Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control

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Author: Paul Dye Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A compelling look inside the Space Shuttle missions that helped lay the groundwork for the Space Age, SHUTTLE, HOUSTON explores the...
See No Stranger: A memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love

See No Stranger: A memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love

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Author: Valarie Kaur Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'In a world stricken with fear and turmoil, Valarie Kaur shows us how to summon our deepest wisdom.' -Elizabeth Gilbert, author...
The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

The Man I Knew: The Amazing Comeback Story of George H.W. Bush's Post-Presidency

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 As chief of staff, Jean Becker had a ringside seat to the never-boring story of George Herbert Walker Bush's life post-presidency,...
The Great Peace: A Memoir

The Great Peace: A Memoir

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Author: Mena Suvari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 THE GREAT PEACE is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself...
All My Friends Are Invisible: the inspirational childhood memoir

All My Friends Are Invisible: the inspirational childhood memoir

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Author: Jonathan Joly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A mesmeric, harrowing and uplifting childhood memoir that will open up much-needed conversations about identity and mental health It was an...
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

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Author: Marc Randolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the tradition of Phil Knight's SHOE DOG comes the incredible untold story of how Netflix went from concept to company...
Love Letters of Kings and Queens

Love Letters of Kings and Queens

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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love. Yet...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
Artemisia Gentileschi

Artemisia Gentileschi

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how...
Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities

Curious: True Stories and Everyday Absurdities

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Author: Rebecca Front Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Sometimes things are more ordinary than you think. And sometimes they're a whole lot odder than you can possibly imagine ....
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

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Author: Walter Isaacson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 The bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a "compelling" (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel...
Burn After Writing

Burn After Writing

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Author: Sharon Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 THE MILLION-COPY TIKTOK PHENOMENON THE BESTSELLING BOOK Write. Burn. Repeat. Now featuring a brand new pink cover. Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok,...
The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

The Erratics: 2019 Stella Prize Winner

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Author: Vicki Laveau-Harvie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Dark, sharp, blackly funny and powerful, this is memoir, wielded as weapon, with the tightly compressed energy of an explosive device....
World of Christopher Marlowe

World of Christopher Marlowe

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Author: David Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 This is the definitive book about the man who revolutionised English drama and English poetry - and was murdered in his...
Pessoa: An Experimental Life

Pessoa: An Experimental Life

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Author: Richard Zenith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1088 A monumental biography of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most enigmatic writers For many thousands of readers Fernando Pessoa's...
Life: My Story Through History

Life: My Story Through History

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Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
The Family Outing: A Memoir

The Family Outing: A Memoir

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Author: Jessi Hempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "Fascinating, funny, and wise, The Family Outing is an affirmation to all of us who know the pain and shame of...
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...
The Women's Pages

The Women's Pages

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Author: Victoria Purman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real...
The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

The Green Lady: A Spirit, A Story, A Place

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Author: Sally Bayley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 From the critically acclaimed author Sally Bayley, The Green Lady is a poignant, brilliant exploration of the relationships between children and...
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,...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
The Hats of the Queen

The Hats of the Queen

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Author: Thomas Pernette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In her 70 years in power, Queen Elizabeth II has made her mark on history, navigating the ups and downs of...
Britney: The Unauthorized Biography

Britney: The Unauthorized Biography

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Author: Danny White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has sold more than 150 million albums, wowed sell-out audiences around the globe and starred in iconic music videos but...
Then There Was Her

Then There Was Her

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Author: Sophie Cachia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Social media and business entrepreneur Sophie Cachia reveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition...
The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music

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Author: Dave Grohl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE INTERNATIONAL NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS...
Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs

Power Play: Breaking Through Bias, Barriers and Boys' Clubs

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Author: Julia Banks Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Power Play is an honest guide for women who aspire to leadership in the workplace and in the world, from the...
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...
Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives

Anthems We Love: 29 Iconic Artists on the Hit Songs That Shaped Our Lives

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Author: Steve Baltin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "Anthems We Love is not just a tale of artistic adventure, it's also a manual for artists and fans alike. There...
Confidence: The Secret

Confidence: The Secret

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Author: Katie Piper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Confidence is about empowerment. It's about valuing who you are, not what you want to do or how you look. It's...
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood

Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood

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Author: Siri Helle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being...