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Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

Inheritocracy: It's Time to Talk About the Bank of Mum and Dad

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Sunday Times bestseller (over 7k copies TCM in 5 months) by leading generation expert on why work isn't working and how parental support shapes our lives, for fans of bestselling...
Hunger Like a Thirst

Hunger Like a Thirst

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Hunger Like a Thirst is a bold and deeply personal memoir from Besha Rodell; chief restaurant critic for The Age , New York Times contributor, and one of the most...
Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe: Inspirational Quotes by

Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe: Inspirational Quotes by

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The Fashion Icons Quote Series is a series of gift books full of inspiring and fabulous quotes from fashion icons across the generations. Words from a Fashion Icon: Marilyn Monroe...
Paris or Die

Paris or Die

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Sharp, funny and unflinchingly honest, Jayne Tuttle's story lifts you off the page and into a Paris far beyond the postcards. This new edition of Paris or Die is a...
Joyride: A Memoir

Joyride: A Memoir

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'The story of my life is the story of my stories,' writes Susan Orlean in this extraordinary, era-defining memoir from one of the greatest practitioners of narrative nonfiction of our...
Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

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" Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds he made possible. Like Bruce Lee himself, Jeff...
Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

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'One of the most incredible and moving books that we've read, ever.' The High Performance Podcast Sitting in the prison classroom each morning, reading the pages in my book, listening...
This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

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"Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." - Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For...
Fridays with Blanche

Fridays with Blanche

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'What a treat! Brutal truths and bombshells galore. Profound reflections on life, longing and the legacy of Bob. It's like a long Friday lunch that you never want to end....
Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories

Ankami: Stolen children, shattered families, silenced histories

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'Be careful what you wish for,' wrote Aesop, 'lest it come true.' Debra Dank had long been desperate to visit the National Archives, to paint a fuller picture of her...
Field Notes from Death's Door: A journey of horror, hope and healing,

Field Notes from Death's Door: A journey of horror, hope and healing,

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This Is Going to Hurt meets Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures) - a rollicking, smart and self-aware memoir about the extremes of the human experience, the limits to compassion,...
Mary Penfold: The true story of the great Australian winemaker, from

Mary Penfold: The true story of the great Australian winemaker, from

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The inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry - a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family's...
Hostage: The unflinching first memoir by an Israeli hostage

Hostage: The unflinching first memoir by an Israeli hostage

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On October 7th, 2023, Hamas terrorists stormed Kibbutz Be'eri, shattering the peaceful life Eli Sharabi had built with his British wife, Lianne, and their teenage daughters, Noiya and Yahel. Dragged...
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

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From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to her homeland of South Korea and back again this memoir is a journey through identity crises, mental health struggles, and the...
Ride On: Hope, healing and getting back on the horse

Ride On: Hope, healing and getting back on the horse

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The Melbourne Cup: the most prestigious horse race in Australia and never won by a female jockey-until 2015. When Michelle Payne swept past the post, she made history and galloped...
Unlikely: The surprising personal story behind the garage startup that

Unlikely: The surprising personal story behind the garage startup that

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Delve into the captivating human story behind the Back In Motion Health Group, revealing the exhilaration and heartache of an entrepreneur's quest from humble start up to a $100m ASX...
Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the

Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the

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Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers-including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker-this vivid and authoritative adventure history chronicles one of the least likely industries on Earth: guided climbing on...
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City

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The raucous memoir from pop's most influential producer Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack. Behind some of the biggest musical moments in...
Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales

Presto!: How I Made Over 100 Pounds Disappear and Other Magical Tales

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Penn Jillette's New York Times bestselling account of his "extremely funny and somewhat profane journey to discovering a healthy lifestyle...that will motivate others to seek weight-loss solutions" ( The Washington...
Mother Mary Comes To Me

Mother Mary Comes To Me

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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy's first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both...
Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet's

Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet's

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CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST NATURE WRITING BOOKS OF 2024 'A beautiful book' Greg James There's no love quite like that between a dog and their human....
Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis

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Green shoots, green leaves, California green vesicles be-neath the California green-brown mud. A hormonal transition is a new start, but it is not a new start like a shoot emerges...
An Alphabet for Gourmets

An Alphabet for Gourmets

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Admired by W. H. Auden as one of the greatest American writers, M. F. K Fisher never focuses on just the food set before her. Instead, with unfailingly elegant prose,...
The Gastronomical Me

The Gastronomical Me

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Beginning with her first food memory - the greyish-pink fuzz of her grandmother's strawberry jam - M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a voyage of gastronomical discovery, from her childhood in...
Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress

Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress

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A new, wise and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks 'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES 'Witty' INDEPENDENT 'Wry and reflective . ....
Beyond A Boundary

Beyond A Boundary

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C L R James's infamously great 1963 cricket masterpiece - voted the third best sports book ever by the Observer - reissued in Vintage Classics for the Cricket World Cup...
Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles

Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles

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Endurance, Determination and Grit- The first ever man to run the length of Africa shares his inspirational story 10,000 miles. 16 countries. 352 days. Hardest Geezer, Russ Cook, is the...
You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist's Life

You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist's Life

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A humane, hilarious and heart-breaking window into the world of psychiatry from 'the Adam Kay of mental healthcare' (THE TIMES) 'This is honestly my dream book... Fascinating' FERN BRADY 'Fearlessly...
Lucky: Learning to live again

Lucky: Learning to live again

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A powerful and inspiring life story of survival and endurance from hugely popular star of TV and Instagram. This edition is updated with a new chapter, updating on Louise's life...
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller - a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the power of love to heal, from Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie On the morning of...
The Panic Years: dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions

The Panic Years: dates, doubts and the mother of all decisions

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A compassionate, funny and beautifully written exploration of contemporary womanhood - the book may have 'panic' in the title, but Nell's words calmed and soothed me deeply.' - Daisy Buchanan...
Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home

Diddly Squat: 'Til The Cows Come Home

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Jeremy takes us back to another year of life as a gentleman farmer at Diddly Squat - what could possibly go wrong this time? Welcome back to Clarkson's farm. At...
Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

Reacher: The Stories Behind The Stories

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From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. From global bestseller and creator of Jack Reacher, comes Lee Child's first-ever autobiographical collection. On Monday...
Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

Michel the Giant: An African in Greenland

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The gripping true story of one man's ten-year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle - a rare gem of travel writing which has inspired a...
The Hong Kong Diaries

The Hong Kong Diaries

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The diaries of the last British Governor, five weeks on the Sunday Times best-seller list In June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to...
Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

Brain On Fire: My Month of Madness

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This is the story of one woman's descent into an insanity. In Brain on Fire she pieces together the terrifying lost month of her life, asking what happens when your...
No Words for This

No Words for This

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An inspiring, honest and intimate memoir about family, love and rising from the ashes. From the age of twelve, Alison Mau wanted to be a journalist like her father. He...
Gone Bush

Gone Bush

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The story of a wanderer, long-distance tramper and hut-bagging legend. Paul Kilgour was bitten by the tramping bug early. He began going on epic trips as a young boy, beyond...
The Gift: A survivor's journey to freedom

The Gift: A survivor's journey to freedom

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Reflections on hope, healing and finding freedom by celebrated therapist, Holocaust survivor and author of the award-winning international bestseller The Choice 'An incredible human being with an extraordinary story to...
Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

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A history of unmarried motherhood through three generations of an Irish family, and the secrets we conceal How far would you go for the missing? When Clair Wills was in...
A Del of a Life: The hilarious #1 bestseller from the national

A Del of a Life: The hilarious #1 bestseller from the national

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A hilarious and heartfelt new autobiography from the national treasure Sir David Jason 'There are British telly icons and then there is Sir David Jason. This book is such gold...
And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life

And Finally: A Neurosurgeon's Reflections on Life

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From the No.1 bestselling author of Do No Harm, an unflinching and deeply personal exploration of death, life and what matters in the end. From the No.1 bestselling author of...
The Outside: Cheating death, chasing waves and growing up in one of

The Outside: Cheating death, chasing waves and growing up in one of

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'Mum once admitted that the only time she thought I was truly safe was when I was out in the water, beyond the breaking waves, in the tranquillity of "The...
Elle

Elle

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Real life gems from the Aussie icon. I have learned that love is what really matters... My life experiences brought about that discovery. I deeply wish that you learn unconditional...
Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

Your Time Starts Now: Food and fame, failure and freedom: the life

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The extraordinary life story of Australia's beloved Julie Goodwin, first winner of MasterChef and bestselling cookbook author Julie Goodwin was catapulted into our hearts as the first-ever winner of MasterChef...
MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

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Much-loved artist Paloma Faith's raw, funny and personal account of motherhood, working and not having it all ***THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'The most raw, funny and liberating look...
PATRIOT

PATRIOT

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AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER- The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs Patriot is the unforgettable life story of...
The In-Between: Stories of Care and Connection in Life's Final Moments

The In-Between: Stories of Care and Connection in Life's Final Moments

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In this #3 New York Times bestselling memoir, TikTok star and hospice nurse Hadley Vlahos demystifies death with inspiring patient stories. What can people at the end of their lives...