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Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Edward Enninful Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted...
A Pocketful of Happiness

A Pocketful of Happiness

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Author: Richard E. Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a...
Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor's investigation into stalking

Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor's investigation into stalking

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Author: Nicole Madigan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A gripping blend of memoir, investigation and expert analysis, Obsession takes a deep dive into the disturbing phenomenon of stalking. Journalist...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
Angela's Ashes

Angela's Ashes

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Author: Frank McCourt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the...
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things...
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands

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Author: Annie Worsley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'An instant classic...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable...
Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause

Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause

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Author: Lisa Snowdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lisa Snowdon is on a mission to spread the word: growing old just means getting better! Having struggled for over a...
The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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Author: Scott C Johnson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported...
While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

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Author: Yeonmi Park Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of In Order to Live sounds the alarm on...
Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

Of This Our Country: Acclaimed Nigerian writers on the home, identity and culture they know

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Author: 0 Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible to capture the...
Managing Difficult People in a Week

Managing Difficult People in a Week

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Author: David Cotton Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Tales from the Secret Footballer

Tales from the Secret Footballer

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Author: Anon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 **From the bestselling author of I am the Secret Footballer** FOOTBALL'S BIGGEST CHARACTERS TELL IT LIKE IT IS The Secret Footballer is...
Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

Fearless: A Story of Love, Loss and the Midnight Sun

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Author: Catrina Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It's about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you're...
King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical

King Kong - Our Knot of Time and Music: A personal memoir of South Africa's legendary musical

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Author: Pat Williams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 On 2nd February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dlamini (known as 'King Kong')...
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens...
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds

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Author: Osman Yousefzada Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A beautifully observed and funny book' - Guardian 'Compelling and humane' - Sathnam Sanghera A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest

Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in London's Great Forest

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Author: Will Ashon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly...
The Comfort Book: The instant No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

The Comfort Book: The instant No.1 Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. The Comfort Book is a collection of little islands of...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Connolly's raucous run through his life is as furious, funny and foul-mouthed as you'd expect' Sunday Times...
Oh My Gosh, I Love Your Shoes!: A Decade of Head-Turning Heels

Oh My Gosh, I Love Your Shoes!: A Decade of Head-Turning Heels

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Author: Sophia Webster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "A vibrant, inspiring celebration of fashion, family and passion. I love this colourful celebration of all things shoes." - Fearne Cotton...
Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island

Gone 'Til November: A Journal of Rikers Island

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Author: Lil Wayne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 COPY TO FOLLOW...
Politically Homeless

Politically Homeless

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Author: Matt Forde Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Rarely is such an important book this funny. And rarely is such a funny book this important' - RICHARD OSMAN 'Funny,...
George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown

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Author: Maggie Fergusson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide...
Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Discover Sir Ranulph Twistelton-Wykham-Fiennes s personal expedition to trace his extraordinary family through history. From Charlemagne himself a direct ancestor of...
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

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Author: Selma Blair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman...
Sista Sister

Sista Sister

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Author: Candice Brathwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance....
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it....
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian

Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian

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Author: Richard Herring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: A bestselling Reese's Book Club pick by 'a leading voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: A bestselling Reese's Book Club pick by 'a leading voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY

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Author: Austin Channing Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An example of how one woman can change the world...
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming

Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming

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Author: Lyle J Rubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

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Author: Hannah Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it...
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

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Author: Alastair Sawday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron...
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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Author: Michael Daly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that...
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

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Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

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Author: Niall Breslin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his book, Niall Breslin speaks openly about living with depression and anxiety, and his crippling journey to finally acknowledging 'Jeffrey'...
Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities:...
Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

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Author: Samuel Meffire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The extraordinary and exciting story of East Germany's first Black police officer. Samuel Meffire grew up as a Black German in...
The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

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Author: Lee Sansum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection....
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

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Author: Eddie Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From Eddie 'The Beast' Hall, the winner of World's Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

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Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...