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Harry & Meghan: An Invitation to the Royal Wedding

Harry & Meghan: An Invitation to the Royal Wedding

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This highly illustrated, detailed account of Harry and Meghan's relationship celebrates the announcement of their wedding and tells the story of a thoroughly modern royal romance. The book charts their...
The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on

The Age of Seeds: How Plants Hacked Time and Why Our Future Depends on

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Plants evolved seeds to hack time. Thanks to seeds they can cast their genes forward into the future, enabling species to endure across seasons, years, and occasionally millennia. When a...
The Travels

The Travels

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A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kublai Khan...
Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1

Great Australian Outback Yarns: Volume 1

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A collection of the funniest yarns and most colourful characters from the bestselling 'Great Australian Stories' series from beloved storyteller Bill 'Swampy' Marsh. When he'd finished playing, a solemn silence...
The Clothes They Stood Up In

The Clothes They Stood Up In

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The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books...
Arthur the King: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home *WATCH

Arthur the King: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home *WATCH

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When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened...
Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity Fair All Lina wanted was to be desired. How...
Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic

Trawler: A Journey Through the North Atlantic

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Trawler has sold 25,000 copies in hardback to date. Redmond O'Hanlon describes his extraordinary three-week trip on an Orkney trawler as it journeys far into the north Atlantic in search...
Young Men And Fire

Young Men And Fire

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The book titled Young Men And Fire by the author Norman Maclean. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Wrongful Deaths

Wrongful Deaths

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The state of Oregon is the grass-seed capital of the world and every year thousands of acres of stubble are burned to make way for next year's crop. In August...
Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I

Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I

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The definitive account of tyranny and resistance as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series Extraordinary stories from the most perfected surveillance state of all...
Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of

Happy Land: The spellbinding new novel from the bestselling author of

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'It's time we name our kingdom!' he shouted over the wind. 'I say we call this place Happy Land. If this ain't the land of happy people, then where is...
Great Australian Stories Slipcase

Great Australian Stories Slipcase

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Great Australian Stories - Droving, Beer and Utes. Why is one of our prime ministers in the Guinness Book of Records ? How did beer save the life of a...
The Rock: Looking into Australia's 'Heart of Darkness' from the edge

The Rock: Looking into Australia's 'Heart of Darkness' from the edge

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Journalist Aaron Smith's new memoir holdsup a unique mirror to Australia. What he sees is at once amazing, disturbingand revealing. The Rock explores the failings of ournation's character, its unresolved...
Nine Lives: True Spy Stories from Mata Hari to Kim Philby

Nine Lives: True Spy Stories from Mata Hari to Kim Philby

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The men and women who slip beneath the world's radar and risk their lives for a cause - be it government, belief, country or money - command an irresistible hold...
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....
Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

Lady Glenconner's Picnic Papers

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'Full of delightful stories...a wonderful insight into the British obsession with al fresco eating' - Travel Gourmet From the peaks of the Himalayas to the historic grounds of Hampton Court,...
A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia -

A Silent Tsunami: Swimming Against the Tide of my Mother's Dementia -

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A Silent Tsunami is a unique combination of memoir and medicine - Rowan forensically examines the development of her mother's illness and explores dementia in a frank but illuminating, lyrical...
The Travels

The Travels

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A sparkling new translation of the most famous travel book ever written, in a collectable clothbound edition Marco Polo's voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which...
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of

The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of

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Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...
The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of

The Best British Travel Writing of the 21st Century: A Celebration of

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Travel writing matters Explore the world through this beautiful collection of the finest travel writing published in British media in the 21st century - as judged by some of the...
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

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"The story of Windrush must not be sterilised, or overly simplified. It is not only a story of successful integration, sport and cultural icons, or even everyday heroes like my...
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The

Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The

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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST...
Perfectly Matched: True Stories of Love, Fate, and the Magic of

Perfectly Matched: True Stories of Love, Fate, and the Magic of

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'You'll fall head over heels - again and again.' A delightful celebration of love's enduring magic. What draws us to love, binds us in partnership, and keeps us searching for...
Out of the Ashes: The Mothers love that healed the scars of the Bali

Out of the Ashes: The Mothers love that healed the scars of the Bali

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Out of the Ashes is the inspirational story of an Australian mother's journey back from hell after the 12 October 2002 Bali bombings. The deadly terrorist attacks on Paddy's Irish...
The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out

The Light of Day: the moving true story of the first man to come out

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In June 1960, several British newspapers received a letter so shocking some thought it was a hoax. Beginning 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . ' , it was signed by...
The Amateur Emigrant

The Amateur Emigrant

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This is the sparkling record of the haphazard six-thousand-mile odyssey that twenty-five-year-old Stevenson made in pursuit of his future wife, Fanny. The two had met and fallen in love during...
A Truce That Is Not Peace

A Truce That Is Not Peace

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THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read all year' NICK HORNBY 'A triumph - a meditation...
V13: Chronicle of a Trial

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

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A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...
Kingdom Come

Kingdom Come

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The book titled Kingdom Come by the author Bernice Rubens. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
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....
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,...
Breach of Promise

Breach of Promise

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How far will a father go to get back his only daughter? And how will he survive in a legal system that crushes those who can't afford to fight back?...
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...
3:59.4

3:59.4

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The years 1953-54 were marked by the conquests of two unattainable peaks - Mount Everest and the Four Minute Mile. But the dream of setting a new track record for...
Making Babies: Personal IVF Stories

Making Babies: Personal IVF Stories

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Around 15 per cent of couples in various Western countries suffer from infertility. Every year thousands try IVF and other assisted-reproduction techniques, but only about a third go home with...
V13: Chronicle of a Trial

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

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A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading non-fiction writer On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded...
Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the

Urban Legends: Strange Tales and Unsolved Mysteries from Around the

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'- DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO SUED SATAN? - DO YOU KNOW THE LEGEND OF...
Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and

Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and

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It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient. Perhaps it's doing something no one else has done...
Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the Early Days

Chequered Lives: John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack and the Early Days

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Chequered Lives is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning...
Joy Street: A Wartime Romance in Letters

Joy Street: A Wartime Romance in Letters

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This is a series of letters between 19-year-old Miriam ("Mirren") Barford, an Oxford student, and Lieutenant John ("Jock") Lewis, who had joined the Welsh Guards at the outbreak of war...
Gorillas in Our Midst: A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby

Gorillas in Our Midst: A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby

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"Funny and messy" - The Mail on Sunday Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing...
The Year We Disappeared: A Father - Daughter Memoir

The Year We Disappeared: A Father - Daughter Memoir

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When Cylin Busby was nine years old, she was obsessed with the Muppets and her pet turtle. Then everything changed. Her police officer father, John, was driving to work when...
Gorillas in Our Midst: A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby

Gorillas in Our Midst: A Zookeeper's Tale of Hand-Rearing Baby

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"Funny and messy" - The Mail on Sunday Step into the fascinating world of Bristol Zoo with Alan Toyne, a dedicated zookeeper and primate expert whose extraordinary story of hand-rearing...
All The Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and

All The Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and

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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 rich and...
The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

The Disappearing Act: The Impossible Case of MH370

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'People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does... This is a splendid book - and highly recommended.' Daily Mail A remarkable piece of...