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The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

The Tastemaker: My Life with the Legends and Geniuses of Rock Music

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Author: Tony King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beatingheart of music's most iconic moments for...
Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

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Author: Matt Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Serial Griller and South's Best Butts, a cookbook of more than 125 everyday specialty recipes plus meaty...
Letters to Gil

Letters to Gil

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Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to...
All the Money in the World

All the Money in the World

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Author: John Pearson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Inspired by the fortunes and misfortunes of the Getty family, whose most extraordinary and troubled episode - the kidnap and ransom...
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 'Engaging and insightful.' Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix 'Charming, fascinating and very funny. Marc Randolph demystifies the world of Silicon Valley...
The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle

The Island House: Our Wild New Life on a Tiny Cornish Isle

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Author: Mary Considine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *** 'In the January dark, a young man walks slowly into the sea. He can't see where he is going, but...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

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Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

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Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

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Author: Nedd Brockmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10...
Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan

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Author: Darryl Pinckney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

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Author: Haley McGee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE CHART-TOPPING MEMOIR ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long...
Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

Spaceships Over Glasgow: Mogwai, Mayhem and Misspent Youth

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Author: Stuart Braithwaite Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Born the son of Scotland's last telescope-maker, Stuart Braithwaite was perhaps always destined for a life of psychedelic adventuring on the...
Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

Happy Trails: Andrew Lauder's Charmed Life and High Times in the Record Business

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Author: Andrew Lauder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Andrew Lauder is one of British record business's most significant and highly influential figures but outside the music industry few people...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

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Author: Chris Paling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
Francis: Pope of Good Promise: From Argentina's Bergoglio to the World's Francis

Francis: Pope of Good Promise: From Argentina's Bergoglio to the World's Francis

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Author: Jimmy Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 From the moment Pope Francis stepped on to the balcony of St Peter's Basilica for the first time, a global audience...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

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Author: John Densmore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the...
Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country: Longlisted for The 2022 Wainwright Prize for writing on CONSERVATION

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Author: Anna Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Divide is well written and thought-provoking.' Sunday Telegraph This book is a call to action. It warns that unless we learn...
Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

Armed Action: My War in the Skies with 847 Naval Air Squadron

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Author: James Newton, Dfc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'I couldn't see the tank. I couldn't see it... Someone was screaming over the radio. "Scream all you want, I...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

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Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

Our Red Book: Intimate Conversations about Periods

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Author: Rachel Kauder Nalebuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A Scottish MP celebrates making period products freely available. A father admits embarrassment at buying pads for his daughter. A...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

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Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

Lost Son: An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars

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Author: Brett Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 When Billy Reilly vanished, his parents embarked on a desperate search for answers. Was their son's disappearance connected to his mysterious...
The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

Wish I Was Here: 'The best writer you've never heard of' - Sunday Times

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Author: M. John Harrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Wish I Was Here is a masterpiece. Formally inventive, constantly surprising, M John Harrison has written an archaeology of fragments...
Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

Wayward: Just Another Life to Live

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Author: Vashti Bunyan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Magical and transporting' Maggie O'Farrell 'A gorgeous account of outsiderness and survival... A quietly defiant and moving work' Sinead Gleeson 'An...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

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Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

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Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

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Author: Ricardo Nuila Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
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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'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When -...
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

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Author: Ann Widdecombe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her...
Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

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Author: Doreen Cunningham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN 'Wonderful ......
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

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Author: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "The story of Windrush must not be sterilised, or overly simplified. It is not only a story of successful integration, sport...
Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

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Author: Robert Wainwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons...
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: Hardback 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...
I Can Explain

I Can Explain

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Author: Jamie Laing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The warm, funny and entertaining memoir of much-loved TV personality and loveable posh boy, Jamie Laing. Funny, charming, and romantic to...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it...
Great Spies of the 20th Century

Great Spies of the 20th Century

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Author: Patrick Pesnot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthrall us with their abilities to operate...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

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Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

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Author: Philip Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin...
At the Loch of the Green Corrie

At the Loch of the Green Corrie

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Author: Andrew Greig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A homage to a remarkable poet and his world. 'At The Loch of Green Corrie is more than merely elegant, more...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

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Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...