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Vera Brittain: A Life

Vera Brittain: A Life

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Author: Mark Bostridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The definitive biography of Vera Brittain, acclaimed author of Testament of Youth. With a new introduction by Mark Bostridge. 'Riveting and...
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

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Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita...
Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

Gautama Buddha: The Life and Teachings of The Awakened One

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Author: Vishvapani Blomfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The words and example of Gautama (often known by the title, 'Buddha') have affected billions of people. But what do we...
Freefall

Freefall

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Author: Tom Read Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'This is BRAVO TWO ZERO meets ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Tom Read's story had me on the edge of...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

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Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'A completely extraordinary autobiography. One that reads like the most outlandish, beguiling fiction but that is - amazingly - all...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

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Author: Margalit Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during the First World War, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, cunningly...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

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Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

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Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

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Author: Katherine May Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

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Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

Deer Man: Seven Years in the Forest

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Author: Geoffroy Delorme Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The astonishing, true account of one man's quest to immerse himself in nature and live with wild deer for seven years....
Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story

Twelve Years a Slave: A True Story

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Author: Solomon Northup Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The shocking first-hand account of one man's remarkable fight for freedom; now an award-winning motion picture. `Why had I not died...
Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet

James Herriot: The Life of a Country Vet

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Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women of Letters

Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Women of Letters

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When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

When Giants Walked the Earth: 50 years of Led Zeppelin. The fully revised and updated biography.

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively...
Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing

Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing

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Little Me: My life from A-Z

Little Me: My life from A-Z

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So, Anyway...: The Autobiography

So, Anyway...: The Autobiography

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Daughter of The River Country

Daughter of The River Country

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Marching as to War

Marching as to War

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Wednesdays with Bob

Wednesdays with Bob

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Business as Unusual: The Journey of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop

Business as Unusual: The Journey of Anita Roddick and the Body Shop

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A Foreign Affair

A Foreign Affair

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Brutally Honest: A Sunday Times Bestseller

Brutally Honest: A Sunday Times Bestseller

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I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World; Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation

I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World; Teen Edition Retold by Malala for her Own Generation

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Ditch the Dead Weight: How my toughest choice became my greatest mission

Ditch the Dead Weight: How my toughest choice became my greatest mission

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Call Me Sasha: Secret Confessions of an Australian Callgirl

Call Me Sasha: Secret Confessions of an Australian Callgirl

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Overworked and Underlaid: A seriously funny guide to life

Overworked and Underlaid: A seriously funny guide to life

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It's All Good

It's All Good

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The Vogue Factor

The Vogue Factor

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The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

The Tongue Set Free: Remembrance of a European Childhood

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Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written. It begins with an extraordinary image, Canetti's earliest memory. He comes out of...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

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Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am

I Am What I Am

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Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
Small Bodies of Water

Small Bodies of Water

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Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

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Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

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Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

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Author: Finlay J. Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Allegorizings

Allegorizings

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
Vanished Years

Vanished Years

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rupert Everett's first memoir - RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...