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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

Agent Sonya: From the bestselling author of The Spy and The Traitor

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Author: Ben MacIntyre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The incredible story behind the greatest female spy in history from one of Britain's best historians, now in paperback...
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

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Author: Desmond Shum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red...
Granta 145: Ghosts

Granta 145: Ghosts

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Margaret Atwood, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Julian Barnes, Roberto Bolano, Jeffrey Eugenides, Nadine Gordimer, Nick Hornby, Kazuo Ishiguro, Han Kang,...
Tracey Emin

Tracey Emin

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Author: Jonathan Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 This accessible and expertly written introduction and overview of Tracey Emin's life offers a completely up-to-date view on the...
Behind the Lens: My Life

Behind the Lens: My Life

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Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

A Speck in the Sea: A Story of Survival and Rescue

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Author: John Aldridge Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Film in development with The Weinstein Company In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense

The Smell of Fresh Rain: The Unexpected Pleasures of our Most Elusive Sense

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Author: Barney Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 What do we actually mean when we say that something smells of fresh paint? Or frying bacon? And what does five...
Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story

Break Point: SAS: Who Dares Wins Host's Incredible True Story

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Author: Ollie Ollerton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Where is your break point? Is it here? Facing the gruelling SAS selection process on one leg, with a...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin

A View From The Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin

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Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 'It is said that failed politicians make the best diarists. In which case I am in with a chance.'...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

Checking In: How Getting Real About Depression Saved My Life-and Can Save Yours

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Author: Michelle Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

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Author: Jack Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-Rolling Stone)tells the inside story of...
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

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Author: A J Jacobs (East Carolina University USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Keeping On Keeping On

Keeping On Keeping On

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

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Author: Michael Odell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his responsibility as cultural gatekeeper seriously; he asks rock stars the forbidden...
The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

The Not So Subtle Art of Being a Fat Girl

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Author: Tess Holliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Plus-size supermodel Tess Holliday's passionate plea for modern women, whoever and wherever they are, to be comfortable in their own...
Runner: A short story about a long run

Runner: A short story about a long run

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Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

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Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

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Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

The Crown: The Official History Behind the Hit NETFLIX Series: Political Scandal, Personal Struggle and the Years that Defined Elizabeth II, 1956-1977

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Author: Robert Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 The fascinating royal and social history that inspired Seasons 2 and 3 of The Crown, written by the show's...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

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Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust...
Misadventures

Misadventures

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Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

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Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
What a Flanker

What a Flanker

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful - I am just hugely fond...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

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Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
For the Record

For the Record

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Author: David Cameron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 'The political memoir of the decade' Sunday Times The referendum on Britain's membership of the EU is one of the most...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

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Author: Wilbur Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 I've been writing novels for over fifty years. I was lucky enough to miss the big wars and not...
Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion

Running with Sherman: The Donkey Who Survived Against All Odds and Raced Like a Champion

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Author: Christopher McDougall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When barefoot running guru Christopher McDougall takes in a neglected donkey, his aim is to get Sherman back to...
Mad Girl

Mad Girl

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Author: Bryony Gordon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a...