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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

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Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female...
Prostitute Laundry

Prostitute Laundry

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Author: Charlotte Shane Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A Stylist 'Non-fiction You Can't Miss' selection for 2023 This serial memoir follows Charlotte over the course of several years as...
Samuel Johnson: A Life

Samuel Johnson: A Life

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Author: David Nokes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Johnson, born weak and half-blind, shambolic and poverty-stricken, became the most admired and quoted man in the eighteenth century. Thrown out...
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister

The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister

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Author: Olesya Khromeychuk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV 'If you read only one book about the war,...
Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

Howards End is on the Landing: A year of reading from home

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Author: Susan Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she...
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...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
Pride and Passion: My Autobiography

Pride and Passion: My Autobiography

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Author: Warren Gatland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS. 'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian 'Gatland is...
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: Paperback 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...
Scar Tissue

Scar Tissue

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Author: Anthony Kiedis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 In SCAR TISSUE Anthony Kiedis, charismatic and highly articulate frontman of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recounts his remarkable life story,...
Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

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Author: Ted Kessler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

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Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

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Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

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Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

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Author: Adam Kay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction...
Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Ayoade on Ayoade

Ayoade on Ayoade

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Author: Richard Ayoade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he...
Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless...
Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

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Author: Sophie L Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton 'Everyone should...
Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
Unnatural Causes

Unnatural Causes

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Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The dead do not hide the truth and they never lie. Through me the dead can speak . . .'...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an...
Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

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Author: David Nolan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Since his emergence into the music industry, Ed Sheeran has gone on to become a household name, with sell-out tours and...
Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

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Author: Louis Theroux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, presenting a segment on apocalyptic...
Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah...
Letters to Sarah

Letters to Sarah

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Author: Sara Payne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had...
Branson

Branson

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His Story: A Novel Memoir - The life and times of Dick O'Toole

His Story: A Novel Memoir - The life and times of Dick O'Toole

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Portrait of a Turkish Family

Portrait of a Turkish Family

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A Genius for Living: Biography of Frieda Lawrence

A Genius for Living: Biography of Frieda Lawrence

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Georgiana: a Biography of Georgiana Mccrae

Georgiana: a Biography of Georgiana Mccrae

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Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

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Slaves in the Family

Slaves in the Family

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Surviving Galeras

Surviving Galeras

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Under My Skin

Under My Skin

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No Run-of-the-mill: A Biography of Henry Beaufort Somerset

No Run-of-the-mill: A Biography of Henry Beaufort Somerset

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Whatever Remains: A True Story of Secret Lives and Hidden Families

Whatever Remains: A True Story of Secret Lives and Hidden Families

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Captain James Cook RN, FRS: Seaman and Scientist

Captain James Cook RN, FRS: Seaman and Scientist

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Heading South, Looking North

Heading South, Looking North

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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

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Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller

Wham! George & Me: Celebrate 40 Years of Wham! with the Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Andrew Ridgeley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited and lovingly told story of Andrew, George and their time together as WHAM! THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER For the...
The Instant

The Instant

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Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris...