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The Woman in Me

The Woman in Me

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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023

1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023

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Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In

Mary Queen of Scots: Film Tie-In

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Will: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

Will: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

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More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence

More Cloak Than Dagger: One Woman's Career in Secret Intelligence

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Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

Identical Strangers: A Memoir of Twins Separated and Reunited

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The Secret Diaries of Inspirational Women: Volume 1

The Secret Diaries of Inspirational Women: Volume 1

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Code Name Blue Wren

Code Name Blue Wren

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Author: Jim Popkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to...
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives

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Author: Dr Matt Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

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Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
Walking in the Shade : 1949-1962

Walking in the Shade : 1949-1962

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Author: Doris M. Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son,...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

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Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw

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Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

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Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography

Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography

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Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter

Joan, Lady of Wales: Power and Politics of King John's Daughter

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Author: Danna R Messer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The history of women in medieval Wales before the English conquest of 1282 is one largely shrouded in mystery. For...
Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters

Max Jacob: A Life in Art and Letters

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Author: Rosanna Warren (University of Chicago) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 720 Though less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max...
Guderian: Panzer General

Guderian: Panzer General

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Author: Kenneth Macksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 228 Born in Kulm, Germany, on 17 June 1888, Heinz Wilhelm Guderian was the son of an army officer. He eventually joined...
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well

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Author: Julian Baggini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius

Madness of Alexander ther Great: And the Myths of Military Genius

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Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Over the years, some 20,000 books and articles have been written about Alexander the Great, the vast majority hailing...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

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Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Napoleon's Shield and Guardian

Napoleon's Shield and Guardian

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Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders

Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders

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Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography

Frege: A Philosophical Biography

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Author: Dale Jacquette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 680 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language,...
The Queen Mother: The Official Biography

The Queen Mother: The Official Biography

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Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers

Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers

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Ruck Me: (I've written another book)

Ruck Me: (I've written another book)

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The side-splittingly hilarious new book from Sunday Times bestselling author, rugby icon, and stag do in human form, James Haskell. It's...
The Reichmanns

The Reichmanns

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The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

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It's Only A Game

It's Only A Game

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Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond

Jazz Singing: America's Great Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop and Beyond

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Living the Dream: the Story of Victor Smorgon: The Story of Victor Smorgon

Living the Dream: the Story of Victor Smorgon: The Story of Victor Smorgon

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The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency

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Author: Ben West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still...
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen

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Author: Shannon Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames, from Shannon Molloy, the author of...
Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that...
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women

Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen: The Emotional Lives of Black Women

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Author: Inger Burnett-Zeigler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable -but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength...
Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak

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Author: Rosie Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it's too late. Nine-year-old...
Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny

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Author: Holly Madison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. But like...
Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance

Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance

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Author: Mallory Weggemann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

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Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI

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Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Out of the Box: Raw and hilarious tales of heartache, triumph and truth

Out of the Box: Raw and hilarious tales of heartache, triumph and truth

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Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars

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