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The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

The Human Kind: A Doctor's Stories From The Heart Of Medicine

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Author: Dr Peter Dorward Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Everyone is a patient sooner or later. Almost everyone has some experience of being misunderstood by doctors; encounters with difficult...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II, Updated Edition

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Author: Michael Paterson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about...
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 AS FEATURED ON BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB AND THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy

Isaac Newton and Natural Philosophy

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Author: Niccolo Guicciardini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much...
Gunter Grass

Gunter Grass

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's foremost writer for more than half a century, and his books were and remain bestsellers across...
Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard

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Author: Alastair Hannay Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The Danish philosopher, theologian, and author Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) is widely considered to be one of the most important...
Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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Author: Paul R. Laird Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 216 Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) was one of twentieth-century music's most successful and recognisable figures. In a career spanning five...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...
With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

With God In Russia: The Inspiring Classic Account of a Catholic Priest'sTwenty-three Years in Soviet Prisons and Labor Camps

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Author: Walter J. Ciszek Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of...
Somebody I Used to Know: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 2019

Somebody I Used to Know: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick 2019

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Author: Wendy Mitchell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK...
Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

Lenin's Laureate: Zhores Alferov's Life in Communist Science

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Author: Paul R. Josephson (Associate Professor of History, Colby College) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The life and work of a leading Soviet physicist and an exploration of the...
For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

For the Love of Money: A Memoir of Family, Addiction, and a Wall Street Trader's Journey to Redefine Success

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Author: Sam Polk Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 "Part coming-of-age story, part recovery memoir, and part expose of a rotten, money-drenched Wall Street culture" (Salon), Sam Polk's...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

Rust: One woman's story of finding hope across the divide

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Author: Eliese Colette Goldbach Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with...
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988 1998

Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988 1998

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 10 years in different directions. The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is the third volume of...
Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

Prince Albert: The Man Who Saved the Monarchy

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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 In this companion biography to the acclaimed Victoria, A. N. Wilson offers a deeply textured and ambitious portrait of Prince...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

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Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

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Author: Dickinson, Bruce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 New York Times Bestseller "Illuminating and very entertaining...a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who...
Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary

Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary

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Author: Alex And Marcus Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the...
Colder The Illustrated Story of Britains Greatest Polar Explorer

Colder The Illustrated Story of Britains Greatest Polar Explorer

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Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Sir Ranulph Fiennes is arguably the UK's greatest polar explorer and adventurer, whose never-say-die approach to life has enabled him to...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories

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Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

Shrill Notes from a Loud Woman

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Author: Lindy West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 *CATCH THE TV ADAPTATION OF SHRILL ON BBC3 NOW* 'Lindy West is an essential (and hilarious) voice for women. Her talent...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire Madness

The Trials of the King of Hampshire Madness

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Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
The Flight Charles Lindberghs Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

The Flight Charles Lindberghs Daring and Immortal 1927 Transatlantic Crossing

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Author: Dan Hampton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 "GRIPPING. ... AN HOUR-BY-HOUR ACCOUNT." - WALL STREET JOURNAL * From one of the most decorated pilots in Air Force history...
Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason

Blaise Pascal Miracles and Reason

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Author: Mary Ann Caws Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 This book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Blaise Pascal's life and work that are...
Song of the Sea

Song of the Sea

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Author: Jane Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Jane Dolby fell in love with a fisherman - the most dangerous peacetime occupation that exists - leading her...
The Jacksons Legacy From the Family Archives / The 50th Anniversary Book

The Jacksons Legacy From the Family Archives / The 50th Anniversary Book

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Author: The Jacksons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Jacksons: Legacy is the first ever official book on the the Royal Family of Pop. This major volume reveals the...
Bruce

Bruce

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Author: Peter Ames CarlinFormat: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 496  Peter Ames Carlin’s New York Times bestselling biography of one America’s greatest musicians is the first in twenty-five years to be written with the...
Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

Deep Down Dark The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine

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Author: Hector Tobar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' . . . an eloquent testament to the human spirit' The Times The heart-stopping survival...
Recipe for Life The Autobiography

Recipe for Life The Autobiography

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Author: Mary Berry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 From Queen of Tarts to the nation's heart, Mary Berry shares her Recipe for Life. 'In the words of my father,...
The Eitingons A Twentieth-Century Family

The Eitingons A Twentieth-Century Family

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Author: Mary-Kay Wilmers (editor) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

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Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Four questions consumed Shelley and coloured everything he wrote. Who, or what, was he? What was his purpose? Where...
Operation Insanity The Dramatic True Story of the Mission That Saved Ten Thousand Lives

Operation Insanity The Dramatic True Story of the Mission That Saved Ten Thousand Lives

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Author: Colonel Richard Westley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In the summer of 1995, the Bosnian town of Gorazde, found itself under attack from Serbian forces despite...
Taking Flight Lores Bonneys Extraordinary Flying Career

Taking Flight Lores Bonneys Extraordinary Flying Career

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Author: Mrs Kristen Alexander Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 280 From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy...
Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy Darkness on the Edge of Truth

Bruce Springsteen and Philosophy Darkness on the Edge of Truth

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Author: Randall E. Auxier Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Known as the working man's poet, the Boardwalk prophet, or simply, the Boss. If "love is a banquet...
Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made themselves rather than been made, and run...
The Boy Who Was Born a Girl One Mothers Unconditional Love for Her Child

The Boy Who Was Born a Girl One Mothers Unconditional Love for Her Child

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Author: Jon Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only...
Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

Surely Youre Joking Mr Feynman Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton

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Author: Richard P. Feynman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1965, Richard Feynman was one of the world's greatest theoretical...
Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
Hawking The Man

Hawking The Man

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Author: Joel Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Hawking explores the life and work, explaining the breakthroughs at the cutting edge of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black...
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel...
My Lucky Stroke

My Lucky Stroke

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Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On...
The Duchess The Untold Story - the explosive biography

The Duchess The Untold Story - the explosive biography

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Author: Penny Junor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE #2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The last untold account of the biggest crisis to hit the royals since the...
Grace The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness

Grace The Remarkable Life of Grace Grattan Guinness

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Author: Michele Guinness Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Preparing for her husband's retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of THE GUINNESS LEGEND, decided to clear out...
Ben Jonson: A Life

Ben Jonson: A Life

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Author: Ian Donaldson (Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 562 Ben Jonson was the greatest of...