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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...
Idiot Wind A Memoir

Idiot Wind A Memoir

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Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...
Defiance The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

Defiance The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

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Author: Stephen Taylor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince...
A Reluctant Memoir

A Reluctant Memoir

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Author: Robert Ballagh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 An honest and unvarnished memoir from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's...
Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

Respect The Life of Aretha Franklin

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Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
President McKinley Architect of the American Century

President McKinley Architect of the American Century

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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

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Author: Janice Hadlow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The Times Best Books of the Year - The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of...
Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Guilty Thing A Life of Thomas de Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...
Rebel in the Ranks

Rebel in the Ranks

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Author: Brad S Gregory Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very...
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture

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Author: Ophelia Field Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play...