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The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

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Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

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Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System

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Author: Ricardo Nuila Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

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'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The OutrunWhat happens when you realise that you must change your life?When -...
Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

Strictly Ann: The Autobiography

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Author: Ann Widdecombe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 In this life story of one of our most outspoken and celebrated politicians, Ann Widdecombe offers a unique insight into her...
Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

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Author: Doreen Cunningham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN 'Wonderful ......
Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children

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Author: Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "The story of Windrush must not be sterilised, or overly simplified. It is not only a story of successful integration, sport...
Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

Miss Muriel Matters: The fearless suffragist who fought for equality

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Author: Robert Wainwright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as 'that daring Australian girl', chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons...
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

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Author: Selma Blair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman...
I Can Explain

I Can Explain

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Author: Jamie Laing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The warm, funny and entertaining memoir of much-loved TV personality and loveable posh boy, Jamie Laing. Funny, charming, and romantic to...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it...
Great Spies of the 20th Century

Great Spies of the 20th Century

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Author: Patrick Pesnot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 Heroes to some, traitors to others, spies and intelligence officers continue to fascinate and enthrall us with their abilities to operate...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

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Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

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Author: Philip Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 FEATURING EXCLUSIVE LISTENING SESSIONS WITH: Paul Simon; Justin Vernon of Bon Iver; Gus Van Sant; Rhiannon Giddens; The Bad Plus; Gavin...
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...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

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Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
Advocate: A voice from the margins

Advocate: A voice from the margins

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Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a working woman, a survivor, above all, she is an...
The Water Book

The Water Book

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Author: Alok Jha Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A biography of the strangest molecule in the universe. Alok Jha takes the most every day of subjects - water - and...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful...
The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World

The Missing Musk: A Casebook of Mysteries from the Natural World

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Author: Bob Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Utterly fascinating and intriguing' Neil Ansell, author of The Last Wilderness 'A captivating dive into the mysteries of nature' Lee Schofield,...
Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression

Living Better: How I Learned to Survive Depression

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Author: Alastair Campbell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Last Christmas I almost killed myself. Almost. I've had a lot of almosts. Never gone from almost...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth

About A Son: A Murder and A Father's Search for Truth

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Author: David Whitehouse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As heard on the HOW TO FAIL podcast with Elizabeth Day 'I was utterly floored by the emotional depth of About...
The Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
The Life Scientific: Inventors

The Life Scientific: Inventors

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale

Soldier, Spy: A Survivor's Tale

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Author: Victor Gregg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Beginning in 1946, when Victor Gregg was demobbed after the end of the Second World War and deposited in London Paddington,...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Author: Bez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...
The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

The Secret to Happy: How to build resilience, banish self-doubt and live the life you deserve

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Author: Vicky Pattison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE IMMEDIATE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The debut self-help book from Vicky Pattison, on how to quash your inner doubts, overcome fear...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'My life was changing and I didn't like it. Everything was so out of my control, even...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

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Author: Zarifa Ghafari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala Zarifa Ghafari was two...
Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

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Author: Shobna Gulati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay 'Lucid and probing' -...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

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Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

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Author: Frankie Bridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it doesn't...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...
Stanley I Resume: Further Recollections of an Exuberant Life

Stanley I Resume: Further Recollections of an Exuberant Life

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Author: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Stanley Johnson: one-time spy, politician, animal rights crusader - and irresistibly brilliant raconteur. From his career as a Member of the...
What Makes Us Stronger

What Makes Us Stronger

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Author: Freya Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Freya Lewis is extraordinary' Katie Piper 'A love letter to the NHS' Lorraine Kelly 'An unflinching story of grief, survival and...
An Audience with Tony Benn

An Audience with Tony Benn

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Author: Tony Benn Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 Much loved parliamentarian Tony Benn - recently retired to 'spend more time with politics' - brings his unmistakable prescence to the...
In Bed with the Blueshirts

In Bed with the Blueshirts

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Author: Shane Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts the crises when the coalition came close...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family

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Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....
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,...
The Queen: 1926-2022

The Queen: 1926-2022

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Following her death in September 2022, the outpouring of affection and admiration for the Queen was as touching as it was...
The Queen: 1926-2022

The Queen: 1926-2022

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
Little Me: My life from A-Z

Little Me: My life from A-Z

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Author: Matt Lucas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Little Me is the first memoir from comedian, screenwriter and actor Matt Lucas. He is best known for his work with...