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The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

The Mesmerist: The Society Doctor Who Held Victorian London Spellbound

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Author: Wendy Moore Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Medicine, in the early 1800s, was a brutal business. Surgery was performed without anaesthesia, while conventional treatment relied on...
Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

Tell Me A Story: My Life with Pat Conroy

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Author: Cassandra King Conroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 "Tell Me A Story is breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true...The best memoir I've read." - Mary Alice Monroe, New York Times...
Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Forced into the Sex Trade

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Author: Sophie Hayes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at...
Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

Postcards to Europe: The unique must-have collection

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Author: Various Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 From Paris to Prague, from the past to the present, authors and artists explore what Europe means to them -...
Another Bloody Love Letter

Another Bloody Love Letter

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Author: Anthony Loyd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Critically acclaimed writer and award-winning foreign correspondent, Anthony Loyd is also an ex-heroin addict. ANOTHER BLOODY LOVE LETTER exposes...
Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

Becoming: Sex, Second Chances, and Figuring Out Who the Hell I am

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Author: Laura Jane Williams Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When the man Laura Jane Williams thought she'd wed dumped her and married her friend, she was devastated....
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith: In London, Washington and Moscow

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Author: Charles Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 In June 1983 Margaret Thatcher won the biggest increase in a government's parliamentary majority in British electoral history. Over the next...
The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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Author: Rhyannon Styles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop...
Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

Part Reptile: UFC, MMA and Me

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Author: Dan Hardy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For fans of Ronda Rousey's My Fight Your Fight and John Kavanagh's Win or Learn comes the first book...
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took on Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime

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Author: Julian Guthrie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'ALPHA GIRLS will be a story to make you laugh and cry. It will inspire and infuriate you. It...
Stay Golden

Stay Golden

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Author: Lucky Blue Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 While most kids my age were sitting in English class waiting for the bell to ring, I was...
Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

Mad Girl's Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted

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Author: Andrew Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 On 25 February 1956, twenty-three-year-old Sylvia Plath walked into a party and immediately spotted Ted Hughes. The sensational aspects...
Schadenfreude, A Love Story

Schadenfreude, A Love Story

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Author: Rebecca Schuman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 You know that feeling when you catch the elevator but don't hold it for the person behind you? Seeing Lindsay Lohan...
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

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Author: John Stubbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican...
Over But Not Out: The heart of the game and beyond

Over But Not Out: The heart of the game and beyond

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Author: Richie Benaud Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Few people understand cricket as well as Richie Benaud. For sixty years, as player and commentator, he has set...
The Child Bride

The Child Bride

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from...
Kangaroo Dundee

Kangaroo Dundee

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Author: Chris Barns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Brolga (aka Chris Barns) is the 6ft 7in strong but sensitive Aussie star of the extraordinary BBC series Kangaroo...
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...
The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret

The Wicked Wit of Princess Margaret

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Author: Karen Dolby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 172 Celebrate the rapier-like wit of the royal rebel, the late, great Princess Margaret - or 'Ducky' as she was known behind...
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...
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...
Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

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Author: Nigel Nicolson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly...
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...
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....
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...
The Second Half

The Second Half

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Author: Roy Keane Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Roy Keane's book is a masterpiece . . . It may well be the finest, most incisive deconstruction of...
Tackling Life

Tackling Life

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Author: Jonny Wilkinson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Jonny Wilkinson's impact on global sport has been extraordinary. Yet Jonny has faced a battle all his life to...
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...
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 Last Diaries

The Last Diaries

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Author: Alan Clark Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The first two volumes of Alan Clark's were irresistible, irreverent, infamous, outrageous. This last volume is a fitting finale to...
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...
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...
Small Fry

Small Fry

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Author: Lisa Brennan-Jobs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A remarkable book, much more than the lurid celebrity tell-all it might have become in a less able writer's...
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...
Wilson

Wilson

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Author: A Scott Berg Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 818 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a brilliant biography* of the 28th president of the United...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Little Book of Audrey Hepburn

Little Book of Audrey Hepburn

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Author: Caroline Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Filled with stunning photographs, this fascinating tribute illustrates and illuminates Hepburn's life. From her early years as an ingenue to her...
In Pursuit of Glory

In Pursuit of Glory

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Author: Bradley Wiggins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bradley Wiggins is a British sporting legend. Not only has he won seven World Track Championships and a record-equaling...