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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice:

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Author: Deborah Riley Draper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400  The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

The Answer to the Riddle is Me: A Memoir of Amnesia

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Author: David S. MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 In 2002, at twenty-eight years old, David MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped...
Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

Benjamin Franklin in London: The British Life of America's Founding Father

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Author: George Goodwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'Sensitive, moving and finely textured' Guardian 'Fantastic' Dan Snow For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro

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Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

Drug Warrior: Inside the Hunt for El Chapo and the Rise of America's Opioid Crisis

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Author: Jack Riley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 DEA Agent Jack Riley, "[Chicago's] most famous federal agent since the days of The Untouchables" (-Rolling Stone)tells the inside story of...
It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

It's All Relative: Adventures Up and Down the World's Family Tree

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Author: A J Jacobs (East Carolina University USA) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 New York Times bestselling author of The Know-It-All and The Year of Living Biblically, A.J. Jacobs...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Keeping On Keeping On

Keeping On Keeping On

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 736 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I...
Young Rembrandt: A Biography

Young Rembrandt: A Biography

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Author: Onno Blom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 278 Rembrandt's life has always been an enigma. How did a miller's son from a provincial Dutch town become the greatest artist...
Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

Rock Bottom: A Music Writer's Journey into Madness

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Author: Michael Odell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Michael Odell is a rock music writer who takes his responsibility as cultural gatekeeper seriously; he asks rock stars the forbidden...
Runner: A short story about a long run

Runner: A short story about a long run

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Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini

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Author: Joe Posnanski Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joe Posnanski enters the world of Harry Houdini and his legions of devoted...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing

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Author: Debra Adelaide Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Books are impractical companions and housemates: they are heavy when you are travelling, and in the home take up...
Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

Words Fail Us: In Defence of Disfluency

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Author: Jonty Claypole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In an age of polished TED talks and overconfident political oratory, success seems to depend upon charismatic public speaking. But what...
Misadventures

Misadventures

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Author: Sylvia Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation

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Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration and Life on Earth

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Author: Kate Greene Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 In 2013 Kate Greene moved to Mars. On NASA's first HI-SEAS simulated Mars mission in Hawai'i, she lived for...
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD

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Author: Steven L. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall...
What a Flanker

What a Flanker

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Author: James Haskell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hilarious, and straight talking but also articulate and insightful - I am just hugely fond...
The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

The Love of the Game: The Agonies and Ecstasies of Parenting and Sport

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Author: Mark Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 BBC sports presenter Mark Chapman is no longer in his physical prime. There is an argument to suggest he...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
Mad Girl

Mad Girl

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Author: Bryony Gordon Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Bryony Gordon has OCD. It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a...
Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

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Author: Leander Kahney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 An intimate look at the man who led Apple to be the world's first two-trillion-dollar company In 2011, Tim...
Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

Forces of Nature: The Women who Changed Science

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Author: Anna Reser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 From the ancient world to the present women have been critical to the progress of science, yet their importance is overlooked,...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

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Author: Dr Frances Larson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma...
The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal

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Author: David E. Hoffman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'An astonishingly detailed picture of espionage in the 1980s, written with pacey journalistic verve and an eerily contemporary...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

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Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

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Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
My Life, My Way: The Autobiography

My Life, My Way: The Autobiography

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Author: Cliff Richard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Sir Cliff Richard OBE is the biggest-selling artist of all time, selling over 250 million records around the world...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

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Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 After an illustrious career spanning the 20th century legendary journalist Clare Hollingworth died in Hong Kong aged 105 in...
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: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

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Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream

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Author: Casey Gerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the...
First Man In: Leading from the Front

First Man In: Leading from the Front

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life's...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life -  Foreword by Michael Whitehall

It's Never Too Late: The Joe Biden Effect - Stories of People Who Changed the World in Later Life - Foreword by Michael Whitehall

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 As Joe Biden has shown us all, the best is yet to come. Here are the stories of the inspiring, inventive,...