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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978

Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958-1978

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Author: Andy Neill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The most dynamic day-to-day chronicle of the band ever compiled. Organised by year, each chapter of the book gives...
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....
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...
Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography

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Author: Mike Tyson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 One of the most talked-about and best-selling books of last year, this is the no-holds-barred autobiography of a sporting...
Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics

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Author: Chris Christie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Chris Christie stunned the political world by becoming the first major...
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...
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...
The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo The Secret Lives of the Worlds Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In...
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 Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
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...
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...
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...
The Intellectual Devotional Biographies

The Intellectual Devotional Biographies

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Author: DAVID S. KIDDER Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities in history Like its...
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,...
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...