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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...
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...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy

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Author: Tove Ditlevsen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single...
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

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Author: Desmond Shum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red...
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...
More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short

More than a Muse: Creative Partnerships That Sold Talented Women Short

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Author: Katie McCabe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, or worse, 'mistress' of a...
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...
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...
Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers

Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers

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Author: David Runciman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different...
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...
Australia Day

Australia Day

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really...
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...
Stuart: A Life Backwards (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

Stuart: A Life Backwards (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

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Author: Alexander Masters Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A major new launch for the paperback edition of the most original, captivating and award-winning memoir of the year....
Persepolis I & II

Persepolis I & II

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Author: Marjane Satrapi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Now in one volume, both parts of Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's brilliant memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during and...
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...
Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

Talking with Serial Killers: A chilling study of the world's most evil people

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Author: Christopher Berry-Dee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust...
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...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
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...
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir

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Author: Saeed Jones Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives-winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book...
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...
Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad

Thinking Out Loud: Love, Grief and Being Mum and Dad

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Author: Rio Ferdinand Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'A lacerating account ... painful but necessary' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautiful & significant ......
A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The phenomenal Number One bestseller about best friends James and Bob. When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street...
Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers

Beneath the Skin: Love Letters to the Body by Great Writers

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Author: Ned Beauman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Buried beneath layers of flesh, our hearts pump, our lungs inflate, our kidneys filter. These organs, and others, are...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
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...
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...
Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime

Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime

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Author: Barbara Fox Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In my dreams, I was always in some vast landscape on a long, straight road. Driving. Always driving. Gwenda...
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Elizabeth Day's new book Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available to pre-order now. Inspired by...
Honey Blood: A pulsating, electric memoir like nothing you've read before

Honey Blood: A pulsating, electric memoir like nothing you've read before

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Author: Kirsty Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

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Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
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...
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...
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

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Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944,...
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,...
Memoirs and Reflections

Memoirs and Reflections

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Author: Evgeny Kissin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Evgeny Igorevitch Kissin is a Russian-British-Israeli classical pianist. He first came to international fame as a child prodigy. He has been...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED

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Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...