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In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
War Years with Jeb Stuart

War Years with Jeb Stuart

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Author: W. W. Blackford Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 344
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...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Every reporter knows the first rule of journalism: never betray your source. But what if your source turns out...
Face It: A Memoir

Face It: A Memoir

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Author: Debbie Harry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'I was saying things in songs that female singers didn't really say back then. I wasn't submissive or begging him to...
Alpha Docs

Alpha Docs

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Author: Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 After completing grueling residencies, the competition for subspecialty fellowships in the medical world is intense. And few fellowships, if any, are more selective...
Taking Command Book

Taking Command

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Author: General Sir David Richards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013...
Born Survivors: The Incredible True Story Of Three Pregnant Mothers And Their Courage Determination

Born Survivors: The incredible true story of three pregnant mothers and their courage and determination to survive in the concentration camps

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Author: Wendy Holden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Among millions of Holocaust victims sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1944, Priska, Rachel, and Anka each passed through its...
Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

Wellington: A Journey Through My Family

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Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
The Secrets of My Life

The Secrets of My Life

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Author: Caitlyn Jenner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER In this remarkable memoir - written with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger during her pivotal...
Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

Blue: A Memoir - Keeping the Peace and Falling to Pieces

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Author: John Sutherland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A Sunday Times top-five bestseller 'This is a remarkable book . . . profound and deeply moving . ....
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998

Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988-1998

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is a roller-coaster ride driven by the Palin...
My Name Is Why

My Name Is Why

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Author: Lemn Sissay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood...
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...
The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light

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Author: Carlos Santana Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The intimate and long-awaited autobiography of a legend. In 1967 in San Francisco, just a few weeks after the Summer of...
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...
David Bowie: Starman

David Bowie: Starman

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Author: Paul Trynka Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 "Ziggy Stardust," "Changes," Under Pressure," "Let's Dance," "Fame," "Heroes," and of course, "Starman." These are the classic songs of David Bowie,...
George Michael: The Life 1963-2016

George Michael: The Life 1963-2016

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Author: Emily Herbert Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 As the man whose voice and style came to define pop music in the eighties and beyond, George Michael...
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

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Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story

Your Life In My Hands - a Junior Doctor's Story

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Author: Rachel Clarke Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This extraordinary memoir offers a glimpse into a life spent between the operating room and the bedside, the mortuary...
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...
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...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

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Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter

You Can Run But You Can't Hide: Star of Dog the Bounty Hunter

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Author: Duane Chapman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Duane 'Dog' Chapman entertains and inspires millions on DOG THE BOUNTY HUNTER, his top-rated TV show, but there is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Star The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

Star The Life and Wild Times of Warren Beatty

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Author: Peter Biskind Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 In this compulsively readable and constantly surprising book, Peter Biskind, the author of the film classics Easy Riders, Raging Bulls and...
The Art of Failing Notes from the Underdog

The Art of Failing Notes from the Underdog

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Author: Anthony McGowan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 An Observer book of the year HAUNTED! By endless tiny humiliations. STRUGGLING! To resurrect the corpse of his literary...
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...
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...
Mae West The Statue of Libido

Mae West The Statue of Libido

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Author: Paul Duncan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 In terms of celebrity icons, few attained the highest levels of fame and controversy as rapidly as Mae West....
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...
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...
Night

Night

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  Author: Elie WieselFormat: Paperback / softbackNumber of Pages: 120 Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and...