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A Small Unsigned Painting

A Small Unsigned Painting

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Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson

Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson

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A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

A Bloody Good Rant: My passions, memories and demons

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All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

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Author: Patrick Bringley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent...
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on Hope and Freedom

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Author: Nasser Abu Srour Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Palestinian prisoner's memoir of thirty years' captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him...
Chaos- The Truth Behind The Manson Murders

Chaos- The Truth Behind The Manson Murders

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Author: Tom O'Neill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation...
The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

The Kennedy Curse: The shocking true story of America's most famous family

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Author: James Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life...
Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

Managing Expectations: AS RECOMMENDED ON BBC RADIO 4. 'Vital, heartfelt and surprising' Graham Norton

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Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A dazzling 'tell-most' memoir: poignant and laugh-out-loud funny scenes from the life of actor Minnie Driver. Managing Expectations is a collection...
Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

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Author: Phil Mews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived...
The Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

The Guv'nor Revealed - The Untold Story of Lenny McLean: The Untold Story of Lenny McLean

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Author: Anthony Thomas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Lenny McLean - an infamous name, but forever a legend. He is arguably one of the most notorious and feared prize-fighters...
Slash - Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Rock's Snake Pit: Excess: The Biography

Slash - Surviving Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver and Rock's Snake Pit: Excess: The Biography

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Author: Paul Stenning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The updated biography of one of the most iconic guitarists in rock 'n' roll.One of the most iconic guitarists of all-time,...
The Princess Diarist

The Princess Diarist

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Author: Carrie Fisher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The most talked about memoir is now available in paperback When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming...
Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

Vain Glorious: A shameless guide for men who want to look their best

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Author: Jeremy Langmead Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "My life is a constant battle between vanity and laziness. This book has brokered the perfect peace deal!" - Graham Norton...
Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

Tall Tales and Wee Stories: The Best of Billy Connolly

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Author: Billy Connolly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Coming from Glasgow, it's weird, I don't really tell jokes, like Irish jokes and all that. I tell wee stories. And...
Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

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Author: Billy Connolly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life....
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies

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Author: The Secret Barrister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported...
Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

Brothers in Arms: Real War. True Friends. Unlikely Heroes.

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Author: Geraint Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of...
Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

Society's Queen: The Life of Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 From the author of the critically acclaimed THE VICEROY'S DAUGHTERS, the story of a glittering aristocrat who was also at...
Motherwell: A Girlhood

Motherwell: A Girlhood

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Author: Deborah Orr Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Raw, compelling, wise and tender' Dolly Alderton 'MOTHERWELL is razor-sharp, fearless and wonderful' Adam Kay 'Utterly unflinching and staggeringly good, both...
The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is unusual, even in...
Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

Still Life with Bones: A forensic quest for justice among Latin America's mass graves: CHOSEN AS ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2023 BY FT READERS AND THE NEW YORKER

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Author: Dr Alexa Hagerty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 SO FAR CHOSEN BY FINANCIAL TIMES' READERS' FOR BEST BOOKS OF...
Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past

Between the Chalk and the Sea: A journey on foot into the past

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Author: Gail Simmons Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'I loved this memoir' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'A whole new way of looking at a familiar...
Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

Always Home: A Daughter's Culinary Memoir

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Author: Fanny Singer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In this extraordinarily intimate portrait of her mother - and herself - Fanny Singer, daughter of food icon and activist Alice...
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

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Author: Roger Mavity Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . ....
The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

The Noel Coward Diaries: With a Foreword by Stephen Fry

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Author: Sheridan Morley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 'A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands' GUARDIAN The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented,...
The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard

The Hag: The Life, Times, and Music of Merle Haggard

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Author: Marc Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Merle Haggard was one of the most important country music musicians who ever lived. His astonishing musical career stretched across the...
Brief Lives 3 - Newton

Brief Lives 3 - Newton

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Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. Newton is a companion volume to Chaucer and Turner. Isaac Newton...
Don't Ask Me About My Dad: An Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret

Don't Ask Me About My Dad: An Inspiring True Story of a Scared Little Boy with a Dark Secret

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Author: Tom Mitchelson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would...
Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies

Spooked: The Secret Rise of Private Spies

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's revelatory look inside the sinister world of private spies.A spy story like no other.Private spies are the invisible force that shapes our modern world: they influence...
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

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Author: Hella Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

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Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a...
The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

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Author: Jodi M. Savage Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody's Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that...
Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

Terence: The Man Who Invented Design

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Author: Roger Mavity Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Bayley, the author of books on style, design and taste, tells the Habitat story with his customary polycultural panache . ....
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year

1971 - Never a Dull Moment: Rock's Golden Year

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Author: David Hepworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: The Sixties ended a year late Ð on New Year's Eve 1970, when Paul McCartney initiated proceedings to wind up The Beatles....
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

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Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

Harold Holt: Always One Step Further

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Daniel Mannix: Beyond the Myths

Daniel Mannix: Beyond the Myths

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George Eliot: The Last Victorian

George Eliot: The Last Victorian

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Samuel Johnson: A Biography

Samuel Johnson: A Biography

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La Trobe: The Life and Times of the First Governor of Victoria

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Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

Emperor: A New Life of Charles V

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Brutus: The Noble Conspirator

Brutus: The Noble Conspirator

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Paul McCartney: The Biography

Paul McCartney: The Biography

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Paul McCartney: The Life

Paul McCartney: The Life

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George Stubbs And The Wide Creation

George Stubbs And The Wide Creation

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Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions

Coleridge: v. 1: Early Visions

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary

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