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Mud, Sweat and Beers: How Rugby Changed My Life

Mud, Sweat and Beers: How Rugby Changed My Life

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Author: Steven Gauge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Far away from the bright lights of international rugby, there is another version of the game played by ordinary blokes of...
Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

Seed to Dust: A Gardener's Story

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Author: Marc Hamer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A wonderful, life-enhancing book which follows a year in the life of a professional gardener and the relationship he has with...
Brutally Honest: A Sunday Times Bestseller

Brutally Honest: A Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Melanie Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 ***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER*** The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl - and the truth behind the...
Little Me: My life from A-Z

Little Me: My life from A-Z

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Author: Matt Lucas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Little Me is the first memoir from comedian, screenwriter and actor Matt Lucas. He is best known for his work with...
The Art of Not Falling Apart

The Art of Not Falling Apart

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Author: Christina Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 If you want to make God laugh, Woody Allen once said, tell God your plans. But most of us don't find...
Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

Ed Sheeran: Divide and Conquer

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Author: David Nolan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Since his emergence into the music industry, Ed Sheeran has gone on to become a household name, with sell-out tours and...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I am a junior doctor. It is 4 a.m. I have run arrest calls, treated life-threatening bleeding,...
Letters to Sarah

Letters to Sarah

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Author: Sara Payne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had...
Sean Cavanagh: The Obsession: My Autobiography

Sean Cavanagh: The Obsession: My Autobiography

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Author: Sean Cavanagh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'This obsession of mine has brought both joy and torment. The fixation with winning came from within, it roused me and...
Psychic Animals

Psychic Animals

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Author: Waitzman Michelle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 128 0
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

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Author: Amy Bloom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his...
Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

Wreck: A Story of Art and Survival

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Author: Tom de Freston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An artist's obsession with Gericault's monumental painting The Raft of the Medusa, and an intensely personal reckoning that delves deep...
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

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Author: Jeremy Atherton Lin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 'A brilliantly written and incisive account of gay life in Los Angeles, San Francisco and London' -Colm Tibn 'An absolute...
Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

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Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 As a young boy, Raja Shehadeh was entranced by a forbidden Israeli postage stamp in his uncle's album, intrigued by tales...
Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America

Bolivar: The Epic Life of the Man Who Liberated South America

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Author: Marie Arana Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The dramatic life of the revolutionary hero Bolivar, who liberated South America - a sweeping narrative worthy of a Hollywood epic....
Freeman's Home: The Best New Writing on Home

Freeman's Home: The Best New Writing on Home

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Author: John Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The third literary anthology in the series that has been called 'ambitious' (O Magazine) and 'strikingly international' (Boston Globe), Freeman's: Home,...
The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

The Mercenary: A Story of Brotherhood and Terror in the Afghanistan War

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Author: Jeffrey Stern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In the early days of the Afghanistan war, Jeff Stern was scouring the streets of Kabul for a big story. He...
Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

Any Girl: A Memoir of Sexual Exploitation and Recovery

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Author: Mia Doering Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 "It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had...
My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

My Child and Other Mistakes: The hilarious and heart-warming motherhood memoir from the comedy star

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Author: Ellie Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A Sunday Times bestseller: the unflinching, raw and utterly hilarious book about parenthood that everyone should read 'Very, very, very funny'...
Beyond the Tape: The Life and Many Deaths of a State Pathologist

Beyond the Tape: The Life and Many Deaths of a State Pathologist

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Author: Marie Cassidy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The Number One bestselling memoir from Ireland's former state pathologist In 1997, Dr Marie Cassidy arrived in Dublin from Glasgow. There...
Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

Inge's War: A Story of Family, Secrets and Survival under Hitler

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Author: Svenja O'Donnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A stunning family memoir of one woman's search for her German grandmother's history during the Second World War 'A lyrical, engrossing...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

Don't Forget to Scream: Unspoken Truths About Motherhood

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Author: Marianne Levy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Until I had my first child, and this is to my shame, I had little understanding of just how much mothers...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
On the High Wire: With an introduction by Paul Auster

On the High Wire: With an introduction by Paul Auster

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Author: Philippe Petit Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY PAUL AUSTER 'A book of instructions to those who will dare one day the impossible. I bow...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
My Unapologetic Diaries

My Unapologetic Diaries

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Author: Joan Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 'As brutal, withering and funny as you'd expect' Julian Clary 'A rollicking read, packed with wit and old-school glamour' Sunday Telegraph...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again

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Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy

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Author: Christine Toomey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Author: Nick Thomas-Symonds Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In...
Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

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Author: Julia Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Like a third of the UK population, Julia has a chronic pain condition. According to her doctors, it can't be cured....
How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment - the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life

How to Hold a Grudge: From Resentment to Contentment - the Power of Grudges to Transform Your Life

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Author: Sophie Hannah Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Hannah is entertaining company and the book is even more amusing...' The Times 'Hannah is excellent on how to embrace our...
The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

The Sober Diaries: How one woman stopped drinking and started living.

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Author: Clare Pooley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 BY THE AUTHOR OF NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER THE AUTHENTICITY PROJECT, THE BRAVE AND FUNNY MEMOIR THAT IS CHANGING LIVES. How...
From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

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Author: Virginia Hanlon Grohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Virginia Grohl, mother of Dave Grohl, had not seen any of it coming. Not the arenas of screaming fans, not...
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...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

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Author: Michael J Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of...
Pride and Passion: My Autobiography

Pride and Passion: My Autobiography

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Author: Warren Gatland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 SHORTLISTED FOR RUGBY BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2020 TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS. 'excellent' Donald McRae, The Guardian 'Gatland is...
The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

The Yellow House: WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

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Author: Sarah M. Broom Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 'A major book that I suspect will...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers

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Author: William Palmer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read' NICK COHEN, Critic 'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'...
Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson

Before & After: The Incredible Story of the Real-life Mrs Wilson

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Author: Alison Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In...
CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

CLR James: A Life Beyond the Boundaries

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Author: John L Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Historian, revolutionary and cricket writer, CLR James was one of the truly radical voices of the twentieth century. Born in...
A Different Kind Of Weather: A Memoir

A Different Kind Of Weather: A Memoir

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Author: William Waldegrave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Why did you go into politics in the first place?' A question that former Cabinet minister has found himself asked, and...
Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things

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Author: Jenny Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 For fans of David Sedaris, Tina Fey and Caitlin Moran comes the new book from Jenny Lawson, author of the #1...
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison's American Utopia

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Author: Thomas Hager Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history-Henry Ford and Thomas Edison-and their attempt to create an electric-powered city...
Unprotected: A Memoir

Unprotected: A Memoir

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Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...
Knockout

Knockout

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Author: Mia Kang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Mia Kang is many things: a soughtafter model, an immigrant, an eating disorder survivor, and a Muay Thai fighter. Her first...