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Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

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Author: D.J. Taylor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature....
A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

A Colourful View From the Top: Twenty-One Extraordinary Stories of Leaders of Colour Achieving Excellence in Business

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Author: Jonathan Mildenhall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Much needed inspiration for those working hard to reach a position that matches their potential and their allies' Ally Owen, Founder...
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

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Author: Ben Jacob Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'A daring, delightful and galvanising call to save the...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

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Author: Brian Herbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
Keira & Me: A tale of two best friends and how they saved each other, the new bestseller from the Supervet

Keira & Me: A tale of two best friends and how they saved each other, the new bestseller from the Supervet

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Author: Professor Noel Fitzpatrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Let national treasure Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - the Supervet - break your heart and put it back together again in...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

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Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the face of Taliban oppression, one girl's unwavering defiance sparked a worldwide movement. Shot in the head for daring to...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

I'm Not with the Band: A Writer's Life Lost in Music

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 This is a three-decade survivor's tale ... a scenic search for elusive human happiness through music, magazines, silly jokes, stupid shoes,...
Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

Suburbia: A Far from Ordinary Place

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Author: David Randall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 You don't get to choose where you grow up, and for more than 80 per cent of the population, the boring,...
Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

Lobster: and other things I'm learning to love: 'energising, fearless and joyful' Sara Pascoe

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Author: Hollie McNish Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug 'Funny, so smart and refreshingly...
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street

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Author: Cin Fabre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the South Bronx projects to the boardroom at only nineteen years old, Cin Fabre ran with the wolves of Wall...
Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

Before the Light Fades: A Family Story of Resistance - 'Fascinating' Sarah Waters

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Author: Natasha Walter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A fascinating story of courage, doubt and defiance across three generations' SARAH WATERS 'A fierce and beautiful book' EDMUND DE WAAL...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin's Lakes

Turning: Lessons from Swimming Berlin's Lakes

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Author: Jessica J. Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'The water slips over me like cool silk. The intimacy of touch uninhibited, rising around my legs, over my waist,...
The Rules Do Not Apply

The Rules Do Not Apply

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Author: Ariel Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'Every deep feeling a human is capable of will be shaken loose by this short, but profound book' David Sedaris 'I...
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forcade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s

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Author: Sean Howe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom For ade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural...
Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

Saxophone Colossus: The Life and Music of Sonny Rollins

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Author: Aidan Levy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 **Winner of the American Book Award (2023)** ?**Longlisted for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award (2023)** The long-awaited first full biography of...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

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Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country

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Author: Edward Parnell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 'A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare 'An exciting new voice'...
Lights of Liverpool

Lights of Liverpool

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Author: Ruth Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Three families in post-war Liverpool, connected by history, separated by circumstance. The O'Neils, who have lost brothers and sons into the bowels...
My Mother's Life

My Mother's Life

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Author: None Format: Paperback Number of Pages: With 200 thought-provoking and lighthearted writing prompts and exercises organised into chapters based on her life, My Mother's Life guides your mother to...
The Little Book of Compassion: For when life gets a little tough

The Little Book of Compassion: For when life gets a little tough

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The virtue of compassion is universally valued. Derived from the Latin 'com' and 'passio' and meaning 'to suffer together', practising compassion...
The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your palms

The Little Book of Palmistry: Predict your future in the lines of your palms

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Author: Orange Hippo! Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Predict your future, reveal your past and understand your personality, talents and secrets with the art of chiromancy. Palmistry is not...
Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story

Fighting For Your Life: A paramedic's story

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Author: Lysa Walder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A teenage boy lies on the pavement, bleeding from a stab wound; a distraught mum watches, in mute shock, as her...
Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

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Author: P.P. Arnold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 P.P. Arnold's story is that of a rich and varied life. From her early musical origins in powerhouse church gospel, the...
I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

I'm Black So You Don't Have to Be: A Memoir in Eight Lives

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Author: Colin Grant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A memoir told through a series of intimate portraits, which build into a poignant, insightful and unforgettable testimony of West Indian...
Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World: Protecting The Princess Around The World

Guarding Diana - Protecting The Princess Around the World: Protecting The Princess Around The World

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Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 In public Diana was feted wherever she went, greeted by adoring crowds and fawned over by the media. In private she...
Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

Here We Go Again: Recipes and Inspiration to Level Up Your Leftovers

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Author: Rachel Holtzman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Leftovers can be so much more than the sum of their parts. Yesterday's dinner, last week's baking experiment, snack drawer remnants,...
SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

SAS Brothers in Arms: Churchill's Desperadoes: Blood-and-Guts Defiance at Britain's Darkest Hour.

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'Absolutely gripping from the word go' Alexis Conran, Times Radio 'A convincing insight into the terror and adrenaline rush of war'...
Dead Men Don't Tell Tales

Dead Men Don't Tell Tales

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Author: Guy Martin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The world's only million-copy-selling truck fitter is back, faster than ever Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing...
Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

Strangeways: A Prison Officer's Story

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Author: Neil Samworth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Britain's prison system is in crisis. Prisoners catatonic on Spice, prison officers under extreme stress, overcrowding, riots, fatal stabbings - barely...
Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

Unspeakable: The Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

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Author: John Bercow Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 When John Bercow retired as Speaker of the House of Commons on 31 October 2019, he had become one of the...
My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

My Garden World: the Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Monty Don Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - BEST GARDENING BOOKS OF 2020 - Sunday Times, Times 'Every page a joy.' Nigel Slater 'From...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies 'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian 'This powerful tell-all from...
Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

Without Warning and Only Sometimes: 'Extraordinary. Moving and heartwarming' The Sunday Times

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Author: Kit de Waal Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Vivid and compelling and so moving... both painful and comforting to read' Marian Keyes **A BOOK OF THE YEAR -...
The Champ & The Chump: A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family

The Champ & The Chump: A heart-warming, hilarious true story about fighting and family

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Author: James McNicholas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 **Winner of Best Sports Entertainment book at the British Sports Book Awards 2022** 'Hard-hitting and hilarious' - James Acaster 'Funny, moving...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

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Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

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Author: Alan Partridge Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative'...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
Send Yourself Roses

Send Yourself Roses

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Author: Kathleen Turner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Strong, feisty, brave and brilliant, Kathleen Turner is a woman to be reckoned with. One of the most revered actresses of...
Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

Truly Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier and the Romance of the Century

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Author: Stephen Galloway Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The New York Times bestseller - a sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and...
For the Love of Farming: Farmer Will's Guide to Life in the Fields

For the Love of Farming: Farmer Will's Guide to Life in the Fields

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In For the Love of Farming, Farmer Will reveals his life on the farm, season by season. It's relentless: the mornings are early and sometimes things don't go right, but...
The First Half

The First Half

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Author: Gabby Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A brilliant book. Read immediately' Claudia Winkleman A fascinating, inspiring and funny memoir from much-loved broadcaster Gabby Logan When I sat...
Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

Where Are You From? No, Where are You Really From?

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Author: Audrey Osler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A story of migration, identity and belonging, drawing on the stories of people from Audrey Osler's mixed-heritage family, over three centuries....
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up - the instant New York Times bestseller from the acclaimed actor and disability rights campaigner

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Author: Selma Blair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Selma Blair has played many archetypal roles: gullible ingenue in Cruel Intentions. Preppy ice queen in Legally Blonde. Fire-starter in Hellboy....
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

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Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of...
Blood and Oil in the Orient

Blood and Oil in the Orient

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BLAIR NECESSITIES

BLAIR NECESSITIES

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