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Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation...
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest

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For fans of The Queen's Gambit, this is the real life story of a female chess champion travelling the world to compete in a male-dominated sport with the most famous...
Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian

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From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. For decades, Rebel...
How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to

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If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we're in is no longer a room where we belongWhat do you...
My Paris Dream: Life, love and fashion in the great city by the Seine

My Paris Dream: Life, love and fashion in the great city by the Seine

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Stand Your Ground: Life and Football

Stand Your Ground: Life and Football

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Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains

Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains

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The Fig Tree

The Fig Tree

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Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq

Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq

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Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

Head On - Ian Botham: The Autobiography

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Petite Anglaise

Petite Anglaise

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

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Twelve Summers

Twelve Summers

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Tree-spotting: A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees

Tree-spotting: A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees

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What If . . .

What If . . .

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In Someone Else's Shoes: A Vivid Journey Through Culture, Diversity and the Human Spirit

In Someone Else's Shoes: A Vivid Journey Through Culture, Diversity and the Human Spirit

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The William McInnes Trifecta

The William McInnes Trifecta

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Deep Field

Deep Field

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Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the shameless pretender who took the credit, from the popular author of RUM, perfect for fans of Grantlee Kieza and David Hunt

Gold: The true story of the discovery of gold in Australia and the

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'Impostor ', 'greedy' and 'incompetent' - Edmund Hammond Hargraves was beloved by few and reviled by many more. Ask google Who discovered gold in Australia? and you'll promptly get 'Edward...
Brothers: A deep and personal family memoir from the co-founder of rock band Van Halen with exclusive behind-the-scenes content, for readers of Dave Grohl, Rick Rubin and Jim Moginie

Brothers: A deep and personal family memoir from the co-founder of

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn this intimate and open account - nothing like any rock-and-roll memoir you've ever read - Alex Van Halen shares his personal story of family, friendship,...
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan

Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan

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A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...
Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids, one of the best new books of 2024

Rebel Rising: the highly anticipated autobiography of the Australian

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From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. For decades, Rebel...
Murriyang: Song of Time

Murriyang: Song of Time

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Stan Grant is talking to his country in a new way. In his most poetic and inspiring work yet, he offers a means of moving beyond the binaries and embracing...
Easy Target: Taming the Black Dog

Easy Target: Taming the Black Dog

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'I was an easy target. You didn't have to be a trained sniper to take the shot.' Easy Target - Taming the Black Dog is the inspirational story of a...
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

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THE #1 TRUE CRIME BESTSELLER. Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. WINNER OF 2021 DANGER PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONHere...
The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last

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"Fast-paced and highly absorbing." -Wall Street JournalA magisterial new history of the fierce final chapter of the "Indian Wars," told through the lives of the two most legendary and consequential...
Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong

Wild Air: In Search of Birdsong

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Shortlisted for the 2023 Highland Book Prize'Joyful and mindful, a powerful argument for being still and listening' Sunday TimesA book about birds, birdsong and the countryside they inhabit, from the...
Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father

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The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast The Clearing, this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth...
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia

Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia

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A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALA searing memoir from Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, about one of the most misunderstood...
When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown

When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable

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When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks,...
Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...
Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan

Beyond Hope: From an Auckland prison to changing lives in Afghanistan

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A powerful story of how one man didn't let other people define him 'Bariz gifts us his truth-telling, delivered with unwavering optimism.' Matt Brown, author of She Is Not Your...
Down the Drain

Down the Drain

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The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.'Intense...
Who's That Girl?

Who's That Girl?

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The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award (R)-winning, Emmy (R)-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. In 1999, Eve Jihan Cooper made history with her solo debut...
Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

Never Leave the Dogs Behind: A Memoir

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe author of Nowhere for Very Long continues her story with this deeply honest, moving account of a woman walking the line between independence and isolation...
Making a Scene

Making a Scene

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From influential and iconic star Constance Wu, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays full of funny and intimate observations that will resonate with readers everywhere.Growing up in the friendly suburbs of...
Unleashed

Unleashed

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THE UNMISSABLE, UNVARNISHED MEMOIRS OF BORIS JOHNSONA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE FINANCIAL TIMES, TELEGRAPH, TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY, TOTALLY, MIND-BLOWINGLY EXPLOSIVE' ED BALLS'SENSATIONAL' DAILY MAIL Boris Johnson has...
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Jazz Jackrabbit, Gears of War, Unreal, and Fortnite

Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Jazz Jackrabbit, Gears of War,

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The designer of Unreal and Gears of War offers an eye-opening personal account of the video game industry as it grew from niche hobby to hundred-billion-dollar enterprise.Video games are dominating...
Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's Startup Scene

Uncanny Valley: Seduction and Disillusionment in San Francisco's

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'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years old, Anna Wiener was beginning to tire of her assistant job in New...
Please Don't Take My Baby

Please Don't Take My Baby

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'I'm going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,' Jade said. 'I'll show my mum she's wrong.'Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she's brought to...
Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was desperate to be part of a family

Cut: The true story of an abandoned, abused little girl who was

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Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the...
Another Forgotten Child

Another Forgotten Child

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A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into...
Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that Started it all

Bad Girls of Ancient Greece: Myths and Legends from the Baddies that

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You've heard all about the 'brilliant men' of ancient myth, but what about the scheming and scandalous women who were so often lost in their shadow? Bad Girls of Ancient...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

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THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of joy.'Nigel Slater's prose is the...
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day,...
Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia

Good Girls: A story and study of anorexia

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A BEST BOOK OF 2023 IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN AND WALL STREET JOURNALA searing memoir from Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass, about one of the most misunderstood...
Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-destruction

Abominations: Selected essays from a career of courting self-

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The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.'This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she's a brilliant writer... Order a copy in case she's...
My Family: The Memoir

My Family: The Memoir

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'One of the funniest books I have ever read' HADLEY FREEMAN'A masterpiece' SATHNAM SANGHERA'The read of the summer' THE SUNDAY TIMES'Brilliant ... funny and moving' ADAM KAY A searingly honest,...