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All at Sea

All at Sea

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Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858

Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858

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The Life of the Lyrebird

The Life of the Lyrebird

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Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience

Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience

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Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia

Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia

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Malcolm Fraser: A Biography

Malcolm Fraser: A Biography

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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 **THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ** 'Funny and frank, a chance to spend time with a brave and big-hearted woman...
Sista Sister

Sista Sister

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Author: Candice Brathwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance....
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries: Volume Two

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have mastered it....
Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian

Can I Have My Ball Back?: A memoir of masculinity, mortality and my right testicle from the British comedian

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Author: Richard Herring Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Very funny, moving and heartwarming' BOB MORTIMER 'A bollockbuster!' ADAM BUXTON If we are cowardly, we are told to grow some...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Secrecy came naturally to John le Carr, and there were some secrets that he fought fiercely to keep. Adam Sisman's definitive...
I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: A bestselling Reese's Book Club pick by 'a leading voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY

I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness: A bestselling Reese's Book Club pick by 'a leading voice on racial justice' LAYLA SAAD, author of ME AND WHITE SUPREMACY

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Author: Austin Channing Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An example of how one woman can change the world...
Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming

Pain Is Weakness Leaving the Body: A Marine's Unbecoming

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Author: Lyle J Rubin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 When Lyle Jeremy Rubin first arrived at Marine Officer Candidates School, he was convinced that the "war on terror" was...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

The Baroness: The Search for Nica the Rebellious Rothschild

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Author: Hannah Rothschild Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A Rothschild by birth and a Baroness by marriage, beautiful, spirited Pannonica - known as Nica - seemed to have it...
Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

Travelling Light: Journeys Among Special People and Places

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Author: Alastair Sawday Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A charming and beautifully written account of the pleasures of slow travel - for readers of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Colin Thubron...
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...
New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

New York's Finest: Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Saved the City

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Author: Michael Daly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that...
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...
Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

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Author: Niall Breslin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In his book, Niall Breslin speaks openly about living with depression and anxiety, and his crippling journey to finally acknowledging 'Jeffrey'...
Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

Bright Shining: How grace changes everything. The new book from the award-winning author of the unforgettable bestselling memoir Phosphorescence

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Author: Julia Baird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of Phosphorescence comes a beautiful and timely exploration of that most mysterious but necessary of human qualities:...
Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

Sam: Coming soon to Disney Plus as Sam - A Saxon

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Author: Samuel Meffire Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The extraordinary and exciting story of East Germany's first Black police officer. Samuel Meffire grew up as a Black German in...
The Bodyguard

The Bodyguard

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Author: Lee Sansum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 This is the story of the real bodyguard, Lee Sansum, ex-Royal Military Policeman, martial arts champion, and expert in close protection....
The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

The Letters of T. S. Eliot Volume 4: 1928-1929

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Author: Valerie Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 Volume 4 of the letters of T. S. Eliot, which brings the poet, critic, editor and publisher into his forties, documents...
The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

The World's Strongest Book: Ten Lessons in Strength and Resilience from the Legendary Strongman

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Author: Eddie Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From Eddie 'The Beast' Hall, the winner of World's Strongest Man 2017 and the man who pulled half a tonne off...
At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

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Author: James & Clair Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 CLAIR: We've been let loose on a book... whose bright idea was that? JAMES: We haven't got anything to...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

The Last Colony: A Tale of Race, Exile and Justice from Chagos to The Hague:

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Author: Phillipe Sands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human rights and self-determination. Supported by Britain, these unprecedented changes...
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.

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Author: Jackie Malton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' -...
Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

Cabin Fever: Trapped on board a cruise ship when the pandemic hit. A true story of heroism and survival at sea

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Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...
Free Radical: A Memoir

Free Radical: A Memoir

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Author: Vince Cable Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Today Vince Cable is best known as 'the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament' (Robert Peston), revered for...
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...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

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Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 BBC Radio 4's celebrated THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC has featured some of the world's most renowned experts in the field of deadly...
To Be Honest

To Be Honest

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Author: Michael Leviton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A memoir about one man's strange upbringing in a family fanatically devoted to honesty Raised in what he affectionately calls "our...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'My life was changing and I didn't like it. Everything was so out of my control, even...
Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond

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Author: Matt Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Serial Griller and South's Best Butts, a cookbook of more than 125 everyday specialty recipes plus meaty...
Letters to Gil

Letters to Gil

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Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful ode to...
Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

Something To Live For: A True Story of Love, Hope and Postnatal Depression

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Author: Laura Canty Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 *** As recommended by Josh Widdicombe on the PARENTING HELL podcast "It's staggeringly honest but also really funny - I laughed...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

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Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling

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Author: Peter Cossins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so fast...
Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook

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Author: Annie Gray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous; someone who simply worked hard...
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...
Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

Excommunicated: A heart-wrenching and compelling memoir about a family torn apart by one of New Zealand's most secretive religious sects for readers of Driving to Treblinka and Educated

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Author: Craig Hoyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren After coming out as gay, Craig Hoyle was...
Only: A Singular Memoir

Only: A Singular Memoir

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Author: Caroline Baum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always...
Sink: A Memoir

Sink: A Memoir

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Author: Joseph E Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a...