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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...
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 A sweeping Hollywood biography of the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh based on new research, including exclusive...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

Zarifa: A Woman's Battle in a Man's World, by Afghanistan's Youngest Female Mayor. As Featured in the NETFLIX documentary IN HER HANDS

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Author: Zarifa Ghafari Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Zarifa will break your heart' Christina Lamb, author of Our Bodies, Their Battlefields and I Am Malala Zarifa Ghafari was two...
The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir

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Author: Kirsty Logan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 An unconventional, unexpectedly funny, brutally honest memoir about infertility, pregnancy and motherhood 'You and your partner want a baby. But your...
Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Below the Edge of Darkness: Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

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Author: Edith Widder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean in this 'thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure'...
Martin Scorsese: A Journey

Martin Scorsese: A Journey

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Author: Mary Pat Kelly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Few filmmakers, if any, make the kind of impact that Martin Scorsese has made on American cinema. The winner of...
Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing

Into the Soul of the World: My Journey to Healing

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Author: Brad Wetzler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Suffering from PTSD and severe depression from past trauma, battling an addiction to overprescribed psychiatric medication, and at the rock bottom...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land

The Reckoning: Death and Intrigue in the Promised Land

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Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 From the bestselling author of 'Fighter Boys', the true story of two ruthless adversaries and a wartime killing that shook the...
Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

Remember Me?: Discovering My Mother as She Lost Her Memory

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Author: Shobna Gulati Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Afterword by Alzheimer's Research UK. 'Shobna Gulati is the Northern heroine of a nation' - Lemn Sissay 'Lucid and probing' -...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

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Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

GROW: Motherhood, mental health & me

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Author: Frankie Bridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Open, honest, straight talking on mental health and motherhood.' - Tik Tok's Dr Julie 'I absolutely love it - it doesn't...
A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings)

A Normal Family: The Surprising Truth About My Crazy Childhood (And How I Discovered 35 New Siblings)

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Author: Chrysta Bilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 2022 5* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH 'One of the maddest memoirs you'll...
Granta 161: Sister, Brother

Granta 161: Sister, Brother

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Author: Sigrid Rausing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Psychoanalysis famously privileges the vertical relationship between a child (the patient) and their parents over the seemingly equal and unproblematic horizontal...
Never a Native

Never a Native

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Author: Alice Shalvi Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Shalvi has been a pioneer in advancing the status of women in Israel and in religious girls' education. She has been...
Stanley I Resume: Further Recollections of an Exuberant Life

Stanley I Resume: Further Recollections of an Exuberant Life

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Author: Stanley Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Stanley Johnson: one-time spy, politician, animal rights crusader - and irresistibly brilliant raconteur. From his career as a Member of the...
What Makes Us Stronger

What Makes Us Stronger

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Author: Freya Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Freya Lewis is extraordinary' Katie Piper 'A love letter to the NHS' Lorraine Kelly 'An unflinching story of grief, survival and...
An Audience with Tony Benn

An Audience with Tony Benn

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Author: Tony Benn Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 Much loved parliamentarian Tony Benn - recently retired to 'spend more time with politics' - brings his unmistakable prescence to the...
In Bed with the Blueshirts

In Bed with the Blueshirts

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Author: Shane Ross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts the crises when the coalition came close...
The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister

The Death of a Soldier Told by His Sister

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Author: Olesya Khromeychuk Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 WITH A FOREWORD BY PHILIPPE SANDS AND AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV 'If you read only one book about the war,...
The Queen: 1926-2022

The Queen: 1926-2022

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In this entertaining and insightful biography, award-winning writer Andrew Morton, author of Diana, Her True Story and Elizabeth & Margaret: The...
Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine

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As heard on BBC Radio 4 Book of the WeekAn eye-opening account of disability, identity, and how robotics and AI are altering our understanding of what it means to be...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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'...
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...
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...
Big Sexy: In His Own Words

Big Sexy: In His Own Words

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Author: Bartolo Colon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Bartolo Colon-also known as Big Sexy-is a baseball icon and one of the most beloved players to ever play the game....
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Author: Bez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...
Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Author: Bez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...