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Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

Paper Cuts: How I Destroyed the British Music Press and Other Misadventures

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Author: Ted Kessler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'A great writer' 'A music journalist of integrity' 'There's only one Ted Kessler!' Paul Weller Billy Childish Liam Gallagher Paper Cuts...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret

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Author: Alathea Fitzalan Howard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

Easy Beauty: On Seeing and Being Seen

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Author: Chloe Cooper Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE FOR MEMOIR 'An exquisite exploration of disability, identity and the human capacity to do...
Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

Spring Tides: Exploring Marine Life on the Isle of Man

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Author: Fiona Gell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'This is my earliest memory. I am three years old and I sit in the bottom of my great-uncle's pot boat...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

Undoctored: The brand new No 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of 'This is Going to Hurt'

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Author: Adam Kay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction...
Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
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,...
Coming Undone: A Memoir

Coming Undone: A Memoir

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Author: Terri White Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else, Terri White...
The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Ayoade on Ayoade

Ayoade on Ayoade

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Author: Richard Ayoade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In this book Richard Ayoade - actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist - reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he...
Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

Cults: The World's Most Notorious Cults

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 The inside story of the world's most notorious cults. The strange and sinister world of cults is a source of endless...
Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

Driving Forwards: An inspirational memoir of resilience and empowerment after life-changing injury

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Author: Sophie L Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'A book that'll change your perspective on life. You'll not be able to put it down.' Fearne Cotton 'Everyone should...
Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

Yearbook: A hilarious collection of true stories from the writer of Superbad

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

No One Round Here Reads Tolstoy: Memoirs of a Working-Class Reader

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Author: Mark Hodkinson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Mark Hodkinson grew up among the terrace houses of Rochdale in a house with just one book. Today, Mark is an...
Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

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Author: Max Dickins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Where have all my friends gone?' When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one...
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...
The Mauritanian

The Mauritanian

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Author: Mohamedou Ould Slahi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture. The...
The Moth: This Is a True Story

The Moth: This Is a True Story

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Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With an introduction by Neil Gaiman Before television and radio, before penny paperbacks and mass literacy, people would gather on porches,...
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...
Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere

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Author: Sarah Perry Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 96 'Not all Essex girls are party girls. They can be sages, martyrs, leaders. In her neat and provocative little book, Sarah...
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...
Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

Starfish: One Family's Tale of Triumph After Tragedy

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Author: Tom & Nicola Ray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'There is a voice that whispers to me on the pillow. I have no idea if it is part...
His Story: A Novel Memoir - The life and times of Dick O'Toole

His Story: A Novel Memoir - The life and times of Dick O'Toole

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Portrait of a Turkish Family

Portrait of a Turkish Family

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Georgiana: a Biography of Georgiana Mccrae

Georgiana: a Biography of Georgiana Mccrae

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Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir

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Surviving Galeras

Surviving Galeras

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Under My Skin

Under My Skin

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No Run-of-the-mill: A Biography of Henry Beaufort Somerset

No Run-of-the-mill: A Biography of Henry Beaufort Somerset

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Dear Lover

Dear Lover

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Captain James Cook RN, FRS: Seaman and Scientist

Captain James Cook RN, FRS: Seaman and Scientist

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Heading South, Looking North

Heading South, Looking North

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The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif

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Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

Tribes: A Search for Belonging in a Divided Society

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Author: David Lammy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'A superb book about the tribalism gripping British politics. Tribes is measured, searching, pitilessly self-scrutinising and would probably amaze anyone who...
The Instant

The Instant

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Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island...
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...
The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

The Tick of Two Clocks: A Tale of Moving On

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Author: Joan Bakewell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The Times Old age is...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris...
The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History

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Author: Rachel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of...
Menuhin: A Life

Menuhin: A Life

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Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens...
Letters of Note: Mothers

Letters of Note: Mothers

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Author: Shaun Usher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 In Letters of Note: Mothers, Shaun Usher gathers together exceptional missives by and about mothers, celebrating the joy and grief, humour...
A Woman in Defence: My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army

A Woman in Defence: My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army

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Author: Karina Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'A searing, honest and courageous account of professional soldiering in a toxic military culture' Senator Tom Clonan, retired army captain During...
Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

Soundings: Journeying North in the Company of Whales - the award-winning memoir

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Author: Doreen Cunningham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . Justifies its place alongside nature writing classics such as H is for Hawk' NEW STATESMAN 'Wonderful ......
Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

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Author: Jamie Raskin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at...
I'm Glad My Mom Died

I'm Glad My Mom Died

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Author: Jennette McCurdy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette...