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Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...
Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power

Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power

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In Hero Living Rudy Reyes, the latest recruit in Channel 4's smash-hit SAS Who Dares Wins introduces his philosophy to life - part Homer, part Bruce Lee and part Spider-Man....
The Story Smuggler

The Story Smuggler

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'Some smuggle cigarettes, others alcohol - or weapons.Our contraband, being invisible, is more dangerous.Our contraband is undetectable by scanners.What we carry as concealed excess baggage is stories.'In this exquisite literary...
The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist

The Year of the Cat: A Love Story: 'Tender and uplifting' Stylist

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'A brave process of healing and self reconstruction' Observer'Simply one of the best writers working today. Here's to family, to glamour, and to love' Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic...
The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

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'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person . can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than...
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of overcoming an eating disorder

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of [...]

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'As well as charting her adolescent battle with anorexia, it offers a darkly compelling, highly topical account of journeying from girlhood to womanhood in the spotlight of global celebrity.' The...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The perfect gift this Christmas

Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The perfect [...]

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'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home'[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The Lady'Unstoppable, a veritable living legend' Daily Mail'All you'd hope for...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew Miller

My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'An insane amount of fun' Andrew [...]

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A book of the year for The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian and Daily Mail'Gloriously tender and funny . . . with My Family and Other Rock Stars, Murray...
The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

The Search: The true story of a D-Day survivor, an unlikely [...]

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When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant...
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 [...]

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ONE OF PEOPLE MAGAZINE'S BEST SUMMER READS 20225* 'A jaw-dropping memoir' - THE TELEGRAPH'One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... a beautiful, warm, funny book.' -The Times'A wholly...
Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir

Sex Bomb: a 'hilarious, raw and poignant' memoir

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For fans of Everything I Know About Love, Wrong Knickers and The Right Sort of Girl this is the incredibly honest and brilliantly raunchy memoir you don't want to miss.'Honest....
Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

Eat, Drink, Run.: How I Got Fit Without Going Too Mad

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The new hilarious and inspirational memoir from Sunday Times bestselling author of Mad Girl and Mad Woman, Bryony Gordon.'A courageous account that will inspire us all - bloody brilliant' Fearne...
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt

The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization [...]

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY THE NEW YORK POST AND BOOK RIOTNAMED A BEST TRUE CRIME BOOK OF 2021 BY CRIMEREADSAt the turn of the twentieth century, emboldened...
The Road to London Bridge: How I went from a life of violence to stopping the terror attack Fishmongers' Hall

The Road to London Bridge: How I went from a life of violence to [...]

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'Steve Gallant's exceptional act of courage on London Bridge speaks of both heroism and redemption' - Jon Snow, former anchor of Channel 4 NewsThis is a story of physical bravery,...
Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

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From the bestselling author of Chums comes an explorer's tale of a naif getting to understand a complex, glittering, beautiful and often cruel city.Simon Kuper has experienced Paris both as...
A Man of Two Faces: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024

A Man of Two Faces: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize [...]

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024'A triumphant memoir' Cathy Park Hong, author of MINOR FEELINGS, finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeThe highly original, blistering, and unconventional memoir by...
Highly Desirable: Tales of London's super-prime property from the Secret Agent

Highly Desirable: Tales of London's super-prime property from [...]

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'A hugely fun tale of how the super-rich buy their super-prime lairs - I was absolutely boggled throughout. Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Rightmove anymore . ....
Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's Secret Plot to Destroy a Media Empire

Conspiracy: A True Story of Power, Sex, and a Billionaire's [...]

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Conspiracy theories are legion. Conspiracies are rare. And of the few that do exist, fewer are ever discovered, let alone explained. This story is the exception.In 2007, a short blog...
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of overcoming an eating disorder

The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: A powerful memoir of [...]

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'As well as charting her adolescent battle with anorexia, it offers a darkly compelling, highly topical account of journeying from girlhood to womanhood in the spotlight of global celebrity.' The...
Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to  lifechanging bestseller, MAD GIRL

Mad Woman: The hotly anticipated follow-up to lifechanging [...]

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A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'A deeply reassuring essential read' Sunday Independent'Visceral and honest' Telegraph'Bryony Gordon is a terrific, compassionate writer' Elizabeth Day'Bryony writes with such entertaining and brazen candour about mental...
The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie

The Word Detective: A Life in Words: From Serendipity to Selfie

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Language is always changing. No one knows where it is going but the best way to future-cast is to look at the past. John Simpson animates for us a tradition...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times [...]

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An instant Sunday Times bestsellerJoin Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home...Throughout her life, Sarah Beeny has been obsessed with the idea of...
The Patchwork Family: Toddlers, Teenagers and Everything in Between from Part-Time Working Mummy

The Patchwork Family: Toddlers, Teenagers and Everything in [...]

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'Refreshing and honest ... this isn't your standard mum memoir' Psychologies MagazineHow to hold it together, even when things are falling apart. Laugh, cry and scream along the rollercoaster of...
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, [...]

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A brand-new collection from the award-winning poet, the companion piece to the Sunday Times bestselling Slug'Funny, so smart and refreshingly honest' SARAH MILLICAN'Hollie McNish's words always sweep me away' GIOVANNA...
Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka

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'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...
Life With The Lid Off

Life With The Lid Off

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'I gaze down and see your garden, the gate hanging off its hinges, the mess, your children running around half naked like little street urchins. It spoils the view entirely.'When...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

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"One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news"A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter, Wheatle's compassion shines through the pain" Observer"Alex is a truly...
The Anxiety Project

The Anxiety Project

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"The most interesting Dutch writer of his generation" Herman Koch"Vivid and moving. A marvellous hybrid of a book about one of the major contemporary causes of sickness and unhappiness. In...
But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

But Everyone Feels This Way: How an Autism Diagnosis Saved My Life

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In But Everyone Feels This Way, Autism acceptance activist and multi-million-follower TikTok influencer Paige Layle shares her deeply personal journey to diagnosis and living life autistically. It all started out...
Finding Home: A Windrush Story

Finding Home: A Windrush Story

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On 24 May 1948, the Empire Windrush sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, to harbour at Tilbury Docks. It carried 1,027 passengers and some stowaways, and more than two thirds of them...
Me, Myself and Mini Me

Me, Myself and Mini Me

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The one where I become a mother...Charlotte Crosby is a woman of many talents - reality TV star, Celebrity Big Brother winner, businesswoman extraordinaire, Mastermind contestant - and now a...
HONEST: The (Uncut) Memoirs of Boris Johnson

HONEST: The (Uncut) Memoirs of Boris Johnson

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*The memoirs of Boris Johnson, complete and unabridged, including all the great material he had to take out for being either too incendiary or too obviously made up*Ghostwritten by Lucien...
No One But a Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War

No One But a Woman Knows: Stories of Motherhood Before the War

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Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends

Letters From A Lost Generation: First World War Letters of Vera Brittain and Four Friends

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The Life Scientific: Explorers

The Life Scientific: Explorers

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Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87

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Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba

Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro's Cuba

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Happier Here and Now: The restorative power of life's simple pleasures

Happier Here and Now: The restorative power of life's simple pleasures

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Private Parts: Living well with bad periods and endometriosis

Private Parts: Living well with bad periods and endometriosis

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Happy Mum, Happy Baby: Adventures in motherhood from the host of the hit podcast

Happy Mum, Happy Baby: Adventures in motherhood from the host of the hit podcast

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Not The Whole Story: A Memoir

Not The Whole Story: A Memoir

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A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

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MIA and Woody: Love and Betrayal

MIA and Woody: Love and Betrayal

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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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Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures

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Darwin: The Story of the Man and His Theories of Evolution

Darwin: The Story of the Man and His Theories of Evolution

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Corrie Ten Boom: Her Story

Corrie Ten Boom: Her Story

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The Films of Jack Nicholson

The Films of Jack Nicholson

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