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The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

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Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
A Moveable Feast

A Moveable Feast

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Author: Ernest Hemingway Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for...
Sister Outsider

Sister Outsider

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Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each...
Places I've Taken My Body

Places I've Taken My Body

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Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

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Author: Vita Sackville-West Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries....
Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

Everything I Know About Love: Now a Major BBC One Series

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Author: Dolly Alderton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love along the way When...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet  Fighter Age

The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age

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Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
The Histories

The Histories

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Author: Herodotus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 784 The work that established the study of history in the western world, Herodotus's The Histories is a dazzling contemporary account...
Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

Artists' Letters: Leonardo da Vinci to David Hockney

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Artists' Letters is a treasure trove of carefully selected letters written by great artists, providing the reader with a unique insight...
Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher

Dear Mr Murray: Letters to a Gentleman Publisher

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Author: David McClay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The publishing house of John Murray was founded in Fleet Street in 1768 and remained a family firm over seven generations....
Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

Writers' Letters: Jane Austen to Chinua Achebe - The perfect Mother's Day gift

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Delve into the lives and work of some of the world's great writers with this intriguing collection of correspondence. There is...
The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

The Cost of Living: Living Autobiography 2

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Author: Deborah Levy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Dazzling, essential, unlike anything else published today - a memoir on modern womanhood, smashing through social expectations and making...
The Civil War

The Civil War

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Author: Julius Caesar Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 Caesar's own account of his struggle with Pompey over leadership of Republican Rome A military leader of legendary genius,...
The Narrative of Trajan's Column

The Narrative of Trajan's Column

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Author: Italo Calvino Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 When the last fire goes out, time too will be finished Taken from his Collection of Sand, these marvelous...
A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction

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Author: Terry Pratchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Terry Pratchett in his own words - a collection of writing by the creator of Discworld, about his life,...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

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Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+

Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+

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Author: Nathan W. Pyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections,...
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

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Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 A revelatory collection of letters written by the author of THE BROKEN ROAD. Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick...
The Best American Essays 2022

The Best American Essays 2022

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Author: Alexander Chee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power"...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

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Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Poetics

Poetics

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Author: Aristotle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 Essential reading for all students of Greek theatre and literature, Aristotle's Poetics remains equally stimulating for anyone interested in literature....
The Annals of Imperial Rome

The Annals of Imperial Rome

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Author: Cornelius Tacitus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 His last work, regarded by many as the greatest work of contemporary scholarship, Tacitus' The Annals of Imperial Rome...
Boy: Tales of Childhood

Boy: Tales of Childhood

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Author: Roald Dahl Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life. 'An autobiography is a book a person...
Orwell's England

Orwell's England

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 All of Orwell's brilliant writing on England and Englishness collected in a single volume Much of George Orwell's best...
The Confessions

The Confessions

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Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 Rousseau's autobiography, giving a unique insight into the mind and life of one of the greatest thinkers of the...
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

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Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr....
Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World

Voices of History: Speeches that Changed the World

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Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 VOICES OF HISTORY celebrates the great speeches of world history and cultural life. In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

Vesper Flights: The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of H is for Hawk

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Author: Helen Macdonald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 From the bestselling author of H is for Hawk comes a transcendent collection of essays about the natural world...
Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

Not a Novel: Collected Writings and Reflections

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Author: Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Not a Novel gathers together the best of Jenny Erpenbeck's non-fiction. Drawing from her 25 years of thinking and writing,...
The Golden Flea

The Golden Flea

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Author: Michael Rips Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 For decades the legendary Chelsea flea market sprawled over several blocks on the west side of Manhattan. Visitors would...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **A...
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison

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In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

In God's Hands: The Spiritual Diaries of Pope St John Paul II

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Author: Pope St John Paul II Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 The spiritual diaries of Pope St John Paul II - published for the first time ever...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Experience

Experience

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Author: Martin Amis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his...
Reasons to Stay Alive

Reasons to Stay Alive

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 What does it mean to feel truly alive? Aged 24, Matt Haig's world caved in. He could see no...
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

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Author: Salman Rushdie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A collection of the finest essays by the 'Best of the Booker' winner, following on from his much-acclaimed STEP...
Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

Common Ground: Issues That Should Bind and Not Divide Us

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Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

Somewhere We Are Human: Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings

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Author: Reyna Grande Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 ""Wide-ranging yet consistently affecting, these pieces offer a crucial and inspired survey of the immigrant experience in America."" -Publishers Weekly "[These...
A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

A Month At The Front: The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

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12 Edmondstone Street

12 Edmondstone Street

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Author: David Malouf Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 This remarkable book combines autobiography with a subtle, almost painterly sense of the ways in which the objects which...
The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life

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Author: John le Carre Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 The Sunday Times no. 1 memoir now in paperback The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carre's memoir and his...
The Sixteen Satires

The Sixteen Satires

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Author: Juvenal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor and the sheer energy of...
The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible

The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible

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Author: Catherine Burns Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their...