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The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

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Author: Neal Thompson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 "Here is that rare thing: an untold chapter in the Kennedy saga. . .Compelling and illuminating."-Jon Meacham Based on genealogical breakthroughs...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

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Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

I Used to Live Here Once: The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

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Author: Miranda Seymour Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'An absolute belter of a biography' MARINA HYDE A Times Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2022 An LA Times Best...
The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, to the East Indies: with abstracts of journals of voyages to the East Indies during the seventeenth century, preserved in the India Office : and the voyage of Captain John Knight (1606), to seek the North-West Passage

The Voyages of Sir James Lancaster, to the East Indies

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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Photo is of the actual book - please note wear and tear. A description...
Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

Boleyn Boy: My Autobiography

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Author: Mark Noble Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 *THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A sweeping and heartbreaking Hollywood biography about the passionate, turbulent marriage of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. A New York Times...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 TELEGRAPH 50 BEST BOOKS OF 2022 'A sparkling biography of a fascinating woman' - Lynn Barber, Telegraph ***** 'Gaudoin's book is...
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 friendship, and a lost shipwreck off Normandy

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Author: John Henry Phillips Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative...
The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

The Life Scientific: Virus Hunters

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Author: Anna Buckley Format: Hardback 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...
The Cure for Sleep

The Cure for Sleep

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun Just days...
Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

Soho: A Street Guide to Soho's History, Architecture and People

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Author: Dan Cruickshank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Soho - illicit, glamorous, sordid, louche, poverty-stricken, squalid, exhilarating. One of Britain's best-loved historians, Dan Cruickshank, grants us an intimacy with...
Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais

Oxford University on Mont Blanc: The Life of the Chalet des Anglais

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Author: Stephen Golding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The 'Chalet des Anglais' on Mont Blanc, home to the longest-running university reading party, is a unique survivor from Victorian and...
If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

If Then: How One Data Company Invented the Future

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Author: Jill Lepore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Radio 4's Book of the Week A Financial Times Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times / McKinsey...
Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

Francis I: The Maker of Modern France

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Author: Leonie Frieda Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Francis I (1494-1547) was inconstant, amorous, hot-headed and flawed. Yet he was also arguably the most significant king that France ever...
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: Hardback 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 Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion

The Dress: 100 Iconic Moments in Fashion

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Author: Megan Hess Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 From Ms Hepburn's elegant black shift to Lady Gaga's meat gown, The Dress relives the marvellous and unforgettable dresses of fashion:...
Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

Ask A Historian: 50 Surprising Answers to Things You Always Wanted to Know

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Jenner uses all the questions you never dared to ask about history as an excellent excuse to rummage around in some...
All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopaedia by the bestselling author of JUST MY TYPE

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars and the most obsessive of editors, adults...
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: Hardback 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...
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home

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Author: Jami Attenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 As the bookish daughter of a travelling salesman, Jami Attenberg was drawn to the road. Her wanderlust led her to drive...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
1942: Britain at the Brink

1942: Britain at the Brink

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Author: Taylor Downing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'Taylor Downing vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a...
The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

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Author: Peniel E Joseph Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In The Third Reconstruction, distinguished historian Peniel E. Joseph offers a powerful and personal new interpretation of recent history. The...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

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Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Tom Scharpling is good at being funny, which is a miracle, considering what he's survived. Like hitting a deer and narrowly...
The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023

The Passengers: Shortlisted for The Rathbones Folio Prize 2023

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Author: Will Ashon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'A spectacularly enjoyable and compelling reading experience . . . funny, moving, surprising and thought-provoking. It humanises literature in this toxic...
Small Bodies of Water

Small Bodies of Water

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Author: Nina Mingya Powles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored?...
When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

When You Lose It: Two voices. One true story. A mother and daughter on the edge. 'A very important subject' - ITV's This Morning

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Author: Roxy Longworth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'Read this book. Then talk to your sons. It is essential reading' Jamie Theakston 'An extraordinary and important book. Read it...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery

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Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Through the story of his own family's history as slave and plantation owners, Alex Renton looks at how we owe it...
Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

Earth-Shattering Events: Earthquakes, Nations and Civilization

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Author: Andrew Robinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From antiquity until the present day, on every continent, human beings have made a Faustian bargain with the risk of periodic...
Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

Love and the Novel: Life After Reading

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Author: Christina Lupton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'A subversive, brilliant and beautifully written book about love, play and power in fiction and in the well-read life' - Sarah...
Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.

Letters From Brenda: Two suitcases. 75 lost letters. One mother.

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Author: Emma Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Beautiful . . . insightful, fascinating and moving. It's a lovely LOVELY book' Marian Keyes 'This book made me cry' Sara...
Memoirs

Memoirs

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Author: Robert Lowell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain's Colonial Legacy

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Author: Philippe Sands, QC Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER After the Second World War, new international rules heralded an age of human...
Little Big Man

Little Big Man

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Author: Stanley J. Browne Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother...
The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin

The Fourth Man: The Hunt for the KGB's CIA Mole and Why the US Overlooked Putin

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Author: Robert Baer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 *** 'Reads like Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' -James Risen, The Intercept 'A compelling account of the ongoing search for the Fourth...
A Final Grain of Truth: My Autobiography

A Final Grain of Truth: My Autobiography

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Author: Jack Webster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Jack Webster has had a lifetime of adventure as a respected and highly-commended journalist, meeting the rich and famous and experiencing...
An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!

An Admirable Point: A Brief History of the Exclamation Mark!

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Author: Florence Hazrat Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Few punctuation marks elicit quite as much love or hate as the exclamation mark. It's bubbly and exuberant, an emotional amplifier...
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: Hardback 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,...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
Migrants: The Story of Us All

Migrants: The Story of Us All

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Author: Sam Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Migrants cuts through the toxic debates to tell the rich and collective stories of humankind's urge to move. 'Fascinating... Miller's perspective...
Devotion: A Memoir

Devotion: A Memoir

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Author: Mickey Harte Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Wonderfully lyrical, nostalgic, funny, dark, tragic, deeply emotional, honest and hopeful ... This is no ordinary memoir' - Irish News A...
Unprotected: A Memoir

Unprotected: A Memoir

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Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

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Author: Louis Menand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not...