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Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

A Very Nice Rejection Letter: Diary of a Novelist

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Author: Chris Paling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times 6 April 2007 Writing income for the year...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom...
The Great Game

The Great Game

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Author: Peter Hopkirk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in...
It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!

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Author: Tom Scharpling Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From cult comedy icon and beloved radio host Tom Scharpling, an inspiring, funny, and thoughtful memoir It Never Ends is Tom...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its...
Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond!

Are We There Yet?: To indignity . . . and beyond!

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Author: Emily Atack Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Warm, charming and remarkably honest - Grazia The highs, the lows, the hangovers, the relationships, the lucky breaks (and the breaks...
Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: True Stories from Victims and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper

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Author: Carol Ann Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Original, intelligent and thought-provoking, Carol Ann Lee's book sheds new light on to the human stories behind the headlines. A...
Dante

Dante

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Author: Alessandro Barbero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Since Dante Alighieri wrote the Divine Comedy it has defined how people imagine and depict not only heaven and hell, but...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

Small Pieces: A Memoir of Loss and Consolation

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Author: Joanne Limburg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it's analogous with family,...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

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Author: Saumya Roy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'If you read one book about India, read this one.' - Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure 'Mountain...
What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family's Secret History

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Author: Elena Lappin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she...
Goodbye to All That

Goodbye to All That

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Author: Robert Graves Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The Western front through the eyes of a survivor 'There has been a lot of fighting hereabouts. The trenches have made...
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: Paperback 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...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs and Classical Music

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Author: Blair Tindall Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Blair Tindall has been a professional oboe player for over twenty-five years. In this provocative memoir, she blows the lid off...
I Am What I Am

I Am What I Am

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Author: John Barrowman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Anything Goes, John's first book, gave you the story so far. I Am What I Am reveals more about the man...
And When Did You Last See Your Father?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?

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Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 And when did you last see your father? Was it when they burnt the coffin? Put the lid on it? When...
Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years

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Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

Love and Deception: Philby in Beirut

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Author: James Hanning Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'James Hanning's book is excellent . . . The fascination of Love & Deception lies in the meticulously detailed account it...
The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street

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Author: Jordan Belfort Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates Jordan's story...
Vanished Years

Vanished Years

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Rupert Everett's first memoir - RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS - was an international bestseller and an instant classic on...
Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

Lighting the Fuse: Stories from Britain's first female bomb disposal expert

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Author: Lucy Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it. In this extraordinary...
Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

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Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

Let's Do It: The Authorised Biography of Victoria Wood

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Author: Jasper Rees Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Radio Times, Daily Herald and FT Book of the...
Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

Gentleman Jack: The Jack Crawford Story

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Author: Richard Naughton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Jack Crawford was one of Australia's great sporting heroes of the 1930s,along with Donald Bradman, Hubert Opperman and Haydn Bunton- sportsmen...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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Author: Cleve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'I was so captivated by this book, so utterly drawn in and overwhelmed by the emotional force of it, that it...
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: Paperback 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...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

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Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...
The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud

The Microsoft Story: How the Tech Giant Rebooted Its Culture, Upgraded Its Strategy, and Found Success in the Cloud

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Author: Dan Good Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Imagine if you could see the playbook that returned a struggling tech empire to the top of the tech leaderboard. The...
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity

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Author: Alberto Angela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

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Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL 'Bravely revealing.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Funny, moving, helpful and...
Cold-Water Eden

Cold-Water Eden

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Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's...
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

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Author: Anna Wiener Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Joan Didion at a startup' Rebecca Solnit 'Impossibly pleasurable' Jia Tolentino 'This is essential reading' Stylist At twenty-five years...
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: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 880 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War...
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

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Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Finding freedom behind the walls of San Quentin.
Letters to Gil

Letters to Gil

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Author: Malik Al Nasir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'A searing, triumphant story. A testament to the tenacity of the human spirit as well as a beautiful...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

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Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four...
Llanelli: Story of a Town

Llanelli: Story of a Town

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Author: John Edwards Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 John Edwards has written the first-ever comprehensive history of Llanelli. Originally written in Welsh, it was commissioned by Carmarthenshire...
Physicians and their Images

Physicians and their Images

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Author: Ludmilla Jordanova Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 112 The Royal College of Physicians celebrates its 500th anniversary in 2018, and to observe this landmark is publishing this series of...
Brand New Me: More honest, heart-warming and hilarious antics from reality TV's biggest star

Brand New Me: More honest, heart-warming and hilarious antics from reality TV's biggest star

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Author: Charlotte Crosby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Charlotte Crosby is one of the nation's best loved and funniest TV stars. Here in BRAND NEW ME Charlotte...
Retreat from Mons 1914: Casteau to Le Cateau (Battle Lines Series)

Retreat from Mons 1914: Casteau to Le Cateau (Battle Lines Series)

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Author: Jon Cooksey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 'The Retreat from Mons' the latest volume in Pen & Sword's Battle Lines series of walking, cycling and driving guides to...