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A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying

A Short History of Falling: Everything I Observed About Love Whilst Dying

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Author: Joe Hammond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A Short History of Falling - like The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and When Breath Becomes Air -...
Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of SAS: Australia that will explain the principles...
Diana: In Pursuit of Love

Diana: In Pursuit of Love

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 When Andrew Morton's world-famous biography, "Diana: Her True Story," was first published, it caused a media frenzy, and shook...
The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

The West End Front: The Wartime Secrets of London's Grand Hotels

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Author: Matthew Sweet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Spies: Meet Marie-Jacqueline Lancaster, the woman from M15 who has the gravy browning licked from her legs by Dylan...
Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult

Battle of Brothers: William, Harry and the Inside Story of a Family in Tumult

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Author: Robert Lacey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 AS SEEN IN THE TIMES AND UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL The Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller 'THE...
Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

Surviving the Storms: Extraordinary Stories of Courage and Compassion at Sea

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Author: The RNLI Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'There's water in the engine,' he said. 'The engine has stopped.' This changed everything... Surviving the Storms brings together...
Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010

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Author: Chris Mullin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 On the backbenches but still in the thick of it, Decline and Fall runs from Chris Mullin's sacking as...
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

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Author: Juliet Nicolson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have...
Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

Young Prince Philip, His Turbulent Early Life

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Author, Philip Eade Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 384 'The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read' Lynn Barber, Sunday Times Married for almost...
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...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown....
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...
My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

My Last Supper: One Meal, a Lifetime in the Making

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Author: Jay Rayner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 You're about to die. What would your final meal be? This question has long troubled Jay Rayner. As a...
Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: The follow-up to the Sunday Times Bestseller

Peaky Blinders: The Legacy - The real story of Britain's most notorious 1920s gangs: The follow-up to the Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: Carl Chinn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Carl Chinn The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit...
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...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave: Volume 41

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Author: Frederick Douglass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his own wordsConsidered to be the most famous work written by a...
The Messenger

The Messenger

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Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

The Fall of Carthage: The Punic Wars 265-146BC

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of...
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 ......
The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975

The Great Commanders of the Modern World 1866-1975

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Great Commanders of the Modern World is a sumptuous chronological survey of the 25 greatest commanders of the modern...
Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

Rendezvous at the Russian Tea Rooms: The Spyhunter, the Fashion Designer & the Man From Moscow

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Author: Paul Willetts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 RENDEZVOUS AT THE RUSSIAN TEA ROOMS provides the first comprehensive account of what was once hailed by a leading...
Cold Meat and How to Disguise it

Cold Meat and How to Disguise it

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Credit has been crunched, banks hammered, the economy battered, prices up, hopes down. All classes are being urged to economise, make...
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents

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Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past

A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Jackson is aggressive, confrontational and often volatile. His mother, Kayla, is crippled with grief after tragically losing her husband...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say

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Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
Fascism: A Warning

Fascism: A Warning

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Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The #1 NYT BESTSELLER A personal and urgent examination of Fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy...
Sea State

Sea State

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Author: Tabitha Lasley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'Sea State marks the arrival of a gifted and exciting new voice' Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13 A...
The Making of Us: Why School Matters

The Making of Us: Why School Matters

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Author: Clarissa Farr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools...
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

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Author: Eric Berger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Just read it.' Elon Musk The dramatic inside story of the first four historic flights that launched SpaceX-and Elon...
Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Slave

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Author: Zora Neale Hurston Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 Abducted from Africa, sold in America. "A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life"- Daily Telegraph A major...
Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

Fighting Evil: The Ordinary Man who went to War Against ISIS

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Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A visceral, riveting, no-holds-barred military memoir told from the front line of the war against ISIS with a foreword...
Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
The Art of War (Collins Classics)

The Art of War (Collins Classics)

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. The ancient Chinese art of warfare written...
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World

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Author: Simon Winchester Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it,...
Lenin the Dictator

Lenin the Dictator

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Author: Victor Sebestyen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 Shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in...
The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD

The Great Commanders of the Medieval World 454-1582AD

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Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 What qualities made Attila the Hun a strategist of genius? How did Henry V of England achieve victory at...
Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom

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Author: Tom Holland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future...
Worktown

Worktown

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages:
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her...
After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

After Auschwitz: A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank

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Author: Eva Schloss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depended on endless...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Berlin: Imagine a City

Berlin: Imagine a City

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Author: Rory MacLean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the...
How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory

How Evolution Explains Everything about Life: From Darwin's Brilliant Idea to Today's Epic Theory

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Author: New Scientist Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 How did we get here? It's the journey of a lifetime. All cultures have a creation story, but a...
Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad

Spies of No Country: Israel's Secret Agents at the Birth of the Mossad

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Author: Matti Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: "Wondrous . . . Compelling . . . Piercing." -The New York Times Book Review Award-winning writer Matti Friedman's tale...
Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima

Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima

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Author: Stephen Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A stunning book, among the most immediate and thrilling works of history I have ever...
In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire

In the Name of Rome: The Men Who Won the Roman Empire

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The Roman army was one of the most effective fighting forces in history. The legions and their commanders carved...
Born On a Blue Day

Born On a Blue Day

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Author: Daniel Tammet Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I was born on 31 January 1979 - a Wednesday. I know it was a Wednesday, becasue the date...