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Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin

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Author: Randal Keynes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, Randal Keynes discovered a child s writing case, which had...
The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

The Reason I Run: How Two Men Transformed Tragedy into the Greatest Race of Their Lives

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Author: Christopher Spriggs Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 How do people come together when tragedy tries to tear them apart? When 39-time marathon runner Andrew Spriggs was...
Riding this Road: My life   making music and travelling this wide land with Slim Dusty

Riding this Road: My life making music and travelling this wide land with Slim Dusty

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Author: Joy McKean Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Award-winning songwriter and musician Joy McKean wrote many of her husband Slim Dusty's most famous songs and won the...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors'...
The Story of Looking

The Story of Looking

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Author: Mark Cousins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 In The Story of Looking, Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images -...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated...
A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

A Class Act: Life as a working-class man in a middle-class world

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Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty

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Author: Anderson Cooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine...
Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

Bedsit Disco Queen: How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

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Author: Tracey Thorn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed...
Moonchild: City of the Sun (The Moonchild series, Book 2)

Moonchild: City of the Sun (The Moonchild series, Book 2)

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Author: Aisha Bushby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 The second book in a magical middle grade adventure series, inspired by The Arabian Nights and perfect for readers...
Death At Greenway: A Novel

Death At Greenway: A Novel

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Author: Lori Rader-Day Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "Irresistible... a Golden Age homage, an elegantly constructed mystery that on every page reinforces the message that everyone counts."...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

Between Five Eyes: 50 Years of Intelligence Sharing

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Author: Anthony R. Wells Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 UK-US intelligence and the wider Five Eyes community of Canada, Australia and New Zealand is primarily about one...
This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us

This Book is Cruelty-Free: Animals and Us

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Author: Linda Newbery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 If you've ever wondered how you can make your diet cruelty-free, whether it's ethical to own a pet, or...
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...
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...
The Plantagenets:  The Kings that Made Britain

The Plantagenets

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 England, 1154. As Henry II seizes the throne after years of turmoil, a new dynasty is poised to haul this hitherto...
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...
Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

Queens of the Conquest: The extraordinary women who changed the course of English history 1066 - 1167

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 Full of passion and betrayal, murder and war, the first volume of an epic new series from bestselling historian...
The Popes: A History

The Popes: A History

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Author: Viscount John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 An irresistible account of some of history's most illustrious - and iniquitous - figures, from one of...
Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors

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Author: Alison Weir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 The next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life of...
Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

Becoming: The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller

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Author: Michelle Obama Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir;15 million copies sold worldwide Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle...
Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

Hitler: Only the World Was Enough

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Author: Brendan Simms Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 A powerful and searing biography of Hitler and the poisonous ideas behind his actions Adolf Hitler is one of...
The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees

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Author: Robert Penn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through...
King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

King and Emperor: A New Life of Charlemagne

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Author: Janet L. Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The acclaimed biography of one of the most extraordinary of all European rulers Charles, King of the Franks,...
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...
Women, Race & Class

Women, Race & Class

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Author: Angela Y. Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The ground-breaking history of civil rights and inequality by legendary political activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis 'Black...
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....
The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19

The Pandemic Century: A History of Global Contagion from the Spanish Flu to Covid-19

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Author: Mark Honigsbaum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 A timely and critically acclaimed 100-year history of pandemics, by medical historian and viral TED talk presenter - with...
When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

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Author: Paul Kalanithi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 For readers of Atul Gawande's Being Mortal and Henry Marsh's Do No Harm, an unforgettably powerful and heart-breaking book...
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

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Author: Catherine Fletcher Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era *A THE...
Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

Guns, Germs and Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Jared Diamond Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'A book of big questions, and big answers' Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of SapiensA short history of everybody...
In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages)

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Author: Bruce Chatwin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 VINTAGE VOYAGES- A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind Chatwin's brilliantly unique...
Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

Appeasing Hitler: Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War

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Author: Tim Bouverie Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 This thrilling Sunday Times bestseller is the first major account of the disastrous years of British indecision and infighting...
The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

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Author: Mark Dapin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The untold story of the ordinary Australians conscripted to fight in our most controversial war, by one of our...
The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches

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Author: Brian MacArthur Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 672 From Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the most significant speeches of the modern era. The twentieth century was a...
The Jerilderie Letter

The Jerilderie Letter

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Author: Ned Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 128 Introduced by Alex McDermott 'I have been wronged and my mother and four or five men lagged innocent and...
This House Of Grief

This House Of Grief

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Author: Helen Garner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 310 Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going...
Life and Adventures: Text Classics

Life and Adventures: Text Classics

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Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The extraordinary survival story of William Buckley (1780-1856), 'the wild white man?, edited and introduced by Tim Flannery. In...
Aunts Up The Cross

Aunts Up The Cross

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Author: Robin Dalton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 142 My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was...
The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

The Fiftieth Gate: A Journey Through Memory

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Author: Mark Raphael Baker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The 20th anniversary edition of a seminal post-Holocaust work. What right did I possess, as a child of...
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating

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Author: Elisabeth Tova Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 208 In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring...
Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

Exercised: The Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health

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Author: Daniel Lieberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The myth-busting science behind our modern attitudes to exercise In industrialized nations, our sedentary lifestyles have contributed to skyrocketing...
To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

To Hell and Back: Europe, 1914-1949

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 To Hell and Backtells this story with humanity, flair and originality. Kershaw gives a compelling narrative of events, but...
Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

Roller-Coaster: Europe, 1950-2017

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Author: Ian Kershaw Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 The definitive history of a divided Europe, from the aftermath of the Second World War to the present. After...
The Italians

The Italians

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Author: John Hooper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A deeply knowledgeable and enjoyable account of what makes the Italians tick Sublime and maddening, fascinating yet baffling, Italy...
Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

Japan Story: In Search of a Nation, 1850 to the Present

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Author: Christopher Harding Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 A magical cultural history of modern Japan. Japan Story is a fascinating, surprising account of Japan's culture, from the...