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Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

Crowdie And Cream And Other Stories: Memoirs of a Hebridean Childhood

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Author: Finlay J. Macdonald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Peopled with characters like Great Aunt Rachel, 'built like a Churchill tank and with a personality to match', these are...
Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

Re-Sisters: The Lives and Recordings of Delia Derbyshire, Margery Kempe and Cosey Fanni Tutti

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Author: Cosey Fanni Tutti Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film...
Thinking Again

Thinking Again

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Allegorizings

Allegorizings

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
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...
Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979

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Author: Ysenda Maxtone Graham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Brilliant, hilarious... My book of the year' INDIA KNIGHT 'A wonderful book' CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday 'Funny, bloodcurdling and...
Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison

Orange Is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison

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Author: Piper Kerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with...
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...
The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)

The Life of P.T. Barnum (Collins Classics)

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Author: P. T. Barnum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Meet the greatest entertainer of the 19th Century......
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere

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Author: Peter Conrad Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'We Are All Americans Now' proclaimed headlines around the world on the day after 9/11. It was not news: it had...
The Torch In My Ear

The Torch In My Ear

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Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume...
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...
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

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Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
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....
A Short History of the World in 50 Books

A Short History of the World in 50 Books

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Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
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...
What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33

What I Saw: Reports From Berlin 1920-33

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Author: Joseph Roth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 1920, Joseph Roth, the most renowned German correspondent of his age, arrived in Berlin, the capital of the Weimar Republic....
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

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Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'A dazzling celebration and recalibration of Mozart's genius, written with an energy to match its subject' - Ian Bostridge Mozart is...
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

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Author: Jack Lowery Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and...
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...
A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III

A Brief History of the British Monarchy: From the Iron Age to King Charles III

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Author: Jeremy Black Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 The British monarchy is at a turning point. Concise and engaging, this book charts the very beginnings of British reign through...
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...
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...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

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Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life

Cider Country: How an Ancient Craft Became a Way of Life

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Author: James Crowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'James Crowden is Britain's best cider writer ... Cider Country is the book we've all been waiting for.' Oz Clarke Join...
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

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Author: Marina Warner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching...
The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

The Splendid and the Vile: Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Bombing of London

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Author: Erik Larson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked...
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving

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Author: Julia Samuel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 290 Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and...
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to...
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism

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Author: Matthew Continetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A "superb" and "ambitious" (New York Times) intellectual and political history of the last century of American conservatism When most people...
Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk

Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk

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Author: DBC Pierre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Big Snake Little Snake is a cascade of true stories by DBC Pierre, recorded while on his way to make a...
Solid Ivory

Solid Ivory

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Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
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...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
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...
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...
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir

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Author: Raja Shehadeh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Aziz Shehadeh was many things: lawyer, activist, and political detainee, he was also the father of bestselling author and activist Raja....
The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World

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Author: Jennifer Higgie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It's not so long ago that a woman's expressed interest in other realms would have ruined her reputation, or even killed...
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...
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

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Author: Malala Yousafzai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Winner of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize* In 2009 Malala Yousafzai began writing a blog on BBC Urdu about life in...
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...
Russia: Myths and Realities

Russia: Myths and Realities

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Author: Sir Rodric Braithwaite Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Wise and thorough' - The Spectator 'Brisk and readable ... very valuable' -Financial Times 'He is an engaging guide ......
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List

The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List

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Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging...