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When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain's Legacy of Slavery

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Thomas Harding discovered that his family had profited from slavery, he set out to interrogate the choices of his ancestors...
From Mons to Mali: Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914

From Mons to Mali: Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914

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Author: Andrew Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and...
The Chiffon Trenches

The Chiffon Trenches

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Author: Andre Leon Talley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Honestly and candidly captures fifty sublime years of fashion' Manolo Blahnik Discover what truly happens behind the scenes in the...
Prime: Art's Next Generation

Prime: Art's Next Generation

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Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The most exciting rising stars in contemporary art - who's who and what's next - featuring 107 artists born since 1980,...
Great Women Painters

Great Women Painters

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Author: Phaidon Editors Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 348 A sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking...
On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA

On the Origin of Evolution: Tracing 'Darwin's Dangerous Idea' from Aristotle to DNA

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A Waterstones Best Book of 2020 The theory of evolution by natural selection did not spring fully formed and unprecedented from...
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 Number of Pages: 352 Now in paperback, the #1 New York Times bestselling chronicle of the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty, from...
The Times World Cup Moments

The Times World Cup Moments

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Author: Henry Winter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Shortlisted for the 2023 Illustrated Sports Book of the Year The ideal gift for football fans Pairing epic sports photography with...
The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

The Wreckage of My Presence: Essays

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Author: Casey Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Magnificent." -People Magazine The instant New York Times bestseller: Laugh-out-loud, deeply insightful, and emotion-filled essays from multitalented actress, comedian, podcaster, and...
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...
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

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Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 768 A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second...
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong

Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail and Magpie 'Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure'...
The Education of an Idealist

The Education of an Idealist

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Author: Samantha Power Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Her highly personal and reflective memoir ... is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world'...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

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Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings

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Author: Thomas Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 'A beautiful, beautiful book . . . archaeology is changing so much about the way we view the so-called Dark Ages...
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,...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football

Playmaker: My Life and the Love of Football

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Author: Glenn Hoddle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'On the pitch he was a magician' - Arsene Wenger The first full autobiography from former footballer and England manager Glenn...
Seduced by a Sociopath

Seduced by a Sociopath

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Author: Chrissy Handy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A devastating true story of love, betrayal, and deceit. Chrissy: attractive, successful 40-year-old divorcee with three amazing children. Alexander Marc d'Ariken...
Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues

Young Bucks: Killing the Business from Backyards to the Big Leagues

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Author: Matt Jackson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The electric and daring independent wrestling tag team share their inspiring story of how two undersized, ambitious athletes from Southern California...
Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption

Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption

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Author: Jock Zonfrillo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to...
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 Number of Pages: 464 From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it,...
Slash: The Autobiography

Slash: The Autobiography

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Author: Slash Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 It seems excessive...but that doesn't mean it didn't happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty...
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, the Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876

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Author: Bret Baier Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 #1 New York Times Bestseller Fox News Channel's Chief Political Anchor illuminates the heroic life of Ulysses S. Grant "To Rescue...
Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in the 1970s

Call the Vet: My Life as a Young Vet in the 1970s

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Author: Bruce Fogle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Arriving in 1970s' London as a fresh-faced Canadian, Bruce Fogle assumed that because he knew the language, he would understand the...
The Troubles with Us: One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way

The Troubles with Us: One Belfast Girl on Boys, Bombs and Finding Her Way

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Author: Alix O'Neill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Derry Girls meets David Sedaris' Elske Rahill 'The writing is full of energy and originality' Irish Times Growing up on the...
Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

Compromised: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump

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Author: Peter Strzok Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ^ From "the FBI agent who started it all" (David Martin, CBS Sunday Morning), an epic,...
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

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Author: Buzz Bissinger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation...
Returning Light: 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael

Returning Light: 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael

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Author: Robert L. Harris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and...
The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe

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Author: Matthew Gabriele Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 "The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

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Author: Michael Sheridan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter A superb new history of...
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

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Author: Hadley Freeman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study of Jewish...
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 Best American Essays 2022

The Best American Essays 2022

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Author: Alexander Chee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexander Chee, an essayist of "virtuosity and power"...
Two Sisters

Two Sisters

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Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting' HOWARD JACOBSON 'Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.' SUSIE ORBACH TWO SISTERS publishes on the...
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

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Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor renowned marine biologist Dr....
Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

Queen Elizabeth II: A Lifetime Dressing for the World Stage

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Author: Jane Eastoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 128 Exquisite and sumptuous, immaculately tailored, dignified and, above all, practical. The wardrobe of Queen Elizabeth II was as distinctive in style...
The Were-Wolf

The Were-Wolf

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Author: Clemence Housman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 158 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred...
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler's first Mass-Murder Programme

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Author: Charlie English Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...
The Good Fight

The Good Fight

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Author: Shirley Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The revered civil rights activist and pioneering member of Congress chronicles her groundbreaking 1972 run for President as the first woman...
Where There's Muck, There's Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North

Where There's Muck, There's Bras: True Stories of the Amazing Women of the North

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Author: Kate Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 From rebels to writers, athletes to astronauts, join Kate Fox takes on an entertaining and eye-opening journey through the lives of...
Vessel: A Memoir

Vessel: A Memoir

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Author: Chongda Cai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...
The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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Author: Tommy Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Motley Crue was the voice of a barely pubescent Generation X, the anointed high priests of the power ballad, and the...
Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II

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Author: Catherine Musemeche, MD Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to...
The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.

The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.

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Author: Micah Richards Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'The game isn't what it seems from the outside. The game isn't quite what I was expecting. The game doesn't always...
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer

How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer

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Author: Adrian Newey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun....