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Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

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Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind

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Author: Rachel Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions...a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired...
Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

Our History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Journals and Letters

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Author: Travis Elborough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first...
Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

Home/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return

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Author: Rebecca Mead (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of...
My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

My Generation: Collected Nonfiction

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Author: William Styron Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 Including significant previously uncollected material, My Generation is the definitive gathering of the fruits of this beloved writer's five decades of...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War--a Tragedy in Three Acts

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Author: Scott Anderson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 "Enthralling. . . . Lying and stealing and invading, it should be said, make for captivating reading, especially in the hands...
The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer

The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World's First Desktop Computer

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Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...
When in French: Love in a Second Language

When in French: Love in a Second Language

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Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she...
Great Society: A New History

Great Society: A New History

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Author: Amity Shlaes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period...
Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World

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Author: Chris Wallace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * "Riveting." --The New York Times * "Propulsive." --Time * "Reads like a tense thriller." --The Washington Post...
The Instant

The Instant

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Author: Amy Liptrot Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 'I loved this book' - Raynor Winn, author of The Salt Path 'Utterly absorbing' - Lucy Jones, author 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...
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in...
Breaking History: A White House Memoir

Breaking History: A White House Memoir

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Author: Jared Kushner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER Jared Kushner...
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

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Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern...
Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond

Dog's Best Friend: A Brief History of an Unbreakable Bond

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Author: Simon Garfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 One of the first words we learn. Perhaps the best friend we'll have. An animal so much part of our lives...
The Best Australian Stories: 2001

The Best Australian Stories: 2001

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The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte

The Hard Light of Day: An Artist's Story of Friendships in Arrernte

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Infidel: My Life

Infidel: My Life

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Snake Circle

Snake Circle

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A Biased Memoir

A Biased Memoir

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Best Australian Essays 2003

Best Australian Essays 2003

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On the Wire: An Australian Journalist on the Front Line in Asia

On the Wire: An Australian Journalist on the Front Line in Asia

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From Strength to Strength: an Autobiograpgy

From Strength to Strength: an Autobiograpgy

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Color of Water

Color of Water

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Unpolished Gem

Unpolished Gem

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The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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Against The Law

Against The Law

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Author: Peter Wildeblood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'This right which I claim for myself and for all those like me is the right to choose the person whom...
Why Patti Smith Matters

Why Patti Smith Matters

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Author: Caryn Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose....
Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

Heal Me: In Search of a Cure

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Author: Julia Buckley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Julia Buckley needs a miracle. Like a third of the UK population, she has a chronic pain condition. According to her...
The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

The Premonitions Bureau: A Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Premonitions are impossible. But they come true all the time. Most are innocent. You think of a forgotten friend. Out of...
The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: From the creator of the Edinburgh Festival sell out hit AGE IS A FEELING

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Author: Haley McGee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 ______________________________________________________________________________________ 'This memoir is one of the smartest, funniest books I've read about love in a long, long time' - RED...
General Jack's Diary 1914-18

General Jack's Diary 1914-18

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Author: John Terraine Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 At the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 Captain J. L. Jack was serving with the First Cameronians, one...
The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss

The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss

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Author: Dr Finbar Lennon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 When Dr Kate McGarry was diagnosed with an advanced cancer of unknown origin she resolved to write a book to...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Managing Expectations: A Memoir

Managing Expectations: A Memoir

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Author: Minnie Driver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When I was six, I wrote my first short essay. The title given by the teacher was: 'When I grow up,...
The King's War

The King's War

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Author: Mark Logue Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the...
Beautiful Ever After

Beautiful Ever After

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Author: Katie Piper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Katie Piper has an attitude to life that can make anything bearable. She's a hero' MARIAN KEYES The heartbreaking, inspiring and...
Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography

Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography

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Author: Danny Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine...
The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

The Platinum Queen: Over 75 Speeches Given by Britain's Longest-Reigning Monarch

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Author: Jennie Bond Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 For the first time, all 70 of the Queen's Christmas speeches are published together in full, along with six additional feature...
Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

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The Memoirs Of Zelman Cowen: A Public Life

The Memoirs Of Zelman Cowen: A Public Life

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Fromelles and Pozires

Fromelles and Pozires

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Secret Soldier

Secret Soldier

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Landmarks: A history of Australia in 33 places

Landmarks: A history of Australia in 33 places

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