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Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone

Will They Ever Trust Us Again?: Letters from the War Zone

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia

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Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic...
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

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Author: Stacy Schiff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A Top 10 Best Books of the Year (Wall Street Journal), Top 10 Best Nonfiction (Time), Top 5 Nonfiction (LA Times),...
The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science: Costa & Royal Society Prize Winner

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Author: Andrea Wulf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016 'A thrilling adventure story' Bill...
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 Number of Pages: 512 Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared...
Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

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Author: Jenny Wormald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naive, beautiful and sexually...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire

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Author: David Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 This book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet

Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet

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Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment in 1943...
Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen

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Author: Greg Jenner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian 'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of...
Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History

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Author: Dr. Ada Ferrer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORY "Full of...lively insights...
Coal Black Mornings

Coal Black Mornings

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Author: Brett Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Brett Anderson came from a world impossibly distant from rock star success, and in COAL BLACK MORNINGS he traces the journey...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

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Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
Ataturk

Ataturk

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Author: Andrew Mango Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 This biography of Atat rk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain...
All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

All the Young Men: How One Woman Risked It All To Care For The Dying

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Author: Ruth Coker Burks Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudice" The Guardian 'Breath-taking...
Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain

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Author: Danny Goldberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In early 1991, top music manager Danny Goldberg agreed to take on Nirvana, a critically acclaimed new band from the underground...
The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

The Gold Machine: Tracking the Ancestors from Highlands to Coffee Colony

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'Follow Iain Sinclair into the cloud jungles of Peru and emerge questioning all that seemed so solid and immutable.' Barry Miles'The Gold Machine is a trip, a psychoactive expedition in...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

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Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

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Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao...
To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II

To Sanctify the World: The Vital Legacy of Vatican II

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Author: George Weigel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future and the...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem

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Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The Waste Land is said to be the greatest poem of the age. It is thought to describe the moral decay...
Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

Not Far From Brideshead: Oxford Between the Wars

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Author: Daisy Dunn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like...
The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

The New Royals: Queen Elizabeth's Legacy and the Future of the Crown

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Author: Katie Nicholl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 For seventy years, Queen Elizabeth ruled over an institution and a family. During her lifetime she was constant in her desire...
Kevin Pietersen on Cricket: The toughest opponents, the greatest battles, the game we love

Kevin Pietersen on Cricket: The toughest opponents, the greatest battles, the game we love

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Author: Kevin Pietersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In 2014, Kevin Pietersen's autobiography was one of the most talked about sporting media stories of the year, largely due to...
The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

The Ballast Seed: A story of motherhood, of growing up and growing plants

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Author: Rosie Kinchen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 'I loved The Ballast Seed. I couldn't put it down. Beautiful and sad and hopeful all at once - luminous and...
Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

Busy Being Free: A Lifelong Romantic is Seduced by Solitude

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A staggering piece of writing' Nigella Lawson 'It's woken me up' Minnie Driver, author of Managing Expectations 'The most delicious memoir...
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...
Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family

Becoming Nicole: The Extraordinary Transformation of an Ordinary Family

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Author: Amy Ellis Nutt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Becoming Nicole is a powerful and illuminating book about one couple's journey in coming to accept and nurture their transgender...
The Ref's Call: Memoir of a Rugby Referee

The Ref's Call: Memoir of a Rugby Referee

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Author: Owen Doyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A genuine presence on the field, Owen refereed with the perfect balance of respect and authority' Keith Wood 'Highly respected with...
1918: The Year of Victories

1918: The Year of Victories

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Between Mexico and Poland

Between Mexico and Poland

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Why Wangaratta?: the phenomenon of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.

Why Wangaratta?: the phenomenon of the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.

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Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

Unchosen: The Hidden Lives of Hasidic Rebels

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Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood

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The Will to Live on

The Will to Live on

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The Strong Man: A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink

The Strong Man: A powerful story of life under fire and one man's journey back from the brink

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The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of Being James Packer

The Price of Fortune: The Untold Story of Being James Packer

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The Myth of the Great Depression

The Myth of the Great Depression

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The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million

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The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-up in History

The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-up in History

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The Hardest Day

The Hardest Day

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The French Mathematician

The French Mathematician

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The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman

The First Century: Emperors, Gods and Everyman

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The Day the War Ended

The Day the War Ended

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The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

The Boy from Boomerang Crescent

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Taking Nothing for Granted: From Chronic Fatigue to the MCG

Taking Nothing for Granted: From Chronic Fatigue to the MCG

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