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One Day I Will Write About This Place

One Day I Will Write About This Place

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Author: Binyavanga Wainaina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Binyavanga Wainaina tumbled through his middle-class Kenyan childhood out of kilter with the world around him. This world came to him...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family

Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family

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Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II

Imperfect Justice: Looted Assets, Slave Labor, and the Unfinished Business of World War II

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Author: Stuart Eizenstat Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His...
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century

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Author: Christina Riggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A bold new history of the discovery of King Tut and the seismic impact it left on modern society. When it...
Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

Love in a Time of Hate: Art and Passion in the Shadow of War, 1929-39

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Author: Florian Illies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A Financial Times 'Book to Read in 2023' 1930s Europe - as the Roaring Twenties wind down and the world rumbles...
When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom

When I Was Your Age: Ireland's Grandparents Share Memories and Wisdom

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Author: Valerie Cox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 INCLUDES INTERVIEWS WITH BERTIE AHERN, MARY KENNEDY, SEAN O'ROUKE, MARY COUGHLAN AND MANY OTHERS. What was life like for Ireland's grandparents...
Monty: The Autobiography

Monty: The Autobiography

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Author: Colin Montgomerie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Colin Montgomerie is a golfing legend. Ranked Europe's No. 1 for an unparalleled seven years in a row, he is equally...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Times, Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year 2020 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett...
100 Great Black Britons

100 Great Black Britons

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Author: Patrick Vernon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'An empowering read . . . it is refreshing to see somebody celebrate the role that black Britons have played in...
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

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Author: Stephen Westaby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir...
Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between

Long Way Home: Love, life, death, and everything in between

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Author: Dan Jarvis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Winner of Best Memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards 2020 'Dan Jarvis's story is a belter. It's about love, loss, courage...
Journey of Hope: A Remarkable True Story

Journey of Hope: A Remarkable True Story

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Still Not Sorry: The Best of Andrew Bolt -  Australia's Most Controversial Columnist

Still Not Sorry: The Best of Andrew Bolt - Australia's Most Controversial Columnist

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Escape from Kabul

Escape from Kabul

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Jem: A Father's Story

Jem: A Father's Story

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A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York

A Story Lately Told: Coming of Age in London, Ireland and New York

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Life As I Know It

Life As I Know It

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Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

Inside Vogue: My Diary Of Vogue's 100th Year

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Will to Live

Will to Live

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A Long Way Home

A Long Way Home

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A Garden in Lucca: Making a Life in Tuscany

A Garden in Lucca: Making a Life in Tuscany

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Levels of Life

Levels of Life

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Then Again

Then Again

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All at Sea on Land

All at Sea on Land

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Western Australia in the 20th Century

Western Australia in the 20th Century

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The Hospital By the River: A Story of Hope

The Hospital By the River: A Story of Hope

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Is This Anything?

Is This Anything?

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Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year

Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year

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Author: Alfons Kaiser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designer Karl Lagerfeld lived...
Making it Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now

Making it Modern: Essays on the Art of the Now

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Author: Linda Nochlin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A selection of key essays by one of the most influential voices in art history, including seven previously unpublished pieces. This...
Unprotected: A Memoir

Unprotected: A Memoir

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Author: Billy Porter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 It's easy to be yourself when who and what you are is in vogue. But growing up Black and gay in...
This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

This is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists

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Author: Michael Bird Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A compelling and lively history that examines the lives of British artists from the late-19th century to today. In This is...
Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames

Mudlark'd: Hidden Histories from the River Thames

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Author: Malcolm Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Beautiful and poignant' The Art Newspaper 'Absorbing... a magnificent book' Mail on Sunday The first illustrated book on mudlarking that tells...
Soar: A Life Freed by Dance

Soar: A Life Freed by Dance

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Author: David McAllister Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'McAllister's triumphant story.' Benjamin Law 'A ripping memoir.' Jane Turner From the backblocks of Perth to international stardom, this is a...
Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review

Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review

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Author: Adam Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 An exploration of echoes and resonances across two millennia of visual culture, celebrating ten years of The Public Domain Review. Gathering...
Dior: New Looks

Dior: New Looks

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Author: Jerome Gautier Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 312 Published to mark the 75th anniversary of one of the world's greatest couture houses, this gorgeous book combines Christian Dior's classics...
Infidelity and Other Affairs

Infidelity and Other Affairs

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Author: Kate Legge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'One cannot fail to be entranced by Legge's bone-deep strength and wisdom.' Annabel Crabb 'Unflinchingly investigating the value of monogamy and...
Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

Ravilious & Co: The Pattern of Friendship

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Author: Andy Friend Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage

Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage

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Author: Andrey Kurkov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's most important works of art and architectural...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...
Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master

Michaelangelo's Notebooks: The Poetry, Letters and Art of the Great Master

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Author: Carolyn Vaughan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Michelangelo is considered one of the greatest poets of the sixteenth century. He also filled hundreds of sheets of paper with...
War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East

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Author: Gershom Gorenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 As World War II raged in North Africa, General Irwin Rommel was guided by an uncanny sense of his enemies' plans...
Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

Days of Steel Rain: The Epic Story of a WWII Vengeance Ship in the Year of the Kamikaze

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Author: Brent E. Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named for her...
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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Author: Neil Price Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with...
Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare

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Author: Paul Lockhart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 The history of warfare cannot be fully understood without considering the technology of killing. In Firepower, acclaimed historian Paul Lockhart tells...
Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary

Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary

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Author: Arnold Thackray Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Our world today,from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the...
The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

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Author: Azra Raza Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we...
Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA

Unravelling the Double Helix: The Lost Heroes of DNA

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Author: Gareth Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 DNA. The double helix; the blueprint of life; and, during the early 1950s, a baffling enigma that could win a Nobel...