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Chambers Biographical Dictionary
Author: Una McGovern Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 1600 Covering the full diversity of human achievement from Boudicca to Nelson Mandela, Isaac Newton to Maya Angelou, Bill Clinton to David...
The Beatles - All These Years: Volume One: Tune In
Author: Mark Lewisohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 960 The Beatles have been at the top for fifty years, their music remains exciting, their influence is still huge, their acclaim...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby
Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
The People's Hospital: The Real Cost of Life in an Uncaring Health System
Author: Ricardo Nuila Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 How do medical staff offer care and hope to patients and families when faced with the mayhem and lottery of a...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .
Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Good for a Girl: My Life Running in a Man's World - WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023
Author: Lauren Fleshman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
Author: Greg Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 * A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot *...
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
Author: Joanna Biggs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I took off my wedding ring - a gold band with half a line of 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath etched...
Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, Murder,and Surviving Vladimir Putin's Wrath
Author: Bill Browder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 2 BESTSELLER ** THE NEW YORK TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER 'More explosive, compulsive and gasp-inducingly, spine-tinglingly, mouth-dryingly,...
The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit
Author: Michael Finkel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 *THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Could you leave behind all that you know and live in solitude for three decades? This...
The Sheep Stell: Memoirs of a Shepherd
Author: Janet White Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'One woman's gloriously lyrical account of life and love as a shepherdess' Mail on Sunday 'Janet White's unfailingly enjoyable book ....
One Last Lunch: A Final Meal with Those Who Meant So Much to Us
Author: Erica Heller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A few years ago, Erica Heller, daughter of novelist Joseph Heller, realized how universal the longing is for one more moment...
Passion for Flying
Author: Tom Group Captain Eeles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Group Captain Tom Eeles served in the RAF for 44 years and totalled over 8000 hours of flying in...
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Author: Margo Jefferson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female...
The Sky Wept Fire: My Life as a Chechen Freedom Fighter
Author: Mikail Eldin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 On the eve of the first Chechen war, Mikail Eldin was a young and naive arts journalist. By the end of...
The Memory Keeper: A Journey Into the Holocaust to Find My Family
Author: Jackie Kohnstamm Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jackie Kohnstamm's mother rarely talked about what had happened during the war and had kept little evidence of her early life....
Gandhi: An Illustrated Biography
Author: Pramod Kapoor Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Rarely seen images and rigorous research provides fascinating insight into one of the most revered figures in modern Indian history. Gandhi...
Cacophony of Bone
Author: Kerri ni Dochartaigh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage...
The Love That Dares: Letters of LGBTQ+ Love & Friendship Through History
Author: Rachel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "What this charming, moving and fascinating collection proves is that the [letter] form itself - a scribbled note, a declaration of...
Menuhin: A Life
Author: Sir Humphrey Burton, CBE Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 Since 2000, when this biography was first published, Menuhin's name has not faded from public attention, as often happens...
The Woman in Me
Author: Britney Spears Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June...
From The Heart: The inspirational memoir of how a captain became a leader
Author: Trent Cotchin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 When Trent Cotchin was handed the reins of Richmond Football Club's team in 2013, he was a 22-year-old star, skilful and...
Faster Cures: Accelerating the Future of Health
Author: Michael Milken Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Partly a memoir and partly a recent history of medicine, the definitive account of Michael Milken's lifetime work to accelerate medicine's...
The Red Flame
Author: Karen Elson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 One of fashion's most iconic redheads pens a moving coming-of-age story chronicling her professional and personal metamorphosis. At age eighteen, she...
Lemnos & Gallipoli Revealed: A Pictorial History of the Anzacs in the Aegean 1915-16
Author: Jim Claven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Lemnos was the advanced base for the Gallipoli campaign in 1915-16. its great harbour of Mudros Bay witnessed the arrival of the...
A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times
Author: Mark T. Esper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper reveals the shocking details of his tumultuous tenure...
Queen Elizabeth II: An Oral History
Author: Deborah Hart Strober Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A stunning and revelatory oral history of Queen Elizabeth II and her reign. There seems an unquenchable fascination with the...
Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots
Author: Reba McEntire Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER The best things in life are really not that fancy....
Makeover from Within: Lessons in Hardship, Acceptance, and Self-Discovery
Author: Ty Hunter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A nuanced mix of memoir, photographs, motivational musings, and wisdom, legendary celebrity stylist Ty Hunter recounts both the trying times and...
To Me, He Was Just Dad: Stories of Growing Up with Famous Fathers
Author: Joshua David Stein Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 "The lowdown on what it's like to be raised by a legend. Frequently funny and consistently intimate. . . ....
Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa
Author: Ray Salisbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Over the last 50 years, sea kayakers, climbers and alpine trampers have been attempting audacious journeys across NZ that last many...
Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate, and the Price of a Vision
Author: Charles Elton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The director Michael Cimino (1939-2016) is famous for two films: the intense, powerful, and enduring Vietnam movie The Deer Hunter, which...
Sofia Coppola: Forever Young
Author: Hannah Strong Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 In the two decades since her first feature film was released, Sofia Coppola has created a tonally diverse, meticulously crafted, and...
George Michael: A Life
Author: James Gavin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 George Michael was an extravagantly gifted, openhearted soul singer whose work was both pained and smolderingly erotic. He was a songwriter...
The Kinfolk Entrepreneur: Ideas for Meaningful Work
Author: Nathan Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Kinfolk Entrepreneur, author Nathan Williams introduces readers to 35 creative business owners around the globe, offering an inspiring, in-depth...
Illuminated: Autism & All The Things I've left Unsaid
Author: Melanie Sykes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 The impactful and empowering memoir from Melanie Sykes Melanie Sykes has been a face on our screens, a voice on our...
All of This: A Memoir of Death and Desire
Author: Rebecca Woolf Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 "Beautifully written, complex, provocative, painful, genuine...an unforgettable memoir."-ROXANE GAY "Wonderfully lyrical and uncomfortably honest in a way that is so rare,...
Butcher On The Block: Everyday Recipes, Stories, and Inspirations from Your Local Butcher and Beyond
Author: Matt Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From the author of Serial Griller and South's Best Butts, a cookbook of more than 125 everyday specialty recipes plus meaty...
Riverman: An American Odyssey
Author: Ben McGrath Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Brilliant, clear, and humane' Elizabeth Gilbert 'Miraculous and hopeful' Emma Straub Riverman: An American Odyssey uncovers the story of an extraordinary...
Out of the Blue: The inside story of the unexpected rise and rapid fall of Liz Truss
Author: Harry Cole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Liz Truss's journey from schoolgirl revolutionary to Britain's shortest-serving prime minister The Sunday Times Politics Book of the Year A Guardian...
Happily Grey: Stories, Souvenirs, and Everyday Wonders from the Life In Between
Author: Mary Lawless Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Open yourself to the thrill of curiosity in every moment. In this gorgeous full-color book, Mary Lawless Lee shares how...
Our Man In Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
Author: Steve Kemper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "Gripping history, offering both drama and suspense." -Wall Street Journal A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in...
The Fame Game: An Insider's Playbook for Earning Your 15 Minutes
Author: Ramon Hervey II Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Legendary Hollywood entertainment manager and publicist Ramon Hervey II shares insightful tales of his remarkable four-decade career plotting and overseeing...
An Extraordinary Theory of Objects: A Memoir of an Outsider in Paris
Author: Stephanie LaCava Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 It's Girl Interrupted meets Miranda July-with a touch of Joan Didion-in this captivating collection of original essays revolving around a young...
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados,...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Author: Artemis Joukowsky Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The little-known story of the Sharps whose rescue and relief missions across Europe during World War II saved the lives of...
The Cryotron Files: The strange death of a pioneering Cold War computer scientist
Author: Douglas Buck Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dudley Buck was a brilliant scientist who developed or invented several early pieces of now-common technology (e.g. microchips, flash drives)in the...