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The Invention of Oscar Wilde
Author: Nicholas Frankel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 248 One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations
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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
When the Mountains Dance: Love, loss and hope in the heart of Italy
Author: Christine Toomey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'In the wake of the strongest earthquake in Italy for nearly forty years and the many aftershocks that followed, Italians began...
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion - A Financial Times Book of the Year
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...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter
Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues - One Cop's Extraordinary True Story
Author: Cameron Hardiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story
Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home
Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
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...
Love Stories of the Bible Speak, Biblical Lessons on Romance, Friendship and Faith
Author: Shannon Bream Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Instant New York Times Bestseller! The Bible is full of "love" stories. But the Biblical idea of love is so much...
Beaumonster: A Memoir
Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ... Damian is just seven when he is taken in...
Taking Flight: Lores Bonney's Extraordinary Flying Career
Author: Mrs Kristen Alexander Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 280 From her first taste of the air when she joined Bert Hinkler in the cockpit for a joy ride in...
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective.
Author: Jackie Malton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' -...
The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival
Author: Alaa Aljaleel Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When the Syrian civil war forced the people of Aleppo to flee their homes, thousands of the city's pets...
The Favourite: The Life of Sarah Churchill and the History Behind the Major Motion Picture
Author: Ophelia Field Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'An incredible story crackling with royal passion, envy, ambition and betrayal ... Field's account of the psychological power play...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel
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Author: John Stubbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated by the...
Into the Raging Sea: Thirty-three mariners, one megastorm and the sinking of El Faro
Author: Rachel Slade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 In the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Into Thin Air, Rachel Slade's Into the Raging Sea is a nail-biting account...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 The original bestselling autobiography by the comedian, novelist and national treasure, Stephen Fry. ______________________________ The original bestselling autobiography by...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence
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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
The Stories We Tell: Every Piece of Your Story Matters
Author: Joanna Gaines Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In her first solo memoir, New York Times bestselling author Joanna Gaines invites us on an authentic and deeply vulnerable journey...
Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy and Connection
Author: Mimi Zhu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Be Not Afraid of Love is a stunning collection of interconnected essays and affirmations that follow Mimi Zhu's journey toward embodying...
The Gender Games: The Problem With Men and Women, From Someone Who Has Been Both
Author: Juno Dawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'It's a boy!' or 'It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world....
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020
Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as...
President McKinley: Architect of the American Century
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Author: Robert W Merry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 Acclaimed historian Robert Merry resurrects the presidential reputation of William McKinley in a "measured, insightful biography that seeks...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War
Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Fresh and vital ... Full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion ... A remarkable pioneer ... A hugely important memoir from...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962
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Author: Blanche Wiesen Cook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 688 One of the New York Times's 100 Notable Books of 2016 One of NPR's 10 Best Books of 2016 "Heartachingly...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case
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Author: Michael Rosen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 It is the evening of July 18, 1898 and the world-renowned novelist Emile Zola is on the run. His crime? Taking...
The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
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Author: Alex Beam Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 The Feud is the deliciously ironic (and sad) tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of...
Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau
Author: Kevin Dann (Kevin Dann) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Now in paperback, this thrilling, meticulous biography by naturalist and historian Kevin Dann fills a gap in...
Henri Matisse
Author: Kathryn Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised...
Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
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Author: Timothy Brennan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy
Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
Socialism Is Great!: A Worker's Memoir of the New China
Author: Lijia Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lijia Zhang worked as a teenager in a factory producing missiles designed to reach North America, queuing every month for the...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Multi-award-winning television writer and producer Georgia Pritchett knows a thing or two about anxiety. From worrying about the monsters under her...
Why We Play: How to find joy and meaning in everyday life
Author: Joanna Fortune Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Discover how to reconnect with the child in you and unlock the transformative power of play to live a more joyful...
The King: The Life of Charles III
Author: Christopher Andersen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 From #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen comes a vivid and unsparing yet sympathetic portrait of one of the...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle
Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
How Women Rise
Author: Sally Hegelsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Do you hesitate about putting forward ideas? Are you reluctant to claim credit for your achievements? Do you find it difficult to...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety
Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde
Author: Rupert Everett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett is a deliciously gifted writer. Nothing and no one escapes...
Why Patti Smith Matters
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....
The Education of Young Donald Trilogy: Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist
Author: Donald Horne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 816 A compelling insight into the making of one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals. A classic of Australian literature, The Education of...