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Yardsticks For Failure: Adventures in Friendship and Fluster: the hilarious debut from the Taskmaster Season 15 contestant

Yardsticks For Failure: Adventures in Friendship and Fluster: the hilarious debut from the Taskmaster Season 15 contestant

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Author: Ivo Graham Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'A hilarious and original voice' Josh Widdicombe 'Delightfully smart and impossibly charming' Dolly Alderton 'His writing is as unpredictable and brilliant...
The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption: Winner of the 2020 Costa Biography Award

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Author: Lee Lawrence Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 WINNER OF THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2020 'This is the story of arguably one of the most important, yet least known,...
The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk

The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk

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Author: Dennis Kneale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 An admiring portrait of the pioneering entrepreneur from the former CNBC host and Forbes editor. One of the most influential figures...
Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

Sufferah: Memoir of a Brixton Reggae Head

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Author: Alex Wheatle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "One of the big memoirs of the summer" i news "A potent tale of triumph over adversity. Angry but never bitter,...
Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History

Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History

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Author: Anne Somerset Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 A Daily Mail Best History Book of the Year; A Spectator Best Book of the Year It is generally accepted that...
Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch

Pocket The Queen Wisdom: Inspirational Quotes and Wise Words From an Iconic Monarch

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Author: Hardie Grant Books Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 96 Queen Elizabeth II is one of the most important cultural and political icons in modern British history. As the United...
Living on a Thin Line: The 'Heartfelt and Hilarious' Autobiography

Living on a Thin Line: The 'Heartfelt and Hilarious' Autobiography

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies 'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian 'This powerful tell-all from...
Just Ignore Him: A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick

Just Ignore Him: A BBC Two Between the Covers book club pick

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Author: Alan Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies's story-telling take the breath away' Stephen...
Homesickness

Homesickness

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Author: Janine Mikosza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Stunning' - The Guardian 'This is an emotionally moving work that also pushes memoir forward. It asks intriguing questions about what...
Harold Wilson: The Winner

Harold Wilson: The Winner

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Author: Nick Thomas-Symonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In...
Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

Busy Being Free: Starting Again on Your Own

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Author: Emma Forrest Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautiful' Nigella Lawson 'I adored it' Dolly Alderton 'Wonderful' Lisa Taddeo 'Intoxicating' Abi Morgan What happens when your story doesn't end...
Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn

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Author: Brett Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A compelling personal account of the dramas of a singular British band' Neil Tennant The trajectory of Suede - hailed in...
Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

Swami in a Strange Land: How Krishna Came to the West

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Author: Joshua M. Greene Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 356 Discover the man behind the movement in this intimate biography of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International...
Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

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Author: Stephanie Land Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet...
SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

SAS Bravo Three Zero: The Gripping True Story

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A must read. Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.' Billy Billingham 'The story...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller

A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust, the Sunday Times bestseller

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Author: Renee Salt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

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Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

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Author: Nigel Farndale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from...
Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause

Just Getting Started: Lessons in life, love and menopause

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Author: Lisa Snowdon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Lisa Snowdon is on a mission to spread the word: growing old just means getting better! Having struggled for over a...
100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events

100 Diaries that Chronicled World Events

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Author: Colin Salter Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Oscar Wilde once wrote "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train."...
Spy of the Century: Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary

Spy of the Century: Alfred Redl and the Betrayal of Austria-Hungary

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Author: John Sadler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 170 'The Redl Affair had everything: sex, espionage, betrayal, a fall from greatness and a sensational climax in which Redl went to...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat

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Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession, Frank Rich*...
Mornings With My Cat Mii

Mornings With My Cat Mii

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Author: Mayumi Inaba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author's twenty-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing...
My Left Foot

My Left Foot

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Author: Christy Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 My Left Foot is Christy Brown's inspirational story of his early life, his battle against the restraints of cerebral palsy and...
A Truce That Is Not Peace

A Truce That Is Not Peace

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Author: Miriam Toews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 THE NUMBER ONE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2025 'The best memoir you will read...
Who Am I?

Who Am I?

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Author: Danny Cipriani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Powerful and thoughtful' Don McRae, Guardian 'A fascinating and incredibly honest insight into the pressurised life of an elite athlete, on...
Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

Water Mirror Echo: The Making and Meaning of Bruce Lee

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Author: Jeff Chang Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 "Water Mirror Echo is a remarkable story of a man, the traditions and communities that created him, and the new worlds...
Under A Rock

Under A Rock

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Author: Chris Stein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Sometimes fate deals up a wild card. There's a lot to be said for one of these wild cards and from...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500...
The Moon's A Balloon

The Moon's A Balloon

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Author: David Niven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 This acclaimed memoir, The Moon's A Balloon, chronicles the extraordinary life and career of a beloved Hollywood icon. It presents a...
The Man Who Loved Siberia

The Man Who Loved Siberia

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Author: Roy Jacobsen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Siberia, to me, is a fairy-tale land. Fritz Dorries set out on his first trip to Eastern Siberia in 1877, when...
On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War

On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War

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Author: Jens Stoltenberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 JENS STOLTENBERG OFFERS AN HONEST AND CANDID ACCOUNT OF A DRAMATIC DECADE AS THE LEADER OF NATO. When Stoltenberg took office...
Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France

Ninette's War: A Jewish Story of Survival in 1940s France

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Author: John Jay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Ninette Dreyfus was a cosseted scion of one of France's most prominent Jewish families - a cousin to Albert Einstein and...
Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It

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Author: Greg Marshall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 * A MOST-ANTICIPATED SUMMER READ SELECTED BY * Washington Post *Buzzfeed * Bustle * The Advocate * LitHub * Bookriot *...
Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

Inside: Winning. Losing. Starting again.

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Author: Boris Becker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'One of the most incredible and moving books that we've read, ever.' The High Performance Podcast Sitting in the prison classroom...
I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know

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Author: Alexis Devine Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir loaded with wit and passion for...
Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

Hollywood Double Agent: The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

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Author: Jonathan Gill Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The Cold War and the Golden Age of Hollywood meet in this story of the remarkable career of Boris Morros, ?lm...
Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

Hollywood Con Queen: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

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Author: Scott C. Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling...
Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

Halfway To Hollywood: Diaries 1980-1988 (Volume Two)

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 The second volume of diaries from one of Britain's best-loved national treasures. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The...
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle

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Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
Chronicles of The Juice Man

Chronicles of The Juice Man

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Author: Soren Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A memoir by the Oscar-winning, platinum-selling rapper and producer for fans of Rick Ross's Hurricanes and The Autobiography of Gucci Mane....
Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

Across Mountains, Land and Sea: One Boy's Extraordinary Journey

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Author: Mir Rahimi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The extraordinary true story of hope, courage and survival and one boy's journey across the world to find safety When Mir...
Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

Who Owns This Sentence?: A History of Copyrights and Wrongs

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Author: David Bellos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 'Fascinating' Telegraph 'Thorough and engaging' Washington Post 'Lively, opinionated, and ultra-timely' New Yorker '[A] robust and readable polemic history' Financial Times...
What You're Made For: Powerful Lessons from a Life in Sports

What You're Made For: Powerful Lessons from a Life in Sports

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Author: Ryan Holiday Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Coach George Raveling is a living icon in the fields of sport and leadership. His story begins in the 1930s, under...
Walking Disaster

Walking Disaster

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Author: Deryck Whibley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 This candid memoir of punk rock, fame, and endurance from Deryck Whibley, lead singer of Sum 41, follows Whibley's rise from...
Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii: the subject of new Netflix documentary 'Avicii - I'm Tim'

Tim - The Official Biography of Avicii: the subject of new Netflix documentary 'Avicii - I'm Tim'

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Author: Mans Mosesson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The intimate biography of the iconic DJ who was lost too soon. Tim Bergling was a musical visionary who, through his...
There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star

There and Back: Diaries 1999-2009: The brand new volume from the beloved author, TV icon and Monty Python star

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'A social history of Britain spanning four decades, told with unflagging empathy and wit ' Jonathan Coe, Observer THE FOURTH VOLUME...