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Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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Author: Jill Nalder Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 2023* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2023* 'I read the book in...
Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury

Lightning Can Strike Twice: My Life as a Fury

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Author: Tommy Fury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In his first book professional boxer and social media star, Tommy Fury, reveals what life is like juggling his many identities:...
Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

Alan Partridge: Big Beacon: The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster

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Author: Alan Partridge Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the odds. TWICE. Using an innovative 'dual narrative'...
Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The perfect [...]

Behind The Shoulder Pads - Tales I Tell My Friends: The perfect [...]

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Author: Joan Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'The stories, the gossip, the glamour! Discover it all and more' Woman & Home '[A] hugely engaging and riveting memoir' The...
Among You Taking Notes...

Among You Taking Notes...

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Author: Naomi Mitchison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as...
Unravelling Us

Unravelling Us

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Author: Renee McBryde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret...
The Ticking is the Bomb

The Ticking is the Bomb

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Author: Nick Flynn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In 2007, during the months before Flynn's daughter is born, his growing outrage and obsession with torture - exacerbated by the...
Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called

Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called

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Author: Jeremy N Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 This taut, true thriller dives into a dark world that touches us all, as seen through the brilliant, breakneck career...
You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

You've Changed: Fake Accents, Feminism, and Other Comedies from Myanmar

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Author: Pyae Moe Thet War Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A fresh and insightful debut' New York Times 'Incisive and exciting' Shondaland In this electric debut essay collection, a...
The Uptown Local: a memoir of Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

The Uptown Local: a memoir of Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

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Author: Cory Leadbeater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A persuasive case for the argument that writers should write about writers' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A beautifully written and deeply moving memoir'...
Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

Beautiful People: My Thirteen Truths About Disability

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Author: Melissa Blake Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled...
Legends and Soles: Business, Creativity and Basketball - A Memoir of

Legends and Soles: Business, Creativity and Basketball - A Memoir of

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Author: Sonny Vaccaro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The brilliant autobiography from the 'saviour of Nike' If you're a sneaker head, you know him as the Savior of Nike....
A Very Private School

A Very Private School

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Author: Charles Spencer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A Times, Spectator and Waterstones Book of the Year 'Shocking and moving' Guardian 'Top marks for...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, NOW WITH AN EXTRA CHAPTER! 'Essential reading' Guardian 'A joyful read' Sunday Times 'Disarmingly honest' Daily...
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

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Author: Paula Byrne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 A Book of the Year in The Times, Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Bookseller and at Waterstones 'He understands only the women...
Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Showing Up: Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

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Author: Nedd Brockmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Get comfortable with being uncomfortable - the story of a 23-year-old tradie who put his body 'through hell and back 10...
Say Everything: A Memoir

Say Everything: A Memoir

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Author: Ione Skye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Gen X icon Ione Skye bares all in an achingly vulnerable coming-of-age memoir about chasing fame, desire, and true love in...
A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

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Author: Nigel Slater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir,...
Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship

Titan of the Senate: Orrin Hatch and the Once and Future Golden Age of Bipartisanship

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Author: William Doyle Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 If greatness is measured by achievement, Orrin Hatch was the greatest U.S. senator of modern times--discover the life and career of...
Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy

Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy

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Author: Julian Hayes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The true story behind the 2023 ITV series, STONEHOUSE, starring Matthew Macfayden and Keeley Hawes. 'An extraordinary life . . ....
The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

The Nazis Knew My Name: A remarkable story of survival and courage in Auschwitz

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Author: Magda Hellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The extraordinarily moving memoir by Australian Slovakian Holocaust survivor Magda Hellinger, who saved an untold number of lives at Auschwitz through...
In The Shadow of the Mountain

In The Shadow of the Mountain

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Author: Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 WINNER OF THE 2023 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I'm in awe of her...
Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

Toast: The Story of a Boy's Hunger

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Author: Nigel Slater Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Now with an updated foreword by Elizabeth Day and afterword by Nigel Slater, twenty years later Toast has become a classic...
Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

Soul Survivor: The Autobiography: The extraordinary memoir of a music icon

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Author: P.P. Arnold Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 P.P. Arnold's story is that of a rich and varied life. From her early musical origins in powerhouse church gospel, the...
Returning Light: 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael

Returning Light: 30 Years of Life on Skellig Michael

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Author: Robert L. Harris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'On Skellig Michael, thousands of birds appear and disappear, erecting towers, coming together in wings of movement which build and...
Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

Ticket to the World: My 80s Story

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Author: Martin Kemp Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean

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Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

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Author: Thomas Geve Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal...
Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green

Soul Survivor: A Biography of Al Green

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Author: Jimmy McDonough Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 With songs like "Love and Happiness," "I'm Still in Love with You," and "Tired of Being Alone," Al Green is considered...