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The Magic

The Magic

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Author: Dan Rhodes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Dan Rhodes is one of the most successful and beloved YouTuber and TikTok influencers in the world with more than 5...
Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene

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Author: Kim Reed Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 By day, Kim Reed was a social worker to the homebound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. By night, she scrambled into Manhattan...
Great Rides According to G

Great Rides According to G

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Author: Geraint Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Across the UK, into Europe and further afield, these are the training rides, races and journeys closest to his heart. From...
The Raven's Nest

The Raven's Nest

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Author: Sarah Thomas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In 2008, on a week-long trip to a film festival in Iceland, Sarah Thomas was spellbound by the strange landscape she...
One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

One-Armed Jack: Uncovering the Real Jack the Ripper

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Author: Sarah Bax Horton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 This highly revelatory book, based on original research and completely new analysis, presents a compelling new suspect as the most...
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...
The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

The Simple Life: How I Found Home: The unmissable Sunday Times bestselling memoir

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Author: Sarah Beeny Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 An instant Sunday Times bestseller Join Sarah Beeny on her journey to live more simply and find her forever home... Throughout...
Strange Things Are Happening

Strange Things Are Happening

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Author: Richard Norris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'The rainbow reaches right across the sky, for miles and miles, and has landed right in the middle of our field....
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year

Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year

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Author: Sly Stone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 MOJO BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 A ROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEAR...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There are prizes, normally named after PG Wodehouse, given to literary comic novels and non-fiction, and these books will have blurbs...
Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

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Author: Julia Bradbury Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' THE TIMES Join Julia Bradbury as...
Facing the Music: A searingly candid memoir from S Club 7 star, Hannah Spearritt

Facing the Music: A searingly candid memoir from S Club 7 star, Hannah Spearritt

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Author: Hannah Spearritt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There has been a lot of fun and adventure in my five decades on earth. There are also things from my...
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds

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Author: Simon Ings Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Four writers. Four dictators. One world, changed out of all recognition. ENGINEERS OF HUMAN SOULS is an intimate and shocking shadow...
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

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Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

Mortification: Eight Deaths and Life After Them

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Author: Mark Watson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Mark Watson is a national treasure' Richard Osman Whatever I now know about life - or think I know - I...
Elton John at 75

Elton John at 75

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Author: Gillian G. Gaar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's...
Advocate: A voice from the margins

Advocate: A voice from the margins

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Author: Lennina Ofori Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Lennina Ofori is a force of nature. A teen mother, a supportive older sister, a PhD student, a support system, a...
Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)

Things Joe Biden's Father Told Him: A Treasury of Bidenisms (and Other Malarkey)

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Author: John Guinness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 48 Joseph R. Biden Sr. never held political office, but that didn't stop him from imparting a lifetime's worth of guidance to...
Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners

Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners

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Author: Sarah Colvin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 As Nelson Mandela said, 'a nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.'...
The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

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Author: Kristen Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed it into one of the...
Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa

Epic: Adventures Across Aotearoa

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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...
Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash

Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash

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Author: Michael S Foley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Johnny Cash was an American icon, known for his level bass-baritone voice and sombre demeanour, for huge hits like "Ring...
Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun

Cocktail Time!: The Ultimate Guide to Grown-Up Fun

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Author: Paul Feig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Elegant man-about-town and the director of Bridesmaids, Spy, and A Simple Favor Paul Feig serves up a beautifully designed cocktail and...
King Charles III

King Charles III

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Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 An illustrated celebration of the new King of the United Kingdom, His Royal Highness King Charles III This is the story...
Beaumonster: A Memoir

Beaumonster: A Memoir

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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...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

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Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
Reckoning

Reckoning

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Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying and Playing Guitar with the Doors

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Author: Robby Krieger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Few bands are as shrouded in the murky haze of rock mythology as The Doors, and parsing fact from fiction has...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...
The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown

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Author: Alexander Larman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 At the outbreak of WW2, the British monarchy was in a state of turmoil. The previous king, Edward VIII, had abdicated...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

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Author: Christopher Benfey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded...
Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself

Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

Mozart in Motion: His Work and His World in Pieces

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Author: Patrick Mackie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Mozart holds a central, unwavering place in our culture, and his works are widely loved and listened to, often as much-loved...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

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Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

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Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

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Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

My Nonidentical Twin: One ordinary girl. One life-changing condition. How Tourette's changes your world.

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Author: Evie Meg - This Trippy Hippie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 *Order now to read the long-awaited debut book from the huge TikTok sensation Evie Meg | This...
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry

The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry

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Author: David Polfeldt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 At Massive Entertainment, a Ubisoft studio, a key division of one of the largest, most influential companies in gaming, Managing Director...
Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

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Author: Hilary Spurling Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 The author of the award-winning Matisse: A Life gives us the definitive biography of writer Anthony Powell--and takes us deep into...
The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

The Pope of Physics: Enrico Fermi and the Birth of the Atomic Age

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Author: Gino Segre Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Enrico Fermi is unquestionably among the greats of the world's physicists, the most famous Italian scientist since Galileo. Called the Pope...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet

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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...