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Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

Floor Sample: A Creative Memoir - with an introduction by Emma Gannon

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Author: Julia Cameron Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life....
Out of the Box: The crazy true story of the Australian champion athlete who posted himself home, became a drug smuggler and found himself on death row in a Sri Lankan prison

Out of the Box: The crazy true story of the Australian champion athlete who posted himself home, became a drug smuggler and found himself on death row in a Sri Lankan prison

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Author: Julie McSorley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Reg Spiers arrived in England in 1964 as a world-class athlete. He returned to Australia in a box ... ALIVE! And...
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 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,...
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

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Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...
The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

The Secret Heart: John Le Carre: An Intimate Memoir

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 A Daily Mail Book of...
Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

Living with a Seal: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet

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Author: Jesse Itzler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler chronicles his month of living and extreme fitness training with a Navy SEAL in the New York Times...
L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated "Female Byron"

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Author: Lucasta Miller Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 A lost nineteenth-century literary life, brilliantly rediscovered--Letitia Elizabeth Landon, hailed as the female Byron; she changed English poetry; her novels, short...
Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter

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Author: Emma Soames Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father . . . immensely evocative of...
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...
Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

Oh, What a Lovely Century: One man's marvellous adventures in love, war and high society

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Author: Roderic Fenwick Owen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 'I would be most unhappy to think that any part of this memoir should be cut on grounds...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage

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Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to...
Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

Me and My Mate Jeffrey: A story of big dreams, tough realities and facing my demons head on

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Author: Niall Breslin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In his book, Niall Breslin speaks openly about living with depression and anxiety, and his crippling journey to finally...
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

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Author: Natasha Trethewey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 WINNER OF THE ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE...
Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell

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Author: David Talbot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over...
Maggie Smith: A Biography

Maggie Smith: A Biography

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Author: Michael Coveney Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 'Coveney is the only writer who could get under Smith's skin, capturing her steeliness and vulnerability' INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY...
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa

Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa

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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali

In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali

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Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life

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Author: Diarmaid MacCulloch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 The long-awaited biography of the genius who masterminded Henry VIII's bloody revolution in the English government, which reveals at last Cromwell's...
Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of SAS: Australia that will explain the principles...
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...
How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

How to Think Like a Fish: And Other Lessons from a Lifetime in Angling

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Author: Jeremy Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Jeremy Wade has caught an unparalleled array of outsize and outlandish fish from challenging locations all over the world - goliath...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

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Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...
Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal and Redemption

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Author: Ben Mezrich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From Ben Mezrich, the New York Times bestselling author of THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES and BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE, comes BITCOIN BILLIONAIRES...
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...
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

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Author: Hilary Mantel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror...
Walden

Walden

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Author: Henry David Thoreau Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: In Walden, Thoreau offers apositive and insightful look at human solitude and the natural world. Detailing his experiences of...
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology

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Author: Nick Frost Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations

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Author: Ayaan Hirsi Ali Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Nomad is a philosophical memoir, telling how Ayaan Hirsi Ali came to America in search of a new life, and the...
Adele: The Biography

Adele: The Biography

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Author: Chas Newkey-Burden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 With only two albums to her name, Adele is one of the biggest singer-songwriters on the planet. Her last...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet

Frank Whittle (Icon Science): The Invention of the Jet

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Author: Andrew Nahum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 Frank Whittle always maintained that he was held back by a lack of government support. At the very moment...
Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

Mates: The Friendship that Sustained Henry Lawson

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Author: Dr Gregory Bryan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Henry Lawson gave voice to a uniquely Australian identity and much of the Australian ethos of mateship was...
Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

Morrissey: Alone and Palely Loitering

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Author: Kevin Cummins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'One of the greatest music photographers of all time...this book is indispensable to anyone who is a fan of Morrissey, or...
A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

A Street Cat Named Bob: How one man and his cat found hope on the streets

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Author: James Bowen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 When James Bowen found an injured, ginger street cat curled up in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, he...
A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival

A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival

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Author: Judith Tebbutt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away...
One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 A Spectator Book of the Year * A Times Book of the...
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

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Author: J. D. Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Waterstones Nonfiction Book of the Month (June) 'THE POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR' Sunday...
Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A.

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Author: Luis J Rodriguez Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The award-winning and bestselling classic memoir about a young Chicano gang member surviving the dangerous streets of East...
Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren

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Author: Michael Gross (Oxford UK) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 A fascinating and comprehensive look into the life of American fashion designer Ralph Lauren, now with an...
Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962

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 New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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Author: Rhyannon Styles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting

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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...