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The Autobiography of the British Soldier

The Autobiography of the British Soldier

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Author: John Lewis-Stempel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From Agincourt to Waterloo, from Dunkirk to the Gulf War, and everywhere in between, one man has served in all these...
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

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Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport

Running: A Love Story: 10 Years, 5 Marathons, and 1 Life-Changing Sport

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Author: Jen Miller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 Jen Miller has fallen in and out of love, but no man has been there for her the way running has.In...
Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

Putting the Rabbit in the Hat: The fascinating memoir from the star of

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Author: Brian Cox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. A Guardian, Times, Sunday Times and Independent Book of the Year...
Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George Herbert Walker

Character Matters: And Other Life Lessons from George Herbert Walker

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Author: Jean Becker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Former Chief of Staff to President George H.W. Bush and New York Times bestselling author of THE MAN I KNEW, Jean...
Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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Author: Mishal Husain Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING FINALIST SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS 'One of the...
The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite

The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite

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Author: Laura Freeman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Shortlisted for the Sunday Times/PFD Young Writer of the Year Award At the age of fourteen, Laura Freeman was diagnosed with...
Yoko

Yoko

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Author: David Sheff Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'Absorbing' Telegraph 'Gentle, empathetic, committed to righting undeniable wrongs' Sunday Times, Book of the Week 'Illuminating and affectionate... an intimate and...
The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain

The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain

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Author: Gregory Hill Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 296 An epic journey from New Zealand to Spain, celebrating the enduring romance of travel by train. The journey of The Antipodean...
Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

Hidden Histories: 100 Wild Stories You Never Learned in History Class

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Author: Tim Rayborn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We all know what was written in the history books. There are some stories we've heard a hundred times-but often our...
After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

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Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)

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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...
Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

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Author: Laura Jane Grace Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 "If I could have chosen, I would have been born a woman / My mother once told me she would...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

Beyond the Known: How Exploration Created the Modern World and Will Take Us to the Stars

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Author: Andrew Rader Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 From brilliant young polymath Andrew Rader--an MIT-credentialed scientist, popular podcast host, and SpaceX mission manager--an illuminating chronicle of exploration that spotlights...
Runner: A short story about a long run

Runner: A short story about a long run

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Author: Lizzy Hawker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 Scared witless and surrounded by a sea of people, Lizzy Hawker stands in the church square at the centre...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature, and the Dreyfus Case

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 Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future

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Author: Jon Gertner Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 A riveting, urgent account of the explorers and scientists racing to understand the rapidly melting ice sheet in Greenland, a dramatic...
Edison

Edison

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Author: Edmund Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edmund Morris comes a revelatory new biography of Thomas Alva Edison, the...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur

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Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...
30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

30-Second Napoleon: The 50 fundamentals of his life, strategies, and legacy, each explained in half a minute

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Author: Charles Esdaile Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Almost two centuries since his death, Napoleon Bonaparte remains the subject of vigorous debate. On one side are those...