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The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

The Secret Heart: Le Carre and Me: Tales From a Secret Love Affair

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Author: Suleika Dawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022A Daily Mail Book of the Year...
Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Guardian Book of the Year 2022 - A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'An extraordinary story' CLOVER STROUD 'Astonishing and valuable' THE SPECTATOR 'Beautifully written' DAILY MAIL 'Intensely gripping . . . as brutal...
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings: The internationally bestselling

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Author: Dr Maya Angelou Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A beautiful new edition of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, the iconic, beloved and deeply moving first volume...
War Years with Jeb Stuart

War Years with Jeb Stuart

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Author: W. W. Blackford Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 344 0
Mick Ronson - The Spider with the Platinum Hair

Mick Ronson - The Spider with the Platinum Hair

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Author: Weird & Gilly Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Mick Ronson will forever be known as one of the all-time greats in British Music During the five years it...
Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

Wallis in Love: The untold true passion of the Duchess of Windsor

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Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Sunday Times bestselling author, Andrew Morton reveals new information and sources that totally transform our perception of Wallis Simpson. Wallis in...
Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe

Queen Victoria's Matchmaking: The Royal Marriages That Shaped Europe

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Author: Deborah Cadbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 A captivating exploration of the role in which Queen Victoria exerted the most international power and influence: as a matchmaking grandmother....
Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

Tank Action: An Armoured Troop Commander's War 1944-45

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Author: Captain David Render Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A gripping account of the Second World War, from the perspective of a young tank commander. In 1944, David Render...
Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World

Tina: The Dog Who Changed the World

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Author: Niall Harbison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND IRISH TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER. THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. _ Hope taught me the meaning...
The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

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Author: Abdul Rahman Azzam Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao...
Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

Long Shot: My Life As a Sniper in the Fight Against ISIS

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Author: Azad Cudi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In September 2014, Azad Cudi became one of seventeen snipers deployed when ISIS, trying to shatter the Kurds in a decisive...
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality

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Author: Michael J Fox Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of...
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): The Sunday Times Music Book

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

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Author: Sly Stone Format: Paperback 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...
Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England

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Author: Neil McKenna Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 28th April 1870. The flamboyantly dressed Miss Fanny Park and Miss Stella Boulton are causing a stir in the Strand Theatre....
My Rescue Dog Rescued Me: Amazing True Stories of Adopted Canine Heroes

My Rescue Dog Rescued Me: Amazing True Stories of Adopted Canine Heroes

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Author: Sharon Ward Keeble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Meet the inspirational dogs who went from being rescued to becoming rescuer, in these incredible true stories. You'll read all...
Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club

Hacienda: How Not To Run A Club

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Author: Peter Hook Format: Paperback Number of Pages: As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as...
A Voyage Around the Queen

A Voyage Around the Queen

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 672 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE TIMES and SUNDAY TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2024 ... 'GENIUS' A BOOK OF THE YEAR for...
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 *Shortlisted for the 2024 Wolfson History Prize* 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER From one of South...
Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert

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Author: Brian Herbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of...
Takeaway: 'A warm incandescent memoir' Annie Lord

Takeaway: 'A warm incandescent memoir' Annie Lord

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Author: Angela Hui Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 _______________ 'A beautiful book:...
Looking at Women, Looking at War

Looking at Women, Looking at War

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Author: Victoria Amelina Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD 'This book would always have been important evidence that the...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

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Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one...
The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk: A biography of the pioneering

The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk: A biography of the pioneering

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Author: Dennis Kneale Format: Paperback 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...
Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

Against the Water: A surfing champion's inspirational journey to

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Author: Owen Wright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The gut-wrenching story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame a brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal....
Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico

Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Last Year in Mexico

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Author: Francesca Bratton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Poignant and fiercely intelligent, this is the best work of creative non-fiction I have read in years' FIONA MOZLEY 'Profound, moving...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

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Author: Lucy Hughes-Hallett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 *PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE...
I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that

I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children and the Adverts that

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Author: Julian Borger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I SEEK A KIND PERSON WHO WILL EDUCATE MY INTELLIGENT BOY, AGED 11.' In 1938, Jewish families are scrambling to flee...
Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and the $44 Billion Fight

Battle for the Bird: Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk and the $44 Billion Fight

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Author: Kurt Wagner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 On October 28th, hours after completing a $44 billion takeover of Twitter, Elon Musk Tweeted to his millions of followers 'The...
The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

The Stirrings: Winner of the 2024 TLS Ackerley Prize

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Author: Catherine Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Part poignant memoir of time and place. Part record of the violence, and indifference, against which most girls grow up. The...
Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

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Author: Dylan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Rebellion always starts somewhere, and in the music world of the transgressive teen whether it be the 1960s of the 2020s,...
The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

The Only Girl in the World: A Memoir

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Author: Maude Julien Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Maude...
I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

I Fight, You Fight: Life isn't about the hand you're dealt, but how

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Author: Alex Noble Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 The inspiring story from 2025 NSW Young Australian of the Year Nominee, Alex Noble, whose wisdom and strength can teach us...
Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024

Did I Ever Tell You?: The most moving memoir of 2024

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Author: Genevieve Kingston Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 '[A] heartfelt memoir' New York Times 'Compelling and heartbreaking' Ann Napolitano A deeply moving memoir of a young daughter, her dying...
Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes: words, wit, wisdom, one-liners and rants

Jeremy Hardy Speaks Volumes: words, wit, wisdom, one-liners and rants

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Author: Jeremy Hardy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The best of the best from the Comedians' Comedian 2020 'If you loved Jeremy Hardy, or if you know anyone who...
Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir

Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir

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Author: Sharon Gless Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Emmy Award-winning actress Sharon Gless tells all in this laugh-out-loud, juicy, "unforgettably memorable" (Lily Tomlin) memoir about her five decades in...
The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

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Author: Thomas Harding Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 After arriving in London just before the Second World War as a penniless and friendless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on...
The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

The Cure for Sleep: A book with the power to change your life

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Author: Tanya Shadrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Moving and inspiring, courageous and true: real art. Just reading her is pleasure' Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun What happens...
Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015

Types and Shadows: Diaries 2004-2015

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Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 'Roy Strong's diaries are a treasure . . . magnificently readable' THE TIMES 'Essential reading' TATLER 'When it comes to...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and

Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery and

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Author: John LeFevre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world...