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Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

Buzzin': The Nine Lives of a Happy Monday

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Author: Bez Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 At the height of his initial, turn-of-the-1990's infamy as the maraca-wielding dancer with 'Madchester' giants Happy Mondays, the pop-eyed Mark Berry, forever...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found

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Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from cancer, her...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

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Author: Leila Guerriero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist... Every year, at the...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

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Author: Scott Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

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Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' - MARGARET DRABBLE,...
Philip Larkin: Letters Home

Philip Larkin: Letters Home

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Author: Philip Larkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 688 Letters Home gives access to the last major archive of Larkin's writing to remain unpublished: the letters to members of his...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

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Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of...
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

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Author: Dr Ali S. Khan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Next Pandemic is a gripping book that confronts the most urgent question facing our species: when, where, and...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

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Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of...
The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

The Familia Grande: A family's silence weighs on everyone

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Author: Camille Kouchner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 THE LITERARY SENSATION THAT STORMED THE WORLD, THE PHENOMENAL FRENCH BESTSELLER HAS SOLD 350,000 COPIES THE BOOK THAT SPARKED THE VIRAL...
Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics

Fishing in the Styx: Text Classics

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Author: Ruth Park Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Following on from A Fence around the Cuckoo, this is the second volume of autobiography by one of Australia's best storytellers,...
The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

The Orchid Outlaw: On a Mission to Save Britain's Rarest Flowers

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Author: Ben Jacob Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE WAINRIGHT PRIZE & SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES AWARD 'A daring, delightful and galvanising call to save the...
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues - One Cop's Extraordinary True Story

Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues - One Cop's Extraordinary True Story

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Author: Cameron Hardiman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police...
As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

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Author: Alice Sedgwick Wohl Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 We think we know Edie Sedgwick, Warhol muse, Factory superstar, icon of the 1960s, a comet who flamed out too...
The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

The Riddles Of The Sphinx: Inheriting The Feminist History Of The Crossword Puzzle

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Author: Anna Shechtman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 "A surprising and ambitious investigation of language and the varied ways women resist the paradoxes of patriarchy both on and off...
Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family

Under the Camelthorn Tree: The Impact of Trauma on One Family

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Author: Kate Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Kate Nicholls left England to raise her five children in Botswana: an experience that would change each of their lives. Living...
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: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going...
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time

Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time

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Author: Pamela Anderson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates...
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him

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Author: David Reynolds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023 'A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who,...
Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN

Raceless: 'A really engaging memoir about identity, race, family and secrets' GUARDIAN

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Author: Georgina Lawton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'A jaw-dropping story, told deftly... a gripping, thought-provoking book.' The Sunday Times 'Freshly fascinating. [Lawton] is a particularly astute observer of...
Why Patti Smith Matters

Why Patti Smith Matters

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Author: Caryn Rose Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Patti Smith arrived in New York City at the end of the Age of Aquarius in search of work and purpose....
Life: My Story Through History

Life: My Story Through History

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Author: Pope Francis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 For the first time, Pope Francis tells the story of his life as he looks back on the momentous world events...
Jack London

Jack London

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Author: Kenneth K. Brandt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "Jack London (1876-1916) by any standards lived a life of excess. London's exuberant energies propelled him out of the working...
Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse

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Author: Kathryn Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse. Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised...
SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

SAS Great Escapes Two: Six Untold Epic Escapes Made by World War Two Heroes

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Author: Damien Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child SAS Great Escapes Two recounts the hitherto untold...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers

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Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
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: Paperback 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...
That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

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Author: Jarvis Jay Masters Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Finding freedom behind the walls of San Quentin.
How to Be Confident: The new book from the international number 1 bestselling author

How to Be Confident: The new book from the international number 1 bestselling author

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Author: James Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 From two times number one Sunday Times bestselling author, James Smith, comes HOW TO BE CONFIDENT - the third instalment in...
The Showman: The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

The Showman: The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

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Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is...
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind

Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind

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Author: Katherine MacInnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 In 2021, the world of cooking lost a legendary figure. Albert Roux, together with his brother Michel, transformed the way we...
In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

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Author: Steph Lentz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it'...
The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him

The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him

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Author: Lamisse Hamouda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

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Author: Brendan Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 ** Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, NSW Community & Regional History Prize ** For lovers of natural history, this is...
Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

Ma'am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret

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Author: Craig Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. A GUARDIAN...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life

Girl Friday: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Working Life

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Author: Kristine Philipp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Girl Friday: A job title used in 1970s workplaces for a junior administration assistant or receptionist. Common synonyms include junior office...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

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Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN...
Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

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Author: Michael Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages: