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The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great

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Author: Alex Rowson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a...
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...
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:...
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...
Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

Russian Roulette: 'A brilliant new life of Graham Greene' - Evening Standard

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Author: Richard Greene Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Probably the greatest British novelist of his generation, Graham Greene's own story was as strange and compelling as those he told...
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman

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Author: Ben Hubbard Format: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 384 A Financial Times Book Best Book of the Year 2020 A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year 2020 The gripping, untold...
The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

The Nine: How a Band of Daring Resistance Women Escaped from Nazi Germany - The Powerful True Story

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Author: Gwen Strauss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'A compelling, beautifully written story of resilience, friendship and survival.' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz As the Second...
George: A Magpie Memoir

George: A Magpie Memoir

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Author: Frieda Hughes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Times Best Book to Watch out for in 2023 A Guardian '2023 in books: highlights for the year ahead' Book...
The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

The Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial

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Author: John Densmore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 In The Doors Unhinged, New York Times bestselling author and legendary Doors drummer John Densmore offers a powerful exploration of the...
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution

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Author: Mike Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Few in history can match the revolutionary career of the Marquis de Lafayette. Over fifty incredible years at the heart of...
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...
Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption

Last Shot: A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption

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Author: Jock Zonfrillo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A coming-of-age memoir of addiction, ambition and redemption in the high-stakes world of Michelin star kitchens. From reckless drug addict to...
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...
Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin

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Author: David Ritz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 768 Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother,...
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 Number of Pages: 416 'It wasn't easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of...
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...
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...
Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

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Author: Michael Vatikiotis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The story begins with a parting of the sands - the construction of the Suez Canal that united the Mediterranean with...
The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

The Ambassadors: Thinking about Diplomacy from Machiavelli to Modern Times

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Author: Robert Cooper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys,...
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...
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....
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home

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Author: Alexander Wolff (author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His...
Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

Three Times a Countess: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Raine Spencer

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Author: Tina Gaudoin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Debutante of the year. Able politician. Femme fatale. Evil stepmother. Astute businesswomen. Just a smattering of the many labels attached to...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Breaking History: A White House Memoir

Breaking History: A White House Memoir

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Author: Jared Kushner Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER #1 PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER #1 AMAZON BESTSELLER Jared Kushner was one...
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...
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...
Thicker than Water

Thicker than Water

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Author: Kerry Washington Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Kerry's an incredible writer and this memoir is so raw, vulnerable and honest' MICHELLE OBAMA Award-winning actor, director, producer, and activist...
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...
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...
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

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Author: Leslie Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after...
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...
The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

The Duff Cooper Diaries: 1915-1951

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Author: Lord John Julius Norwich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 The long awaited and highly revealing diaries of the politician, diplomat, and socialite (married to Lady Diana Cooper) 'This...