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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: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 These fascinating letters between Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby tell the story of an extraordinary friendship. 'A beautiful collection' Daisy Dunn,...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Hardback 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...
When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

When Marilyn Met the Queen: Marilyn Monroe's Life in England

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Author: Michelle Morgan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'England? It seemed to be raining the whole time . . . Or maybe it was me' MARILYN MONROE In July...
(R)evolution: The Autobiography

(R)evolution: The Autobiography

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Author: Gary Numan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 A Daily Mail 'best TV and showbiz memoir' for 2020 From humble beginnings in Middlesex, where money was scarce but dreams...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

A Class of Their Own: Adventures in Tutoring the Super-Rich

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Author: Matthew Hammett Knott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'A hilarious account of life with the children of the super rich...well written...and very funny indeed' - BOOK OF THE...
A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

A Sultry Month: Scenes of London Literary Life in 1846: 'Sizzles and steams . . . Beautifully written.' (The Times)

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Author: Francesca Wade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Though she loved the heat she could do nothing but lie on the sofa and drink lemonade and read Monte Cristo......
Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

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Author: Alice Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'These journals are a revelation, a road map and a gift to us all' TAYARI JONES, author of An American Marriage...
The Best of Me

The Best of Me

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 What could be a more tempting Christmas gift than a compendium of David Sedaris's best stories, selected by the author himself?...
Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

Macarthur at War: World War II in the Pacific

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Author: Walter R. Borneman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR...
Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton

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Author: Joe Moshenska Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 An innovative and elegant new biography of John Milton from an acclaimed Oxford professor John Milton was once essential reading for...
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

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Author: Peniel Joseph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense versus nonviolence, Black Power versus civil rights,...
Liberation Through Hearing

Liberation Through Hearing

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Author: Richard Russell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'If sound is the fifth element, then Richard has nurtured and enhanced some of the most important soundwaves of our time'...
Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

Hell and Other Destinations: A 21st-Century Memoir

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Author: Madeleine Albright Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 "Richly detailed. . . an intimate portrait of a diplomat." -New Yorker Now in paperback with a new epilogue In this...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
Rilke: The Last Inward Man

Rilke: The Last Inward Man

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Author: Lesley Chamberlain Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Rilke died in 1926, his reputation as a great poet seemed secure. But as the tide of the critical avant-garde...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

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Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nadia's story is for every business owner who has ever jumped without a net, and for every reader who has found...
Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his...
Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family

Behind the Crown: My Life Photographing the Royal Family

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 For 45 years I've chronicled the Royal Family for the Sun newspaper with my camera. I've witnessed their triumphs and disasters,...
N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

N-4 Down: The Hunt for the Arctic Airship Italia

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Author: Mark Piesing Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 "GRIPPING. ... One of the greatest polar rescue efforts ever mounted." -Wall Street Journal The riveting true story of the largest...
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits

The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits

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Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados,...
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

King's Counsellor: Abdication and War: the Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles edited by Duff Hart-Davis

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Author: Sir Alan Lascelles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The diaries of 'Tommy' Lascelles - as featured in the Netflix hit THE CROWN 'Brilliantly entertaining and historically priceless' Spectator...
The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Seth Meyerowitz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over...
Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

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Author: William H McRaven Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his...
Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

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Author: Kitty Ferguson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking's biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist's...
Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy

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Author: Larry Tye Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of the most dangerous demagogue in American history, based on exclusive access to his papers and recently unsealed...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time

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Author: Craig Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Terror Blackout Hurricane Recession Pandemic A symphony of contemporary New York told through the magnificent words of its people - from...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

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Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
Paris: The Memoir

Paris: The Memoir

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Author: Paris Hilton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Selfie taker. Model. Reality star. Self-created....
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian

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Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...
Yearbook

Yearbook

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Author: Seth Rogen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Hi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

Three-a-Penny: Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Lucy Malleson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A rediscovered classic memoir - a fascinating insight into the life of a crime writer during and after the...
Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020

Confess: The year's most touching and revelatory rock autobiography' Telegraph's Best Music Books of 2020

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Author: Rob Halford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his. 'The most hotly anticipated hard-rock autobiography of the year' 'Rob Halford has...
The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

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Author: Julie Welch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The Fleet Street Girls is the inspiring and evocative story of the female journalists who broke down barriers in the 1970s...
Adam Smith: Father of Economics

Adam Smith: Father of Economics

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Author: Jesse Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 A dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

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Author: Julie Metz Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 344 A breathtakingly honest memoir about the complexities of forgiveness that begins when a young widow discovers her husband's secret...
Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

Jet Girl: My Life in War, Peace, and the Cockpit of the Navy's Most Lethal Aircraft, the F/A-18 Super Hornet

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Author: Hof Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Caroline Johnson was an unlikely aviation candidate. A tall blonde debutante from Colorado, she could have just as easily gone into...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga

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Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond

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Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet  Fighter Age

The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age

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Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era

The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era

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Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
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....
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 Number of Pages: 400 From the internationally renowned bestselling author ofDiana: Her True Story and Meghan: A Hollywood Princess, comes the sensational and captivating biography...
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...