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Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

Dinner on Monster Island: Essays

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Author: Tania De Rozario Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up...
Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

Once Upon a Raven's Nest: a life on Exmoor in an epoch of change

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Author: Catrina Davies Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 'This is a rich, beautiful and deeply moving book' GEORGE MONBIOT 'I loved this book' CLOVER STROUD Once Upon a Raven's...
Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey

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Author: Nicola Tallis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Good people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same. These were the...
Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

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Author: Zain E. Asher Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 'A deeply moving and riveting memoir.' Arianna Huffington 'An incredible personal story.' Don Cheadle This spellbinding memoir opens with a...
How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir

How Not to be a Supermodel: A noughties memoir

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Author: Ruth Crilly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! *THE MUST-READ NOUGHTIES NOSTALGIA MEMOIR* 'Hilarious' CAITLIN MORAN 'Witty, gossipy, self-effacing and deeply nostalgic, this is...
Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

Invisible Walls: A Journalist in Search of Her Life

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Author: Hella Pick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one of the...
Holler Rat: A Memoir

Holler Rat: A Memoir

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Author: Anya Liftig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Anya Liftig grew up with a foot in two very different worlds: While her mother's upbringing was so rural that the...
Base Notes: The Scents of a Life

Base Notes: The Scents of a Life

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Author: Adelle Stripe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 A Telegraph Best Book of 2025 'Ingenious' - ????? Telegraph 'Candid and compelling' - Guardian 'Wistful, sad and funny' - Spectator...
Around the World in 80 Fights: A Lifetime's Journey to the Heart of Boxing; Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2025

Around the World in 80 Fights: A Lifetime's Journey to the Heart of Boxing; Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2025

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Author: Steve Bunce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025 An autobiographical white-knuckle ride around the global...
Matriarch: Beyonce's mother tells her story for the first time ever

Matriarch: Beyonce's mother tells her story for the first time ever

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Author: Tina Knowles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all...
Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands

Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands

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Author: Denise Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Harness the power of adaptability to embrace change, overcome obstacles and achieve success. Women are facing more pressure and stress than...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Paperback 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...
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,...
Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic

Into the Deep: A Memoir From the Man Who Found Titanic

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Author: Robert D. Ballard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania looks back on his life behind his famous exploits and unveils a major...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime France

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Author: P N Singer (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in...
Stick To My Roots: A Music Memoir

Stick To My Roots: A Music Memoir

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Author: Tippa Irie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The autobiography of Tippa Irie, Stick To My Roots tells the reggae musician's incredible story - from his trailblazing beginnings in...
The Secret Life of John le Carre

The Secret Life of John le Carre

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Author: Adam Sisman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award 'Now that he is dead, we can know him better.' Secrecy came naturally...
Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the

Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato's Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the

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Author: Josiah Osgood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when partisanship overrides the...
Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir

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Author: J. M. Thompson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A powerful, breathtaking memoir about a young man's descent into madness, and how running saved his life. "Voluntary or involuntary"...
I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian

I Am Still With You: The Story of a Missing Person in the Nigerian

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Author: Emmanuel Iduma Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A lyrical investigation ... both powerful and transcendent' CHIGOZIE OBIOMA'Acutely observed, hauntingly rendered and deeply affecting' AMINATTA FORNA'Both epic and intimate'...
Zig-Zag Boy: A Mother's Love & A Journey Through Madness

Zig-Zag Boy: A Mother's Love & A Journey Through Madness

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Author: Tanya Frank Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 '[A] moving, beautifully written book about love and mental health and life' BOB ODENKIRK'Fiercely intelligent, humane and necessary' NATHAN FILER, author...
How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

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Author: Leslie Jordan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Viral sensation and Emmy Award-winner Leslie Jordan regales fans with entertaining stories about the...
Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky

Twelve Moons: A year under a shared sky

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Author: Caro Giles Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies. Caro...
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked

Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked

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Author: Lauren Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' Matt Haig 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much...
brother. do. you. love. me.

brother. do. you. love. me.

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Author: Manni Coe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS...
The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars

The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars

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Author: The Secret Prison Governor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Unedited, uncensored and unbelievable: this book shows the harsh reality of life behind bars from a real prison governor...
Sultan: A Memoir

Sultan: A Memoir

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Author: Wasim Akram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history...
A Joyful Life: One Woman's Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude

A Joyful Life: One Woman's Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude

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Author: Rosemary Kariuki Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was...
James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes - The Hilarious Sunday Times Bestseller

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Author: James Acaster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'I don't think I've ever read a book that has made me cry with laughter as much...
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

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Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

Docile: Memoir of a Not So Perfect Asian Girl

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Author: Hyeseung Song Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 From Texas sugar cane fields, Ivy League halls to Hyeseung Song's homeland of South Korea and back again, this memoir is...
Fletchers on the Farm: Mud, Mayhem and Marriage

Fletchers on the Farm: Mud, Mayhem and Marriage

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Author: Kelvin Fletcher Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War

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Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer Read this prize-winning...
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...
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 Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

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Author: Dava Sobel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twinkles as brightly as the stars...
The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour

The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour

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Author: Jacqueline Alnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 How one woman's search to regain her health led her to the troubling outer fringes of the Queensland wellness industry. A...
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 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...
The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi

The S.S. Officer's Armchair: Uncovering the Hidden Life of a Nazi

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Author: Daniel Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Based on documents discovered concealed within a simple chair for seventy years, this gripping investigation into the life of a single...
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...
Karen: A Brother Remembers

Karen: A Brother Remembers

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Author: Kelsey Grammer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 456 New York Times Bestseller One of Oprah Daily's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 People's Best Books of May 2025 On July...
Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

Friends and Enemies: A Memoir

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Author: Barbara Amiel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Included in The Times and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year round-ups 'Friends and Enemies is an extraordinary read showing unflinching...
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
Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

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Author: Shane McCrae Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Shane McCrae was eighteen months old, he was removed from his parents and taken to suburban Texas. His mother was...