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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...
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...
On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

On Leopard Rock: A Life of Adventures

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Author: Wilbur Smith Format: CD-Audio Number of Pages: 0 Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his...
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln

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Author: Richard Brookhiser Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 "Brookhiser has done the seemingly impossible: He has written a life of Lincoln that is fresh, original, and ideal...
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...
House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

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Author: Alan Bennett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 64 4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just...
After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

After Steve: How Apple became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul

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Author: Tripp Mickle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 From the Wall Street Journal's Tripp Mickle, the dramatic, untold story inside Apple after the passing of Steve Jobs by following...
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...
A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

A Royal Experiment: The Private Life of King George III

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Author: Janice Hadlow Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 704 The Times Best Books of the Year - The Sunday Times Best Books of the Year The New Statesman Book of...
The Comfort Book

The Comfort Book

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'Profound, witty and uplifting' - Observer 'Full of eloquent, cogent and positive reminders of the beauty of life' - Independent The...
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading...
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...
To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

To the End of the World: Travels with Oscar Wilde

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Author: Rupert Everett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A Times, Telegraph and Guardian Book of the Year 2020 'Quivers with honesty, A-list gossip and sardonic prose' The Times 'Everett...
The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW

The Greatest Beer Run Ever: THE CRAZY TRUE STORY BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON AND RUSSELL CROW

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Author: J. T. Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 ****** THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MAJOR MOVIE STARRING ZAC EFRON, RUSSELL CROWE AND BILL MURRAY 'You will laugh and cry,...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War

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Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond

Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond

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Author: Geezer Butler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A Rough Trade Book of the Year The much-anticipated first book from Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler With over 70 million...
Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

Living With A Dead Language: My Romance with Latin

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Author: Ann Patty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 246 After thirty-five years as a book editor in New York City, Ann Patty stopped working and moved to the country. Bored,...
The Drowned And The Saved

The Drowned And The Saved

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Shortly after completing THE DROWNED AND THE SAVED, Primo Levi committed suicide. The manner of his death was sudden, violent and...
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...
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...
Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

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Author: Anne Sebba Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes...
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...
The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The true story of two Jewish sisters' resistance in the heart of Nazi territory

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Author: Roxane van Iperen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, Cilka's Journey and The Librarian of Auschwitz - this is the international...
The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

The Last Boss of Brighton: Boris "Biba" Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

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Author: Douglas Century Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba,...
Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

Love Unknown: The Life and Worlds of Elizabeth Bishop

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Author: Thomas Travisano Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1 An illuminating new biography of one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century, Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop's friend James...
The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

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Author: Marina Wheeler Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2021 CHRISTOPHER BLAND PRIZE 'The Lost Homestead is a memoir of Wheeler's mother and her family, which...
The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

The Gourmands' Way: Six Americans in Paris and the Birth of a New Gastronomy

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Author: Justin Spring Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 A Publishers Weekly Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 and a Christian Science Monitor Best Book of 2017. Winner of...
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

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Author: James Buchan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 At the summit of his power, John Law was the most famous man in Europe. Born in Scotland in...
The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen: The Life and Family of Queen Elizabeth II

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Author: A. N. Wilson (Author) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Biographer and novelist A. N. Wilson, whose most recent work on the life of Queen Victoria was an enormous...
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America

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Author: Daniel Okrent Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 NAMED ONE OF THE "100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF THE YEAR" BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "An extraordinary book, I...
A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion

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Author: Tom Segev Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 816 When Tom Segev's biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines...
The Smallest Lights In The Universe

The Smallest Lights In The Universe

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Author: Sara Seager Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In The Smallest Lights in the Universe, MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager interweaves the story of her search for meaning...
The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

The Scandalous Freddie McEvoy: The true story of the swashbuckling Australian rogue

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Author: Frank Walker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Swashbuckler, daredevil racing-car champion, Winter Olympian, gambler, smuggler, scoundrel, stud and suspected spy - this is the fascinating story...
Je t'aime: The legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

Je t'aime: The legendary love story of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

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Author: Veronique Mortaigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Timed to coincide with both Valentine's Day and the 50-year anniversary of the legendary banned song Je t'aime... moi...
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: Hardback 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 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...
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece

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Author: William E. Wallace Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 Finalist for the Marfield Prize (The National Award for Arts Writing), Arts Club of Washington The untold story of Michelangelo's...
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death: The Breathtaking Number One Bestseller

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Author: Maggie O'Farrell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 AS FEATURED ON DESERT ISLAND DISCS, BIG SCOTTISH BOOK CLUB AND THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

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Author: Meriel Schindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...
Constable: A Portrait

Constable: A Portrait

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Author: James Hamilton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure'...
Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

Clementine Churchill: A Life in Pictures

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Author: Sonia Purnell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Without Winston Churchill's inspiring leadership Britain could not have survived its darkest hour. Without his wife Clementine, however, he might never...
Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

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Author: Ken Wharfe Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An authoritative book, written with two close friends of Diana: Inspector Ken Wharfe was Diana's police protection officer for...
Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

Dutch Light: Christiaan Huygens and the Making of Science in Europe

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Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe

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Author: Mike Massimino Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Mike Massimino's compelling memoir takes us on a brilliant journey where the nerdiest science meets the most thrilling adventure to reveal...
ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager

ALEX FERGUSON My Autobiography: The autobiography of the legendary Manchester United manager

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Author: Alex Ferguson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented...
What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography

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Author: Dickinson, Bruce Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 New York Times Bestseller "Illuminating and very entertaining...a compelling read about someone who is much more than just the guy who...
Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures

Move Like Water: A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures

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Author: Hannah Stowe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A heartfelt hymn to the sea and an unforgettable introduction to one of the most gifted nature writers of the new...
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

Eagles - Dark Desert Highway: How America's Dream Band Turned into a Nightmare

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Author: Mick Wall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it...