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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...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

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Author: Renee Hollis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and...
Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

Voices of World War II: New Zealanders Share Their Stories

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Author: Renee Hollis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 'We are only a small and young nation, but we are one and all a band of brothers and we march...
The Colour of God: A Story of Family and Faith

The Colour of God: A Story of Family and Faith

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Author: Ayesha S. Chaudhry Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "At the age of twenty-three, Ayesha removed her face veil to begin her studies in New York City. Braiding together...
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...
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...
No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

No Map to This Country: One Family's Journey through Autism

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Author: Jennifer Noonan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Autism is a rising epidemic that affects 1 in 68 children. When Jennifer Noonan's son was diagnosed in 2009, she refused...
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....
Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

Boy Friends: 'Astonishingly compelling' STEPHEN FRY

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Author: Michael Pedersen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'A lovely book: bright and heartfelt, funny and refreshing.' - ANDREW O'HAGAN 'A beautiful, moving, life-affirming book.' - IAN RANKIN Friendships...
The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

The Sunday Times A Life in the Day: Words of wisdom and domestic details from the rich and famous

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Author: Richard Woods Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Meet 100 of the most remarkable people from The Sunday Times Magazine's acclaimed column, A Life in the Day. Wonderfully intimate,...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity

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Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering...
A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram

A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram

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Author: Patience Ibrahim Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to...
The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

The Berlin Mission: The American Who Resisted Nazi Germany from Within

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Author: Richard Breitman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Raymond Geist was sent to Berlin as a consul in 1929. He was not from the right social class to become...
Foreign Native: An African Journey

Foreign Native: An African Journey

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Author: RW Johnson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 292 From schooldays in Durban to later years as an Oxford don, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable...
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as...
Between Heaven and Hell

Between Heaven and Hell

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Author: David Talbot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Acclaimed writer, bestselling author, and founder of Salon magazine, David Talbot has brought us masterful and explosive headline-breaking stories for over...
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 / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Memoirs of such richness are rare . . . a joy' JAMES NAUGHTIE 'A remarkable personal journey, by one...
Liberation Through Hearing

Liberation Through Hearing

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Author: Richard Russell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 When I stopped wanting things for the wrong reasons, they became possible. For almost 30 years as label boss,...
I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

I Want You to Know We're Still Here: My family, the Holocaust and my search for truth

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Author: Esther Safran Foer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that...
Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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Author: Luke Turner Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 WAINWRIGHT BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 POLARI FIRST BOOK AWARD 'This is a book...
Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

Chasing Lost Time: The Life of C. K. Scott Moncrieff: Soldier, Spy, and Translator

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Author: Jean Findlay Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The thrilling first-ever biography of Proust translator C. K. Scott Moncrieff, penned by his great-great-niece "And suddenly the memory returns. The...
The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

The Zookeepers' War: An Incredible True Story from the Cold War

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Author: J.W. Mohnhaupt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The unbelievable true story of the Cold War's strangest proxy war, fought between the zoos on either side of the Berlin...
The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

The Twice-Born: Life and Death on the Ganges

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Author: Aatish Taseer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 In The Twice-Born, Aatish Taseer embarks on a journey of self-discovery in an intoxicating, unsettling personal reckoning with modern India, where...
The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

The Times Queen Elizabeth II: A portrait of her 70-year reign

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Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The ideal gift for royal fans. This is the story of a life dedicated to public service, reported by The Times...
The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

The Speed of Sound: Breaking the Barriers between Music and Technology: A Memoir

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Author: Thomas Dolby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'The engaging, emotional, funny and surprising' (JJ Abrams) memoir of electronic music and technology pioneer Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby...
Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beats and Serge Klarsfeld

Hunting the Truth: Memoirs of Beats and Serge Klarsfeld

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Author: Beate Klarsfeld Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 They were born on opposite sides of the Second World War: Beate grew up in the ruins of a defeated Weimar...
The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945

The Real X-Men: The Heroic Story of the Underwater War 1942-1945

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Author: Robert Lyman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The thrilling and true story of the development and operational deployment of human torpedoes - 'Chariots' - and 'X-craft' midget submarines...
My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety

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Author: Georgia Pritchett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 'Funny, moving, insightful, vulnerable. A brave book and a brilliant read.' - Miranda Hart Multi-award-winning television writer and producer...
An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

An Extra Pair of Hands: A story of caring and everyday acts of love

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Author: Kate Mosse Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 A deeply moving story of what it means to care for those we love, a celebration of older people and ageing,...
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime

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Author: Debora Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van,...
The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live

The Finch in My Brain: How I forgot how to read but found how to live

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Author: Martino Sclavi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him....
Molly Keane: A Life

Molly Keane: A Life

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Author: Sally Phipps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Molly Keane (1904 - 96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which...
Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

Everything is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes

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Author: Phyllis Grant Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 250 'What a beautiful, rich, poetic memoir this is. Phyllis writes of longing, suffering, family, and food with such delicate...
Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

Kathleen and Frank: The Autobiography of a Family

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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 Kathleen and Frank is a love story set in the glory days of the British Empire, the...
The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

The Immortalists: Charles Lindbergh, Dr. Alexis Carrel, and Their Daring Quest to Live Forever

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Author: David M Friedman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 His historic career as an aviator made Charles Lindbergh one of the most famous men of the twentieth...
Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant

Marc Forgione: Recipes and Stories from the Acclaimed Chef and Restaurant

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Author: Marc Forgione Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The eagerly awaited first cookbook from one of Food Network's favourite competitors on the wildly popular Iron Chef America. Chef Marc...
A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

A Mind Unraveled: A Memoir

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Author: Kurt Eichenwald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 The compelling story of an acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author's ongoing struggle with epilepsy--how, through personal resilience and...
Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

Making an Elephant: Writing from Within

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Author: Graham Swift Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 From the Booker Prize-winning author of Last Orders, Waterland and England. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the...
Lady Byron and Her Daughters

Lady Byron and Her Daughters

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Author: Julia Markus Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 24 Far from a victim or an obstacle to Lord Byron's work, Lady Byron was a rebel against the fashionable snobbery of...
Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

Jonathan Swift: The Reluctant Rebel

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Author: John Stubbs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 656 One of Europe's most important literary figures, Jonathan Swift was also an inspired humorist, a beloved companion, and a conscientious Anglican...
Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

Napoleon and the Rebel: A Story of Brotherhood, Passion, and Power

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Author: Marcello Simonetta Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lucien was the most talented of the Bonaparte brothers, who not only can be credited for helping Napoleon seize power, but...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show

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Author: Dick Strawbridge Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but...
Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

Remainders of the Day: More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown

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Author: Shaun Bythell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy

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Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
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...
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,...
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...
The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

The Prime Ministers: Winner of the PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS 2020

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Author: Iain Dale Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 **Winner of the 2020 PARLIAMENTARY BOOK AWARDS for Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian** A Times Political Book of the Year...