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Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

Impossible Things Before Breakfast: Adventures in the Ordinary

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Author: Rebecca Front Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'Hilarious' Daily Mail 'I was completely captivated' David Sedaris People are odd. Even the most predictable of us sometimes defy expectations....
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,...
A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes: A Son's Memoir of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mercedes Barcha

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Author: Rodrigo Garcia Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 "This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone...
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...
Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

Damn Few: Making the Modern Seal Warrior

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Author: Rorke Denver Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From leadership expert, former Navy SEAL, "American Grit" feature player, and author of Worth Dying For: A Navy SEAL's Call to...
How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

How Does It Feel?: A Life of Musical Misadventures

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Author: Mark Kermode Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Following a formative encounter with the British pop movie Slade in Flame in 1975, Mark Kermode decided that musical superstardom was...
Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

Portland Place: Secret Diary of a BBC Secretary

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Author: Sarah Shaw Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Portland Place is the diary of Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, which she recently uncovered whilst clearing out her...
The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43

The Prisoner of Kathmandu: Brian Hodgson in Nepal 1820-43

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Author: Charles Allen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The Prisoner of Kathmandu is the story of Brian Hodgson, Britain's "father of Himalayan studies." Born in 1801, Hodgson joined the...
Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

Running with the Krays - The Final Truth About The Krays and the Underworld We Lived In

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Author: Freddie Foreman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law...
Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing

Beautiful Trauma: A Journey of Discovery in Science and Healing

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Author: Rebecca Fogg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Late one night, Rebecca Fogg's hand is partially amputated in an explosion in her flat. Quick thinking saves her life, but...
Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends

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Author: Sarah Knights Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of...
Munkey Diaries

Munkey Diaries

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Author: Jane Birkin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Jane Birkin - actor, singer, songwriter and model - attained international fame with her decade-long musical and personal relationship with Serge...
Cured

Cured

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Author: Lol Tolhurst Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 A deeply moving and engaging memoir by Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, cofounder of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Cure...
Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

Echoes: A memoir continued . . .

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Author: Will Sergeant Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Scenic Wye Valley isn't the typical place for a rock story to begin, but when Echo &...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story

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Author: Mary Trevelyan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling . . . compulsive.' - MARGARET DRABBLE,...
Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

Power of Balance: A Life of Changemaking

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Author: Kerryn Phelps Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Power of Balance is the landmark memoir from Dr Kerryn Phelps AM that explores the events and ideas that have inspired...
The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

The Next Pandemic: On the Front Lines Against Humankind's Gravest Dangers

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Author: Dr Ali S. Khan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Next Pandemic is a gripping book that confronts the most urgent question facing our species: when, where, and...
Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard

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Author: Stephen Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society, yet was never fully part of it. The Prince of Wales...
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton and Me

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Author: Bernie Taupin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'This is the most glorious of books. I am besotted by the life I never knew he had.' -Elton John 'Orgasmic....
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

One Hundred Saturdays: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2024: Stella Levi and the Vanished World of Jewish Rhodes

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Author: Michael Frank Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Having the last word can be very lonely.' Nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never shared the...
Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley

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Author: Jake Poller Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that...
Jack London

Jack London

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Author: Kenneth K. Brandt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "Jack London (1876-1916) by any standards lived a life of excess. London's exuberant energies propelled him out of the working...
Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

Lives of the Wives: Five Literary Marriages

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Author: Carmela Ciuraru Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 A witty, provocative look inside the tumultuous marriages of five writers, illuminating the creative process as well as the role of...
The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him

The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him

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Author: Lamisse Hamouda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is...
Vessel: A Memoir

Vessel: A Memoir

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Author: Chongda Cai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 "Essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary life in China, and highly recommended for memoir enthusiasts in general." -- Library Journal...
Endgame

Endgame

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Author: Omid Scobie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The explosive new book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, Endgame a penetrating...
Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

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Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bravely revealing' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience' SATHNAM SANGHERA...
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend

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Author: Diana Athill (Y) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains...
Allegorizings

Allegorizings

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Author: Jan Morris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.' Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an extraordinary...
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...
The Old Gays' Guide to the Good Life

The Old Gays' Guide to the Good Life

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Author: Mick Peterson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'I've fallen in love with this fabulous foursome ... They are a phenomenon!' Drew Barrymore From @theoldgays, the internet's most beloved...
The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

The Diary Keepers: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times - World War II in the Netherlands, as Written by the People Who Lived Through It

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Author: Nina Siegal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The...
Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

Margot at War: Love and Betrayal in Downing Street, 1912-1916

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Margot Asquith was perhaps the most daring and unconventional Prime Minister's wife in British history. Known for her wit, style...
Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL

Golem Girl: A Memoir - 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL

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Author: Riva Lehrer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'A hymn to life, love, family, and spirit' DAVID MITCHELL, author of Cloud Atlas The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of...
Walking in the Shade : 1949-1962

Walking in the Shade : 1949-1962

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Author: Doris M. Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography covers the years 1949-62, from her arrival in war-weary London with her son,...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker

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Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...