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The Showman: The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

The Showman: The Inside Story That Made a War Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky

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Author: Simon Shuster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'An intense, evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era' ANNE APPLEBAUM 'This is...
Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind

Snow Widows: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by the Women Left Behind

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Author: Katherine MacInnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry ... A welcome contribution to polar studies.' Sara Wheeler, Spectator '[MacInness] handles the...
King Charles III

King Charles III

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Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 112 An illustrated celebration of the new King of the United Kingdom, His Royal Highness King Charles III This is the story...
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...
The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

The Rebel and the Kingdom: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Overthrow the North Korean Regime

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Author: Bradley Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A gripping account of an Ivy League activist-turned-fugitive and his clandestine effort to subvert the North Korean regime, a heart-pounding tale...
My Life in Food: A Memoir

My Life in Food: A Memoir

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Author: Albert Roux Format: Paperback 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...
In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

In/Out: A scandalous story of falling into love and out of the church

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Author: Steph Lentz Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Steph takes you into her world with refreshing honesty. Her voice is that rare combination of conviction and vulnerability' Kumi Taguchi...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it'...
Beaumonster: A Memoir

Beaumonster: A Memoir

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Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
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...
Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

Climate Worrier: A Hypocrite's Guide to Saving the Planet

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Author: Colm O'Regan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Bestselling author Colm O'Regan is a worrier. A professional one. Caution is his watchword. Risk aversion is his love language. Now...
Reckoning

Reckoning

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Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
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...
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...
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 Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

The Naturalist: The remarkable life of Allan Riverstone McCulloch

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Author: Brendan Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 ** Shortlisted, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, NSW Community & Regional History Prize ** For lovers of natural history, this is...
Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

Starlight Wood: Walking back to the Romantic Countryside

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 'A nourishing, occasionally provoking hybrid of group biography, cultural criticism and travelogue that seeks to restore to Romanticism its radicalism, and...
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...
Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Author: Fiona Sampson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'Beautifully told. It is high time Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Aurora Leigh were once again household names.' - Mail on Sunday...
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 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: Hardback 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...
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'...
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: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'It's hard to think of a better living practitioner of hilarious honesty than David Sedaris' The Times 'David Sedaris is funny...
If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

If: The Untold Story of Kipling's American Years

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Author: Christopher Benfey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 A New York Times Notable Book of 2019 A unique exploration of the life and work of Rudyard Kipling in Gilded...
Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself

Same Old Girl: Staying alive, staying sane, staying myself

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Author: Sylvia Patterson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'There's no mistaking the writing of Sylvia Patterson' Sunday Times 'One of the finest writers in the world' David Quantick How...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

The Hyacinth Girl: T. S. Eliot's Hidden Muse

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Author: Lyndall Gordon Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 The revealing of T. S. Eliot's hidden muse - Emily Hale, the Hyacinth Girl of the famous The Waste Land poem...
King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

King Charles III: 100 moments from his journey to the throne

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Author: Arthur Edwards Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Stunning, photographic King Charles III memorabilia gift for royal fans As the nation celebrates the coronation of...
Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

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Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she...
How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

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Author: Safiya Sinclair Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Dazzling. Potent. Vital' TARA WESTOVER 'A story about hope, imagination and resilience' GUARDIAN...
Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

Apollo's Fire, a Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination

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Author: Michael Sims Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Winnie & Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

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Author: Jonny Steinberg Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's...
Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

Scholars Of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France

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Author: Daniel C. Guiet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 The astonishing untold story of the author's father, the lone American on a 4-person SOE commando team dropped behind German...
The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace

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Author: Patricia Wiltshire Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A riveting blend of science writing and true-crime narrative that explores the valuable but often shocking interface between crime and nature--and...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography

Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography

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Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

How to Be a Writer: Baths, Biscuits and Endless Cups of Tea

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Author: Marcus Berkmann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 208 Marcus Berkmann has been a freelance writer since 1988, working for newspapers and magazines and occasionally writing a book, like this...
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...
Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking

Confessions of a Puppetmaster: A Hollywood Memoir of Ghouls, Guts, and Gonzo Filmmaking

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Author: Charles Band Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 "Confessions of a Puppetmaster is a fast, funny, wild ride through some wild times. Plus, Charlie compares me to Harrison Ford,...
Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes

Modern Warriors: Real Stories from Real Heroes

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Author: Pete Hegseth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A New York Times bestseller. From FOX & Friends Weekend cohost Pete Hegseth comes a collection of inspiring stories from fifteen...
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,...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949

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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
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...
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith

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Author: D.K.R. Crosswell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1088 A valued adviser and trusted insider in the highest echelon of U.S. military and political leaders, General Walter Bedell Smith began...
Open Book

Open Book

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Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles. Guided by...
Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography

Hell Is Round the Corner: The Unique No-Holds Barred Autobiography

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Author: Tricky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Tricky is one of the most original music artists to emerge from the UK in the past 30 years. His signature technique...
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,...
Lou Reed: A Life

Lou Reed: A Life

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Author: Anthony Decurtis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The essential biography of one of music's most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground...