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Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict

Coming Clean: Diary of a Painkiller Addict

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Author: Cathryn Kemp Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 What if the drugs that were meant to cure you slowly started to kill you? After falling dangerously ill with acute-on-chronic...
A Widow's Story: A Memoir

A Widow's Story: A Memoir

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Author: Joyce Carol Oates Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 450 'My husband died, my life collapsed.' On a February morning in 2008, Joyce Carol Oates drove her ailing husband, Raymond...
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week

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Author: Edward Enninful Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted...
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...
You're That B*tch: & Other Cute Stories About Being Unapologetically Yourself

You're That B*tch: & Other Cute Stories About Being Unapologetically Yourself

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Author: Bretman Rock Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 "This book is hilarious and that bitch made me laugh out loud."-Chelsea Handler A chaotically joyous collection of essays from one...
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 Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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Author: Roisin Kiberd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 We all live online now, but what does that mean in IRL? How do strange subcultures on reddit affect our local...
Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

Endless Flight: The Life of Joseph Roth

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Author: Keiron Pim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 The brilliant, mercurial, self-mythologising novelist and journalist Joseph Roth, author of the European 20th century masterpiece The Radetzky March, was an...
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...
Solid Ivory

Solid Ivory

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Author: James Ivory Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson 'Jim...
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...
My Country: A Syrian Memoir

My Country: A Syrian Memoir

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Author: Kassem Eid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500...
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:
Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

Fragile Lives: A Heart Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

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Author: Stephen Westaby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT'S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir...
Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

Saved: A War Reporter's Mission to Make It Home

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Author: Benjamin Hall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "An affecting, singular story...a bracing tale of life on the edge of death." -Kirkus...
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...
The People On The Street: A Writer's View Of Israel

The People On The Street: A Writer's View Of Israel

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Author: Linda Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 The highly-acclaimed writer, Linda Grant, attempts to try and understand the Israeli situation. 'Although I am not an Israeli, but a...
Wildflower: An extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa

Wildflower: An extraordinary life and untimely death in Africa

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Author: Mark Seal Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WILDFLOWER is naturalist, filmmaker and lifelong conservationist Joan Root's gripping life story - a stunning and moving tale featuring a remarkable...
Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

Gunpowder and Geometry: The Life of Charles Hutton, Pit Boy, Mathematician and Scientific Rebel

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Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 August, 1755. Newcastle, on the north bank of the Tyne. In the fields, men and women are getting the harvest in....
True You

True You

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Author: Janet Jackson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm...
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...
Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

Samuel Johnson: A Personal History

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Author: Christopher Hibbert Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look of the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using...
Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

Being Shelley: The Poet's Search for Himself

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Author: Ann Wroe Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A startlingly original new look at Shelley, a stunning work of scholarship and imagination by one of the most remarkable non-fiction...
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...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon

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Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
The Language of Blood

The Language of Blood

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Author: Jane Jeong Trenka Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 244 "A book that translates, and transcends, the eternal question of home, belonging, family, identity." --Star Tribune (Minneapolis) My...
Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

Love, Henri: Letters on the Spiritual Life

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Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 'When I write I think deeply about my friends, I pray for them, I tell them my emotions and...
Forever Friends: A Keepsake of Questions and Answers for Best Friends: Volume 25

Forever Friends: A Keepsake of Questions and Answers for Best Friends: Volume 25

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Author: Editors of Chartwell Books Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 204 The best of friends share the best of themselves and they're all the better for it. Interactive...
Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

Diamonds at the Lost and Found: A Memoir in Search of My Mother

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Author: Sarah Aspinall Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 For readers of Hideous Kinky, Dadland and Bad Blood; the astonishing, beguiling story of Sarah Aspinall's harum scarum childhood,...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung

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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years

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Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here...
The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

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Author: Elizabeth Foyster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas de Quincey

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Author: Frances Wilson (Chester University) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist...
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science

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Author: John Gribbin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . ....
Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988 1998

Travelling to Work: Diaries 1988 1998

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Author: Michael Palin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 10 years in different directions. The third volume of Michael Palin's celebrated diaries. TRAVELLING TO WORK is the third volume of...
Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

Smoke and Mirrors: From the Soviet Union to Russia, the Pipedream Meets Reality

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Author: Leonid Sinelnikov Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 Smoke and Mirrors is about a world which is no more. There is already no such country on the map -...
The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond

The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond

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Author: Chris Blackwell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 As the founder of Island Records, fabled music producer Chris Blackwell has discovered and worked with some of the most important...
A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

A Simple Story: In Search of Argentina's Gaucho Dancers

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Author: Leila Guerriero Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 For four minutes and fifty-two seconds, the night became a thing that he pounded with his fist... Every year, at the...
Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

Up In Smoke - Stories From a Life on Fire: 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring

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Author: Leigh Hosy-Pickett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'Hilarious' Russell Brand 'Fascinating, funny, moving' Richard Herring 'Totally engaging, highly inspiring and impossible to put down' Nazir Afzal OBE Leigh...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness from Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018 to 2022)

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Author: Scott Morrison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness

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Author: Scott Morrison Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith...
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas

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Author: Matthew Hollis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Edward Thomas was perhaps the most beguiling and influential of First World War poets. Now All Roads Lead to France is...
In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

In the Blood: A Memoir of my Childhood

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Author: Sir Andrew Motion Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Written from a teenage child's point of view, Motion captures the pathos and puzzlement of childhood with great clarity of...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

XOXO, Cody: An Opinionated Homosexual's Guide to Self-Love, Relationships, and Tactful Pettiness

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Author: Cody Rigsby Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The beloved Peloton instructor chronicles his journey from small-town North Carolina to New York City stardom in an empowering story that...
Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

Between Friends: Letters of Vera Brittain and Winifred Holtby

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Author: Elaine Showalter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 The letters between Vera Brittain, author of Testament of Youth, and Winifred Holtby, author of South Riding, tell the story of...
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy

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Author: Leslie Brody Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 The protagonist and anti-heroine of Louise Fitzhugh's masterpiece Harriet the Spy, first published first in 1964, continues to mesmerize generation after...