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My Roman Year

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My Sins Go With Me: A Story of Heroism and Betrayal in the Dutch Resistance

In the darkest days of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Anna-Maria van der Vaart sheltered Allied pilots, gave refuge to persecuted Jews and participated in audacious acts of sabotage. She surv..

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Myself and Other Animals

A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservat..

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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape

2024 Independent Publisher Book Awards Winner - Silver Medal, World History Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal..

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Never: The Autobiography

Fame didn't actually make me happy. I was an insecure twenty-year-old and being famous made things worse back then. It was an era all about the way you looked and I still don't know how I squeezed thr..

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Not By Politics Alone: The Other Lenin

A vivid collection of texts, gathered and introduced by Tamara Deutscher, by Lenin and those who knew him, that shows the Lenin of everyday reality, the man who lived by politics but not by politics a..

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Notes from an Island

For thirty summers Tove and her partner, the graphic artist, Tuulikki Pietila, retreated to the tiny island of Klovharun, a rocky outcrop in the gulf of Finland, where they would live, paint and write..

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Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Histories

How do places make us, and how do we make them? At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams ..

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O Brother

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Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farce. Bold, brave and bright, but also revealing, shocking and touching. Miriam is an icon, a cocksucker..

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On the Brink: Stories of harm and healing from a lifetime in psychiatry

'Perhaps the truth is that severe mental illness is just as frightening, just as stigmatising, just as much a taboo as it has always been . . .' Over the course of her forty-year career, psychia..

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One Man in his Time: A Memoir

From humble origins, the eminent Russian scientist Nicholas Borodin forged a career in microbiology in the era of Stalin. Pragmatic and dedicated to his work, he accepted the Soviet regime, even worki..

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One Ukrainian Summer: A memoir about falling in love and coming of age in the former USSR

Autumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21 and is on a study year abroad, supposedly immersed in the language, history and politics of a world that has just ceased to exist: the Soviet Unio..

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Ootlin

'A phenomenal memoir. I am in awe' AMY LIPTROT 'Beautiful, deep, dangerous, transfixing . . . it will burn a home in your heart, it has in mine. Read every word of every page. Turn them carefully..

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Orwell: The New Life

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most significant figures in western literature. His two dystopian masterpieces, Animal Farm (1945) and Ninet..

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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's ..

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Out of the Blue: Everything this Wiggle journey has taught me

Music is brain food and emotional sustenance for little ones. It's audible beauty. Want to give something special to your kids? Surround them with beauty and inspiration. Out of the Blue is an..

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Outspoken: My fight for freedom and human rights in Afghanistan

The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong..

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Pageboy: A Memoir

The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Singular' Daily Teleg..

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Paperboy: An Enchanting True Story of a Belfast Paperboy Coming to Terms with the Troubles

It's Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he's got a new job. He's going to be a paperbo..

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Paris for Beginners: A memoir

'Enchanting, amusing, life-affirming and wise.' Toni Pearen Sometimes the best compass to follow is your heart. Actress Rachael Coopes had a serious boyfriend and successful career in Australia..

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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

Born into upper class America in the same year, 1854, Sara Delano and Jennie Jerome refused to settle into predictable, sheltered lives as little-known wives to prominent men. Instead, both women conc..

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PATRIOT

The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs. The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who ..

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People Hacker: Confessions of a Burglar for Hire

'This is a rip-roaring read, full of derring-do and sometimes comic, often foolhardy bravery. [Jenny] sounds an absolute hoot, and her book is never anything less' - Daily Mail 'A fascinating an..

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Person Unlimited: An Ode to My Black Queer Body

You've fought and you've run away. You've danced with other Black queer bodies until sunrise. Sometimes you wanted to be caught and sometimes you wanted to be held. With all that you've endure..

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Politics On the Edge

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from former Cabinet minister Rory Stewart Over the course of a decade from 2010, Rory Stewart went from being a political outs..

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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty

Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of Windsor's wartime treachery, and ends wit..

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Powsels and Thrums

'I salute him with the most heartfelt respect and admiration' PHILIP PULLMAN 'One of Britain's greatest writers' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Alan Garner's world is unbearably beautiful and dangerous' G..

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Private Equity

A gripping memoir of one woman's self-discovery inside a top Wall Street firm, and an urgent indictment of privilege, extreme wealth, and work culture When we meet Carrie Sun, she can't shake the..

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Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China

A Sunday Times, Observer, Waterstones and BBC Highlight for 2024 'Beautiful, immersive . . . Told through the lives of four extraordinarily resilient and idealistic Chinese women' JULIA LOVELL 'A ..

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Pure Wit: The Revolutionary Life of Margaret Cavendish

'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse 'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton 'Well-written, well-researched, inter..

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Put Your Feet in the Dirt, Girl: A Memoir

'Sonia Henry writes with a combination of heart and precision that only the best writers, and doctors, can manage.' Nick Earls Solo GP needed for medical clinic, mining town in Pilbara region,..

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Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

Brought to you by Penguin. Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Russian invasion. In February 2022, as Russia moun..

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Putin: The explosive and extraordinary new biography of Russia's leader

The monumental biography of the most influential leader on the world stage in the last twenty years. Vladimir Putin is a pariah to the West. He has the power to reduce the West to nuclear as..

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Q&A

AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW 'The outstanding graphic novelist of his generation.' Big Issue 'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH 'Tomi..

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Queen of Codes: The Secret Life of Emily Anderson, Britain's Greatest Female Code Breaker

When the history of British codebreaking is told, the story is often a men-only preserve (for example, of the top fourteen listed actors in Bletchley Park-set The Imitation Game, only one is a woman)...

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Question 7 *Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Winner*

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells an..

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Question 7 *Baillie Gifford Prize 2024 Winner* HB

Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells an..

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Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul

'Saad Mohseni is one of the most remarkable figures in modern Afghanistan - brave, entrepreneurial, with a knack for imagining the impossible - he transformed the Afghan media landscape and brought se..

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Raising Hare: The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship

'A beautiful book' - ANGELINA JOLIE 'A glorious book - for its warmth, its precision, its joy' - KATHERINE RUNDELL 'I will be recommending this to everyone' - MATT HAIG __ Imagine you co..

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Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING HILARIOUS NEW BOOK FROM THE NATION'S FAVOURITE COMEDIAN, BILLY CONNOLLY Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. ..

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Reagan: His Life and Legend

In this "monumental and impressive" biography, Max Boot, the distinguished political columnist, illuminates the untold story of Ronald Reagan, revealing the man behind the mythology. Drawing on interv..

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Reawakened: Traditional navigators of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

This book features interviews with 10 master navigators who trained under Mau Piailug (1932-2010), the legendary teacher of traditional, non-instrument wayfinding methods for open-ocean voyaging acros..

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Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae

Rebel Music: Bob Marley & Roots Reggae is a tribute to the leading icon in music, Bob Marley. In 1975, after meeting Marley in London, photographer Kate Simon gained unique access to the Wailers, capt..

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Rebel Rising

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilarious, and inspiring book about her unconventional journey to Hollywood success and loving herself. ..

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Recollections of My Non-Existence

In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-five years. There she began the process of forging a voice in a society that preferred women to be sile..

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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2023 A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK..

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Remembering Che: My Life With Che Guevara

Che Guevara's widow remembers a great revolutionary romance tragically cut short by Che's assassination in Bolivia. With a new introduction to be announced soon. When Aleida March first met Che G..

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Rememberings

An intimate and revelatory memoir from the iconic, acclaimed singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her landmark recording o..

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Return to My Native Land

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Run For Your Life: The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets

The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family we..

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