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A Bit on the Side

Virginia Trioli knows that enduring joy is often found not in the big moments but in the small. And as a dedicated, almost obsessive, foodie, she believes that food gives us the perfect metaphor for h..

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A Bookshop of One's Own: How a group of women set out to change the world

The captivating true story of an underdog business - a feminist bookshop founded in Thatcher's Britain - from a woman at the heart of the women's liberation movement. An Independent and Stylist Best..

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A Brilliant Life: My Mother's Inspiring Story of Surviving the Holocaust

As her mother, Mira, nears the end of her life, journalist Rachelle Unreich wants to find out more about how Mira survived four concentration camps, including Auschwitz. There was a mystery to her sur..

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story *Winner Pulitzer Prize 2024*

A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to..

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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story *Winner Pulitzer Prize 2024*

A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities and histories in violent collision Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to ..

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A Flat Place *Women's Prize 2024 Shortlist*

Raw and radical, unfamiliar and beguiling - a journey through Britain's breathtaking flatlands and a reckoning with the painful memories and hidden histories contained in those landscapes Noreen ..

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A Little Girl in Auschwitz: A heart-wrenching true story of survival, hope and love

The No. 1 international bestseller, with a foreword by His Holiness Pope Francis, who made headlines in 2021 when he kissed Lidia's Auschwitz identification tattoo. The unforgettable, moving true..

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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessnes..

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A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the horrors of the Holocaust

'My name is Renee Salt. I am 94 years old, I am a witness to history. I am a survivor. This is my attempt to make sense of a story which I can scarcely believe happened to me. Some of these..

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A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

It is a moment shrouded in horror and mystery. Edgar Allan Poe died on October 7, 1849, at just forty, in a painful, utterly bizarre manner that would not have been out of place in one of his own tale..

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A Necessary Kindness: Stories From the Frontline of Abortion Care

In 2015, Juno Carey left her job as a midwife, burnt out, frustrated and looking for a better way to deliver care to women. And then she found work that she loves, that brings her satisfaction and the..

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A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a double-A Category high-security prison in south Lond..

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A Promised Land

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presid..

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A Rebel in Gaza: A Daughter of Rafah Speaks

Born in Rafah, raised in Gaza, subjected both to Israeli bombs and to Islamist tyranny, and in the face of prison, death threats, abuse, misogyny, violence, and repression, Asmaa Alghoul has continued..

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A Stone is Most Precious Where It Belongs: A Memoir of Uyghur Loss, Exile and Hope

A powerful and urgent memoir of loss, exile and hope by Uyghur activist Gulchehra Hoja 'This gripping memoir conveys the courage and cost of telling a truer story' Guardian Book of the Day ..

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A Suspicion of Spies: Risk, Secrets and Shadows - the Biography of Wilfred 'Biffy' Dunderdale

A Suspicion of Spies is the first biography of 'Biffy' Dunderdale and tells the intriguing story of an extraordinary man - suave, sophisticated, genial and rich but also a ruthless and effective spyma..

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A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy ... A Memoir of Sorts

'I always think the last Nigel Slater book is my favourite but, a bit like the Olympics, he just keeps getting better' ELIZABETH DAY From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquis..

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A Voyage Around the Queen

From one of the funniest writers of our time, the award-winning and Sunday Times bestselling author of One Two Three Four and Ma'am Darling turns his attention to Queen Elizabeth II in an unforgettabl..

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A Year on El Oro

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A Year on El Oro

An offer comes out of the blue from an old family friend to borrow his magnificent 70 ft timber ketch. El Oro is a beautiful yacht, elegant and stately; built in the 1970's with ocean racing in mind...

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Abortion: A Personal Story, A Political Choice

From the author of I Hate Men, a personal and political reflection on abortion rights. Discussion about abortion and associated rights are often limited to either 'anti-abortion' or 'pro-choice',..

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About Ed

"I was a writer, but not the writer I needed to be. For that I had to become a different person," Robert Gl ck, widely acclaimed as a novelist and as a theorist of "the new narrative," recently told t..

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After the Tampa

When the Taliban were at the height of their power in 2001, Abbas Nazari's parents were faced with a choice: stay and face persecution in their homeland, or seek security for their young children else..

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After the Worst has Happened: Tales from a funeral director on the lighter side of death

When Richard Gosling's young daughter faced emergency surgery, a colleague carelessly asked what would happen if she died. In that moment, Richard was forced to picture his own daughter's funeral, and..

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Against the Water: A Surfing Champion's Inspirational Journey to Olympic Glory

The gut-wrenching, heroic story of how one of Australia's finest surfers overcame brain injury and despair to win an Olympic medal. On the morning of 10 December 2015, Australian surfer Owen Wri..

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All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, breaks his decades-long silence in this revealing memoir and sheds a whole new light on the family name...

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All Out *Staff Pick 2024*

An inspiring and revealing memoir about the relentless pursuit of dreams, and the highs and lows along the way, from one of the Black Caps' finest test cricketers. Neil Wagner is one of the great..

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All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud and Fine Art: 'The Inigo Philbrick Inside Story'

'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times Style A Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick 'An art world Great Gatsby, deliciousl..

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All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss and Art

A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. **THE SUNDAY TIMES ART BOOK OF THE YEAR** **A Fin..

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All The Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons and Politicians

'Hilarious and harrowing, and hard to put down.' - Christopher Buckley, author of Thank You for Smoking 'Might be a career-destroying book... highly enjoyable' Daily Telegraph The man who ..

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Allen Curnow: Slipcase Dual Edition

This handsome slipcase brings together the definitive biography and collected poems of Allen Curnow (1911-2001), widely recognised as one of the most distinguished poets writing in English in the seco..

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American Mother

The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there is no word that captures and conveys this tragic type of loss..

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday Times ..

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Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time

Now with a new chapter, On Being Ninety- a memoir of ageing, memory, and time, written by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers at the age of eighty 'The twentieth century shook the wor..

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

'It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty' - Oliver Sacks An Unquiet Mind is a definitive examination of manic depression from both sides: doct..

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Anatomy of a Secret: One Man's Search for Justice

This courageous memoir about the personal toll of seeking justice from the Catholic Church is one of hope, healing and persistence. Raw and compelling, Anatomy of a Secret bravely shares longsile..

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And Now The Shipping Forecast: A tide of history around our shores

Peter Jefferson presented The Shipping Forecast for over 40 years, and his familiar voice continued to be heard reading quotations on BBC Radio 4's Quote... Unquote. This book is both an affectionate ..

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And the Walls Became the World All Around

When the celebrated Swedish writer Johanna Ekstrom found out that she was dying from an eye melanoma she asked her closest friend, Sigrid Rausing, to finish her last book. Rausing transcribed and edit..

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And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life

'One of our most dazzling literary conjurers.' Michael Chabon Dear Reader, If you are looking for a passionate romance, a slick political thriller or, perhaps, a ripping yarn with volcanos, pir..

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Another Day, Another Collar: Confessions of a dog trainer

*FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE UK'S NO.1 DOG TRAINING BOOK EASY PEASY PUPPY SQUEEZY* 'Steve is my puppy training prophet and spiritual guide' - ADRIAN CHILES 'Dog training genius' - EMILIA CLARKE ..

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Anxiously Ever After: An Honest Memoir on Mental Illness, Strained Relationships, and Embracing the Struggle

How Are You Doing? No, Really ... In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the shadow ..

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Around the World in 80 Years: A Life of Exploration

He's climbed Everest not long after a heart bypass operation, he's run seven marathons on seven continents, he's hauled loaded sledges across both polar ice caps and he's circumnavigated the earth... ..

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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential memoir about building life on your own terms Is it possible life without romantic love isn't so bad? An essential m..

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Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art

A landmark feminist intervention- a dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and art - and how we think about them. 'Destined to become a new classic' Chris Kraus A dazzl..

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Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven expose of the real Kennedy Curse-the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem-and the women who have..

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At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China

'A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples' Francis Fukuyama 'A splendid journey through eighty years of Chinese history ... Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to..

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At Wit's End: Cartoonists of The New Yorker

An exclusive sneak peek inside the creative minds of more than 50 New Yorker cartoonists, celebrating legends and newcomers alike with stunning photography and engaging profiles. An exclusive sne..

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Aung San Suu Kyi: Politician, Prisoner, Parent

POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENT A portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leaders Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracy in Myanmar, is once ..

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Auschwitz - A Mother's Story

Suddenly there is a blow to my face, I am hurled to one side. 'My child, I have to go with her!' I scream. But Dr Mengel is standing before me, whip raised. 'Maul halten, shut up!' His eyes gleam. Fil..

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Australian Gospel: A Family Saga

From one of Australia's most brilliant writers, a dark comedy about the tangled fates of two couples and the children trapped between them 'Wild applause. Brave, funny and true.' David Marr ..

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Autograph Hunter, The : A story of love, secrets and superstars

"I'd managed to puncture a hole between our universe and the parallel one where all the celebrities lived." 'The zaniest book I've read in eons. Andrusier is a fresh new voice and more impo..

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