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The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter

The extraordinary true story of the Holocaust survivor who endured six death camps before joining the hunt for the Nazis and bringing his tormentors to justice. **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** ..

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The T in LGBT: Everything you need to know about being trans

The first book that provides an affirming and relatable account of the trans experience from the largest trans man YouTuber. Hey, I'm Jamie, a 29-year-old trans guy from the UK. I've been transit..

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The Tennis Partner

From the author of the bestseller Cutting For Stone comes a deeply moving story about drug addiction, male friendship and tennis. When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling,..

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The Times Lives Less Ordinary: Obituaries of the eccentric, unique and undefinable

Discover the lives of some of the most fascinating and unconventional characters of recent times, with 85 obituaries carefully curated from The Times archive. Be they dons, pop stars, vicars, MPs, rug..

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The Trading Game: A Confession

The high-wire true story of the millionaire trader, who won the finance game and then blew it wide open 'If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you ..

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The Twat Files

A hugely-relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human We're told we've got to be perfect, and we've got filt..

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The Twat Files: A hilarious sort-of memoir of mistakes, mishaps and mess-ups

A hugely relatable, funny, honest and inspirational 'memoir of sorts' in which Dawn celebrates what it means to be gloriously, messily human When I was younger I wanted to be an interesting, soph..

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The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion

As an aspiring novelist in his early twenties, Cory Leadbeater was presented with an opportunity to work for a well-known writer whose identity was kept confidential. Since the tumultuous days of chil..

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The Vanished Collection

A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth about her family. 'As devourable as a thriller... Incredibly moving' Elle 'Pauline Baer de Per..

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The View From Down Here: Life as a Young Disabled Woman

A powerful, eye-opening insight into navigating the world as a disabled young woman Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a comple..

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The War Diaries: World War II Written by the People Who Lived Through It

Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The War Diaries illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite..

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The Wild Other: A memoir of love, adventure and how to be brave

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 'There is so much richly evoked life here... beautifully written.' Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times 'This redemptive memoir will steal your hear..

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The Wisdom of Morrie

From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. 'Beautiful ...Those lucky enough ..

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The World According to Joan Didion

An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attentio..

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The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)

Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generatio..

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Thin Places

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED 'Remarkable' - Robert Macfarlane 'Beautiful' - Amy Liptrot 'Powerful, unflinching . . . Part hymn to nature, part T..

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This is Going to Hurt

Now A Major BBC Series Starring Ben Whishaw. The multi-million copy bestseller and Book of the Year at The National Book Awards. 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up t..

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This is My Sea

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This Much is True

'There is no one on earth quite so wonderful' STEPHEN FRY BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a myriad of unforgettable characte..

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This Woman's Work: Essays on Music

This Woman's Work: Essays on Music is edited by Kim Gordon and Sinead Gleeson and features contributors Anne Enright, Fatima Bhutto, Jenn Pelly, Rachel Kushner, Juliana Huxtable, Leslie Jamison, Liz P..

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Those Wild Wyndhams: Three Sisters at the Heart of Power

Winner of the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2014 A rich historical biography of 'those wild Wyndhams' - three cultured aristocratic sisters born into great privilege in late Victorian Brit..

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Three Minutes for a Dog: My Life in an Iron Lung

Contrary to popular belief Polio is not extinct. This is the true story of an indomitable spirit afflicted with unimaginable physical and psychological challenges. Paul Alexander's life is a saga that..

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Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the rump of a once flourishing community of over 1..

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Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death *Women's Prize 2024 Longlist*

From the Sunday Times bestselling author, Laura Cumming, a kaleidoscopic memoir connecting her life as an art critic with the vivid world of her father's paintings and those of the Dutch Golden Age - ..

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Time and Tide

A poignant and introspective memoir from Irish journalist and broadcaster Charlie Bird. In 2021, Charlie Bird was diagnosed with motor neurone disease - a man whose voice was so synonymous with his..

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Tinkering: The Complete Book of John Clarke

This book tells the story of John Clarke?s writing life, including the fan letter he sent to All Black Terry Lineen when he was ten, a golf instruction manual unlike any other, Anna Karenina in forty-..

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To Love and Be Loved: A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflec..

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Tomorrow Perhaps the Future: Writers, Rebels and the Spanish Civil War

In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance In our age of political divisions, this port..

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Toy Fights: A Boyhood

'A classic of its kind.' William Boyd 'Thought-provoking, hilarious, sardonic and scarily brilliant.' Scotsman 'A work of dazzling craft.' Times Literary Supplement 'A memoir in a million.' Sund..

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Toy Fights: A Boyhood

Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963 and spent his boyhoodliving on a working-class council housing estate. Toy Fights is the remarkablestory of his first twenty years. This is not ..

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Tracks

A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian Outback 'I experienced that sinking feelin..

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Tuesdays with Morrie

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching and gave you sound advice to help you make your way throu..

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Twins of Auschwitz: The Inspiring true story of a young girl surviving Mengele's hell

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins. In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz. Within thi..

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Unbreakable

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.' - STEPHEN FRY 'Besides qui..

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Unconventional Women: The story of the last Blessed Sacrament Sisters in Australia

The lives of the women who joined a closed convent in Melbourne in a time of great upheaval In the 1950s and 60s, six young women left their families to join a strictly enclosed order of nuns in ..

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Undaunted: My Fight Against America's Enemies, At Home and Abroad

Friday, January 6, 2017: On that day, as always, John Brennan's alarm clock was set to go off at 4:15 a.m. But nothing else about that day would be routine. That day marked his first and only security..

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Undoctored

THE NO. 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW INCLUDING BRAND NEW MATERIAL THIS IS GOING TO HURT was the bestselling non-fiction book of the century - a frank, funny and furious look at the bruta..

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Unearthed: On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong

A beautiful work of nature-writing, memoir and storytelling that will change the way we think about the natural world, from food grower Claire Ratinon A powerful work of memoir and storytelling t..

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Unfinished Woman

SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN 'The zigzagging life of an adventurer' GUARDIAN 'An astonishing, wonderful memoir of an extraordinary life' HENRY MARSH, author of Do No Harm '..

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Unlikely Prisoner, An: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmar's Most Notorious Jail

In his darkest hour hope became his closest companion. 'Australia's most unlikely political prisoner . . . is known as a person of deep optimism, bubbling enthusiasm and infectious warmth.' Mel..

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Unsafe

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way ... Damian is just seven when he is taken in by foster carer Cathy Glass. His mother, Rachel, loves her three young children dearly, but she is ..

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Varying Degrees of Success: A Memoir 1993-2020

The third part of award-winning literary giant David Lodge's memoir covering 1992 to 2010 when he was developing his literary career and also making forays into television and stage work both at home ..

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Virginia Woolf

An accessible introduction to a writer whose work is of timeless significance and whose unconventional life is a continuous source of fascination. In 1907, when she was twenty-five and not yet a..

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Voyager: Constellations of Memory

One of the world's foremost spots for astronomical observation, the Atacama Desert in Chile is also where, in October 1973, twenty-six people were executed by Pinochet's Caravan of Death. Decades on, ..

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Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history ..

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Walden

In 1845, the American Transcendentalist philosopher Henry David Thoreau went to live in the woods near his hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. For over two years he resided there largely in solitary, ..

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Wandering Through Life: A Memoir

The internationally bestselling author tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her ninth decade From a childhood in the company of her New Jersey family, with frequent visits to her gr..

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War Diary

The young artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022. For her and millions of Ukrainians, reality cha..

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War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line

'Brave, compassionate and inspiring - it left me in floods of tears' Adam Kay, author of This Is Going to Hurt For more than twenty-five years, David Nott has taken unpaid leave from his job as..

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Warming Up Julia Child: The Remarkable Figures Who Shaped a Legend

A Pulitzer prize-finalist peels back the curtain on an unexplored part of Julia Child's life-the formidable team of six she collaborated with to shape her legendary career. Julia Child's monument..

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