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Be Useful: Seven tools for life

Seven lessons from the international icon on how to live a meaningful, purposeful life, for fans of Atomic Habits and Wim Hof The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distil..

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Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink

A frank, hopeful and darkly funny memoir of postpartum psychosis and recovery 'How strange to be the observed and not the observer.' Ariane Beeston is a child protection worker and newly reg..

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Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America

The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the United States. 'Rob Pope has made his name revelling in challe..

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Behind the Seams

*** THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*** From adventures at Central Saint Martins to The Great British Sewing Bee, go behind the scenes of Esme Young's amazing life... At age five, Esme wa..

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Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

Henry Winkler, launched into prominence by his role as 'The Fonz' in the beloved TV series Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny and widely regarded as the nic..

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Belonging: Natural histories of place, identity and home

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2022Reflecting on family, identity and nature, belonging is a personal memoir about what it is to hav..

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Bernardine's Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China

Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon. Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in..

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Berserker!

Berserk: out of control with anger or excitement; wild or frenzied. Berserkers: an elite Norse fighting corp who, apparently off their tits on hallucinogenic drugs, fought with a particular fur..

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Bibi: My Story

In Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's "compelling" (The Economist) and "fascinating" (The Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestselling autobiography, the prime minister of Israel tells the story of his fa..

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Big Mouth

A rock n roll memoir of life, death and growing up with the occasional scandal. For a man who has been firmly in the public eye for the past decade or more, Matt Preston has been very, very quiet..

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Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem

'Where have all my friends gone?' When Max Dickins decided to propose to his girlfriend, he realised there was no one he could call on to be his best man. He quickly learned that he wasn't t..

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Black and White: The Rise and Fall of Bobby Fischer

The life of Bobby Fischer (1943-2008) had many unexpected moves-from his solitary childhood to his stratospheric accomplishments in the world of competitive chess, and eventually, his decent into ment..

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Black Duck: A Year at Yumburra

'Sometimes you need to repeat something a hundred times before a bell rings in the colony.' From the bestselling author Bruce Pascoe comes a deeply personal story about the consequences and respo..

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Book of Gutsy Women

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Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog 3E

What happens when a young child is traumatized? How does terror affect a child's mind-and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror:..

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Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir

An unforgettable story of the legacy of grief and guilt across generations, and the power of memory and faith. Kristina Olsson's mother lost her infant son, Peter, when he was snatched from her a..

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Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath

But Bravo Company's story didn't end when they came home. In the ten years since, two of their members have died by suicide, more than a dozen others have tried, and others admit they've considered it..

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Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath

A timely, powerful, and sweeping portrait of a company of men who went to war in Afghanistan, their troubled deployment, and their lives in the decade since returning homeTen years ago, the 100 soldie..

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Breath: A triumphant story of hope and survival

A triumphant story of hope and survival I am dying. I know that I'm dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I'm in the dying room. Carly-..

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Broken Girl: A true story

'Harrowing, yet ultimately hopeful' GERALDINE BROOKS Sometimes the whole truth is the death of everything. Caroline Laner Breure was on holiday in Spain with her boyfriend when h..

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BWB Text: Playing for Both Sides

For novelist Stephanie Johnson, her relationship with Australia and Australians has been an ambivalent one. She has lived there for periods in her life, and her first book, a collection of short stori..

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By My Hands: A Potter's Apprenticeship

A young ceramicist's journey from apprentice potter to celebrated craftsman Florian Gadsby has devoted his life to pottery, refining his technique towards the point of perfection - and as his ski..

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By Your Side: My Life Loving Barbara Windsor

'I'm so glad you had the life you did, Barbara. I'm sorry you can't remember, but my God, what a life! You haven't wasted a minute of it...' In December 2020, while the world was gripped wi..

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Cacophony of Bone

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland. They were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed ..

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Camera Girl: The Coming of Age of Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

"One of the most detailed, nuanced portraits of Jackie to date." -The Washington Post An illuminating and "wholly refreshing" (David Maraniss, New York Times bestselling author) biography of the..

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CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

Long blonde hair, an iconic red lip, and effortless style-all signatures of fashion icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Carolyn used fashion as her medium. She hadn't found her voice yet in front of the ca..

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Chancellor:  Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel

'An intimate, insightful portrait of an extraordinarily private leader' WALTER ISAACSON From the bestselling author of Enemies of the People An intimate and deeply researched account of the ..

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Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story.

The death of Queen Elizabeth II in September 2022 was a moment of profound shock and grief for the nation. She had been a steadfast presence for seventy years but now, suddenly, the future of the mona..

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Charles: The Heart of a King

The bestselling and authoritative biography of Prince Charles - now updated with two new chapters - by Catherine Mayer, royal expert and correspondent The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 'Br..

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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out

An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood's diaries and letters An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings ..

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Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller

'A moving portrait of Diwan and the Cairo that embraced it, an ode to all the people who have kept it going' Harvard Review In 2002, three young women with no business degrees, no formal tr..

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Cider With Rosie

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside. The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside ..

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Cleo : How a Small Black Cat Helped Heal A Family

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Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet

'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly 'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont 'A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement' - Tim Moore, travel writer 16 co..

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Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

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Constable: A Portrait

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022 'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times 'A biography as rich with colourful characters as any novel' Telegrap..

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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CRITIC AND ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF NEGROLAND Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize for Non-Fiction 2023 'This is one..

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Counting the Cost

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Coun..

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Crying in H Mart

One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2021 The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir about growing up mixed..

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Damaged: Jodie's parents were supposed to protect her...

The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive and extremely challenging. Five carers in four months have been unable to cope, but there is one last hope: ..

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Dancing for Stalin: A True Story of Extraordinary Courage and Survival in the Soviet Gulag

Nina Anisimova was born in 1909 in imperial St Petersburg. One of the most renowned character dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century, she won her way into the hearts of her audience over ..

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Dealing with a Head injury at Nine Years Old

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Dear Dolly: On Love, Life and Friendship, the instant Sunday Times bestseller

From the bestselling and beloved author of Everything I Know about Love and Ghosts- a collection of her favourite Dear Dolly agony aunt letters and answers from her hugely popular Sunday Times Style c..

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Dear Oliver: An unexpected friendship with Oliver Sacks

When Susan Barry first wrote to Oliver Sacks, she never expected a response, let alone the deep friendship that blossomed over ten years of letters.Sue, herself a neuroscientist, wrote to share an ext..

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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle - may they never giv..

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Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in New York City's Gilded Age

Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age-Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt-is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publi..

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Diana - Remembering the Princess: Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death

'Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly dow..

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Diary Keepers, The : Ordinary People, Extraordinary Times

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

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Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

Another year on the Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy is still knee-deep in mud and endless challenges . . . Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his wo..

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Diddly Squat: Pigs Might Fly

Another year on the Diddly Squat Farm and Jeremy is still knee-deep in mud and endless challenges . . . Welcome back to Clarkson's Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy's had his wo..

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Dispatches from the Land of Alzheimer's

In 2006, Daniel Gibbs, author of A Tattoo on my Brain: A Neurologist's Personal Battle against Alzheimer's Disease (soon to be a documentary produced by MTV/Paramount+), first noticed symptoms which h..

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