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My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty

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Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

If This Is A Man/The Truce (50th Anniversary Edition): Surviving Auschwitz

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A new edition of Primo Levi's classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don't...
Funny Man: Mel Brooks

Funny Man: Mel Brooks

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Author: Patrick McGilligan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 640 A deeply textured and compelling biography of comedy giant Mel Brooks, covering his rags-to-riches life and triumphant career in television, films,...
Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

Rivals Unto Death: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

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Author: Rick Beyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 The day was hot and sticky. The man in the rowboat was an impetuous hothead. His row across the choppy Hudson...
Behind the Lens: My Life

Behind the Lens: My Life

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Author: David Suchet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In the early days of my career, I didn't think I stood a hope in hell. Look at me: I'm short,...
Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy

Hannibal's Oath: The Life and Wars of Rome's Greatest Enemy

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Author: John Prevas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 According to ancient sources, Hannibal was only nine years old when his father dipped the small boy's hand in blood and...
If This Is A Man/The Truce

If This Is A Man/The Truce

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Author: Primo Levi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out...
The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature

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Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...
Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

Mental Fitness: 15 Rules to Strengthen Your Body and Mind

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Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the Chief Instructor of SAS: Australia that will explain the principles...
I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

I'll Take Your Questions Now: What I Saw at the Trump White House

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Author: Stephanie Grisham Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The most frank and intimate portrait of the Trump White House yet Stephanie Grisham rose from being a junior press wrangler...
Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Chasing The Light: How I Fought My Way into Hollywood - THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

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Author: Oliver Stone Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 *** "I loved it. An amazing book." - Louis Theroux "A rip-roaring read. It left me breathless." - Chris...
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century

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Author: Clay Risen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2019 SELECTION The dramatic story of the most famous regiment in American history:...
Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

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Author: Andrew Nagorski Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'An intimate, touching portrait of a genius as an old man' -SYLVIA NASAR, author of A BEAUTIFUL MIND 'A gripping masterpiece'...
Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

Meshi: A personal history of Japanese food

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Author: Katherine Tamiko Arguile Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 For Katherine Tamiko Arguile, the Japanese food her mother cooked was a portal to a part of her that sometimes...
The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: A True Story About the Birth of Tyranny in North Korea

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Author: Blaine Harden Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Blaine Harden, New York Times-bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, tells the riveting story of Kim Il Sung's...
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake

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Author: Simon Kuper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part...
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir

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Author: Justus Rosenberg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 "Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane

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Author: Paul Auster Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 800 A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021 Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling...
A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

A Curious Boy: The Making of a Scientist

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Author: Richard Fortey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades ... The unforgotten boy: that is...
Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

Harry Styles: The Making of a Modern Man

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Author: Sean Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'Fascinating and authoritative' The Daily Express Sunday Times bestselling author Sean Smith tells the extraordinary story of a modern cultural icon:...
Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

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Author: Stephen Kinzer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the man who oversaw the...
Things I Learned from Falling

Things I Learned from Falling

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Author: Claire Nelson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made...
Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World

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Author: John Walsh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s. In the space of eight years, a generation of young...
The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again

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Author: Jim Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and...
Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

Electronically Yours: Vol. I: My Autobiography

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Author: Martyn Ware Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 This is a music autobiography to remember. This is the story of Martyn Ware. The Human League and Heaven 17 were...
Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+

Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle - Now on Apple TV+

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Author: Nathan W. Pyle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections,...
Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America

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Author: Maggie Haberman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 *THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *A Financial Times Book of the Year* *Economist Book of the Year* 'A...
Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

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Author: Alan Rickman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 496 Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as...
Joe Biden: American Dreamer

Joe Biden: American Dreamer

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Author: Evan Osnos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 192 A concise, brilliant and trenchant examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency Former...
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

Young Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Memoir and a Reckoning

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Author: Alex Halberstadt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In this "urgent and enthralling reckoning with family and history" (Andrew Solomon), an American writer returns to Russia to face a...
Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

Father of Lions: One Man's Remarkable Quest to Save Mosul's Zoo

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Author: Louise Callaghan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba...
The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown

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Author: Karen Olsson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick A wonderful book. --Patti Smith I was riveted. Olsson is...
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped

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Author: Russell Brand Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Russell Brand explores the idea of mentoring and shares what he's learned from the guidance of his own helpers, heroes and...
A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

A House Full of Daughters: A Memoir of Seven Generations

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Author: Juliet Nicolson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have...
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic

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Author: Daniel Mendelsohn Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost, comes a deeply moving tale of a father and son's...
God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

God's Wolf: The Life of the Most Notorious of all Crusaders, Scourge of Saladin

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Author: Jeffrey Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 In a 2010 terrorist plot, Al-Qaeda hid a bomb in a FedEx shipment addressed to a man who had been dead...
The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives

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Author: Jude Rogers Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Too often we treat popular music as wallpaper surrounding us as we live our lives. Jude Rogers shows the emotional and...
Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

Access All Areas: A Backstage Pass Through 50 Years of Music And Culture

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Author: Barbara Charone Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, first-hand,...
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year

Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know: Updated and revised to celebrate the author's 75th year

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Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp...
Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw

Butch Cassidy: The True Story of an American Outlaw

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Author: Charles Leerhsen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Charles Leerhsen brings the notorious Butch Cassidy to vivid life in this surprising and entertaining biography that goes beyond the movie...
Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography

Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography

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Author: Ronnie James Dio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Ronnie James Dio was a heavy metal icon and frontman of three of the best-selling, most influential and famous rock...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age

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Author: Anne de Courcy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said...
Idiot Wind: A Memoir

Idiot Wind: A Memoir

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Author: Peter Kaldheim Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In 1987 a massive snowstorm hits New York as Peter Kaldheim flees the city, owing drug debts to a dealer who...
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and...
Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa

Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey Into the Heart of Africa

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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
When in French: Love in a Second Language

When in French: Love in a Second Language

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Author: Lauren Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her early thirties, she moved to...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA

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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...