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Forgotten Women - Zing Tsjeng

Forgotten Women uncovers the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course…

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Martin Buber - Paul Mendes-Flohr

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, the first major biography in English in over thirty years of the seminal modern Jewish thinker Martin Buber"A scrupulously researched, perceptive biography."—Robert Alter, New York Times Book Review An authority…

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Dragged Up Proppa - Pip Fallow

Dragged Up Proppa is the story of growing up working class in a forgotten England.''Very compelling, beautifully written memoir of a time and England that no longer exists but remains just as important today as…

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Dog Days - Andrew Cotter

In DOG DAYS: A Year with Olive & Mabel, join Andrew Cotter as he takes you behind the scenes and into the pages of his diary to reveal just how extraordinary a year it has…

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Bowie Odyssey 72 - Simon Goddard

The third volume of the Bowie Odyssey series offers a wild and revelatory snapshot of the year of Ziggy as Simon Goddard continues his vivid real-time journey through the decade Bowie changed pop forever.

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Raising A Rare Girl - Heather Lanier

Award-winning writer Heather Lanier''s memoir about raising a child with a rare syndrome, defying the tyranny of normal, and embracing parenthood as a spiritual practice that breaks us open in the best of ways.Like many…

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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 - Ludwig Wittgenstein

Written in code under constant threat of battle, Wittgenstein’s searing and illuminating diaries finally emerge in this first-ever English translation

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Wine Girl - Victoria James

Winner of the Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards Drink Book Award 2021Longlisted for the André Simon Food & Drink Book Awards 2020''Hugely entertaining'' Jay Rayner''A brilliantly Bourdain-ish tale of a young woman making…

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Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal

Rashid Johnson, Cauleen Smith and others pay tribute to a truly extraordinary figure in 20th-century American jazzThis volume unpacks the cultural legacy of musician, spiritual leader, wife and mother Alice Coltrane. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition…

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Boogie Man - Charles Shaar Murray

''You the funkiest man alive.'' Miles Davis'' accolade was the perfect expression of John Lee Hooker''s apotheosis as blues superstar: recording with the likes of Van Morrison, Keith Richards and Carlos Santana; making TV commercials…

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My Forbidden Face - Latifa

Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the…

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What Would the Aunties Say? - Anchal Seda

In this groundbreaking book, beauty influencer and podcaster Anchal Seda openly and honestly explores the shared experiences of "the brown girls" from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh living in the Western world. What Would the Aunties Say? is…

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Oedolyn (ish!) - Melanie Owen

The creative biography of Melanie Owen presented as a collection of lessons learnt. We learn how she has reached where she is today, we are given insight into her career, and what she has to…

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Springfield Road - Godden Salena

A moving and poetic memoir about growing up without a father and a vivid portrait of the seventies from award-winning author and poet Salena GoddenThis is the story of a home. A story rooted in love.…

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Billy No-Mates - Max Dickins

''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…

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Coco Chanel - Isabelle Fiemeyer

An updated authorized edition of Isabelle Fiemeyer’s literary biography of Coco Chanel, which demystifies the legendary designer’s life. Coco Chanel was an emancipated fashion revolutionary. Raised by nuns in an orphanage, she rose to become…

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Only you know & I know - Chris Epting, Dave Mason

Featuring dozens of photographs-as well as guest contributions from family members and friends such as Bonnie Bramlett, Mick Fleetwood, and Graham Nash-one of rock's true heroes finally shares his colourful, unique, and ultimately triumphant journey…

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Darker Than The Deepest Sea - Trevor Dann

When singer-songwriter Nick Drake died of a drug overdose in the autumn of 1974, he left behind only three well-received but modest selling albums. Today, he is recognised as one of true geniuses of English…

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Mengele - David G. Marwell

A gripping account of the infamous Nazi doctor from a former US Justice Department official tasked with uncovering his fate.

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Help Me! - Power Marianne

‘I love it! Hilarious and thought-provoking!’ - Fearne Cotton‘The Bridget Jones of self-improvement’ - Sunday TimesMarianne Power was stuck in a rut. She wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life?She decided…

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Adventures of a Young Naturalist - Sir David Attenborough

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY DARA McANULTYTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER''His writing is as impressive and as enjoyable as his TV programmes and there can be no higher praise'' Daily Express''A marvellous book . . .…

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Castlereagh - John Bew

The best political biography of the year'' Jonathan Sumption, Spectator''Wonderful . . . A Life so nearly complete it need never be written again'' Ferdinand Mount, Times Literary SupplementBy the author of the Orwell Prize-winning…

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Sticker - Henry Hoke

"A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history." - Publisher’s Weekly"A book that sticks with you long after you’ve read it." Volume 1 Brooklyn"Hoke’s writing is blunt and honest,…

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Siberian Education - Nicolai Lilin

By the age of six, Nicolai Lilin had been given his first ''pike knife'' by an uncle, and by the age of twelve, he had been convicted of attempted murder . . . Nicolai Lilin…

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