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love lay down beside me and we wept - Helen Murray Taylor

love lay down beside me and we wept is Helen Murray Taylor’s lyrical memoir of devastating mental illness. Helen Murray Taylor was finding her feet as a young doctor and trying to maintain some semblance of…

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The Explorers Club Presents: Letters from the Edge - Explorers Club, Jeff Wilser

An exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past centuryFor centuries, explorers from all over the globe have traveled the…

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Diary of a Secret Drug Addict - Secret Drug Addict

This book is for anyone who is struggling with addiction or thinks they might have a problem.It is a book for family and friends who live with the real-life consequences of addiction and want to…

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Not Your China Doll - Katie Gee Salisbury

‘Splendidly entertaining.’ The Times‘Lively and admiring.’ Telegraph‘The biography that Wong has long deserved.’ GuardianSet against the glittering backdrop of LA in the gin-soaked Jazz Age and during the rise of Hollywood, Not Your China Doll…

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Postcards From Santiago - Spencer Vignes

One of the most surprising footballstories you will ever read: the life of George Robledo, the forgotten foreigngenius of English football.

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The Cure - Ian Gittins

The story of The Cure: a tall tale of a truly unique British band.

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The Eitingons - Mary-Kay Wilmers

Leonid Eitingon was a KGB killer who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico when Trotsky was…

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Year of the Water Horse - Janice Page

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE A warm and witty memoir about the ever-changing relationships between mothers, mothers-in-law, and daughters that traverses two continents and multiple generations of two disparate yet connected families.

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Love and War in the Apennines - Eric Newby

Hailed as Newby''s ''masterpiece'', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby''s imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II.After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric…

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I Wanna Be Yours - John Cooper Clarke

This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. A joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation.''One of Britain''s outstanding poets'' – Sir Paul McCartney''Riveting''…

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Heartbeats - Bjorn Borg

No one had ever played tennis quite like Björn Borg. With his incredible athleticism, powerful shot-making and distinctive style, he became a sensation after he burst onto the scene aged just 15. As he ascended…

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Byron's Travels - Lord Byron

In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to the South Pacific…

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Limonov - Emmanuel Carrere

TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He''s lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol…

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Formula - Joshua Robinson, Jonathan Clegg

F1 is now the fastest growing sport in the world; the full story of its unbelievable rise is a riveting saga only hinted at by the likes of Drive to Survive. In this book -…

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Call of the Wild - Grieve Guy

Guy Grieve''s life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone…

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Ootlin - Dr Jenni Fagan

WINNER OF THE GORDON BURN PRIZE 2025Longlisted for the Women''s Prize for Non Fiction 2025''Extraordinary and uplifting'' OBSERVER''A triumphant tale of survival'' FINANCIAL TIMES''An extraordinary book'' LITERARY REVIEW''To read this book is to be reminded…

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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Dr Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou''s seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving the world, she also knows its cruelty. As a Black woman she has known discrimination and…

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Please Please Tell Me Now - Stephen Davis

Lifelong fans and interested newcomers will love this stunning biography of Duran Duran by the bestselling author of Gold Dust Woman and Hammer of the Gods.In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen…

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Vagabond Princess - Ruby Lal

A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir

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Bach's Musical Universe - Christoph Wolff

A comprehensive and fascinating study of the overall creative output of Johann Sebastian Bach, capturing the essence of his art.

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The Forgers - Roger Moorhouse

Between 1940 and 1943, a small group of Polish diplomats and Jewish activists in Switzerland engaged in a wholly remarkable - and until now, almost completely unknown - humanitarian operation. Under the leadership of the…

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The Scent of Flowers at Night - Leila Slimani

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY, AND TRANSLATED BY SAM TAYLOR*     'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have I been so gripped' KATY HESSEL 'An…

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Burned Alive - Souad

When Souad was seventeen she fell in love. In her village, as in so many others, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one''s family and was punishable by death. This was her…

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Self-Portrait - Celia Paul

''Painfully honest on what it means to be a woman who puts art first, no matter what'' Olivia LaingI''m not a portrait painter. If I''m anything, I have always been an autobiographer.In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul…

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