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Jeremy and Amy: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man and His Orang-Utan - Jeremy Keeling

Jeremy & Amy is the first book to tell the story behind internationally famous Monkey World.

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Now is Not the Time for Flowers - Stacey Heale

'The authentically inspiring hope Stacey's beautiful writing offers, is mined at the coalface of grief and survival. She shines much-needed light into dark spaces.' Donna Ashworth 'This is not just a book about surviving the…

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London-Rose - Beauty Will Save the World - Fanny Howe

The story of failure asks one question only: What do people who lose do next? ''Let the best one win.'' War is one way. The other way is religion. Let me at the stakes. It''s…

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I Will Never See the World Again - Ahmet Altan

From the confines of his prison cell in Istanbul, one of Turkey's greatest living novelists reflects upon hope, despair and the light literature can bring to even the darkest places.

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William Wilberforce - William Hague

William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the slave trade.Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able…

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Where Has Mummy Gone? - Cathy Glass

The true story of Melody, aged 8, the last of five siblings to be taken from her drug dependent single mother and brought into care.When Cathy is told about Melody’s terrible childhood, she is sure…

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Ada Lovelace - Beverley Adams

This book brings into focus the life of Ada, Countess of Lovelace; it explores how she became credited as being the world's first computer programmer.

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Behind the Badge: The remarkable & compelling true story of a boy from Egypt who became one of Australia's most senior police, for readers of THE GOOD

The true story of one of Australia's top cops for readers of I CATCH KILLERS and THE GOOD COP Nick Kaldas is a cop's cop. From investigating war criminals to taking down global drug operations,…

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God and the Devil - Peter Cowie

‘A commanding portrait.’ Total Film‘Indispensable . . . rich, engaging, thorough.’ Sight & Sound‘Bergman’s films stand alone as beacons in film history.’ Wim WendersA chronicle of the life and career of one of film''s defining…

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The Oxford Inklings - Colin Duriez

A unique account of one of history's most intriguing literary groups.

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Another Forgotten Child - Cathy Glass

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass. Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago.…

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Biographic: Churchill - R Wiles

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creative. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and…

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Love Is A Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield

In this stunning memoir, Rob Sheffield, a veteran rock and pop culture critic and staff writer for Rolling Stone magazine, tells the story of his musical coming of age, and how rock music, the first…

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Catherine, the Princess of Wales: The Biography - Robert Jobson

DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND THE HEADLINES IN THE ROYAL GIFT OF THE YEARFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within the royal household - this revelatory…

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Reagan - Max Boot

Son of the Midwest, movie star and mesmerising politician—America's fortieth president comes to three-dimensional life in this gripping and profoundly revisionist biography

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Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. - Viv Albertine

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occurred to her she could be in a band…

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The Einstein of Sex - Daniel Brook

An illuminating portrait of a lost thinker, German-Jewish sexologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld

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A Family Secret - Maureen Wood

‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’Abused from the age…

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Britten's Children - John Bridcut

Britten''s Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer''s obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten''s music is his use of boys'' voices, and John Bridcut uses…

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Report from the Interior - Paul Auster

''In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .''Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster…

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Mad Girl - Gordon Bryony

''A brilliant fast, funny and frank look at something that absolutely needs to be talked about in this way'' - Matt Haig''I felt comforted by this book; by the honesty, insight, compassion, and the beautiful…

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The Yellow House - Sarah M. Broom

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION''A major book that I suspect will come to be considered among the essential memoirs of this vexing decade'' New York Times Book ReviewIn…

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Alexandre Kojeve - Boris Groys

Unravelleing the mystery of philsopher Alexandre KojèveBoris Groys''s new book is an intellectual biography of the fascinating and mysterious figure of Alexandre Kojève, discussing his involvement with HegelÂ’s dialectics, his idea of communism and his…

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The Grassling - Elizabeth-Jane Burnett

''A subtle, moving celebration of place and connectedness . . . brings the sounds, smells and sights of the countryside alive like few other books'' GuardianWhat fills my lungs is wider than breath could be.…

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