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  • Home Again
    Join rock-legend, former Shihad frontman and lead singer of The Adults, Jon Toogood in this unflinching and no-holds-barred memoir Home Again.This is more than a rock story. Toogood looks back on a 37-year career that helped define New Zealand rock music, and the personal cost that came with it. From a music-obsessed childhood in Wellington to the deafening roar of international stages, this...
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    A Life in Lyrics
    Freddie Mercury was one of the greatest showmen of the twentieth century. With his unparalleled voice and searing on-stage energy, he was a great pretender, a killer queen and a champion of the world. But behind the glamour lived a musician and lyricist talented beyond measure, and the creative force behind one of the most culturally significant and musically diverse...
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    Intimate Audrey
    The only official biography of fashion and film icon and humanitarian Audrey Hepburn, with the actress’s personal history, insights from her family about her philosophy of life, and an intimate picture of how she lived outside of the public eye. There are few celebrities of yesterday or today as iconic as Audrey Hepburn. From humble beginnings, growing up in the...
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  • Lucky You're Tough
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    Lucky You're Tough
    Lucky You're Tough chronicles the early life of helicopter pilot and NZSAS soldier Mark Law, from growing up in the rural wilds of Whangamōmona through to surviving a series of life-threatening events that would shape his life and career. After a career as a badged soldier in the NZSAS that led to an intriguing stint with the British SAS and...
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    The Farm
    The Farm is a lyrical and entertaining journey to the heart of rural life in New Zealand from one of our greatest living writers. When Bruce Ansley visited a friend on a sheep farm on Banks Peninsula, they pointed out a property for sale, down by the water. Down a drive curving through sycamores, oaks, and rhododendrons, there was a...
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  • You Are Not Alone
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    You Are Not Alone
    This is the truth as we know it. I have read so much about what people think they know about Michael, but this is about what really happened. – Jermaine Jackson You Are Not Alone is an intimate, loving portrait of Michael Jackson, illuminating the private man like never before. It is an invitation into Michael’s real character, private insights...
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    Happy, Thank You. More, Please.
    When I was twenty-one, I met a girl who introduced me to five magic words that changed my life: Happy, Thank You. More, Please. Kyla Cobbler's path to self-love hasn't run smoothly. From making questionable dating decisions, to using booze to quell her constant Irish state of mortification, to getting arrested for drug smuggling—sometimes it's been hard to believe the universe...
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  • Fires Which Burned Brightly
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    Fires Which Burned Brightly
    A new, wise, and warmly funny work of memoir from bestselling novelist Sebastian Faulks. 'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES 'Witty' INDEPENDENT 'Wry and reflective . . . a soulful look at a life in words' i PAPER 'A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer' RORY STEWART, author of Politics on the Edge 'Utterly...
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  • Drive
    A thrilling, candid and uncompromising memoir covering over twenty-years at the pinnacle of Formula 1, Drive sees Christian Horner, one of the sport’s biggest characters, take readers into the heart of Red Bull Racing as he reflects on his extraordinary career. For over twenty years Christian Horner built and ran Red Bull Racing, transforming a rookie team acquired for £1 into one...
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    Well, Well, Well
    From Ayahuasca to Zen, Judith’s hilarious first-hand exploration of what works – and what seriously doesn't – in the wellness world. Judith Lucy is on the mend. In 2022, she shocked the world of comedy – and herself – by announcing that she was retiring from stand-up. Interested in the world of wellness since she took up yoga in her...
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  • The Broken King
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    The Broken King
    ‘Michael Thomas has written a truly extraordinary memoir, one that sears and sings with such terrible, beautiful honesty it will burn its way deep into your bones. The Broken King is a triumph, and reading it will leave you changed. It’s genuinely one of the most extraordinary and magical books I have ever read. I’m full of awe.’ Helen Macdonald,...
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    Secrets
    The story behind some of the most newsworthy stories ever, written by the man with more #1 bestsellers than any journalist of our time. Bob Woodward has reported on every American president from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. His books have penetrated government institutions, informed the national conversation, and shaped our culture. In Secrets, Woodward tells his story – from...
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  • Mr Moonlight
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    Mr Moonlight
    The definitive biography of Brian Epstein – the man who made the Beatles – by leading Beatles biographer Philip Norman. Brian Epstein didn’t just manage the Beatles – he transformed them into the most famous band the world has ever known. A young record-shop owner from Liverpool, he took four relatively unknown musicians and set out to make them ‘bigger...
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    Matthew Flinders
    A wildly funny and meticulously researched reexamination of the life of explorer Matthew Flinders, as Shaun Micallef charts the chaos, comedy, and contradictions behind the founding of Australia. Who was Matthew Flinders? A pioneer who gave Australia its name but chose to name nothing after himself. A dreamer obsessed with Robinson Crusoe who wound up imprisoned on an island for...
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    F*ck Failure
    From Grammy Award–winning producer, artist, actor, and New York Times bestselling author benny blanco comes a book that teaches you how to achieve your wildest dreams by seizing the most powerful opportunity you'll ever be handed: failure. You want success? You gotta fail better. I fail constantly—small everyday failures and massive failures that last for years. I've learned a few...
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  • Capitalism Is Sexism
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    Capitalism Is Sexism
    A bold and incisive personal manifesto on the ways sexism is used in capitalist systems to exploit women, using algorithms that pressure them into spending money on a distorted ideal of beauty, motherhood, and success. The age-old pressure to focus on either a career or building a family has been compounded by a new reality: Millennial women are often both...
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  • Bad Boy for Life
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    Bad Boy for Life
    If not for Sean “Diddy” Combs' ability to harness the voice of hip-hop and package it via artists like Mary J. Blige and the Notorious B.I.G., the landscape of American—and world—music would look and sound entirely different. For decades, mainstream performers clamoured to be close to Combs; his charisma, vision, and brand of cool transformed hip-hop culture into a multibillion-dollar...
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  • All Heart
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    All Heart
    Haunting and inspirational, All Heart is the definitive memoir of one of Australia’s greatest sporting heroes: Mick Fanning. Mick Fanning is a three-time surfing world champion. But he’s also a true survivor who fought off a great white shark on live TV and battled to overcome heart-shattering grief following the tragic deaths of his three brothers. This deeply personal memoir...
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  • The Man Who Broke Reality
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    The Man Who Broke Reality
    After Einstein and Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr was the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He was the central figure in the development of quantum mechanics (contra Einstein with whom he clashed). Due to his Jewish ancestry, he had to escape from his native Denmark during the Second World War and ended up working on the Manhattan project to build...
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  • The Last Good Day on the Internet
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    The Last Good Day on the Internet
    Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over the colour of a dress? The Last Good Day on the Internet sees former foreign correspondent and tech entrepreneur Mark Little take us back to a time when the web was a place of community, curiosity and potential. Until it wasn't. Having...
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  • The Elegant Hustler
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    The Elegant Hustler
    Days seem so exhilarating aboard a ship: surrounded by water, an ever-changing spectrum of blues, greys and black, the sky surrounds you like a great bowl. The colours change from Prussian blue, speckled with turquoise, white horses, to fifty shades of grey, with the horizon a thin silver line and a Biblical display of golden sunrays, spilling down. For Celia...
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  • Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
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    Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis
    Priscilla Presley's divorce from Elvis left his fans incredulous. How could she leave the man every woman wanted? From the outside, life in Elvis's mansion looked glamorous and enviable, and in many respects, it was. But inside the mansion, her husband was constantly surrounded by a male entourage while at the gates, lines of beautiful women waited hopefully for an...
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  • Our Arab
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    Our Arab
    Of the many Palestinian Americans in the diaspora, few have direct experiences or memories of their ancestral land, if any at all. So how does one maintain a connection to a home so volatile, ever-shrinking, and nearly unattainable? And how does a child of diaspora raise a child of diaspora, at a time when Palestinians throughout the world—particularly those living...
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  • Not the Perfect Victim
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    Not the Perfect Victim
    December, 2018. The aftermath of a night of revelry. The promise of a party. And then, a journey into darkness that would change the course of Nikita Hand's life - as she endured a brutal assault where she believed she would die. Here, in her own words, Nikita tells her unforgettable story. From the bleak days that followed, reeling in...
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  • Freedom's Gate
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    Freedom's Gate
    An illuminating portrait of five Black woman artists, including Maya Angelou and Nina Simone, and the New York nightclub that helped inspire the civil rights movement. Before they became household names, Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, Miriam Makeba, and Nina Simone needed a place to practice and perform. That place was the Village Gate, a New York City nightclub...
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  • Foreign Return
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    Foreign Return
    I didn't know which self I had dreamed. In my ordinary life, the past was a faraway place. Time moved in a straight line. Here, the present felt infinite. The world took on a hallucinatory shimmer. As a child at the turn of the 90s, Neha Kale migrated from India to Australia, a move that was unremarkable, like so many...
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  • Black Coffee and Red Lipstick
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    Black Coffee and Red Lipstick
    Praise for Alexandra Shulman: 'Self-deprecating and stylish, this is sure to become a classic.' - Vanity Fair 'Alexandra Shulman's style is unaffected, immediate and hilariously dry. She's brilliant at observing everyday feelings in a joy-sparking turn of phrase.' - Helena Bonham Carter Black Coffee and Red Lipstick is a collection of essays that weave ideas about our domestic and daily...
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  • Always You
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    Always You
    The bestselling and unforgettable memoir about fertility, family, grief and love - now with a bonus chapter - from the creator of Darling, Shine! "I'm not going to tell you that everything happens for a reason. Those words are cold comfort in any traumatic moment. This is what I will say, though: I see you. I hear you. I am...
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    The Bare Margins
    The definitive autobiography of one of cricket's greatest batsmen of his generation, and New Zealand's all-time leading run scorer. A generational batsman and captain, Kane Williamson sits in the pantheon of cricketing greats and in this autobiography he talks openly about events that influenced and shaped the way he approached not just cricket, but life.The former #1 ranked test batter...
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  • The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
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    The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
    'A fascinating, tragic and instructive story, vividly told' Sunday Telegraph Roger Lewis, in his no-holds-barred biography, exposes a Peter Sellers the world little knows. Recognised as the greatest British comic since Charlie Chaplin, Sellers was the grand master of fifty-five films – from Dr. Strangelove, to Being There and the Pink Panther hits. But shadowing his phenomenal career was a...
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  • Heartbeats
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    Heartbeats
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLES TYRWHITT SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2026 Idol. Legend. Enigma. For the first time, one of the all-time greatest sportsmen is finally ready to share his astonishing story: the long-awaited tell-all memoir from Björn Borg. 'a shockingly revelatory insight' - The Times 'The tennis star retired too early, overdosed on drugs, was serially unfaithful and has been battling...
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  • Finding My Way
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    Finding My Way
    THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Part coming-of-age memoir, part reclamation . . . a portrait of a woman who has learned that courage isn't just about defying extremists, but also about allowing yourself to be ordinary' MARIE CLAIRE 'Remarkably intimate and insistently human' NEW YORK TIMES Thrust onto the public stage at just fifteen years old after the Taliban's...
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  • Three Brothers in a Boat
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    Three Brothers in a Boat
    The Maclean Brothers are an inspiration - EWAN McGREGOR What The Maclean Brothers are doing is next level - MARK WAHLBERG An amazing achievement... we need more people like the Maclean brothers in the world - LORRAINE KELLY Three brothers. 9,750 miles. A record-breaking odyssey. When the Maclean brothers rowed non-stop and unsupported across the entire Pacific, they made history...
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  • That Woman
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    That Woman
    In 1988, Silvia Cartwright published what would become a landmark report, the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, into medical malpractice against cervical cancer patients. While many praised the investigation, some in the medical fraternity dismissed it as a feminist witch-hunt and rallied behind the professor whose research was denounced. The controversy spilled beyond lecture theatres and hospital corridors. One day, a social...
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    I Think My Therapist Hates Me
    Social media star and mental health advocate Chris Olsen revisits his childhood trauma, addiction, and the road to recovery in this brutally honest, genuine, and often funny memoir in the vein of Furiously Happy and Miss Memory Lane. Growing up, Chris Olsen believed his family was perfect. But at thirteen, his mundane life began to unravel when his mother admitted...
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  • Who Me!
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    Who Me!
    Embark on a journey through time, space, and the enduring magic of Doctor Who history. From collecting Dalek toys in 1960s South London to becoming one of Doctor Who's most influential historians, David J Howe's life has been shaped by Britain's beloved time-traveling hero. In this engaging memoir, Howe shares his journey from young fan to professional authority, offering unprecedented...
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  • The Uncaged Sky
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    The Uncaged Sky
    Shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction 2023 ‘The sky above our heads was uncaged and unlike us, free.' THIS EDITION CONTAINS A NEW FOREWORD BY KYLIE MOORE-GILBERT The extraordinary true story of Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s fight to survive 804 days imprisoned in Iran. On September 12, 2018, British-Australian...
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  • The Other Side of the Dream
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    The Other Side of the Dream
    'Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie.' – Debbie Harry For anyone who loves music, this is a backstage pass to a life lived fully as one of rock's greatest heroes. In The Other Side of the Dream, Clem Burke reflects on his extraordinary journey from the gritty streets of New York City to global...
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  • The Escape
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    The Escape
    Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2025 A Sunday Times Best Book of 2025 A Guardian Best Sports Book 2025 A unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitor. In the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York to begin a series of journeys following the Tour de France. A nostalgic voyage through...
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  • Roll the Calls
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    Roll the Calls
    Roll the Calls is as ferociously powerful as the iconic figure at its centre, Ari Emanuel – the inspiration for Entourage’s Ari Gold, and one of the most legendary powerbrokers of all time – a man who made rage and chaos into the instruments of his success. Expertly written with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and biographer J. R. Moehringer, Roll the...
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  • Rewilding
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    Rewilding
    ‘Utterly inspiring and empowering’ Jennie Godfrey 'Ten shades of extraordinary’ Rosie Walsh I was fifty-five when I finally stopped pretending. What if real freedom isn’t about reinventing yourself… but about letting the woman you buried years ago grow wild again? To the world, Jane Green had everything: bestselling novels, a beautiful home, the perfect family. Inside, she was disappearing, squeezed...
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  • Memories of a Good Meal
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    Memories of a Good Meal
    An unforgettable collection of recipes inspired by ten diverse, moving stories of Holocaust survivors and WWII heroes, from James Beard Award–winning chef Alon Shaya with author June Hersh. Memories of a Good Meal is a culinary journey that celebrates the tenacity of the human spirit and the transformative power of a good meal. Twin Jewish girls, hidden by a Christian...
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  • Mary Penfold
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    Mary Penfold
    The inspiring story of Mary Penfold, the mother of the Australian wine industry - a self-taught vintner and business genius who emigrated to a frontier settlement and built her family's small vineyard into one of the world's most respected winemakers. Bestselling author and biographer Grantlee Kieza turns his focus to the birth of the Australian wine industry and the mother,...
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  • In My Time of Dying
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    In My Time of Dying
    'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and boundless curiosity' THE TIMES 'As suspenseful and pacy as an episode of peak-era ER' GUARDIAN A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm. For years as an award-winning...
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  • Fights Worth Fighting
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    Fights Worth Fighting
    Fights Worth Fighting by Dolph Lundgren is a powerful and unflinchingly honest memoir from one of the most enduring icons of action cinema. Best known for his role as Ivan Drago in Rocky IV, Lundgren skyrocketed to fame in the 1980s and has since built a remarkable career spanning over a hundred films—including producing, writing, and directing multiple projects. But...
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  • Both Sides Now
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    Both Sides Now
    The story of a national treasure we won't soon forget – by the woman who knew him best. I mention you’ve been smoking. ‘He mustn’t!’ she says, alarmed. ‘There’s so much oxygen in your house he’d explode.’ There is a funny side to this — a cartoonish end: Johnnie Walker DJ Explodes! Just try not to take the house with...
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  • Reckoning
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    Reckoning
    Heartbreaking, joyous and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia's most beloved icons, tells her story. She describes her journey from an ordinary suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father's espionage activities in wartime Poland and the ordeal of growing up gay in the 1970s, to the complex dramas of adulthood and unexpected fame....
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  • It's Giving Life
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    It's Giving Life
    Hilarious and honest guide to life from hugely popular social media, TV and podcast star GK Barry. Chaotic, reckless and 100% unfiltered—this is the hilarious world according to hugely popular social media star, TV star and podcaster GK Barry. Before we jump in, I should probably tell you what this book isn't. It's not an autobiography (I'm still too fresh...
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  • Hell Days
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    Hell Days
    When I think of my hell days, I think of crime scenes. Familiar sites, made uncanny with violence. In the fluorescent tedium of a call centre in 2018, acclaimed novelist Laura Elizabeth Woollett finds herself meticulously plotting her own death. Until her period arrives, and equilibrium with it. After years of dismissing these monthly turns, she's diagnosed with premenstrual dysphoric...
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  • The Traveller
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    The Traveller
    An inspiring biography of the remarkable naturalist, explorer and revolutionary, by the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature. George Forster was a man out of time—he journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and challenged the worldviews of eighteenth-century Europe with radical ideas about equality and freedom. Celebrated during his lifetime, he knew Goethe, Benjamin Franklin, Mary...
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  • The Lifesavers
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    The Lifesavers
    The remarkable true story of the trailblazing men and women of Britain's blood transfusion service in World War Two. The Lifesavers were a little-known band of men and women at the forefront of groundbreaking battlefield care in the Second World War. As part of a new and pioneering service, unconventional and iconoclastic, they pushed and pulled blood from hundreds of...
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  • Man & Dog
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    Man & Dog
    A heart-warming and moving memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers and journalists that will resonate with dog lovers and dog owners everywhere. Nobody will ever love you like a dog. Nobody will ever be as consistently happy to see you. Nobody will ever make you so glad to be alive. It all started when Tony's daughter Yasmin wanted a...
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  • Logical Family
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    Logical Family
    Long awaited and worth that wait—Armistead Maupin finally tells us his story. Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man' – Caitlin Moran. 'A beautiful memoir—so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me a little weepy' – Alan Cumming. 'I read Logical Family as slowly as I...
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  • In Defence of Leisure
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    In Defence of Leisure
    Two women ninety years apart ask themselves the same question—what is the difference between living, and feeling truly alive? Leisure is time when something can be discovered, where certainties are called into question, where lives change. Essential Frieze Elegant, invigorating and beautiful Amy Key The celebrated psychoanalyst Marion Milner lived for the entirety of the twentieth century. By the age...
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  • Idle In Provence
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    Idle In Provence
    A hilarious and heartwarming memoir of Monty Python legend Eric Idle's fifty-year quest to build the perfect home in Provence. 'Enchanting and hilarious' Stephen Fry In 1971, two years after the launch of Monty Python's Flying Circus made his comedy troupe global superstars—and made all their lives a little more complicated—Eric Idle decided to buy a ramshackle property in the...
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  • Harvest
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    Harvest
    A lyrical and powerful memoir-meets-manifesto by Britain's leading voice in agriculture, life-long farmer Minette Batters. Minette Batters was the first female president of the National Farmers' Union in its 109-year history. During that time, she fought tooth and nail for the interests of farmers, never afraid to put her head above the parapet. But Minette's expertise in British farming spanned...
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  • Get Back
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    Get Back
    Get Back: The Beatles' only authorised biographer now, for the first time, tells the story of the boys before they were famous. 'They did not seem arrogant or entitled. I didn't see them bossing around their staff or being horrid to studio assistants. But they did worry if this was all there was. All this fame and fortune, was it...
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  • Deep House
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    Deep House
    The acclaimed, genre-busting story of love, memory and the fight for marriage equality, from the award-winning author of Gay Bar. A Book of the Year for The New Yorker It's 1996, and Jeremy, a young American, has met the British boy of his dreams—just as, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples...
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  • Book of Lives
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    Book of Lives
    The story behind the stories, the life behind the art – the riotous, wise and revealing memoir from the cultural icon of our age. The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Fat and satisfying' – Observer 'I loved it' – Dua Lipa 'Deliciously naughty' – iNews 'Beautifully told' – Woman & Home 'Spellbinding' – FT Book of the Year – Guardian, Financial Times,...
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  • BIG DUNC
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    BIG DUNC
    They don't make footballers - and football autobiographies - like this any more. The brutally honest, riotously entertaining story of the much-loved Everton legend and iconic Premier League bad boy. Praised by Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson as one of the greatest and most passionate players to ever play the game, Duncan Ferguson, or Big Dunc as he is...
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  • Believe
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    Believe
    The final word on a record-breaking career from cycling's most formidable sprinter. 'The fuel, the passion that had fired me throughout my career still burned. No work in the world could give me sensations like the ones I experienced in the saddle, winning bike races. I still adored it.' For all the once-in-a-generation talent and success shown throughout Mark Cavendish's...
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    From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author whose coverage of Mike Tyson and his inner circle dates back to the 1980s, a magnificent noir epic about fame, race, greed, criminality, trauma, and the creation of the most feared and mesmerizing fighter in boxing history. On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in...
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    A tale of restoration and homecoming—Wainwright Prize-winner James Aldred shares his deep passion for the New Forest after acquiring a plot of land and a disused Gypsy vardo begging to be restored in this ancient landscape he's been enchanted by since childhood. Imagine your dreams coming true—you acquire a Gypsy wagon you've cherished from childhood and a plot of land...
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    Frank Hurley: The epic true story of Australia's greatest adventurer, photographer & film maker, from the number one bestselling author of HUDSON FYSH and MR AND MRS GOULD
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  • The Finish Line
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    Six-time Bathurst 1000 winner Garth Tander sits among exalted company in the history of Australian motorsport, as a dominant figure in the modern era of the annual 'Great Race' at Mount Panorama. A lanky kid from Perth obsessed by going fast, Garth achieved skill and speed in a race car that took him to places very few racers ever reach,...
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    The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama, and pathos. In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people—British, American, and German—in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes. The book takes its title from Montgomery’s...
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    The revelatory, much-anticipated memoir from the Wall Street Journal reporter who was wrongly imprisoned in Putin’s Russia – a glimpse inside the perils and contradictions of a country ruled by autocracy. In March 2023, a year after Russia invaded Ukraine, Evan Gershkovich, a young reporter for the Wall Street Journal, sat down with a source in an empty restaurant 900...
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    Readers get a front-row seat to witness history, both before and after the enactment of the New Mexico Equal Rights Amendment, as told by the former executive director of the New Mexico Commission on the Status of Women. Part memoir, part history, The Changemakers is the story of the extraordinary changes that took place in New Mexico prior to and...
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  • Remembering Elysha
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    A memoir of devastating honesty, warmth, and unexpected grace about raising children while learning how to live with what love leaves behind. On a family holiday meant to create lasting memories, everything changes in an instant. When a sudden medical crisis strikes in New York, Paul Folino-Gallo finds himself in a hospital room facing the unimaginable. His sons Giorgio, eight,...
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  • Reading Journal: Based on a True Story
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    Reading Journal: Based on a True Story is a reading journal for memoir and biography readers who want a dedicated space to record and reflect on all the nonfic books they love, hate, or love to hate. This journal is for readers who like to keep it real. Whether it's a memoir, an autobiography, or a biography, you love reading...
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    A love letter to Los Angeles, the mysterious year 2000, and the life of a kid desperate to shine. Sebastian Tillinger is determined to survive Y2K and grow up before New Year’s Eve, 1999. He might get married to the first woman he ever loved, just to prove he’s a man. He’s getting high and coming down faster than he...
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  • Great and Unfortunate Things
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    ‘You did it, didn’t you, Jason?’ Mum asked. ‘No, Giff,’ I told her. ‘We did. We did it . . .’ When Jason Arday was thirty-seven years old, everything changed. He made international news by becoming the youngest Black professor in the almost thousand-year history of the University of Cambridge. But that remarkable achievement is only part of his great...
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  • Colossus of the Goldfields
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    Colonel JEN Bull was one of the most influential people on the Victorian goldfields in the 19th century. He was a real man of the times – Imperial soldier, social reformer, engineer, magistrate, goldfields administrator and civic leader. As a goldfields leader in 1853, he was faced with a rebellion by disgruntled miners. By treating the miners with respect, he...
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  • Formula 1: The Official History
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    Experience the legendary history of Formula 1 in this definitive illustrated book. Foreword by Ross Brawn. Fully revised and updated, Formula 1: The Official History is an electrifying account of the F1 phenomenon, telling the complete story of one of the world's most popular, thrilling, and glamorous sports. Bringing together a superbly written account of the history of the sport...
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  • Behind Enemy Lines
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    Behind Enemy Lines
    Archie Gibson's initiation into desert warfare almost proved to be his last. Barrelling through the sand dunes at the wheel of his truck, Gibson spied a searing flash of light up ahead, the signature of a feared German 88mm gun firing ... right at him. He leapt from his speeding vehicle just before it was torn apart and turned into...
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    Imaginative and empathetic Guardian 'A celebration of the exuberance of night-time and a moving portrait of the dangers of the dark' The Times 'A fascinating voyage into the night' i Paper The night has always been teeming with life. From the labour of security guards and sex workers to the ecstasy of queer raves and religious ceremonies, this nocturnal landscape...
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    'If you simply follow Burroughs through the rock 'n' roll years you'll see him achieve a flickering ubiquity - lurking here, eavesdropping there, photobombing the whole parade. It becomes a kind of alternative history' NEW YORK TIMES Reissued with a new Foreword as part of White Rabbit's prestigious Deep Cuts series, William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n'...
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    "An inspiring tale, brimming with can-do and positivity." - Tristan Gooley, author of The Natural Navigator "A tender, human adventure that reveals what can unfold when you honour a promise and keep paddling forwards." - Alastair Humphreys, author of Microadventures From the bestselling author of Moderate Becoming Good Later comes the hopeful, honest, and humorous story of one woman's attempt...
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