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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • Waking Up in Paris: Overcoming Darkness in the City of Light

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    'As if waking up from a nightmare, I thought: if I am going to be traumatized, I might as well be traumatized in Paris, right?' Devastated by the...

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  • Walking Through Front Doors: Seeking Justice for a Stolen Childhood

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  • Warhol

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    "Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is bio...

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  • Watch Me (Paperback)

    Angelica Huston
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    Picking up where her first memoir A Story Lately Told leaves off, Watch Me is a chronicle of Anjelica Huston's glamorous and eventful Hollywood yea...

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  • WATERMARKS: LIFE, DEATH AND SWIMMING BPB

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    Lenka Janiurek first encounters tragedy with the death of her mother when she is just nine. Involving a chaotic family, early success as a playwrig...

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  • We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World - From Nobel Peace Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai

    Malala Yousafzai
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    Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hea...

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  • WE ARE DISPLACED BPB

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    In this powerful and emotional New York Times bestseller, Nobel Peace Prize winner and activist Malala Yousafzai shares various stories of displace...

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  • We Were the Future

    Yael Neeman
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    The kibbutz is one of the greatest stories in Israeli history. The kibbutzim are collective settlements in Israel which have been written about ext...

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  • Wham! George & Me

    Andrew Ridgeley
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    For the first time, Andrew Ridgeley - one half of one of the most famous bands in the world - tells the inside story of Wham!, his life-long friend...

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  • When A Crocodile Eats the Sun

    Peter Godwin
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    Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is se...

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  • When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi
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    ** SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal At the age of ...

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  • When Giants Walked the Earth (Paperback)

    Mick Wall
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    Over ten years after WHEN GIANTS WALKED THE EARTH, Mick Wall's seminal biography of the band, comes this major and extensively researched revision,...

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  • When hope whispers

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    This is a story about a woman; a story about her struggle. As the survivor of great tragedy; this is a story about triumph. Despite only being 33 y...

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  • When We Rise: My Life in the Movement

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    The partial inspiration for the acclaimed mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was amo...

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  • 9781471179433

    WHEN TIME STOPPED PB

    Ariana Neumann
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    KRAUS FAMILY AWARD WINNER FOR BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIR AT THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS 'Beautifully told' John le Carre 'More than just ...

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  • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

    Patrisse Khan-Cullors
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    Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women - Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cul...

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  • Where The Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir

    Amy Tan
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    From New York Times bestselling author Amy Tan, a memoir on her life as a writer, her childhood and the symbiotic relationship between...

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  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Paperback)

    Jeanette Winterson
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    The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Or...

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  • WIFE, INTERRUPTED BPB

    MOLLOY, AMY
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    My story begins where most women hope theirs will end - with a big, white wedding. After all, isn't that how every good fairy tale finishes?I thoug...

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  • Winged Messenger: Running Your First Comrades Marathon (Paperback)

    Bruce Fordyce
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    The year is 1976, and South Africa is gripped by a terrible lockdown – apartheid. Nelson Mandela is in prison on Robben Island; South Africa is iso...

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  • WINDSOR DIARIES BPB

    HOWARD, ALATHEA
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    **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****A DAILY MAIL CHRISTMAS BOOKS PICK**'...

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  • Winging It: On Tour with the Boks

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    Winging It: On tour with the Boks is an insider's view of life on tour from one of South Africa's most enduring sports writers, Liam Del Carme, whi...

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  • Winging it: Jonathan Kaplan's journey from world-class ref to rookie solo dad

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    Jonathan Kaplan, celebrated international rugby referee and former world record-holder for most Test caps, had his fair share of challenging moment...

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  • Winnie Mandela: A Life (Trade Paperback)

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    Few people have courted as much controversy or evoked such strong and divergent emotions as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Adored by some, abhorred by ...

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