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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

    Azra Raza
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    In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we mus...

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  • The Fishy Smiths: A Biography of JLB and Margaret Smith

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  • The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

    Elspeth Huxley
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    When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

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  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Paperback)

    Hallie Rubenhold
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    THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed t...

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  • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

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    'A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going' Phil Simon Huffington PostAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the...

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  • The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

    Matt Bai
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    Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid... In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed ...

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  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

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  • The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story

    Farida Khalaf
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    In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attac...

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  • The Glass Castle (Paperback)

    Jeannette Walls
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    Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey fr...

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  • The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

    Dava Sobel
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    AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twink...

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  • The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia

    Alex Perry
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    You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family....

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  • The Gospel According to Luke

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    No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture soun...

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  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

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    An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obs...

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  • The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency

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    'Many of the world's great leaders request to come to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. They like it. I like it. We're comfortable.' - Donald TrumpA bit to...

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  • The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win (Paperback)

    Mark "Billy" Billingham
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the Bri...

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  • The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

    Edmund de Waal
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    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edm...

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    The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTAT...

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  • The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

    Gail Crowther
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    The Haunted Reader & Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to Sylvia Plath studies focusing on the readers of Sylvia Plath rather than the his...

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  • The Heart Of A Woman

    Dr Maya Angelou
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    From the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, this memoir chronicles Maya Angelou's involvement with the civil rights...

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  • The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss

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    When Dr Kate McGarry was diagnosed with an advanced cancer of unknown origin she resolved to write a book to chart her experience: as a woman comin...

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  • The Heavens Are All Blue: A memoir of two doctors, a marriage and a life of love before loss

    Dr Finbar Lennon
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    When Dr Kate McGarry was diagnosed with an advanced cancer of unknown origin she resolved to write a book to chart her experience: as a woman comin...

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  • The Heat of the Moment: A Firefighter's Stories of Life and Death Decisions

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    'An inspirational memoir from an extraordinary woman . . . A humbling, jaw-dropping read' Viv Groskop'This book will change the way you think...

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  • The Holy Fox: The Life of Lord Halifax

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    Bestselling historian Andrew Roberts's much-admired reappraisal of one of the most influential - and controversial - British politicians of the 193...

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  • The Hottentot Venus: The Life and Death of Sarah Baartman

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    'A significant and timely book ... Holmes has produced a laceratingly powerful story' Frances Wilson, Literary Review In 1810 the slave turned sho...

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