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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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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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  • The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

    Lan Yan
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    Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th Century ...

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  • The House on Carnaval Street: From Kabul to a Home by the Mexican Sea

    Deborah Rodriguez
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    I hadn't been planning on making Mexico my new home, but the little house on the sea was all that I had left . . . Intimate, honest and touchin...

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  • The Husband Hunters: Social Climbing in London and New York

    Anne de Courcy
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    Towards the end of the nineteenth century and for the first few years of the twentieth, a strange invasion took place in Britain. The citadel of po...

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  • The Iceberg: A Memoir

    Marion Coutts
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    In 2008 the art critic Tom Lubbock was diagnosed with a brain tumour. The tumour was located in the area controlling speech and language, and would...

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  • The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen (Hardcover)

    Penelope Hughes-Hallett
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    A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen th...

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  • The Impossible Climb: Alex Honnold, El Capitan and the Climbing Life

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    Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2020Shortlisted for Adventure Travel Book of the Year at the Edward Stanf...

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  • The Independent Factor: My Personal Journey through Politics and Diplomacy

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  • The Indian Empire At War: From Jihad to Victory, The Untold Story of the Indian Army in the First World War

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    'Essential to a proper understanding of the war and of our world of today' Michael Morpurgo1.5 million Indians fought with the British in the First...

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  • The Innocent Man (Paperback)

    John Grisham
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    A gripping true-crime story of a shocking miscarriage of justice, from international bestselling thriller author John Grisham.In the baseball draft...

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  • The Irishman: Originally published as I Heard You Paint Houses

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    The book behind the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated Netflix film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harve...

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