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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • The Lost Boys: A Family Ripped Apart by War

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    'To say that Catherine Bailey makes history come alive is such a cliche and yet it's so true, she is absolutely one of my favourite writers' Kate A...

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  • The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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    **NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'J...

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  • The Lost Landscape (Paperback)

    Joyce Carol Oates
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    A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The L...

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  • The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

    Marina Wheeler
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    'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal...

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    The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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    'Marcus Chown rocks!' Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics s...

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  • The Making of Us: Why School Matters

    Clarissa Farr
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    What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools shoul...

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  • The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

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    When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, including many murders.But as a newly qualified garda ...

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  • The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

    Serhii Plokhy
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    1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

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  • The Man With The Black Dog: A true modern-day Jock of the Bushveld (Paperback)

    Mario Cesare
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    Though Mario is a game ranger and conservationist, this is not just another '40 years as a game ranger' type of book. It is the story of an adventu...

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  • The man who founded the ANC: A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

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  • The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history

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    Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist b...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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    The Measure Of A Man: A Memoir (Paperback)

    Sidney Poitier
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    In this beautifully written, candid memoir, legendary actor Sidney Poitier reveals the spiritual depth, passion and intellectual fervour that has d...

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  • The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible

    Catherine Burns
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    Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would si...

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  • The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince

    Mayte Garcia
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    In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the d...

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  • I Feel No Peace

    Kaamil Ahmed
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  • Criminal Mind

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  • The Meaning Of A Life

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  • The Beauty Of Dusk

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  • Melting Point (Paperback)

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  • The Boy Who Lived

    David Holmes
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  • Spamalot Diaries

    Eric Idle
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  • The New Girl: A Trans Girl Tells It Like It Is

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    'Inspiring and heart-wrenching' Paloma Faith 'Love Rhyannon. Love this book' Grace Dent The remarkable transgender memoir you won't stop hearing ab...

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    The Note Through The Wire: The unforgettable true love story of a WW2 prisoner of war and a resistance heroine

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    'An unforgettable love story set in perilous times' Heather Morris, author of The Tattooist of AuschwitzThe greatest love blossoms in the darkest h...

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