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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

    Transworld Publishers Ltd
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    Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Rus...

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  • Artists Who Changed History

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    This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Artists Who Chang...

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  • Writers Who Changed History

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    This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Writers Who Chang...

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  • Did I Ever Tell You This?

    Penguin Books Ltd
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    'Just wonderful, so funny and charming. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud' MERYL STREEPDead Calm The Hunt for Red October Th...

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  • Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

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  • 'What Do You Care What Other People Think?': Further Adventures of a Curious Character

    Richard P Feynman
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    What Do You Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character is a captivating collection of reminiscences from freewheeling ...

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  • Riding The Edge

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  • The Box with the Sunflower Clasp: Uncovering a Jewish Family's Flight to Wartime Shanghai

    Icon Books
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    'A transfixingly readable amalgam of memoir and history... Superbly written and researched.... [Meller] has turned the raw material of her life int...

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  • Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius

    Harry Freedman
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    'Leonard Cohen taught us that even in the midst of darkness there is light, in the midst of hatred there is love, with our dying breath we can stil...

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  • Black Girl from Pyongyang: In Search of My Identity

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    The extraordinary true story of a West African girl's upbringing in North Korea under the guardianship of President Kim Il Sung. In 1979, aged onl...

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  • God's Ghostwriters

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    From an award-winning biblical scholar, the untold story of how enslaved people created, gave meaning to, and spread the word of the New Testament,...

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  • The Long and Winding Road (Trade Paperback)

    Lesley Pearse
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    Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence ...

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  • Shirley: The Life Of A Botanical Adventurer (Hardcover)

    Dr Shirley Sherwood; Ivan Fallon
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    Shirley, The Life of a Botanical Adventurer is the remarkable story of Dr Shirley Sherwood, scientist, author, travel writer and gardener. Followin...

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  • Masters of the Lost Land: Murder and Corruption in the Amazon Rainforest

    Atlantic Books
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    'Powerful and Important' Guardian'Powerful' Financial Times'More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller' Spectator'A story we all need to h...

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  • Erfdeel: Koos du Plessis: Versamelde Werke (Paperback)

    Koos du Plessis
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    Met bedrieglik eenvoudige lirieke en gevoelvolle melodieë het Koos du Plessis musiek in Afrikaans geskep wat tot gewone mense spreek, maar wat oor ...

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  • Kaplyn

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  • Kompas

    Wordsworth Books
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  • Into Thin Air (Paperback)

    John Krakauer
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    Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm an...

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  • The Hidden World: How Insects Sustain Life on Earth Today and Will Shape Our Lives Tomorrow

    Headline Publishing Group
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    'George McGavin is a rarity.' Sir David AttenboroughInsects conquered Earth long before we did and will remain long after we're gone. Outnumbering ...

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  • Unstoppable (Paperback)

    Mark Hughes
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    WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: SPORTA definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival ...

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  • Highly Desirable: Tales of London's super-prime property from the Secret Agent

    Headline Publishing Group
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    'A hugely fun tale of how the super-rich buy their super-prime lairs - I was absolutely boggled throughout. Toto, I have a feeling we're not on Rig...

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  • A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

    Quercus Publishing
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    'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and open our hearts more.'Belinda Black was just seve...

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  • The Scent Of Flowers At Night

    Leila Slimani
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    FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF LULLABY, AND TRANSLATED BY SAM TAYLOR'A revelation - I have never felt more seen by a book, nor have...

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  • Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa (Trade Paperback)

    Cato Pedder
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    Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in So...

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