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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • A Biker's Life: Misadventures on (and off) Two Wheels (Paperback)

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    I can't think of anywhere I'd less like to be than in a car. When you're driving a car, you're not taking part, you're a spectator. You're in a can...

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  • A Captain's Journey

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  • A Childhood Made Up: Living with My Mother's Madness

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    Brent Meersman’s memoir of a humble yet eccentric upbringing in a Milnerton, Cape Town, flat in the 1970’s and 1980’s reads as a stirring eulogy to...

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  • A Clean Break: My Story

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    Christophe Bassons is a former professional cyclist. His career was a successful one albeit never in the full glare of the media. That all changed ...

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    A Christmas Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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    **NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE**A TRUE TAIL OF CHRISTMAS SPIRIT.Originally published as A Gift from Bob, this festive standalone special sees the ret...

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  • A fountain in France

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    More than a decade ago Marita van der Vyver emigrated to France where she married a Frenchman and settled in the scenic countryside of Provence. Ha...

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  • A Forger's Tale: Confessions of the Bolton Forger

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    Observer's Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the c...

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    A Galaxy of Her Own: Amazing Stories of Women in Space

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    From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in...

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  • A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram

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    When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to complete her family, and suddenly...

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  • A Gift from Bob: NOW A MAJOR FILM

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    The festive standalone from James and Bob, the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway ...

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  • A game ranger remembers

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  • A fox's tale: Insights from one of Africa's most creative strategic thinkers

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  • A Gift from Darkness: How I Escaped with my Daughter from Boko Haram

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    When Patience Ibrahim's husband died, she feared that her life was over. She had prayed every night for a baby to complete her family, and suddenly...

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    A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

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    BE THE FIRST TO READ DAVID WILSON'S NEW TRUE CRIME BOOK "A PLOT TO KILL" BY PRE-ORDERING NOW Expanded and updated, this is the definitive history ...

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  • A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership

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    The sensational number one bestseller about taking on the mafia, the Clintons and Trump.In his Number One bestselling memoir A Higher Loyalty, form...

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  • A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia (Trade Paperback)

    Hannes Wessels
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    During the West’s great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought ...

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  • A lion on the landing: Memories of a South African youth

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  • A NURSE'S STORY PB

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    Moving, honest and inspiring - this is a nurse's true story of life in a busy A&E department during the Covid-19 crisis.Working in A&E is a...

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  • A Pocketful of Holes and Dreams

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    The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life ...

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  • A Prison Diary Volume II: Purgatory

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    On 9th August 2001, twenty-two days after Jeffrey Archer was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury, he was transferred from HMP Belmarsh, a...

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  • A Private War

    Marie Brenner
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    Now a major motion picture - starring Rosamund Pike, Stanley Tucci and Jamie Dornan.The book that inspired the film A Private War, based on acclaim...

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  • A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage and My Life

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    'Ayelet Waldman is fearless' Rebecca Solnit'Relentlessly honest and surprisingly funny' Washington Post'Genuinely brave and human' New York Times...

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  • A Rip in Heaven (Paperback)

    Jeanine Cummins
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    The acclaimed author of AMERICAN DIRT reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book: the first ever to loo...

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  • A Road Called Down On Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and America

    Caroline Kurtz
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    Winner of the Presbyterian Writers Guild's Best First Book Award Coming of age in 1950s Ethiopia, American Caroline Kurtz returns as an adult with ...

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  • A Song For You: My Life with Whitney Houston

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  • A Soldier's Story: Neville 'Timber' Wood's War, from Dunkirk to D-Day

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    'This captivating account . . . is the story of an ordinary soldier, but an extraordinary man. I commend this book most warmly.'Richard Dannatt, Ge...

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  • A Tangled Web: Mata Hari: Dancer, Courtesan, Spy

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    In this new biography, published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of her execution, Mata Hari is revealed in all of her flawed eccentricity; ...

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  • A Terrible Secret: Scared for her safety, Tilly places herself into care. A shocking true story.

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    Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him. Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go int...

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  • A Very Expensive Poison: The Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko and Russia's Threat to the West

    Luke Harding
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    1 November 2006. Alexander Litvinenko is brazenly poisoned in central London. Twenty two days later he dies, killed from the inside. The poison? Po...

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  • A Woman of Firsts: The midwife who built a hospital and changed the world

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    'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Ad...

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  • A Woman Makes A Plan (Paperback)

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    "Warm, honest and true--A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice." -...

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  • A Woman Like Her: The Short Life of Qandeel Baloch

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    'The powerful story of a woman who was ahead of her time' Mishal Husain, presenter at BBC World News, BBC Weekend News, BBC News at Six, Radio 4 ...

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  • Across boundaries: A life in the media in a time of change

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  • Acid For The Children - The autobiography of Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers legend

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    Flea, the iconic bassist and co-founder, alongside Anthony Kiedis, of the immortal Red Hot Chili Peppers finally tells his fascinating origin story...

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  • Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters

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    'A superb book' Financial Times, Books of the YearAdam Smith is now widely regarded as 'the father of modern economics' and the most influential ...

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    Adrift: A True Story of Love, Loss and Survival at Sea

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    THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EV...

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