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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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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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  • The Number (Paperback)

    Jonny Steinberg
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    WINNER OF THE SUNDAY TIMES ALAN PATON AWARD On 9 June 2003, a 43-year-old coloured man named Magadien Wentzel walked out of Pollsmoor Prison in ...

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  • The Onion Field

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    Hollywood. 1963. A Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn't have changed the lives of the four men involved...

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  • The Opportunist: The Political Life of Oswald Pirow, 1915-1959 (Paperback)

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    Oswald Pirow (1890–1959) served as Minister of Defence under the nationalist Hertzog coalition. He famously prosecuted Nelson Mandela in the Treaso...

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  • The Perfect Horse: The Daring U.S. Mission to Rescue the Priceless Stallions Kidnapped by the Nazis

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  • The Photographer at Sixteen: A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK

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    A poet's memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autob...

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    The Pianist of Yarmouk (Paperback)

    Aeham Ahmad
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    One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed by war. Amidst ...

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  • The Prison Letters Of Nelson Mandela (Hardcover)

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    To be published upon the centenary of his birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela is a landmark work: the first, and only, authorized and authe...

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  • The Race That Measures it All: An Untold Story and the Beginners Guide to Mountain Bike Racing

    Neil Fourie
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    This book is a poignantly personal tale of two brothers' journeys to becoming some of the youngest participants to race and finish the ABSA Cape Ep...

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  • The Red Apprentice: Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: The Making of Manchester United's Great Hope

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    When Ole Gunnar Solskjaer returned to Old Trafford as caretaker manager midway through the 2018-19 season, he breathed new life into a team that wa...

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  • THE REB AND THE REBEL

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    The origin and development of the South African Jewish Community is one small part of a vast and varied literature on the formation of 19th century...

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    The relatively public life of Jules Browde

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  • The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela

    Sisonke Msimang
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  • The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

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    'One of the best business books I've read in years.' BILL GATESTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019________________...

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  • The Salt Path (Paperback)

    Raynor Winn
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    Bring nature into your home with the uplifting true story of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the winds...

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  • The Scandalous Lady W: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal and Divorce (by the bestselling author of The Five)

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    'Deliciously lurid' Sunday TimesThe Sunday Times bestselling author of The Five exposes the divorce that scandalised Georgian England.She was a spi...

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  • The Secret Life Of The Savoy: And The D'Oyly Carte family (Paperback)

    Olivia Williams
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    'A real triumph, beautifully written, with many wonderful stories of the Savoy.' Lady Anne Glenconner, author of Lady in Waiting'An elegantly craft...

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  • The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

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    For fans of One Born Every Minute. The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, ...

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  • The Sheltering Desert: A Classic Tale of Escape and Survival in the Vastness of the Namib Desert (Paperback)

    Henno Martin
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    The Sheltering Desert tells the story of two German geologists, Henno Martin and Hermann Korn, who were sent to the former South West Africa in 193...

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  • The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

    Brian Masters
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    ________________________________________AN UNSPEAKABLE CRIME When he was arrested in July 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer had a severed head in the refrigerat...

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  • The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War

    Mark Urban
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    The Skripal Files tells the full story behind the Salisbury Poisonings, one of the most shocking incidents to occur in Britain in recent memory. Ma...

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  • The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon - Duchess of Marlborough (Paperback)

    Hugo Vickers
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    **The Times and Sunday Times Books of the Year 2020**'Vickers gives breathing, alarming life to a woman who puzzled and thrilled her contemporaries...

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  • The Spy in Moscow Station: A Counterspy's Hunt for a Deadly Cold War Threat

    Eric Haseltine
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    'All the power and intrigue of a cinematic thriller ... immersive, dramatic, and historically edifying' Kirkus Moscow in the late 1970s: one by on...

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  • The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Official Secrets

    Marcia Mitchell
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    INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETS FEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTION ...

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  • The Spy Who Changed History: The Untold Story of How the Soviet Union Won the Race for America's Top Secrets

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    'A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties ... remarkable' 5* review, Telegraph O...

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  • The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Suicidal Despair to Hope

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    'In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.' - HRH The Duke of Cambrid...

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  • The Stowaway: A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    Laurie Gwen Shapiro
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    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring...

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  • The Tall Assassin: The Darkest Political Murders of the old South Africa (Paperback)

    Alan D. Elsdon
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    General Hendrik van den Bergh, the former head of the Security Police and later head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS), was for many, the most...

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  • The Tennis Partner (Paperback)

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    When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county ...

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  • The twinkling of an Eye: A mother's Journey

    Sue Brown
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  • The Unmapped Mind: A Memoir of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis and Learning How to Live

    Christian Donlan
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    'Remarkable and revelatory, a dazzling achievement. Quietly electrifying' Sunday Times On the day his daughter takes her first steps Christian Donl...

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  • The Unwinding of the Miracle: A memoir of life, death and everything that comes after

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    Born blind in Vietnam, Julie Yip-Williams narrowly escaped euthanasia planned by her grandmother, only to have to flee the political upheaval of th...

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  • The Upside of Hunger: A True Tale

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  • The Virgin Banker

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    Jayne-Anne Gadhia, the straight-talking CEO of Virgin Money, looks back at the events that have influenced, shaped and inspired her to become one o...

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    The Voyage of the Beagle

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    With an Introduction by David Amigoni. Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 i...

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    The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz (Paperback)

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    One of the Sunday Times paperbacks of the Year 2020 One of the Financial Times best books of 2020 'Totally gripping'-- Simon Sebag Montefiore...

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  • The White Darkness

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    `A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure' JOHN GRISHAM on David Grann's The Lost City of Z`A wonderful story of a lost ag...

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  • The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family

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    The Wicked Wit of the Royal Family celebrates the flashes of fun and brilliance of the most famous family in the world.There is no doubt that the B...

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  • The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

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    WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMISTBOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE...

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  • The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran

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    'A must-read for anyone who cares about women's equality' Sheryl Sandberg'A flame-thrower for the rights of women who live under the thumb of repre...

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  • The Windsor Diaries: A childhood with the Princesses

    Alathea Fitzalan Howard
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    **SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020****SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020**'A must if you love The Crown' Good Ho...

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  • The Wolf of Wall Street

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    NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL. 'What separates...

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  • The Wolf Of Wall Street

    Jordan Belfort
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    NOW AN AWARD-WINNING MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO, MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY AND JONAH HILL.'What separates Jor...

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  • The world and the cattle

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    This is the autobiography of A. S. Mopeli-Paulus, author of the best-selling "Blanket Boy's Moon" and of its equally prestigious follow-up, "Turn t...

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  • The World According to Bob: The further adventures of one man and his street-wise cat

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    From the stars of A Christmas Gift from Bob, now a major motion picture with Luke Treadaway, the incredible and heartwarming sequel to the bestsell...

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  • The World Is A Carpet: Four Seasons in an Afghan Village

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  • The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)

    Joan Didion
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    From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life - in good times and bad - that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a ...

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