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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • My Name Is Why

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    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE'EXTRAORDINARY' The Times, 'BEAUTIFUL' Dolly Alderton, 'SHATTERING' Obse...

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  • My Past Is a Foreign Country: A Muslim feminist finds herself

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    'A brave new voice that reaches out to us all' Miranda Doyle, author of A Book of Untruths 28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing...

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  • My Own Story: Inspiration for the major motion picture Suffragette

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    Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette.Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing at...

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  • My Stryd Met ADHD: Die Onsigbare Oorlog (Paperback)

    Hykie Berg
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    Hykie vertel in rou eerlikheid van sy stryd met ADHD. Van 'n weerlose seuntjie wat nie kon stilsit nie tot 'n jong man wat in Weskoppies opgeneem w...

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  • MY WIFE SAID YOU MAY WANT TO MARRY ME TP

    ROSENTHAL, JASON B.
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    An inspiring memoir of life, love, loss, and new beginnings by the widower of bestselling children's author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who...

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  • Mysteries Uncovered

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    The mysterious is all around us...UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances-Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, s...

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  • Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History

    Giles Milton
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    In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the isl...

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    Native Boy: Confessions Of A Maplazini In The City (Paperback)

    Thabo Molefe
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    As a child, Thabo Abram Molefe, along with his family, is impelled into the apartheid era tradition of rural to urban transition. Moving from a far...

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  • Nelson Mandela: A Jacana pocket biography (Paperback)

    Colin Bundy
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    Jacana is delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of a new pocket biography of Nelson Mandela by the renowned South African historian, Co...

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  • Net Mooi Fine: Die Vervolg op C'est la Vie

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  • Never Enough: the neuroscience and experience of addiction

    Judith Grisel
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    A former drug addict turned behavioural neuroscientist reveals how drugs work in the brain - and what we can do to fight addiction. Judith Grisel...

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  • Never Grow Up

    Jackie Chan
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    Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of movie...

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  • Neymar - 2018 Updated Edition: The Unstoppable Rise of Barcelona's Brazilian Superstar

    Luca Caioli
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    Having long been hailed as a future star of world soccer, Neymar has thrived under the pressure of expectation. Already well on his way to becomin...

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  • Neymar: 2020 Updated Edition

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    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF MESSI AND RONALDO. Tipped for greatness from an early age, it's easy to think that every moment of Neymar's life ha...

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  • Night

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    Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his acc...

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  • Night

    Elie Wiesel
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    Elie Wiesel's harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by...

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  • Nikola Tesla and the Electrical Future

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    '[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era befor...

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    Nikola Tesla And The Electrical Future (Paperback)

    Iwan Rhys Morus
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    '[This] crisply succinct, beautifully synthesized study brings to life Tesla, his achievements and failures...and the hopeful thrum of an era befor...

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  • No Longer Whispering To Power: The Story Of Thuli Madonsela (Paperback)

    Thandeka Gqubule
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    Advocate Thuli Madonsela has achieved in her seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot ...

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  • Geen Uitspan (Paperback)

    Deneys Reitz
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    Geen Uitspan is 'n fassinerende weergawe van die lewe in Suid-Afrika vanaf die vroeë 1920's tot die vroeë 1940's, toe die skrywer adjunk-premier va...

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  • NOBODY WILL TELL YOU THIS BUT ME BPB

    KALB, BESS
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    **I HAVE NOT BEEN AS PROFOUNDLY MOVED BY A BOOK IN YEARS' JODI PICOULT****I LOVED THIS BOOK MORE THAN I CAN SAY**NIGELLA LAWSONA brilliantly origin...

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  • Norton's Philosophical Memoirs: The story of a man as told by his dog

    Hakan Nesser
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    Now don't start getting ideas. I am not a philosopher. I'm a dog. But I look like a philosopher, they say, and I'm not sure the distinction is as g...

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    Notes on a Nervous Planet

    Matt Haig
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    The world is messing with our minds. What if there was something we could do about it?Looking at sleep, news, social media, addiction, work and pla...

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  • Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful

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    'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and won't put it down' Daniel KahnemanIn this eye-opening exploration of...

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  • Nothing but a Circus: Misadventures among the Powerful

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    'Brilliant observations on the anthropology of power. You will laugh aloud and you won't put it down' Daniel Kahneman In this eye-opening explorati...

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  • Nothing Can Hurt You (Paperback)

    Nicola Maye Goldberg
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    'Gripping, sharp and sultry' PANDORA SYKES 'I read this in one sitting. Fascinating and unique' BELLA MACKIE 'Superbly unsettling' GUARDIAN 'A goth...

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  • Novak Djokovic (Paperback)

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    This revised and updated biography intertwines the incredible playing career of one of the best and most popular tennis players of all time with a ...

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    Mission Of Malice: My Exodus From KwaSizabantu (Paperback)

    Erika Bornman
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    In the 1980s, Erika Bornman’s family join, and ultimately move to, KwaSizabantu, a Christian mission based in KwaZulu-Natal, which is touted as a n...

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  • Odyssey of an African Opera Singer

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  • Odyssey to freedom

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  • Omega, oor en uit: Die storie van 'n opstandige troep

    Francois Verster
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  • On Chapel Sands

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    Autumn 1929 - a young girl is kidnapped from a beach. Five agonising days go by before she is discovered safe and well in a nearby village. The chi...

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  • On Living: Life's greatest lessons and last thoughts from the dying

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    "A brave and uplifting meditation on how important it is to make peace and meaning of our lives while we still have them" - Elizabeth Gilbert, best...

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  • On the Bright Side: The New Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen (Paperback)

    Hendrik Groen
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    85-year-old Hendrik Groen is fed up to his false teeth with coffee mornings and bingo.He dreams of escaping the confines of his care home and pract...

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  • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft: Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King

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    Twentieth Anniversary Edition with Contributions from Joe Hill and Owen King Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this spe...

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  • On the Run - TV's Top Fugitive Hunter Investigates the UK's Worst Unsolved Murders

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    TV's top fugitive hunter investigates the UK's worst unsolved murders Roughly ten per cent of all murders in the UK go unsolved. Here, Britain's t...

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