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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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    On the Trail of the Serpent PBO

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    ***NOW THE SUBJECT OF A MAJOR TV SERIES ***DISCOVER THE INCREDIBLE TRUE CRIME STORY OF SERIAL KILLER, CHARLES SOBHRAJ, AND THE RACE TO BRING HIM TO...

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  • Once We Were Sisters

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    This is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler, two sisters who grew up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa. When Maxine is just shy ...

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  • Once We Were Sisters

    Sheila Kohler
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    Once We Were Sisters is the story of Maxine and Sheila Kohler. Growing up in the suffocating gentility of 1950s South Africa, the girls plan grand ...

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  • One Beat of a Butterfly's Heart: A Tanganyika Police Notebook

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    In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the eme...

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  • One Hundred and Four Horses

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    'A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belong...

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  • One Hundred Miracles: Music, Auschwitz, Survival and Love

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    The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. 'Extraordinary' Sunday Times 'Compelling' Daily Tele...

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  • One Hundred Summers

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    Taking the reader on a journey from the dying embers of Edwardian England, through the trauma of two world wars, the hedonism of London in the 1980...

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  • One Million Lovely Letters: When life is looking hopeless, one inspirational letter can change your life forever

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    One Million Lovely Letters is one woman's inspirational journey to recovery. A witty and uplifting testament to the power of words to heal the hear...

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  • Ons Japie: Die Boereoorlogdagboek Van Anna Barry

    Anna Barry
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  • Only in Naples: Lessons in Food and Famiglia from My Italian Mother-in-Law

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    Arriving in Naples as a naive young intern at the American Consulate, Katherine is set up on a blind date - at least that's what she's expecting. I...

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  • Open Side: The Official Autobiography

    Sam Warburton
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    Updated edition featuring a brand new afterword 'A terrific book. No one...

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  • Open: An Autobiography (Paperback)

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    He is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court - but from early childhood Andre ...

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  • Operation Jihadi Bride: My Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS - The Incredible True Story

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    Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating... Incredibly dangerous. The TimesGripping. Adrenalin fuelled true-life account with all the making...

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  • Operation Morthor

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    A PLANE CRASH IN THE JUNGLE.A LEGENDARY STATESMAN DEAD.A TRAGIC ACCIDENT... OR THE ULTIMATE CONSPIRACY?In 1961, a Douglas DC-6B aeroplane transport...

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  • Operation Morthor

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    'One of the mysteries I've long been fascinated by, and I am so grateful that Ravi Somaiya has cracked it open so brilliantly' David Grann, author ...

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  • Oscar

    Oscar Pistorius
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  • Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women (Paperback)

    Christina Lamb
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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ...

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  • Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2020 A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ...

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  • Out of Orange: A Memoir

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    The real-life Alex Vause from the critically acclaimed, top-rated Netflix show Orange Is the New Black tells her story in her own words for the fir...

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    Out of the Holocaust (Paperback)

    Peter Volodja Boe
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    The details of my (and my brother’s) birth are unknown. My memories begin in Latvia. DNA tests strongly indicate that we are of Belarusian-Jewish o...

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  • Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World

    Lyndall Gordon
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    Outsiders tells the stories of five novelists - Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, Virginia Woolf - and their famous novels...

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  • Over and Out: My Innings of a Lifetime with Test Match Special: Memories of Test Match Special from a broadcasting icon

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    For over half a century, Henry Blofeld has conveyed his unfailing enthusiasm for the game of cricket as a much loved broadcaster and journalist. H...

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  • Over the Hills and Far Away: The Life of Beatrix Potter

    Matthew Dennison
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    Beatrix Potter is one of the world's bestselling, most cherished authors, whose books have enchanted generations of children for over a hundred yea...

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  • Over the Top

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    Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beac...

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  • OVERSHARE BPB

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    Rose and Rosie are known for their candid and hilarious YouTube videos... but now they are taking oversharing to a whole new level. Discussing sexu...

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    Panic & Joy: My Solo Path to Motherhood

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    Emma Brockes is thirty-seven, lives alone, and wants children. She is in a relationship (good!) but they aren't doing the parenting together (weird...

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  • Paper Cuts: A Memoir

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    A dazzlingly original memoir, Paper Cuts takes us inside the mind of a young Oxford academic devastated by severe mental illness.'I have a small li...

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  • Paper Love: Searching for the Girl My Grandfather Left Behind

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  • Papillon (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

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    An immediate sensation upon its publication in 1969, Papillon is a vivid memoir of brutal penal colonies, daring prison breaks and heroic adventure...

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  • Parfums: A Catalogue of Remembered Smells

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    From the sizzling sharpness of freshly cut garlic to the cool tang of a father's aftershave; the heady intoxication of a fumbled first kiss to the ...

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  • Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa

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  • Past Mortems (Paperback)

    Carla Valentine
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    'Part memoir and part manifesto, Valentine's book lifts the lid on daily life in the mortuary . . . Valentine bares her own soul . . . with viscera...

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  • Paul Cezanne

    Jane Bingham
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  • Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

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    A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in...

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    Patriots & Parasites (Paperback)

    Dene Smuts
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    Patriots & Parasites, completed just days before Smuts’s unexpected death in 2016, is her account of the momentous period known as the Transiti...

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  • Permanent Record

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLEREdward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government's system of mass surveillance, reveals...

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