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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • The Death of Hitler: The Final Word on the Ultimate Cold Case: The Search for Hitler's Body

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    After two years of nonstop negotiations with the Russian authorities, Jean-Christophe Brisard and Lana Parshina were granted access to secret files...

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  • The Diana Chronicles: 20th Anniversary Commemorative Edition

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    _____________________________________________ The 20th Anniversary Edition of Tina Brown's definitive behind-the-scenes insight into the life of D...

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  • The Diary of a Bookseller

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    Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of eccentrics and book-ob...

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  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition

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    Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthral...

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  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Paperback)

    Anne Frank
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    THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK IS 'A MONUMENT TO THE HUMAN SPIRIT'One of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime comes from the diary of ...

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  • The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Paperback)

    Anne Frank
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    A Hay Festival and The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women SelectionOne of the most famous accounts of living under the Nazi regime of World War II come...

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  • The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet

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    'Unsettling, illuminating, and perversely fun - by a writer of extraordinary style and intellectual range' Mark O'Connell, author of To Be A Machi...

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    The Doctor's Wife Is Dead: The True Story of a Peculiar Marriage, a Suspicious Death, and the Murder Trial that Shocked Ireland

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    A mysterious death in respectable society: a brilliant historical true crime storyIn 1849, a woman called Ellen Langley died in Nenagh, Co. Tippera...

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  • The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly

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    'Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my ca...

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  • The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

    Jean-Dominique Bauby
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    One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very...

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  • The Dog that Saved My Life: Incredible true stories of canine loyalty beyond all bounds

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    Five incredible true stories of canine bravery in wartime. For as long as dogs have lived alongside man, they have saved their lives in w...

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  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)

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    Tom Wolfe's genre-defining magical mystery tour through the 1960s published in Vintage Classics for the first time to mark its fiftieth anniversary...

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  • The Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home

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    Perfect for fans of The Salt Path and The Outrun, this book is a life-affirming exploration of wild landscapes, what it means to be different and, ...

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  • The Elephant to Hollywood: Michael Caine's most up-to-date, definitive, bestselling autobiography

    Michael Caine
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    'Uproarious and unflinching' Mail on Sunday'A truly incredible life story' The Sun'Most memorable . . . told in a voice as distinctive as his spoke...

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  • The Enchanted Places: A Childhood Memoir

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    Now the subject of major Disney film starring Ewan McGregor, this is Christopher Robin in his own words.Millions of readers throughout the world ha...

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  • The Fact of a Body: Two Crimes, One Powerful True Story

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    'Part memoir, part true crime, wholly brilliant.' - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train.When law student Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is...

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  • The Face Pressed Against a Window: A Memoir

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    Chosen as one of the Daily Mail's Memoirs of the YearTim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone's ...

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  • The Feather Thief: The Natural History Heist of the Century

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD'A tale of obsession ... vivid and arresting' The TimesOne summer evening in 2009, twenty-year-old musical pro...

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  • The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last

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    In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we mus...

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  • The Fishy Smiths: A Biography of JLB and Margaret Smith

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  • The Flame Trees Of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood

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    When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

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  • The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Paperback)

    Hallie Rubenhold
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    THE MULTI AWARD-WINNING #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'An angry and important work of historical detection, calling time on the misogyny that has fed t...

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  • The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google

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    'A fantastic, provocative book about where we are now and where we are going' Phil Simon Huffington PostAmazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are the...

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  • The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)

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    Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman. When politics went tabloid... In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed ...

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  • The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia

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  • The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story

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    In August 2014, Farida Khalaf was just a normal Yazidi girl, living in a village high in the mountains of northern Iraq. Then her village was attac...

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  • The Glass Castle (Paperback)

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    Now a major motion picture starring Brie Larson, Naomi Watts and Woody Harrelson.This is a startling memoir of a successful journalist's journey fr...

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  • The Glass Universe: The Hidden History of the Women Who Took the Measure of the Stars

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    AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A peerless intellectual biography. The Glass Universe shines and twink...

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  • The Good Mothers: The True Story of the Women Who Took on The World's Most Powerful Mafia

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    You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family....

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  • The Gospel According to Luke

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    No one explodes one of the longest-held misconceptions of music history better than Steve Lukather and his band Toto. The dominant pop-culture soun...

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  • The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

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    An ambitious and gripping exploration of the world's most secretive state through the intertwined lives of two North Koreans, one infamous, one obs...

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  • The Grifter's Club: Trump, Mar-a-Lago, and the Selling of the Presidency

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    'Many of the world's great leaders request to come to Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach. They like it. I like it. We're comfortable.' - Donald TrumpA bit to...

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  • The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win (Paperback)

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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark 'Billy' Billingham. They are the backbone of the Bri...

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  • The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance

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    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edm...

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    The Haunting of Alma Fielding: SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020

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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, i PAPER, NEW STATESMAN, SPECTAT...

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  • The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath

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    The Haunted Reader & Sylvia Plath takes an unusual approach to Sylvia Plath studies focusing on the readers of Sylvia Plath rather than the his...

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