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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • The Making of Us: Why School Matters

    Clarissa Farr
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    What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools shoul...

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  • The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

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    When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, including many murders.But as a newly qualified garda ...

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  • The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

    Serhii Plokhy
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    1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

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  • The Man With The Black Dog: A true modern-day Jock of the Bushveld (Paperback)

    Mario Cesare
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    Though Mario is a game ranger and conservationist, this is not just another '40 years as a game ranger' type of book. It is the story of an adventu...

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  • The man who founded the ANC: A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

    Bongani Ngqulunga
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  • The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history

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    Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist b...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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    The Measure Of A Man: A Memoir (Paperback)

    Sidney Poitier
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    In this beautifully written, candid memoir, legendary actor Sidney Poitier reveals the spiritual depth, passion and intellectual fervour that has d...

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  • The Moth: Occasional Magic: 50 True Stories of Defying the Impossible

    Catherine Burns
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    Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would si...

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  • The Most Beautiful: My Life With Prince

    Mayte Garcia
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    In The Most Beautiful, a title inspired by the hit song Prince wrote about their legendary love story, Mayte Garcia for the first time shares the d...

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  • I Feel No Peace

    Kaamil Ahmed
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  • Criminal Mind

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  • The Meaning Of A Life

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  • The Beauty Of Dusk

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  • Melting Point (Paperback)

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  • The Boy Who Lived

    David Holmes
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  • Spamalot Diaries

    Eric Idle
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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

    Mouton
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  • The Other Side of the Coin: The Queen, the Dresser and the Wardrobe (Hardcover)

    Angela Kelly
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    When Angela Kelly and The Queen are together, laughter echoes through the corridors of Buckingham Palace. Angela has worked with The Queen and w...

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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)

    Sahm Venter
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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 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 Russian Affair: The True Story of the Couple who Uncovered the Greatest Sporting Scandal

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020 'Reads like a thriller, or even a spy novel...Walsh keeps you gripped' Rosamund ...

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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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