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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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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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