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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

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  • The Crime Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained

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    Investigate 100 of the world's most notorious crimes, including the Great Train Robbery, the Lindbergh kidnapping, and the murders of serial killer...

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  • The Crown in Crisis: Countdown to the Abdication

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    In December 1936, Britain faced a constitutional crisis that was the gravest threat to the institution of the monarchy since the execution of Charl...

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  • The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

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    WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018A SUNDAY TIMES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 2019'A ma...

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  • The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found: The Costa Book of the Year 2018

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    WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018WINNER OF THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018'Luminous, elegant, haunting - I read it...

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  • The Dalai Lama: The Biography

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    'Impressive in its clarity this biography [is] the most detailed and accurate to date. Written in an engaging prose, [it] ends with an insightful p...

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  • The Day the Nazis Came: My childhood journey from Britain to a German concentration camp

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    By the time he was six years old, Stephen Matthews had been bombarded by the Luftwaffe and deported from occupied Guernsey, along with his family, ...

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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

    Tina Brown
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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

    Anne Frank
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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

    Roisin Kiberd
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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

    Jean-Dominique Bauby
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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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