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  • A Brilliant Life: An Unforgettable Memoir of Love, Loss and the Ability of the Heart to Heal

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    'A delicate, evocative story of strength and survival that turns on one of the most powerful forces in the known universe: a mother's love.' - Jona...

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  • Putin's Prisoner: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Ukraine

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    Brought to you by Penguin.Aiden Aslin joined the Ukrainian marines in 2018, compelled to defend his adopted homeland from the growing threat of Rus...

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  • King: The Life of Martin Luther King

    Jonathan Eig
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    WINNER OF A 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN BIOGRAPHYA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*SELECTED AS ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023*Vividly written a...

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  • How To Write About Africa

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  • Final Verdict

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  • Skeletons On The Zahara (Paperback)

    Dean King
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    The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub. On 28 August ...

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  • All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator

    Monique El-Faizy
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    Based on groundbreaking original reporting, an extensive new look at Donald Trump's relationships with women, revealing new accusations of sexual m...

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  • Survivor

    Wordsworth Books
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  • Woodston The Biography of an English Farm

    John Lewis-Stempel
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  • Thabo Mbeki

    Adekeye Adebajo
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    Mbeki was a complex figure, full of contradictions and paradoxes: a rural child who became an urban sophisticate; a prophet of Africa’s Renaissance...

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  • The Hiding Place (Paperback)

    Corrie Ten Boom
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    The #1 testimony book that every Christian needs to read. As the Nazi madness swept across Europe, a quiet watchmaker's family in Holland riske...

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  • Nelson Mandela: The Authorised Comic Book (Paperback)

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    Author: Mandela Foundation / Supplier:

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  • Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

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  • The Showman (Trade Paperback)

    Simon Shuster
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    WRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS, THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE, INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ...

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  • Never Alone - Prison, Politics, and My People (Paperback)

    Natan Sharansky, Gil Troy
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    A classic account of courage, integrity, and most of all, belongingIn 1977, Natan Sharansky, a leading activist in the democratic dissident movemen...

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  • Indigenous Peoples: Women Who Made a Difference (Super Sheroes of History) (Paperback)

    Katrina M. Phillips
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    Meet the Super SHEroes of History, the women who have shaped history and society since ancient times.  Indigenous women were prominent members of t...

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  • The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great (Paperback)

    Alex Rowson
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    'Popular history at its very best, thought-provoking and accessible. Underpinned by serious research, and written with panache, it summons up a van...

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  • Churchill's Shadow (Paperback)

    Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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    'Provocative, clear-sighted, richly textured and wonderfully readable, this is the indispensable biography of Churchill for the post-Brexit 2020s' ...

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    Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Paperback)

    Jung Chang
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    They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the th...

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  • MURDER OF AHMED TIMOL

    CAJEE IMTIAZ
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    Author: CAJEE IMTIAZ / Supplier: Jacana Media

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  • Walk in My Combat Boots TPB

    Patterson, James; Eversmann, Matt
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    Written with Matt Eversmann, the decorated war hero immortalised in the film Black Hawk Down, James Patterson brings us firsthand wartime experienc...

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  • The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada

    Don Hollway
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    The Last Viking reads like the sagas on which it is based. It's Beowulf on steroids, laced with purple prose...This book is great fun. - Gerard DeG...

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  • Boy who drew Auschwitz (Paperback)

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    'We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people ...

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  • 100 Mandela moments

    Kate Sidley
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    How do you retell the well-worn life story of a national icon? One way is this: a palimpsest of a hundred memories of the great man, revolutionary,...

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