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| Adele - The Biography |
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| The film tie-in edition of Jon Krakauer's classic account of a gifted young man who chose literally to walk away from his life. |
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| The first and long-awaited life story of one of the most revered and popular players of the modern era |
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| A celebration of the life and engineering achievements of Isambard Kingdom Brunel by two of the world's foremost authorities. |
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| The revised and updated edition of Andrew Gimson's classic and critically acclaimed biography of Boris Johnson |
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| The riveting life and times of a genuine fashion icon, repackaged for mass-market paperback |
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| For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ...until h |
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| That Woman |
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| The shocking, controversial, moving story of Matt Hampson, the rugby player who dislocated his neck and was paralysed in a England training session |
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| * The extraordinary story of Pannonica - a British-born Rothschild daughter who abandoned London to live in New York among the Jazz artists |
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| A hard-hitting and insightful memoir about the destructive power of addiction. |
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| When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model. But then |
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| Dickens had everything - fame, success and riches - but he died harbouring a deep sadness he had experienced all his life. He was a man of mercurial c |
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| The fascinating story of the decadent and thrilling world of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance, and the world of scandal which would betray her |
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| A fully updated edition of the first major biography of David Cameron -- now covering his first years as Prime Minister and leader of the coalition go |
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| No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An |
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| To what extent do we control our own destiny? Can those who have risen to the top really say it was all down to them? Is lucky success somehow less de |
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| Autobiography of triumphant Ryder Cup captain and great golfer, Colin Montgomerie. |
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| In 1997, Tony Blair won the biggest Labour victory in history to sweep the party to power and end eighteen years of Conservative government. He has be |
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| A memoir that deals with some very personal, intimate and emotional aspects of the authors' lives. It presents their reflections about whether what th |
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| A story of death, sex, betrayal and revenge; sweat, steroids and duplicity. |
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| *The story of one of the most famous of all British families - the Churchills |
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| The UK's leading celebrity biographer tells the uplifting story of the woman who overnight became the most famous celebrity in the country |
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| Presenting a vision of Venice, this title charts the history of the city, from the first refugees arriving in the mists of the lagoon in the fourth ce |
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| There are golfers, and there are golfers. And then there's Seve. Severiano Ballesteros is perhaps the naturally gifted golfer ever to have walked a fa |
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| Tina Fey is one of the world's greatest comic writers and performers. Bossy Pants is her first book. |
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| * 'This is a truly astonishing book. Frances Osborne has not just brought to life a dizzyingly rich and scandalous slice of social history, she has pr |
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| Stunning re-issue of Diana Athill's candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor, with some of the most celebrated writers of the post war gener |
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| Reveals Bernie Ecclestone's secrets: the deals, the marriages, the disasters and the successes on the racetrack, in Downing Street, in casinos, on yac |
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| From acclaimed biographer A. N. Wilson, Hitler is a short, sharp, gripping account of one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures |
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| A story of four of the greatest thespian boozers who ever walked - or staggered - off a film set into a pub; of drunken binges of near biblical propor |
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| A beautifully written biography of Alice, Countess de Janze, the beguiling and volatile temptress of Kenya's 'White Mischief' set of the 1940s. |
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| An intimate memoir by one of America's most acclaimed and beloved actresses. |
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| Growing up on a poverty-stricken London council estate, beaten and starved by his parents, bullied at school and abandoned by social services, Kevin L |
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| A biography of the long and adventurous life of Jessica Mitford, the queen of the muckrakers. Admirers and detractors use the same words to describe J |
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| Greenwood also featured in England's doomed World Cup campaign in 1999 before playing a central role in the team's dramatic triumph in Australia four |
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| Serves as a companion to the 12-part "BBC2" series, celebrating the life of Fred Dibnah. This book includes an account of Fred's childhood, his passio |
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| The shocking, powerful true story of the lives of 7 young kids, marred by guns, gangs and violence on one of Britain's toughest estates. |
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| The remarkable story of Endal, voted 'Dog of the Millennium', and how, through his remarkable skills, companionship and unstinting devotion, he gave A |
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| Charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. This life-affirming book c |
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| Presents a man with a commitment problem - women wouldn't commit to him. This title takes us on a journey from first love to marriage, via heartbreak |
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| Four-year-old Lisa's world turned upside down when her step-father moved in. Most of the time he was just violent but then he started making her do th |
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| When Jon Katz hears about Izzy, a 3-year-old Border collie kept alone in a field on an abandoned farm, his heart speaks louder than his head and he ag |
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| A long overdue reassessment of Kipling in India by a leading historian of the subcontinent, author of PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ and SOLDIER SAHIBS |
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| Alex Horne is not a birdwatcher. But his dad is, so with the prospect of fatherhood looming on his own horizon, Alex decided there was no better time |
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| The true story of John Rae - Arctic traveller and Hudson's Bay Company doctor - a tale of imperial ambition and high adventure. In 1854 Rae solved the |
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| Twenty-three-year-old widows don't sleep around - do they? |
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| Gives an account of the year in which the author struggled to come to terms with terminal lung cancer. This title sets darkly comic depictions of the |
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| The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour's three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this paperback edition. |
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| When a farmer on Exmoor found a frightened and badly injured red deer calf hanging by the leg from a barbed wire fence, he knew there was only one man |
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| Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your to |
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| Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of them; he commanded Treblinka and was found gui |
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| In 1593, the brilliant and controversial young playwright, Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging house officially in a quarre |
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| An extraordinary memoir - told through a hand-sewn tapestry - of a very ordinary English life |
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| From award-winning journalist Janine di Giovanni a scorching memoir of love and loss |
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| The true story of life on the maternity ward |
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| Jimmy Sheddan was one of the many New Zealanders who joined the RNZAF, then left his native land to come to England to fight the enemies of Great Brit |
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| Miss Madeleine Sharp's Ballet Class for young ladies in Bromley, to evacuation from war-torn London to a crumbling mansion, where dance classes took p |
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| A San Francisco Chronicle Lit Pick "Much of the book is astonishingly funny; the rest would break your heart." Colm T ib n |
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| For the first time in paperback, the classic, bestselling memoir of perhaps the most important Secretary of State |
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| Presents the story of one of the greatest explorers who ever lived by 'the world's greatest living explorer'. |
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| Mass market paperback edition of the disturbing true story of one man's journey from the darkness of British fascism. And the astonishing price he had |
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| After graduation from the University of Pennsylvania in 1842, Kane became a surgeon in the US Navy and was appointed physician to the China Mission un |
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| Tells the story of how an average athlete converted her visceral dislike of violence into an eventful career as a professional boxer. This title focus |
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| Kevin Mitnick's long-awaited memoir of computer hacking and FBI skirting, revealed now after seven years of government-mandated silence. |
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| 'Exceptional... it tells in a modest, believable, quietly bitter and totally proud way of a family's extraordinary decency... Strong and unique. Witho |
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| A young girl's unforgettable tale of courage and hope |
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| An achingly honest, harrowing, and resonant dual memoir by a British journalist and his son, about his son's sudden descent into schizophrenia |
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| Written in three parts, and as a sequel to Seven Seas, Nine Lives, Richard Pike continues the remarkable experiences of Captain AWF 'Alfie' Sutton CBE |
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| Colin Chapman was one of the greatest ever creative forces in the automotive world but he left behind a mixed legacy. This title explores and exposes |
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| Eamon de Valera has often been characterised as a stern, un-bending, devious and divisive Irish politician. But how valid is this caricature? With le |
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| At times unbearably moving, at times poignantly comical, this memoir provides a fitting memorial to Dame Iris. It is an enchanting portrait of a remar |
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| In 2000 the author was approached to work as an orderly in the Intensive Psychiatric Care Unit of a large hospital in central Scotland. Recounting the |
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| Community is everything, home is everything, if you have lost your own |
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| A bald summary does no justice to the subtlety and exceptional lucidity of a book which turns the bland, familiar, intrinsically worthy stuff of so ma |
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| The rise of Ali Dizaei at the Metropolitan Police. |
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| In his own exciting account, Garbo recalls his career. |
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| Hard-hitting Rory McIlroy was always destined to become a professional golfer from the moment he recorded a 40-yard drive aged just two. His first hol |
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| The rise of Jack Wilshere is one of the foremost success stories of Arsenal FC, England and the Premier League. His vision, creativity, imagination an |
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| From the publisher of MARLEY & ME and DEWEY, this is the uplifting and affecting tale of Cleo the kitten, who helps to heal a family after a terrible |
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| Covering the period from 1810 to 1936, 'The du Mauriers' tells the story of a gifted Anglo-French family, many of whose members became famous. |
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| A host of anecdotes from Simon's 40-plus years in journalism |
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| * An extraordinary book which gives us a unique insight into the life and thinking of the man who has single-handedly transformed the world |
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| The film tie-in edition of Jon Krakauer's classic account of a gifted young man who chose literally to walk away from his life. |
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| A three-generation biography of an Australian family. |
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| Robert Crampton has tracked down every member of his O-level class, resulting in a searching look at 30-somethings in the year 2001. Along the way, he |
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| The Sunday Times bestselling collection of short biographies by the masterful W. F. Deedes |
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| Takes you on a journey through the changing seasons at Rowfoot Farm. This book lets you join Jackie (and Katie the Lurcher, Blossom the Cob and Rowfoo |
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| A fascinating slice of East End life, from the No.1 bestsellilng author of CALL THE MIDWIFE, soon to be a major BBC TV series. |
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| A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism that illuminates the horrors as well as the fascination of total First World War, presentin |
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| One night the author notices that the few items she's grabbed from the Korean grocery store are the very ingredients for Potage Parmentier, as describ |
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| A memoir of the author's fifteen years at Battersea Dogs Home, one of Britain's most-loved dogs' homes. |
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| A riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage. |
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| Read the heartwarming story of Pea Horsley, the UK's first professional animal communicator, as she tracks lost animals, tackles troublesome pets and |
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| DW Winnicott's books, including "The Piggle", "Home Is Where We Start From" and "The Child", "Family and the Outside World" are still read, valued and |
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| Bullied at school, and growing up dreaming of revenge, Mark 'Chopper' Read determined to be the toughest in any company. He became a crime commando wh |
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| In 1971, the young French scholar Francois Bizot was captured by the Khmer Rouge. Accused of being an agent of American imperialism, he was chained an |
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| Moving from Islington to Exmoor; one small step for mankind but a very large one for MAIL ON SUNDAY columnist Liz Jones. |
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| Veteran travel writer Eric Newby has a massive following and is cherished as the forefather of the modern comic travel book. However, less known are h |
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| ' The donkey tied to the tent peg had a hard-on which was difficult to ignore. 'Hamar mabsoot,' my new brother-in-law Ibraheem said cautiously and as |
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