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Magnificent Medills by Megan McKinney
America's Royal Family of Journalism During a Century of Turbulent Splendour. Read more...
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Nature's Oracle by Ullica Segerstrale
(Hardback 496 pages)W.D.Hamilton was responsible for one of the major revolutions in evolutionary thought since Darwin - that of the 'gene's eye view of life'. He was a scientific pioneer, a misunderstood genius: risk-taker, Read more...
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House on Fire - the Fight to Eradicate Smallpox by William Foege
(Paperback 240 pages)€17.76 (RRP €20.89)
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Choir: Gareth Malone by Gareth Malone
(Paperback 320 pages)The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories and transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The Choir Read more...
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A Light That Never Goes Out by Tony Fletcher
(Paperback 704 pages)€16.69 (RRP €19.64)
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The Red Sweet Wine of Youth by Nicholas Murray
(Paperback 352 pages)* A group portrait of the poets of the First World War, seen in their full historical, military and biographical context Read more...
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Amy, My Daughter by Mitch Winehouse
(Paperback 320 pages)ALL AUTHOR PROCEEDS DONATED TO THE AMY WINEHOUSE FOUNDATION. Read more...
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Blue-Eyed Son by Nicky Campbell
(Paperback 356 pages)Nicky Campbell's startling and candid story of his search to find his natural birth parents Read more...
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Secret Evil by Zara Gill
(Paperback 288 pages)Zara's stepfather, Hassan, mercilessly bullied her brother and sister. But at just seven years old Zara knew she could never tell anyone about what Hassan was doing to her. For the next nine years, she kept the terrible secret, Read more...
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Diamond Street by Rachel Lichtenstein
(Hardback 368 pages)Hatton Garden is one of the most secret streets in England, home for two centuries to a deeply private working community of jewellery dealers. Moving beyond the street itself into parts of Clerkenwell, Read more...
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Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayl Tzemach Lemmon
Five Sisters One Remarkable Family and the Woman Who Risked Everything to Keep Them Safe. Read more...
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The Arrogant Years by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
(Paperback 416 pages)Continues Lagnado's saga, telling the story of her mother, Edith, coming of age in a magical old Cairo of dusty alleyways and grand villas inhabited by pashas and their wives. Read more...
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Ali in Wonderland by Ali Wentworth
And Other Tall Tales. Read more...
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I Got This by Jennifer Hudson
How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down. Read more...
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On Hustling by Andrew Loog Oldham
(Paperback 320 pages)A history of and a guide to the art of hustling in the worlds of music, film, and fashion by the man hailed as 'without doubt the most flash personality that British Pop has ever had, the most anarchic and Read more...
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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness by Mark
(Paperback 224 pages)A Memoir. The son of American literary icon Kurt Vonnegut offers a beautifully rendered account of the past thirty-five years of his life from his acceptance to Harvard Medical School and subsequent brilliant Read more...
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Size Matters Not by Warwick Davis
(Hardback 416 pages)The life and times of Warwick Davis, star of Ricky Gervais's forthcoming sitcom, Life's Too Short Actors work their entire careers hoping to achieve the kind of cult movie hero status that Davis achieved at the age Read more...
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Still Got it, Never Lost it! by Louie Spence
(Paperback 320 pages)'I did everything my sisters did, that's how my dancing days started - they went dancing, I went dancing and I just kept on dancing.' Read more...
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One on One by Craig Brown
(Hardback 400 pages)101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th Read more...
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The Fall of the House of Zeus by Curtis Wilkie
(Paperback 400 pages)€12.24 (RRP €14.40)
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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad by Bee Rowlatt
(Paperback 384 pages)The Story of an Unlikely Friendship. When a simple email brings May and Bee together, they discover a friendship that overcomes all their differences of culture, religion and age. Their correspondence Read more...
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Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Paperback 548 pages)€6.67 (RRP €7.85)
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William Hickling Prescott by C. Harvey Gardiner
(Paperback 390 pages)€26.71 (RRP €31.43)
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Behind Closed Doors by Hugo Vickers
(Hardback 480 pages)The author has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Royal Family, and has had a fascination with the story of the Duchess of Windsor since he was a young man. This book brings a fresh perspective on the story by Read more...
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Sherrie Hewson Autobiography by Sherrie Hewson
(Paperback 304 pages)Join Loose Women's Sherrie Hewson on her rollercoaster ride through the laughter, tears and tantrums of an extraordinary life lived on and off the screen. Read more...
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Paul Newman by Marian E Borden
(Hardback 120 pages)A Biography. Paul Leonard Newman was a true Renaissance man who is known worldwide for his performances as an actor and director. His career in the entertainment industry stretched over 50 years, as did his marriage to Read more...
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American Desperado by Evan Wright & Jon Roberts
(Paperback 560 pages)Like a real-life Scarface Jon was born into the upper levels of the Gambino crime family and witnessed his first murder at age seven. He became a one-man Read more...
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Bill Gates by Bob Schaller
(Hardback 168 pages)Bill Gates A Biography follows the life of Gates from his Seattle childhood and his early years as a program developer to the founding of Microsoft and its expansion into the personal computer, Internet browsing, and gaming Read more...
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Angry Conversations With God by Susan Isaacs
(Paperback 256 pages)Now in paperback, a refreshingly honest spiritual memoir about a middle-class white girl's dark night of the soul from comedian and skeptical Christian Susan E. Isaacs. Read more...
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A Warrior's Life by Fernando Morais
(Paperback 640 pages)Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official Read more...
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John Lennon by Jacquelin Edmondson
(Hardback 198 pages)A Biography. Read more...
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Venice by Peter Ackroyd
(Paperback 512 pages)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 century to the rise of a great mercantile state and a trading empire, the wars Read more...
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