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Author: Munroe Bergdorf Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: POLITICS 'A riveting blend of memoir and manifesto ... I found myself dog-earing every page' Elizabeth...
Tracks

Tracks

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Author: Robyn Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian...
Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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Author: Lisa Taddeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity...
The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth

The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth

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Author: Pauline Baer de Perignon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth...
The Soul of a Woman

The Soul of a Woman

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Author: Isabel Allende Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 ** The wise, warm, defiant meditation on what it means to be a woman - from literary legend Isabel Allende **...
The Queen

The Queen

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Author: Matthew Dennison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of...
The One Thing We've Never Spoken About: Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis

The One Thing We've Never Spoken About: Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis

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Author: Elfy Scott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Expansive and generous ... brimming with kindness, revelatory accounts and wit. The book itself is a thing of grace.' Rick Morton...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever...
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011

The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011

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Author: William Feaver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY...
The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World

The Half Known Life: Finding Paradise in a Divided World

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Author: Pico Iyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 'Nothing less than a guided tour of the human soul ... A masterpiece' Elizabeth Gilbert 'A work of spiritual evolution [and]...
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

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Author: Max Chafkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the...
Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage

Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage

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Author: Mr James Runcie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I'd met her - but feeling...
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

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Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (University of Notre Dame, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________...
Solito

Solito

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Author: Javier Zamora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Javier is nine years old, can't tie his shoes, and dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in...
Soldier: Respect Is Earned

Soldier: Respect Is Earned

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Author: Jay Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one...
So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait

So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait

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Author: Aaron Fa'Aoso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers...
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling

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Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading...
SCOOPS: NOW A MAJOR MOVIE ON NETFLIX

SCOOPS: NOW A MAJOR MOVIE ON NETFLIX

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Author: Sam McAlister Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Behind every great interview is a great booker - Sam McAlister is one of the unsung heroes of television news' Piers...
Robert Peel: A Biography

Robert Peel: A Biography

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Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
Reckoning

Reckoning

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Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

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Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
Paul McCartney: The Biography

Paul McCartney: The Biography

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Author: Philip Norman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 864 The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking...
Oscar: A Life

Oscar: A Life

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Author: Matthew Sturgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 912 The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to...
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family

Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family

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Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers

Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers

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Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir

Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir

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Author: Patti Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of...
In My Mother's Shoes

In My Mother's Shoes

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Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Honest, funny, heartfelt ...I loved it' Cathy Kelly Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother's Shoes is Alison Walsh's delightful...
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic

How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic

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Author: Bill Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Winner of the New York City Book Award From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in...
Girlhood

Girlhood

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Author: Melissa Febos Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 National Bestseller In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it...
Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo

Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo

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Author: Hayden Herrera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The beautifully illustrated and utterly absorbing biography of one of the twentieth century's most transfixing artists Frida is the story of...
Faith, Hope and Carnage

Faith, Hope and Carnage

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Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph Best Music Book of the Year The Big Issue Book...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration

Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration

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Author: Levison Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by...
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life

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Author: Alex Christofi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves...
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet

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Author: Alice Robb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Ballet is woman' said George Balanchine, the founder of New York City Ballet. For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous...
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

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Author: Isaac Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the New Atlantic...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

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Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises

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Author: A. N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Here at last is the story of one of the leading contemporary critics, literary and otherwise, who has become celebrated...
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen

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Author: Jane Draycott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene....
Bedtime Story

Bedtime Story

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Author: Chloe Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From...
A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce

A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce

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Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN...
A Short History of Queer Women

A Short History of Queer Women

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Author: Kirsty Loehr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Female same-sex desire has been written out of history since, well, forever. Not anymore! From the first women's football team in...
Australian War Diaries

Australian War Diaries

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Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy

Lamarck's Evolution: Two Centuries of Genius and Jealousy

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In the name of the Father, the Dauther and the Holy Spirits

In the name of the Father, the Dauther and the Holy Spirits

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How to be a Man

How to be a Man

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Flynn of the Inland

Flynn of the Inland

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Barrow'S Boys

Barrow'S Boys

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"Jacqueline" of the Special Operations Executive

"Jacqueline" of the Special Operations Executive

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