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The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

The Butterfly Effect: How Kendrick Lamar Ignited the Soul of Black America

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Author: Marcus J. Moore Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'Kendrick Lamar understands and employs blues, jazz, and soul in his music, which makes it startling. His work is more...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries

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Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother

The Flaming Cow: The Making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother

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Author: Ron Geesin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 Celebrating more than 50 years of the groundbreaking Atom Heart Mother. By the late 1960s, popular British prog-rock outfit Pink Floyd...
The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters

The Churchill Girls: The Story of Winston's Daughters

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Author: Rachel Trethewey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 0 The fascinating untold stories of three women from England's most famous family who were on the frontline of history. Bright, attractive...
Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion

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Author: Michelle Dean Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week 'This is such a great idea for a book, and Michelle Dean carries...
What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

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Author: Kwane Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals...
Beaumonster: A Memoir

Beaumonster: A Memoir

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Author: Jesse Dayton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Jesse Dayton's story reads like a who's who of American music. In his debut memoir Beaumonster, Dayton reveals the stranger-than-fiction encounters...
Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

Alice's Book: How the Nazis Stole My Grandmother's Cookbook

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Author: Karina Urbach Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn? The story of a Jewish chef whose bestselling cookbook was...
One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind

One Last Thing: How to live with the end in mind

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Author: Wendy Mitchell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 WATERSTONES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023: BIOGRAPHY The last book from bestselling author and advocate Wendy Mitchell 'This beautiful book will give...
America Over the Water

America Over the Water

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Author: Shirley Collins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'Shirley is a time traveller, a conduit for essential human aches, one of the greatest artists who ever lived' Stewart Lee...
The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture

The Way We Survive: Notes on Rape Culture

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Author: Catriona Morton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Almost a quarter of women and one in twenty men have been sexually assaulted or had attempts made 9 out of...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 'Hazzard's marvellous, luminous writing I discovered only recently; now I don't know how I ever managed to get along without it'...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Unravelling Us

Unravelling Us

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Author: Renee McBryde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 0 In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret...
Trouble Brewing in the Loire

Trouble Brewing in the Loire

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Author: Tommy Barnes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 234 Burt, the hound of Beelzebub, has risen from the dead, Gadget the miniature horse has moved into the kitchen and Tommy...
The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

The Lost Cafe Schindler: One family, two wars and the search for truth

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Author: Meriel Schindler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Rigorously researched, The Lost Cafe Schindler successfully weaves together a compelling and at times deeply moving memoir and family history that...
Bourdain: In Stories

Bourdain: In Stories

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Author: Laurie Woolever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Powerful and profound' Esquire 'Unbridled and unapologetic' Vogue When Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around...
Bourdain: In Stories

Bourdain: In Stories

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Author: Laurie Woolever Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 'This unique oral history builds to a comprehensive portrait and an important biography' Observer 'Reveals a vulnerable side to the man...
These Precious Days

These Precious Days

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Author: Ann Patchett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021 'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to...
Year of the Monkey

Year of the Monkey

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Author: Patti Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids Selected as Book of the Year by...
Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

Coretta: My Life, My Love, My Legacy

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Author: Coretta Scott King Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Coretta is more relevant today than ever . . . a female who takes responsibility for creating something better in...
Living on a Thin Line

Living on a Thin Line

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Author: Dave Davies Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining...
Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock'n'Roll War Stories

Too Late To Stop Now: More Rock'n'Roll War Stories

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Author: Allan Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 More than 40 stories from the glory days of rock'n'roll, featuring Lou Reed, Elton John, Sting and The Clash. Allan Jones...
My Father's Glass Eye

My Father's Glass Eye

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Author: Jeannie Vanasco Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 266 My Father's Glass Eye is Jeannie's struggle to honour her father, her larger-than-life hero, but also the man who named her...
Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl

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Author: Jeannie Vanasco Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Why would a good person commit a terrible act? Fifteen years ago, Jeannie's relationship with a close friend ended in rape....
A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetime of fighting for Australian workers' rights: 2020

A Long View From the Left: From the CPA to the ALP, a lifetime of fighting for Australian workers' rights: 2020

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Author: Max Ogden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A Long View From the Left is a memoir by Max Odgen, a longtime Australian Communist Party member, Unionist and, from...
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

Becoming Duchess Goldblatt

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Author: Anonymous Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 One of the New York Times' 20 Books to Read in 2020 "A tonic . . . Splendid . . . A...
Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

Nowhere for Very Long: The Unexpected Road to an Unconventional Life

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Author: Brianna Madia Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER * USA TODAY! BESTSELLER In this beautifully written, vividly detailed memoir, a...
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

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Author: Simu Liu Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and The Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Author: Gareth Russell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with...
Mr Rosenblum's List

Mr Rosenblum's List

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Author: Natasha Solomons Format: Paperback Number of Pages:
The Comfort Book: Special Winter Edition

The Comfort Book: Special Winter Edition

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Author: Matt Haig Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - FEATURING A NEW CHAPTER ON WINTER COMFORTS Reflections on hope, survival and the...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide

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Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 An inside look at President Richard Nixon's administration and epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

What It Takes to Save a Life: A Veterinarian's Quest for Healing and Hope

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Author: Kwane Stewart Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Mountains Beyond Mountains meets Tattoos On the Heart in this unforgettable, powerful, and stunningly-told memoir of a struggling veterinarian saving animals...
Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

Harry Potter: Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal

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Author: Insight Editions Format: Notebook / blank book Number of Pages: 192 Record your magical adventures with the Harry Potter Dumbledore's Army Hardcover Ruled Journal, a new addition to Insight...
Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

Australia Day: The passionate and powerful bestselling book by critically acclaimed journalist and author of Talking to My Country and The Queen is Dead

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Author: Stan Grant Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 'As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.'...
Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

Gin and Phonics: My journey through middle-class motherhood (via the occasional pub)

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Author: Clara Batten Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'I was asked the other day what I thought the hardest part of parenting was. I'd have to say that it's...
She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

She's Nice Though: Essays on Being Bad at Being Good

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Author: Mia Mercado Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY * A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK * A NYLON MUST-READ * A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN...
Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History

Rewired: An Unlikely Doctor, a Brave Amputee, and the Medical Miracle That Made History

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Author: Dr. Ajay K. Seth Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 An inspirational story of hope and miracles as a small-town orthopedic surgeon forever changes one woman's life after performing...
Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

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Author: Geena Davis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'I adored this book. It's so Geena and so inspiring and such a wonderful read' Emma Thompson A Times Film and...
Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

Team America: Patton, MacArthur, Marshall, Eisenhower, and the World They Forged

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Author: Robert L. O'Connell Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 From national bestselling author and acclaimed military historian Robert L. O'Connell, a dynamic history of four military leaders whose extraordinary...
Life at the Bottom of the Blender

Life at the Bottom of the Blender

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Author: Naomi HartFormat: Paperback Number of Pages:  When Naomi Hart flew from Sydney to New York to study musical theatre as a twenty-two year-old, she planned to be away for...
The Gloucester Notebook

The Gloucester Notebook

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Author: T S Eliot Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 In T. S. Eliot's own words in 1922: "The leather bound notebook is one which I started in 1909 and...
Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men

Elizabeth I's Final Years: Her Favourites and Her Fighting Men

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Author: Robert Stedall Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Elizabeth I's Final Years outlines the interwoven relationships and rivalries between politicians and courtiers surrounding England's omnipotent queen in the years...
Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker

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Author: Jason McBride Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 "It's shocking to learn that this is McBride's first book...Eat Your Mind does everything a good biography should and more" -Los...
In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

In Kiltumper: A Year in an Irish Garden

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Author: Niall Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Poignant ... A meditation on life, love and the importance of nature' IRISH TIMES When they were in their twenties, Niall...
Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence

Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence

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Author: Frances Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 **LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE** PICKED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE...
The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes

The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes

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Author: Mark Wormald Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 'An absolute gem . . . I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' Paul Whitehouse 'Marvellous . . . The...