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Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours
Author: Tony Oppedisano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 This intimate, revealing portrait of Frank Sinatra-from the man closest to the famous singer during the last decade of his life-features...
Faster than the Sun: Reminiscences of a Fleet Air Arm and a test pilot
Author: Peter Twiss Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The name of Peter Twiss first achieved national prominence in March 1956 when, as a test pilot, he gained the World...
A Long Way from Silver Creek: A Family Memoir
Author: Margaret Gee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 351 Tells the story of Margaret Gee's family, spanning three generations living on the land in picturesque North Eastern Victoria, near Beechworth-Kelly...
Lions of Retreat Street: a Chinese Temple in Inner Sydney
Author: Ann Stephen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 80 In 1908 a temple was built to serve the community who worked the market gardens around Botany Bay. The lions of...
The Torch In My Ear
Author: Elias Canetti Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 In The Torch in My Ear Elias Canetti, Nobel Prize winner, towering intellectual figure and polymath, gives us his second volume...
Bulletproof
Author: M Croucher Gc Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 AFGHANISTAN, FEBRUARY 2008- in an out-of-control, dangerous country torn apart by war, littered with Taliban guerrilla forces and thousands of...
Tough Women Adventure Stories: Stories of Grit, Courage and Determination
Author: Jenny Tough Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's time we celebrated women in adventure What does "toughness" mean to you? Perhaps it's being physically fit and mentally resilient....
Football Leaks: Uncovering the Dirty Deals Behind the Beautiful Game
Author: Rafael Buschmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 One anonymous football fan. 18.6 million confidential documents. This is the explosive story of the biggest leak in sporting history -...
A Tokyo Romance
Author: Ian Buruma Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic...
Stammered Songbook: A Mother's Book of Hours
Author: Erwin Mortier (Author) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 'What makes me saddest, is the double silence of her being. Language has packed its bags and jumped over the...
The Auctioneer: Adventures in the Art Trade
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Author: Simon de Pury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 In the glamorous and secretive world of art, Simon de Pury is the ultimate insider. Having elevated the auction into...
Tuesday Thing, A
Author: Kate Shayler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 530 The heartwarming sequel to The Long Way Home. In The Long Way Home, a secure and idyllic childhood is brought to...
Pacific Rim: Uprising Journal Collection: Set of 2
Author: Insight Editions Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 64 Celebrate the earth-shattering battle between Jaegers and Kaiju with this deluxe set of notebooks featuring imagery from Pacific Rim Uprising. Featuring...
Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame
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Author: Michael King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 The first full-scale-and long-awaited-biography of Janet Frame, sometimes described as the "most distinguished woman writer in English.". Janet Frame, born in...
A Visible Man: The Top 5 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Author: Edward Enninful Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 When Edward Enninful became first Black editor-in-chief of British Vogue, few at the heights of the elitist world of fashion wanted...
From Our Own Correspondent: A Decade of Dispatches from Across the World
Author: Polly Hope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 For more than sixty-five years on the air, From Our Own Correspondent has been one of BBC Radio's flagship programmes. It...
Fear: Our Ultimate Challenge
Author: Ranulph Fiennes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Sir Ranulph Fiennes has climbed the Eiger and Mount Everest. He's crossed both Poles on foot. He's been a member of...
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement
Author: Cleve Jones Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others...
Philomena: The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition)
Author: Martin Sixsmith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 The book that inspired the Academy Award-nominated film, starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan. "The touching story of a mother's fifty-year...
All the President's Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator
Author: Monique El-Faizy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 Is Trump merely a boor and a misogynist - or is he a predator? During his 2016 presidential run, the revelation...
72 Hours
Author: Frank Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 August 5th 2005. On a secret mission to an underwater military installation thirty miles off the coast of Kamchatka, Russian Navy...
Bread, Jam and a Borrowed Pram: A Nurse's Story From the Streets
Author: Dot May Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Three small children peep out, their eyes watching me from beneath tousled but clean hair. Their clothes seem to have...
Takeaway: Stories from a childhood behind the counter
Author: Angela Hui Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2023 _______________ 'A beautiful book:...
Covert Warrior: C.I.A.'s Secret War in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-67
Author: Warner Smith
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
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It Is What It Is
Author: David Coulthard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 David Coulthard's life story is an extraordinary one. He got his breakthrough into Formula One after the tragic death of Ayrton...
Sex vs Survival: The Life and Ideas of Sabina Spielrein
Author: John Launer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Who was Sabina Spielrein? Her dramatic life story is most famous for her notorious affair with Carl Jung, dramatised in the...
Geronimo:The Man, His Time, His Place
Author: A Debo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 In place of the distorted image of Geronimo as a bloodthirsty savage, she offers her version of a man full of...
Black Teacher: 'An unsung heroine of Black British Literature' (Bernardine Evaristo)
Author: Beryl Gilroy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a...
Thinking Again
Author: Jan Morris Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Necrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication In...
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
Author: Paul Auster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year 'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker 'Brilliant . . ....
Soundscapes: A Musician's Journey through Life and Death
Author: Paul Robertson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 In 2008, the renowned violinist Paul Robertson suffered a ruptured aorta. After dying momentarily on the operating table, he remained in...
The Disappearance of Emile Zola: Love, Literature and the Dreyfus Case
Author: Michael Rosen Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Zola's crime had...
Sean Connery: The measure of a man
Author: Christopher Bray Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Sean Connery's creation of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to...
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life
Author: John Adams Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'Sometimes I liken the creative act to that of being a good gardener. The musical material itself, the harmonies, rhythms, the...
Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
Author: Chuck Klosterman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock'n'roll and death across a continent....
Bobby Fischer Goes to War: The most famous chess match of all time
Author: David Edmonds Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Since 1948, the USSR had dominated the World Chess Championships - evidence, Moscow claimed, of the superiority of the Soviet system....
Gustav Mahler: Letters to his Wife
Author: Gustav Mahler Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 496 Alma Mahler-Werfel was one of the most fascinating and ambivalent of twentieth-century women. Her book Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters (1940)...
The Queen's Knight
Author: Martyn Downer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 576 Suppressed passion and domestic intrigue at the heart of Queen Victoria's court. Sir Howard Elphinstone, dashing hero of the Crimean War,...
Comrade Ambassador: Whitlam's Beijing Envoy
Author: Stephen FitzGerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Comrade Ambassador reveals how Australia from the 1960s decided to engage with Asia and change for all time how we saw...
True Compass: A Memoir
Author: Senator Edward M. Kennedy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 A landmark autobiography and the definite account from a member of America s most heralded family. As a young...
My Judy Garland Life
Author: Susie Boyt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Fascinating and extraordinary, thrilling and poignant, MY JUDY GARLAND LIFE will speak to anyone who has ever nursed an obsession or...
Death Punch'd: Surviving Five Finger Death Punch's Metal Mayhem
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Author: Jeremy Spencer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 From the cofounder of Five Finger Death Punch, a fascinating inside account of one of the most successful heavy-metal bands of...
Mozart's Women: His Family, His Friends, His Music
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Author: Jane Glover Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 Throughout his life, Mozart was inspired, fascinated, amused, aroused, hurt, disappointed and betrayed by women -- and he was equally complex...
Between the Sticks
Author: Alan Hodgkinson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 In 2013, Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing and coaching at clubs including Sheffield United, Manchester United and England. This...
Good Indian Daughter
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Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
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Clothes... and other things that matter: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A beguiling and revealing memoir from the former Editor of British Vogue
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