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'Tony is the real deal.' Andy McNabThe full, explosive, boots-on-the-ground story of the Falklands War, from a soldier at the heart of the action, published for the 40th anniversary of the conflict. Tony Hoare always knew he wanted to be in the SAS.Both his grandfather...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2022-03-31
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'I planted a dog rose. Then I found a curious piece of driftwood and used this, and one of the necklaces of holey stones on the wall, to stake the rose. The garden had begun. I saw it as a therapy and a pharmacopoeia.' In 1986 artist and filmmaker, Derek Jarman, bought...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-03-03
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'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis in back rooms.'In 1984 at the age of 40, the polymath film-maker Derek Jarman began...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-03-03
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In these pages, are collected in a readable form an abstract of the lives and doctrines of some of those who have stood foremost in the ranks of Free thought in all countries and in all ages (Condorcet, M. De Voltaire, Thomas Paine, David Hume...). The life of the...
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Alicia Éditions
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2022-02-16
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'The story [Onyeama] had to tell was so gripping and shocking, it wouldn't let me go . . . A remarkably well-written memoir' Bernardine Evaristo, from the IntroductionDillibe was the second black boy to study at Eton - joining in 1965 - and the first to complete his...
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Penguin
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2022-02-03
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'That nickname . . .''"Little bird." It wasn't mine. I found out later he gave it to every little girl that came in to be injected. "Little Bird" didn't mean anything. It was a trick. There were thousands of "little birds", just like me, all thinking they were the only...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-01-20
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When the world stopped, all hopes rested on finding a vaccine. An unlikely team answered the call. Before Covid-19 was even given its name, a select group of scientists in Germany, assembled by married couple and decades-long research partners Ugur Sahin and Özlem...
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Headline Welbeck Non-Fiction
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2021-12-09
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Des rencontres fortuits sous les cieux de l'Afrique sahélienne tracent les contours d'une modalité de voyage qui est, à la fois, une découverte de soi-même et de l'autre, où connaissance réciproque et solidarité humaine s'entrelacent.
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Harmattan Italia
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2021-12-07
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A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel. Lou kept candid diaries from the age of 10. Through these extracts, we hear Lou's life in his own words: from 'playing boys' in his childhood in...
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Vintage Digital
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2021-11-04
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'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema' Wes Anderson'Jim is as eloquent and elegant with words as with the camera . . . Read it and drink it in!' Helena Bonham CarterIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted...
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Corsair
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2021-11-02
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Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography. A gripping narrative that opens as derring-do wartime escape drama rapidly turns into a horror story about man's inhumanity to man...Important...
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Seven Dials
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2021-10-28
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Clotilde recounts her daily life during her studies with her chronic disease, often flanked by her trustworthy wheelchair. It’s not always easy to manage studies, hospitalizations, internships, and outings in a wheelchair, all of which are affected by the uncertainties...
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Coëtquen Editions
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2021-09-28
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Récit, témoignage
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The woman behind the icon known as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story filled with intimate bombshells—told by the bombshell herself. On Good Friday in 1953, at only 18 months old, 25 miles from the nearest...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2021-09-21
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Acerbic, wisecracking and hilarious, this is the definitive essay collection from New York legend and satirist, Fran Lebowitz, star of Martin Scorsese's hit Netflix series, Pretend It's a City.'The gold standard for intelligence, efficiency and humour. Now and forever'...
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Virago
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2021-09-02
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Virago Modern Classics
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'An inspiration to anyone who still finds old age too distressing a prospect to take seriously' The TimesOld age is no longer a blip in the calendar, just a few declining years before the end. Old age is now a major and important part of life: It should command as much...
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Virago
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2021-09-02
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THE FASCINATING SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERAssaults. Riots. Cell fires. Medical emergencies. Understaffed wings. Suicides. Hooch. Weapons. It's all in a week's work at HMP Parkhurst.After 28 years working as a prison officer, with 22 years at HMP Parkhurst, once one...
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Seven Dials
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2021-08-19
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AN UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BEST NON-FICTION PICK A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Chaos and debauchery defined Baxter Dury's turbulent childhood. Abandoned by his punk rock star dad Ian Dury in the late 80s, Baxter was left in the hands of the Sulphate...
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Corsair
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2021-08-05
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Karen Pirie
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'This book will often hurt. It will make you angry, it will make you feel. My hope is that this hurt, this anger and these feelings will move you to change the way we talk about surviving sexual violence.' Sexual violence is an epidemic happening across all...
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Trapeze
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2021-07-08
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Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice. Remember, your life depends on it.In this extraordinary memoir, Lucy Lewis reveals the hidden world of bomb disposal training and how she came to be the UK's first female bomb disposal expert. From joining...
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Trapeze
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2021-07-08
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When future generations come to ask themselves when England lost it and what it lost, they will pick up The Paper Lantern' Michael Hofmann, TLS'A remarkable achievement in a book that feels at once timely and deeply considered' Irish Times'A book that speaks powerfully...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2021-07-01
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