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Chicken Boy
£14.99

Growing up in an ex-mining town in Nottinghamshire, Arthur Parkinson never wanted a dog, or a cat, or a pony – just hens. As a kid, he was known as ‘chicken boy’, a taunt Arthur n...
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Ian Fleming
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Here is a fresh portrait of the man behind James Bond, and his enduring impact, by an award-winning biographer with unprecedented access to the Fleming family papers. Ian Fleming’s greatest c...
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Mornings With My Cat Mii
£12.99

The perfect gift for cat lovers: a beloved Japanese modern classic that chronicles the author’s 20-year bond with her cat, meditating on solitude, independence, companionship, the writing lif...
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The Prime of Life
£10.99

This is the second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiography. In it she continues the story of her life from the age of 21, through the uneasy rebellious 30s, the war years and finally to ...
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Jokes, jokes, jokes
£25.00

How did little Jenny Hargreaves become Jenny Eclair and elbow her way into the male dominated world of 1980s stand-up? Daughter of Major Derek Hargreaves (spy?) and June Hargreaves (spy’s wif...
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Who’s that Girl
£25.00

The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated rapper, singer-songwriter, actor, mother, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

In 1999, Eve ...
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Raising hare
£18.99

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Im...
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Shakespeare
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For the very first time, Judi Dench opens up about every Shakespearean role she has played in her seven-decade career, from Lady Macbeth and Titania to Ophelia and Cleopatra. Here, she reveals her ...
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Meet Ella
£22.00

When he was a child, James Middleton wanted nothing more than a dog of his own. Struggling to connect in the classroom, James would often take off in pursuit of nature and animals – adventuri...
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There and back
£30.00

A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great fri...
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The Biggar picture
£22.00

The gripping and revealing autobiography from Wales’s most decorated Welsh 10 of all time, Dan Biggar.
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Normal women
£10.99

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023

?’A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES

‘A genuinely new hist...
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A thousand feasts
£20.00

THE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small mom...
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Father and son
£10.99

An extraordinary memoir about family, the past and mortality, and the final work from the peerless Jonathan Raban.
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The third Gilmore girl
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Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of ‘A Chorus Line’ to her memor...
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I brought the war with me
£16.99

I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own. In nearly four decades as a journalist covering ...
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A woman like me
£25.00

From challenging expectations as a bright and restless child of the Windrush generation to making history as the first elected Black female MP in the UK, Diane Abbott has seen it all. In this hones...
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The strangers
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In the western imagination, a Black man is always a stranger. Outsider, foreigner, intruder, alien. One who remains associated with their origins irrespective of how far they have travelled from th...
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How to run Britain
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We all know that, over the past fifteen years, British living standards have stagnated, inequality between – and within – communities has grown rampant, politicians have lost credibilit...
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Studios of their own
£19.99

Studios of Their OwnÂ travels around the world, examining the unique spaces in which famous artists created their most notable works.Â
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Something lost, something gained
£25.00

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinton? In ‘Something Lost, Something Gained’, Hillary offers her candid views on life and ...
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Wild thing
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Paul Gauguin is chiefly known as the giant of post-Impressionist painting whose bold colours and compositions rocked the Western art world. It is less well known that he was a stockbroker in Paris ...
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Now what?
£22.00

Amidst a landscape of economic turmoil, eroding freedoms and deepening societal fractures, one thing is clear: Britain is in a mess. Instead of serving the common good, our politicians seem fixated...
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Around the world in 80 fights
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An autobiographical white-knuckle ride around the global fight game by the legendary Steve Bunce: the voice of the sport who is celebrating four decades of writing and talking about boxers and boxi...
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Leigh, myself and I
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‘From humble beginnings to the top of the entertainment tree and everything in between! A beautiful book about a beautiful man’ Paddy McGuinness

‘Leigh is an artis...
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