Biography

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  A suspicion of spies

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  1916, Russia. A 17-year-old Wilfred ‘Biffy’ Dunderdale is working for his father, taking submarines from Vladivostok to St Petersburg for the Russian Imperial Navy. He takes a submarine...

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  Dancing in the rain

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  Strictly Come Dancing professional and breast cancer and Crohn’s awareness advocate Amy Dowden shares her journey from growing up in the Welsh Valleys to dancing on the glittering stage of pr...

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  Sharing my love of cricket

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  Henry Blofeld has been close to the heart of cricket for over fifty years. He has seen the game grow into a hugely international sport, where franchises continue to have massive influence and more ...

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  The criminal mind

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  A likeable young girl who’s burnt her family home to the ground. A man with no memory of the night he killed his wife. A teenager whose visions and voices have had murderous effect. One quest...

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  The dictionary people

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  What do three murderers, Karl Marx’s daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common? They all helped create the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. The ‘Oxford English Dictionary&#...

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  History Hit story of England

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  From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians, Yorkists and Roundhead Royalists to an abundance of kings called George (and Henry!), the history of o...

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  The Virago book of friendship

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  Friendship has never been more talked about. Some of this has to do with the internet (the perils of WhatsApp groups, and of ghosting), and some, with the realisation that loneliness in our society...

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  My good bright wolf

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  From bestselling author Sarah Moss, a boundary-breaking memoir about the battleground of the female body, and about how reading and thinking can save you.

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  Walk yourself happy

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  Join Julia Bradbury as she leads you through the walk of our lifetimes. There’s a lot of talk about how we all must connect more with nature. But what does that mean? How do you do it? And wh...

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  Society of the snow

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  13 October 1972. Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, carrying a team of young rugby players, their families and friends, took off for the very last time. A deadly miscalculation saw F571 crash directly...

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  Ingrained

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  ‘Ingrained’ is a love letter to trees, timber and craftsmanship – and to finding your own voice. The eldest son of a Master Woodworker, Callum Robinson spent his childhood surroun...

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  The story of a life

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  When World War II broke out, Aharon Appelfeld was seven years old, the child of an assimilated, middle-class Jewish family in Czernowitz. This is his account of the years which followed – rec...

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  Toast

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  Winner of the British Book Awards Biography of the Year

  Nigel Slater’s bestselling memoir of a childhood remembered through food, featuring a new introduction from Eli...

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  My life in sea creatures

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  As a mixed Chinese and white non-binary writer working in a largely white, male field, science journalist Sabrina Imbler has always been drawn to the mystery of life in the sea, and particularly to...

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  A day in the life of Abed Salama

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  In this work, Nathan Thrall tells a gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision.

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  Hazard spectrum

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  The high-octane memoir of one of the UK’s greatest fighter pilots of the modern era.

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  Lawrence of Arabia

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  Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in 1909. By 1918 there was a 20,000 price on his head. His journey to this point has long been legend. From his first postings as ar...

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  Diddly Squat. Pigs might fly

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  Welcome back to Clarkson’s Farm. Since taking the wheel three years ago Jeremy’s had his work cut out. And it’s now clear from hard-won experience that, when it comes to farming, ...

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  Storm pegs

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  A love letter to life on the remote British islands of Shetland and to a wilder way of living, from one of our most celebrated poets.

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  The umbrella murder

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  September 1978: exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge, London with a poison-tipped umbrella. It would become the most infamous unsolved killing o...

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  My family

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  ‘One of the funniest books I have ever read’ HADLEY FREEMAN

  ‘A masterpiece‘ SATHNAM SANGHERA

  ‘The read of the s...

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  The cove

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  For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as sh...

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  Friends, lovers and the big terrible thing

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  In an extraordinary story that only he could tell, Matthew Perry takes readers onto the soundstage of the most successful sitcom of all time while opening up about his private struggles with addict...

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  World travel

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  Anthony Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, ...

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  The art thief

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  This is the true story of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, who stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists. 

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