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  • THE WOMAN IN ME
    SPEARS, BRITNEY
    The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice-her truth-was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her in...
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  • EDUCATED
    WESTOVER, TARA
    Tara Westover tenia disset anys la primera vegada que va posar el peu a una aula. Vivia amb la seva família a la muntanya . La família vivia tan aïllada de la societat que no hi havia ningú que garantís que els nens rebessin una educació i que intervingués en el moment que el germà gran de Tara es va convertir en violent. Aleshores, els pares van decidir educar-la. Va ser admes...
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  • BURNING THE DAYS
    SALTER, JAMES
    In this brilliant book of recollection, one of America's finest writers recreates people, places, and events spanning some 50 years, bringing to life an entire era through one man's sensibility. Scenes of love and desire, friendship, ambition, life in foreign cities and New York, are unforgettably rendered here in the unique style for which James Salter is widely admired."Burni...
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  • MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
    DURRELL, GERALD
    My Family and Other Animals is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'What we all need,' said Larry, 'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.''Yes, dear, that would be nice,' agreed Mother, not really listening. 'I had a...
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  • YES PLEASE
    POEHLER, AMY
    The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated memoir, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much).Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice...
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  • BIOGRAPHIC: MARILYN : GREAT LIVES IN GRAPHIC FORM
    GREENWOOD, KATIE
    Most people know that Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was a Hollywood icon, and at one time the most famous movie star on the planet. What, perhaps, they don't know is that she lived in 42 different homes; that she loved Abraham Lincoln with a passion; that she was the first choice for the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and that her absences while filming Let's M...
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  • A KIND OF SPARK
    MCNICOLL, ELLE
    A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard?A story about friendship, courage a...
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  • LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN
    DIDION, JOAN
    From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure.Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to William Randolph Hearst's castle at San Simeon, a reunion of WWII ve...
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  • IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A VET
    HERRIOT, JAMES
    Season two of the hit TV adaptation of All Creatures Great and Small is now showing on Channel 5, featuring Sam West as Siegfried Farnon. 'James Herriot's books have had a lasting and profound effect on my life' Amanda OwenThis beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of the second volume in James Herriot's memoirs, It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet, features an afterword by ...
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  • MANIFESTO
    EVARISTO, BERNARDINE
    'Promises to make for one of 2021's must-read memoirs' StylistLife-affirming memoirs make beautiful Christmas gifts. Discover a powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landma...
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  • MORE THAN A WOMAN
    MORAN, CAITLIN
    THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER'Exceptionally brilliant and powerful' Marina Hyde'This book is a hilarious memoir, a passionate polemic, and a moving manifesto on how to be a decent person and try, in the face of countless stresses, to live a full open-hearted, joyous life' Sunday TimesA decade ago, Caitlin Moran thought she had it all figured out. Her instant bestseller...
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  • MY BROTHER
    KINCAID, JAMAICA
    Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking r...
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  • PATRICIA HIGHSMITH: HER DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS
    It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.'Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and noteb...
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  • YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WAR IS : THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL FROM UKRAINE
    SKALIETSKA, YEVA
    Published in association with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword by Michael Morpurgo. Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means.When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. 'Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it.You will love...
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  • WRITERS : THEIR LIVES AND WORKS
    DK
    Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. From William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, Writers explores more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Each featured novelist, playwright, or poet is introduced by a stunning portrait, followed by photography and illustrations of ...
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  • I REMEMBER NOTHING AND OTHER REFLECTIONS : MEMORIES AND WISDOM FROM THE ICONIC WRITER AND DIRECTOR
    EPHRON, NORA
    'Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt' Independent on Sunday'This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini' Sunday Times'Sharp as a knife' Daily Express___In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing older, and everything she will and won't miss. Filled with Nora's trademark wit, wisdom and warmth. * No one actually likes to ...
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  • FRIENDS, LOVERS AND THE BIG TERRIBLE THING
    PERRY, MATTHEW
    'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The TimesThe beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persis...
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  • AMERICAN PROMETHEUS : THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
    BIRD, KAI
    ***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most f...
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  • BE USEFUL : SEVEN TOOLS FOR LIFE
    SCHWARZENEGGER, ARNOLD
    THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERThe seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life-distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone.The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest paid movie star. The leader of the world's sixth largest economy.That these are th...
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  • STORIES I FORGOT TO TELL YOU
    GALLAGHER, DOROTHY
    A delicate and darkly witty reflection on loss, marriage, writing, and life in New York from an acclaimed biographer and memoirist.Dorothy Gallagher's husband, Ben Sonnenberg, the author of Lost Property: Memoirs and Confessions of a Bad Boy , died more than a decade ago. At the time of his death, he had suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years and was almost completely ...
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  • WHAT I TALK ABOUT WHEN I TALK ABOUT RUNNING
    MURAKAMI,HARUKI
    'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. A perfect reading companion for runners. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon...
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  • A PRIVATE SPY
    LE CARRE, JOHN
    A collection of letters from John le Carre, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to his final yearsA Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National S...
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  • BOY : TALES OF CHILDHOOD
    DAHL, ROALD
    We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers .....
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  • BROTHER. DO. YOU. LOVE. ME.
    MANNI AND REUBEN COE
    WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities and struggling to accept that he had Down's syndrome. Depressed and in a fog of anti-depressants, he hadn't spoken for over a year. Increasingly isolated, cut off from everyone and everything he loved, R...
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  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    ANGELOU, MAYA
    The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, ...
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  • THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS
    RUPAUL
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date—a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings ...
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  • COFFEE FIRST, THEN THE WORLD : ONE WOMAN'S RECORD-BREAKING PEDAL AROUND THE PLANET
    GRAHAM, JENNY
    A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont 'A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement' - Tim Moore, travel writer16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo lap of the planet by bike.‘The relief was immense: no longer was I talking, ...
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  • SOLITO
    ZAMORA, JAVIER
    A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph'Heartbreaking… A rare, eye-opening rendition of the brutal reality of border-crossing.' Lea Ypi‘If there’s any justice, Solito will someday be considered a classic.’ Rumaan AlamYoung Javier dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in the United States. For this to happen, he must emb...
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  • THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER
    CHEEVER, JOHN
    John Cheever's letters offer a tantalising glimpse into the life of a writer. They include correspondence with his contemporaries, such as Philip Roth, John Updike and Saul Bellow, his days as a young, aspiring writer and his battles with bisexuality and alcoholism. In this collection, edited by his son Benjamin Cheever, we see how his private correspondence was as extraordinar...
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  • INSTRUMENTAL
    RHODES, JAMES
    James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such exquisite miracles of musical genius have helped him survive his demons, and...
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