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Dutch Light

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Product Description 'At last – a scintillating biography of Christiaan Huygens . . . Hugh Aldersley-Williams has evocatively illuminated this...

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Cults Uncovered

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About the Author Emily G. Thompson has several years experience as an investigative reporter. She has her own popular true crime website, Morb...

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Featherhood

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Product Description \x27The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years\x27 Ne...

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Mark Austin- And thank you for watching

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For over thirty years, Mark Austin has covered the biggest stories in the world for ITN and Sky News. As a foreign correspondent and anchorman he h...

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Diaries and Notebooks

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Review The whole book is excellent. Highsmith is pointed and dry about herself and everything else. But the early chapters are special. They c...

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Helen Oxenbury: A Life in Illustration

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A fascinating, beautiful and definitive account of the life of esteemed artist Helen Oxenbury. Filled with insights that span Helen Oxenbury's lif...

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Love Warrior

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THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOKCLUB 2016 SELECTION 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS IF SHE REACHED INTO HER HEART, CAPTURED THE RAW ...

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In Real Life

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If there's anyone who knows about the darker side of online dating, it's Nev Schulman. The 29-year-old rose to fame after his documentary Catfish, ...

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Memorial Drive

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'A meditation on race, and class, and grief ... Uplifting, but just wrenching' BARACK OBAMA ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2020 AN INSTANT NE...

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Sound of Moo-Sic!

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About the Author Isadora Rose completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing before embarking on a career as a journalist. Writing under assorted ...

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Cecil Beaton

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About the Author Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the British Royal Family. He has written biogra...

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Last Leonardo

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Product Description In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on fo...

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Unmasked

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From the detective who helped catch the Golden State Killer, a memoir about investigating America's toughest cold cases, and the rewards - and toll...

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Power and Glory: Elizabeth II and the Rebirth of Royalty

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Power and Glory brings us to the dramatic conclusion of Larman's 'Windsors trilogy'. It begins with the fallout from the revelation of the Duke of...

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Death of a Translator

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"I have never read anything that so fully and perfectly captured the personal experience and the personal aftermath of war" P. J. O'Rourke A young...

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Intellectual Devotional Biographies

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Product Description The fifth installment of this best-selling series features 365 captivating entries about the most celebrated personalities...

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The Instant

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island l...

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Birth Notes: A Memoir of Trauma, Motherhood and Recovery

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Leigh Bowery: The Life and Times of an Icon

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Art Heist: 50 Artworks You Will Never See

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Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel

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Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

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Now a major motion picture, The Disaster Artist, starring James Franco, Alison Brie, Zoey Deutch, Lizzy Caplan, Zac Efron, Bryan Cranston, Dave Fra...

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Murder in the Gulag: The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny

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Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for the Real James Brown

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The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

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Panic as Man Burns Crumpets: The Vanishing World of the Local Journalist

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Your Call: What My Listeners Say and Why We Should Take Note

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Angel of the Mountains: The Curious Life of Charly Gaul, Cycling's Forgotten Superstar

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Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art

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Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell

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Sober Mama: Breaking Free from the Bottle: A Woman’s Journey to Sobriety and Practical Tips for Quitting

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Help a Thief!: And Other Misadventures in Punctuation

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The Curious History of Dating: From Jane Austen to Tinder

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Kings & Queens: The Real Lives of the English Monarchs

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The Red Emperor: Xi Jinping and His New China

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Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford (W&N Essentials)

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Base Notes: The Scents of a Life

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The Maverick: George Weidenfeld and the Golden Age of Publishing

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Constructive Clarity: Max Bill and His Time, 1940–1952

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At Home With The Buckleys: Scummy stories and misadventures from modern family life

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My Friend Anna

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*THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2019* *WITH NEW & EXCLUSIVE AFTERWORD* 'Addictive ... a jaw-dropp...

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