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Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with…
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At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, …
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Diego Armando Maradona: hero or villain? One thing is certain: he was the greatest footballer of his generation - and perhaps of all time. A poor boy from a Buenos Aires shanty-town, his genius…
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'Monk's energetic enterprise is remarkable for the interweaving of the philosophical and the emotional aspects of Wittgenstein's life' Sunday Times 'Ray Monk's reconnection of Wittgenstein's…
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This is the paperback edition of the intimate final memoirs from the great dissident-turned-politician who, along with Walesa and Gorbachev, will always be an icon of the magnificent, bloodless…
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National Bestseller Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwins…
John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BENJAMIN MARKOVITSIn 1845 Thoreau, a Harvard-educated 28-year-old, went to live by himself in the…
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Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout her career she endured…
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The first full and intimate biography of writer and bon viveur Sybille Bedford. Born in Germany to aristocratic parents,…
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The inspirational story of athlete Jo Pavey, the runner and mum who ran at a record-breaking fifth Olympic Games at Rio…
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In 1966 Will Cohu's grandparents moved to Bramble Carr, a remote cottage on the Yorkshire moors.Navigating family tensions…
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Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful…
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This is a memoir of romance - of lost love and the love of being lost - darkened by threat, illuminated by glamour. Implicit…
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The Man Within tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. She…
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How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands? Startling and honest, her account combines a fierce sense of human…
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JULIET NICOLSONVita Sackville-West was an extraordinary woman from a long line of extraordinary…
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Have you ever kept a diary? This is the diary of a young girl growing up in sixties America - an honest account of teenage…
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Stuart Heritage got where he is today by being decent, thoughtful, hardworking and kind. sons, fathers, fatherhood, sibling…
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In early 2014, after many years living abroad, Sam Miller returned to his childhood home in London.In the months after his…
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A divine, meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness.'An essential - urgent - book for the…
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Ruth's tribe are her lively children and her filmmaker husband, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease and can only…
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Anne Bronte is the forgotten Bronte sister, overshadowed by her older siblings - virtuous, successful Charlotte,…
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Before her death in 2002, Mary Wesley told her biographer Patrick Marnham: 'after I met Eric I never looked at anyone else…
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In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd…
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When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unravelling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a…
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One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.…
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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of…
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Knife-edge decisions, adrenalin rushes, extreme weather, bitter rivalries, heart-stopping races - they are all in a day's…
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When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. To…
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west…
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In 1987 Stephen Roche touched greatnessIn June he won the Giro d'Italia, fighting a ferocious battle against not only his…
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`An extraordinary book of real passionate research' Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for…
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Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvian Andes. He and his…
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In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains…
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As mother to tennis champions Jamie and Andy Murray, Scottish National Coach, coach of the Fed Cup, and general all-round…
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A brilliant and unique biography of Andy Warhol\'s tragic muse, the 60s icon Edie Sedgwick\'Exceptionally seductive... You…
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** BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week **Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very…
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WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDA poignant and moving account of the author's search for the man his…
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Winner of the 2014 Duff Cooper PrizeWinner of the 2015 Welsh Book of the Year AwardShortlisted for the 2015 James Tait Black…
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The greatest sports stars characterise their times. Tim Adams sets out to explore what it might have meant to be John…
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EDITED BY JOANNE TRAUTMANN BANKS, WITH A PREFACE BY HERMIONE LEEThe finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters…
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The heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and…
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKEReading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've…
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`The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but `a frail barrier that men crossed,…
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'She'd been intimately his, and he hers, for twenty-seven years - which were his final…
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