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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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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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'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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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…
Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout her career she endured…
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Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Throughout the course of her career…
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John Burnside's extraordinary story of this failed relationship is a beautifully written evocation of a lost and damaged…
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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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Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his…
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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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Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of…
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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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Almost single-handedly, Seve gave European golf credibility; He played a leading role in the re-emergence of European golf,…
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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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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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He shows us the famous people with epilepsy like Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc and Vincent van Gogh, the pioneering doctors…
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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 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone…
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\'Entertaining...revealing, shocking\' BERNARDINE EVARISTO\'Sublime\' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMSActor and director Zawe Ashton…
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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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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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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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Glorious' Emma Thompson 'Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.' First published in 1955…
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John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his…
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Hailed as both the 'black Moses' and merely 'a Negro with a hat', he masterminded the first International Convention of the…
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The sequel to the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs TonightBorn in England and uprooted to southern Africa as a toddler…
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Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend…
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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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Acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy who became the patron saint of English…
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Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine…
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Fascinated both by Laroche and the world she uncovered of orchid collectors and growers, she stayed on, to write this…
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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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Voted the most popular Italian sportsman of the twentieth century, Fausto Angelo Coppi was the campionissimo - champion of…
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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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Blood, Bones & Butter follows the chef Gabrielle Hamilton's extraordinary journey through the places she has inhabited over…
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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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In the last year of the old millennium, Richard Mabey, Britain's foremost nature writer, fell into a severe depression.…
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What sacrifices must a cyclist make to reach the highest levels? How does it feel to be constantly on the road, away from…
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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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In this series of moving recollections involving both his childhood and his work as a mature artist, John Fowles explains…
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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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The Orientalist unravels the mysterious life of a man born on the border between West and East, a Jewish man with a passion…
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