Biography: general

The Book of Gutsy Women: Favourite Stories of Courage and Resilience [9781471166990]

She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and …

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Jo Malone: My Story [9781471143007]

Jo Malone is the inspirational British businesswoman responsible for creating her globally renowned beauty business and, more recently, her new brand …

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Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas [9781529018585]

From the author of record-breaking million copy bestseller and 2018 Book of the Year, This is Going to Hurt Christmas is coming, the goose is getting…

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PRIVATE EYE: THE 60 YEARBOOK [9781901784695]

Private Eye: The 60 Yearbook is a history of the last 60 years, as seen by Britain's first, most successful and indeed only fortnightly satirical maga…

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May at 10 [9781785905179]

Theresa May has presided over the most dramatic and historic peacetime premiership for a century. May at 10 tells the compelling inside story of the m…

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Philip - The Final Portrait [9781444769579]

This is the story of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – the longest-serving consort to the longest-reigning sovereign in British history. It is …

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The Durrells of Corfu [9781781257883]

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals and its ITV adaptation, The Durrells. But what of the real life Du…

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Limitless: The Autobiography [9781529125573]

The thrilling autobiography of the astronaut who inspired a generation.  The #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this planet Earth? and Ask a…

Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation [9780349143934]

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal memoir that finds light and love in t…

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My Diarrhe [9781471172069]

The `leaked' diary of YouTube comedic personality Miranda Sings, taped together so the world can read all about her life through her eyes - including …

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Galaxy of Her Own, A: Amazing Stories of Women in Space [9781780898360]

From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in sp…

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Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel [9781408880418]

The definitive biography of Sylvia Pankhurst, a woman ahead of her times - political rebel, human rights champion and radical feminist. Born into one…

Beth Chatto: A life with plants [9781910258828]

Beth Chatto is one of the most influential gardeners in our history. This extraordinary person will touch generations of gardeners to come. Gardeners …

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The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives [9780241434505]

Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals.…

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Lost Without You: Loving and Losing Tanya [9781841884172]

'It's like no pain I've ever known. She was my soulmate. She was everything to me... The enormity of it all hit me hardest when I saw the world contin…

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Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of Spacex and Tesla is Shaping Our Future [9780753555644]

The New York Times bestseller. South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Mu…

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Can You Hear Me?: A Paramedic's Encounters with Life and Death [9781529404289]

A memoir of the chaos, intensity and occasional beauty of life as a paramedic.A young man has stopped breathing in a supermarket toilet. A pedestrian …

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Hidden Valley Road [9781787473805]

The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hop…

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Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain [9781408837481]

The enthralling Sunday Times-bestselling biography of the shepherd boy who changed the world with his revolutionary engineering and whose genius we st…

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...And What Do You Do?: What the royal family don't want you to know [9781785906213]

The royal family is the original Coronation Street - a long-running soap opera with the occasional real coronation thrown in. Its members have become…

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