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A Higher Loyalty
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James Comey
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Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls
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Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different
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Uncommon People
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Jane Austen at Home
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Silence
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Erling Kagge
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A Higher Loyalty
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Adam Kay
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The Cost of Living
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A Spy Named Orphan
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads
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In Byron's Wake
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Miranda Seymour
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A Normal Family
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Wallis in Love
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Andrew Morton
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MI5 and Me
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Living with Leonardo
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Martin Kemp
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Debussy
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Year of the Mad King
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The Century Girls
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Tessa Dunlop
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Rise Up Women!
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Diane Atkinson
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Deeds Not Words
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Helen Pankhurst
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Votes For Women!
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Jenni Murray
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A Lab of One's Own
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Patricia Fara
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Hearts And Minds
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Jane Robinson
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The Suffragettes
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Jane Austen at Home
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Lucy Worsley
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Balancing Acts
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Nicholas Hytner
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Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8
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Naoki Higashida
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Because We Are Bad
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Lily Bailey
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In the Days of Rain
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Citizen Clem
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John Bew
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The Duchess
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Penny Junor
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Some Sunny Day
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Madge Lambert
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John le Carré
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Lines in the Sand
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Hunter Davies
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Pour Me
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Adrian Gill
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I Am Malala
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Malala Yousafzai
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A Long Way from Home
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Cathy Glass
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Maya Angelou
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The Durrells of Corfu
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Michael Haag
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Lucy Worsley
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On the Front Line with the Women Who Fight Back
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To Throw Away Unopened
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Viv Albertine
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Unmasked
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Cordially Invited
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Zoe Sugg (aka Zoella)
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Born A Crime
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Trevor Noah
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Nigel
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Monty Don
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The Duke in His Domain
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Truman Capote
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Coal Black Mornings
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Brett Anderson
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Frida Kahlo
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Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Me. You. A Diary
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Dawn French
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Coco Chanel
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Isabel Sanchez Vegara
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Only Fools and Stories
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David Jason
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The Maddie Diaries
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Maddie Ziegler
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Gone
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Min Kym
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Pour Me
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Adrian Gill
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Rosie
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Rose Tremain
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Jane Austen at Home
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Lucy Worsley
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The Cost of Living
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Deborah Levy
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Keeping On Keeping On
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Alan Bennett
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I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
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Maya Angelou
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Packing My Library
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Alberto Manguel
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The Pigeon Tunnel
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John le Carré
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Letter to My Mother
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Georges Simenon
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Take Courage
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Samantha Ellis
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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George Orwell
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Left Bank
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Agnes Poirier
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On Writing
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Stephen King
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A Life in the Day
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Hunter Davies
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Boy
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Roald Dahl
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White Girls
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Hilton Als
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In Byron's Wake
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Miranda Seymour
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When I Hit You
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Meena Kandasamy
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A Sporting Life

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The Girl on the Dancing Horse
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Charlotte Dujardin
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Over and Out
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Henry Blofeld
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Tiger Woods
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Jeff Benedict
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Ronaldo
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Matt Oldfield
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How to Build a Car
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How to Build a Car
Adrian Newey
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Messi
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Tom Oldfield
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Klopp: Bring the Noise
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Raphael Honigstein
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In the Line of Fire
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Warren Gatland
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Road Racer
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Michael Dunlop
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Jenson Button: Life to the Limit
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Jenson Button
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Gambling For Life
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Harry Findlay
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The Boy on the Shed
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Paul Ferris
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Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late
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Oliver Holt
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Neymar
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Tom Oldfield
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Brave New World
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Guillem Balague
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No Nonsense
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Joey Barton
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Living With Dementia: A Q&A with Wendy Mitchell

Living With Dementia: A Q&A with Wendy Mitchell

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Tara Westover Recommends Four Inspirational Memoirs

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No Mortal Enemy: The Mannix Manifesto

No Mortal Enemy: The Mannix Manifesto

"I am on a mission. It’s time to re-claim public understanding of dying."