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Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

Autobiographies, Biographies & True Stories

  • The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

    Christie Watson
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    Read Costa Award-winning author Christie Watson's incredible No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling memoir of nursing today. 'It made me cry. It made me...

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  • The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story

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    Christie Watson was a nurse for twenty years. Taking us from birth to death and from A and E to the mortuary, The Language of Kindness is an astoni...

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  • The Last Sanctuary in Aleppo: A remarkable true story of courage, hope and survival

    Wordsworth Books
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    From Diana Darke, the acclaimed author of My House in Damascus and The Merchant of Syria, comes the extraordinary true story of a heroic ambulance ...

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  • The last words of Rowan du Preez: Murder and conspiracy on the Cape Flats

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  • The Library of Ice: Readings from a Cold Climate

    Wordsworth Books
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    'A wonderful book: Nancy Campbell is a fine storyteller with a rare physical intelligence. The extraordinary brilliance of her eye confers the read...

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  • The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood (Paperback)

    Bill Bryson
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    Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line, 'I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to.' In this deeply funny and personal memoir...

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  • The Life and Times of Stanley Christodoulou

    Stanley Christodoulou, Graham Clark, David Isaacson
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    On bended knee, he leaned over the stricken boxer and counted him out. When he waved the fight over, there was exactly one second to go in the dram...

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  • The Life of Castruccio Castracani

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    Rising from humble beginnings as a foundling, Castruccio Castracani came to prominence as one of the most powerful and shrewd warlords in Italy. In...

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  • The lion and the thespian: The true story of Prime Minister J.G. Strydom's marriage to the actress Marda Vanne

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  • The Little Book of Bob: Everyday wisdom from Street Cat Bob

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    The new book from James and street cat Bob. 'One thing I've known about Bob from the very beginning is that he possesses a wisdom that is unusual, ...

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    The Little Girl on the Ice Floe

    Adélaïde Bon
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    "Life itself is in these pages: in this candid, poetic style there is storytelling of real quality" - LEILA SLIMANI, author of LullabyA powerful an...

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  • The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

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    'Heads up - here's how to run like a pro' - The Times 'a fascinating book' - Adharanand Finn, author of Running With the Kenyans The Lost Art of...

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  • The Lost Boys: A Family Ripped Apart by War

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    'To say that Catherine Bailey makes history come alive is such a cliche and yet it's so true, she is absolutely one of my favourite writers' Kate A...

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  • The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

    Wordsworth Books
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    **NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure'J...

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  • The Lost Landscape (Paperback)

    Joyce Carol Oates
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    A momentous memoir of childhood and adolescence from one of our finest and most beloved writers, as we've never seen her before. In The L...

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  • The Lost Homestead: My Mother, Partition and the Punjab

    Marina Wheeler
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    'Deeply touching.' - Daily Mail'A personal, sometimes harrowing history of partition... a writer well worth reading.' - The Times'A deeply personal...

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  • The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science

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    'Marcus Chown rocks!' Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever known before? And why is mathematics s...

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  • The Making of Us: Why School Matters

    Clarissa Farr
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    What makes a good education? 'A crucial book of the moment: the best-informed education insider laying out how schools shoul...

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  • The Making of a Detective: A Garda's Story of Investigating Some of Ireland's Most Notorious Crimes

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    When he retired in 2018 Pat Marry had been instrumental in solving dozens of serious crimes, including many murders.But as a newly qualified garda ...

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  • The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story

    Serhii Plokhy
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    1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the ...

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  • The man with the black dog: A true modern-day Jock of the Bushveld

    Wordsworth Books
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  • The man who founded the ANC: A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

    Bongani Ngqulunga
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  • The Man Who Ate the Zoo: Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history

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    Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man - surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator, and a conservationist b...

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  • The Man Who Was Saturday: The Extraordinary Life of Airey Neave

    Patrick Bishop
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    SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN - Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his...

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