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Tales from a Fully Packed Life

Alan Cumming

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Born in the USA

Barack Obama

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Justine Picardie

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Rebecca Solnit

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Changing the World

Claire Tomalin

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Nadia Wassef

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Ai Weiwei

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Laurie Woolever

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Huma Abedin

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Jonathan Alter

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The Spirit of a Scholar

William Barker

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Deborah Feldman

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Rodrigo Garcia

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Kati Marton

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David Michaelis

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My Autobiography

Captain Tom Moore

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Pablo Neruda

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Seamas O'Reilly

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James Patterson

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Alberto Prunetti

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Rose Sgueglia

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FRANK SHOVLIN

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Hwang Sok-Yong

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Angel Strawbridge

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Louis Theroux

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An Experimental Life

Richard Zenith

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Philby in Beirut

James Hanning

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The Nazis Knew My Name

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Magda Hellinger

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Martha Ackmann

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Leanne Benjamin

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A Man Of Our Time

Richard Bradford

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Promising Lives Cut Short

William D. Cohan

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Andrew Cotter

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Lily Ebert

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A Black spirit memoir

Akwaeke Emezi

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Rough Trade Book of the Year

Bobby Gillespie

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Tales of Life and Music

Dave Grohl

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A Nature Diary

Melissa Harrison

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Alice Hattrick

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Tim Heath

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Bette Howland

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Linda Bostroem Knausgard

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Fran Lebowitz

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The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree

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Nice Leng'ete

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Nina Mingya Powles

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An Encounter

Jay Parini

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The Lives of Lee Miller

Antony Penrose

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Still Standing

What I've learnt from a life lived...

Jessica Quinn

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The Seven Ages of Death

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Richard Shepherd

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She's a Rainbow

The Extraordinary Life of Anita...

Simon Wells

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Josh Widdicombe

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The Man in the Red Coat

Julian Barnes

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Oh, What a Lovely Century

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Roderic Fenwick Owen

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His Life and Times

Alexander Lee

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Jerry Seinfeld

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Sasha Abramsky

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The Gambler

Tom Bower

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Francesca Cartier Brickell

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Elinor Burkett

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Letters for a New Century

Elizabeth Filippouli

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Lost and Found between Christianity...

Giles Fraser

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On Love and Tyranny

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Ann Heberlein

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Better To Have Gone

Love, Death and the Quest for Utopia...

Akash Kapur

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The Twins of Auschwitz

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Eva Mozes Kor

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The Director

My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover...

Paul Letersky

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Varying Degrees of Success

A Memoir 1992-2020

David Lodge

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Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

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Abbas Nazari

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Svenja O'Donnell

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My Mess Is a Bit of a Life

Adventures in Anxiety

Georgia Pritchett

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I Belong Here

A Journey Along the Backbone of...

Anita Sethi

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Michael Vatikiotis

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Billy Wilder

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The Ascent of D H Lawrence

Frances Wilson

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Henry 'Chips' Channon

The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38...

Henry Channon

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Escape from Manus

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Jaivet Ealom

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The Countess from Kirribilli

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Joyce Morgan

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The Keeper of Miracles

Phillip Maisel

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Two Hitlers and a Marilyn

An autograph hunter's escape from...

Adam Andrusier

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Dark, Salt, Clear

Life in a Cornish Fishing Town

Lamorna Ash

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Into the Deep

A Memoir From the Man Who Found...

Robert D. Ballard

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Places of Mind

A Life of Edward Said

Timothy Brennan

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You Are Your Best Thing

Vulnerability, Shame Resilience...

Tarana Burke

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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym

Paula Byrne

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Keir Starmer

The Unauthorised Biography

Nigel Cawthorne

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The Unfit Heiress

The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization...

Audrey Clare Farley

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Somebody's Daughter

Ashley C Ford

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A Life as Art

Blake Gopnik

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Hannah Arendt

Samantha Rose Hill

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If In Doubt, Wash Your Hair

A Manual for Life

Anya Hindmarch

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Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism

A Biography

Mark Hussey

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Larry Loftis

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In the Wee Small Hours

Tony Oppedisano

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Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's...

Mary L. Trump

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The Biography

Blake Bailey

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Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz

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Gail Crowther

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Malice in Wonderland

My Adventures in the World of Cecil...

Hugo Vickers

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Man Enough

Undefining My Masculinity

Justin Baldoni

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Radical Wordsworth

The Poet Who Changed the World

Jonathan Bate

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Clairvoyant of the Small

The Life of Robert Walser

Susan Bernofsky

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Women Who Ruled, from Ancient Egypt...

Abbeville Press

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Just Ignore Him

Alan Davies

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Desire

A Memoir

Jonathan Dollimore

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Love Letters of Kings and Queens

Daniel Smith

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A Biography: Death, Dante and Lord...

Colin Duriez

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Our House is on Fire

Scenes of a Family and a Planet...

Malena Ernman

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The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film...

Jonathan Gill

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A Doctor's Story

Sophie Harrison

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A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

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I Am A Girl From Africa

Elizabeth Nyamayaro

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Life in Progress

Jacqueline Riding

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Andre Leon Talley

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Leading With Empathy

Supriya Vani

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The Wild Silence

Raynor Winn

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One Day a Year

2001-2011

Christa Wolf

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The Subversive Simone Weil

A Life in Five Ideas

Robert Zaretsky

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Broken

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Jenny Lawson

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Elizabeth & Margaret

The Intimate World of the Windsor...

Andrew Morton

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Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail...

Philippe Sands

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One family, two wars and the search...

Meriel Schindler

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Billie Eilish

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The Wars of Isi Leibler

Suzanne D. Rutland

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An Intellectual Biography

Michele Alacevich

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The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power...

Rod Barton

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In Search of Doris Duke

Sallie Bingham

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F*ck It, I'll Start Tomorrow

A True Story

Action Bronson

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Taking on Gravity

A Guide to Inventing the Impossible...

Richard Browning

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Childhood, Youth, Dependency

The Copenhagen Trilogy

Tove Ditlevsen

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The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century...

Hadley Freeman

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Siggi B. Wilzig's Astonishing Journey...

Joshua Greene

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Deborah Levy

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Thinking Again

Jan Morris

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Seth Rogen

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Tales from my ten-year-old life...

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