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By: Wendy Moore
ISBN: 9780553816181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2006
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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WINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005
Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London.
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By: Stephen Westaby
ISBN: 9780008285791
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2020
UK Publication Date: 6th February 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A TIMES BEST BOOK OF 2019
An intimate and compelling exploration into the unique psyche of the heart surgeon, by one of the professions most eminent figures.
(Hardback)
By: Amy Looney Heffernan
ISBN: 9781546085232
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Three Gold Star women, linked forever by unimaginable loss, share their inspiring, unlikely journey that began on the worst day of their lives.
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By: A J Jacobs
ISBN: 9780099481744
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2006
Publisher: Cornerstone
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While others might take to reading a broadsheet at the weekend, Jacobs chose to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Bill Bryson meets Schott's Original Miscellany meets Woody Allen. Part assemblage of fascinating trivia, part journey through adulthood, all laugh-out-loud funny.
(Paperback)
By: Chris Lambrianou
ISBN: 9781509829019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A gripping insider's account of the Kray twins, their reign of fear and their downfall.
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By: Alison Weir
ISBN: 9780712640176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 3rd June 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On 2 May, 1536, in an act unprecedented in English history, Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second wife, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Did Cromwell, for reasons of his own, construct a case against Anne and her faction, and then present compelling evidence before the King
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By: Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781861971227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 18th March 1999
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The story of an eccentric - or perhaps two.
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By: Sarah Ramey
ISBN: 9781844087242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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What Elizabeth Wurtzel did for depression, what Dave Eggers did for bereavement, Sarah Ramey does for women's health.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Ramey
ISBN: 9780708898857
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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What Elizabeth Wurtzel did for depression, what Dave Eggers did for bereavement, Sarah Ramey does for women's health.
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By: Rosina Harrison
ISBN: 9780091943516
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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A fascinating look at the life of a lady's maid, and her spirited employer, in the first half of the twentieth century
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By: Sir Andrew Motion
ISBN: 9780571346653
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Newly jacketed reissue of Motion's award-winning biography of this high-achieving yet tragically self-destructive family.
(Hardback)
By: David B. Woolner
ISBN: 9780465048717
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Basic Books
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A revealing portrait of the end of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's life and presidency, shedding new light on how he made his momentous final policy decisions
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By: Cathy Rentzenbrink
ISBN: 9781447286394
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A powerful, timely and incredibly moving memoir in the bestselling tradition of Blake Morrison, Joan Didion and Ruth Picardie.
(Hardback)
By: Sarah Kendzior
ISBN: 9781250879882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2025
Publisher: Flatiron Books
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The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her family embark on a series of road trips, in a book that is part memoir, part history, and wholly unique.
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By: Dennis Hunter
ISBN: 9781098374549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: BookBaby
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(Paperback)
By: Barbara Taylor
ISBN: 9780241951828
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents a memoir of a young historian, who was admitted in England's largest psychiatric institution, Colney Hatch Lunatic Asylum, later known as Friern Hospital. This memoir tells the story of author's madness years, set inside the wider story of the death of the asylum system in the twentieth century.
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By: Iris Origo
ISBN: 9781782272670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A detailed and engrossing account of the last - and arguably most intense - love affair of one of the greatest British poets
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By: George Johnny Johnson MBE
ISBN: 9780091957759
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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He recalls with unique wit and insight the difficult training conducted in secrecy, the race against time to release the bombs, and the sheer strength and bravery shown by a small unit faced with great adversity and uncertainty.
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By: Chris Stewart
ISBN: 9781908745439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2014
Publisher: Sort of Books
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Part Four of the million-selling Driving Over Lemons series.
(Hardback)
By: Ali Millar
ISBN: 9781529109528
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Ali Millar
ISBN: 9781529197273
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Alan Clark
ISBN: 9780753816950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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'With his Diaries, he has written himself into the life of our times with a panache and candour that ranks him next to Boswell or Pepys' The Times
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By: Cynthia A. Branigan
ISBN: 9781101871959
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)
By: Hannah Pakula
ISBN: 9780753828021
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China.
