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These are Anthony Burgess's candid confessions: he was seduced at the age of nine by an older woman; Little Wilson and Big God moves from Moss Side to Malaya recalling Burgess's time as an education officer in the tropics, his tempestuous first marriage, his struggles with Catholicism and the beginning of his prolific writing life.

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In fact, she believes that the challenges she has faced have played an essential part in making her the ground-breaking medium she is today.

In this compelling book, Tracy Higgs - known affectionately by her fans as TJ - shares her story as well as heart-warming true tales from the afterlife.

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A personal journey into Africa's past.

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An extraordinary memoir from a man in his nineties who remembers everyday life in a North London now long gone: the hardships and deprivations of a life of poverty but also the resourcefulness and fortitude of a community determined to survive between the wars.

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From the time he was three or four, John Elder Robison realised that he was different from other people. He was unable to make eye contact or connect with other children, much to his distress, and by the time he was a teenager his odd habits, such as a tendency to blurt out non sequiturs, had earned him the label 'social deviant'.

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As he came to terms with his injury, treatment and rehabilitation, Tim faced an entirely new life, in which suddenly many of life's simplest tasks became monumental challenges.

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Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Looking back from the 1970s, Isherwood recreated these years from personal memories to form a remarkably honest mixture of private and social history.

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As a teenage Catholic virgin, Joan Wyndham spent her days trying to remain pure and unsullied and her nights trying to stay alive. Huddled in the air-raid shelter, she wrote secretly and obsessively about the strange yet exhilarating times she was living through, sure that this was ' the happiest time of my life'.

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In this lyrical sequel to the best selling memoir First They Killed My Father, Ung describes her school years in Vermont as a Cambodian refugee, and her sister Chou's struggle to survive in Cambodia. Set as a VCE text.

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After a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life.

Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show Martha true love and affection.

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An enthralling tale of modern Manchester, told by a writer and journalist who has spent four decades reporting on the movers and the shakers of this unique city, from council leader Sir Richard Leese to Sir Alex Ferguson and Tony Wilson.

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'Max knows more secrets of the rich and famous than anyone in the world'
Piers Morgan

Max Clifford is the media guru everyone calls when they want to know about a celebrity story or a celebrity's relationship with the media. What is less known is the other side to Max: the stories he keeps out of the papers;

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This volume collects many outstanding pieces of memoir that first appeared in the LRBs pages.

Here, Lorna Sage remembers growing up with her grandfather during the Second World War, Jenny Diski imagines her own burial, and Hilary Mantel tackles a strongman on her hospital bed.

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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).

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* The extraordinary roller-coaster story of Anne Robinson's life from alcoholism and a vicious custody battle for her daughter - which haunts her to this day - to her triumphant fight back.
* A brave and remarkable book by a woman at the height of her career.

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The fascinating recollections of one of the most controversial scientists of the nuclear age

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Ten chapters, ten women and many stories of heartbreak, including her own: Xinran once again takes us right into the lives of Chinese women and their lost daughters.

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Howard Dully was 12 years old when he was given a lobotomy. Expelled from the mainstream medical community, his once-popular procedure now a grisly medical relic, Dr Walter Freeman was eager to turn this temperamental 12-year-old into a submissive boy - especially after hearing the terrible lies his stepmother told about him.

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Lotta Dann should have it all sorted. She's quit a dysfunctional drinking habit, has written a bestselling memoir and has launched a website to help others get sober. Life should be sweet, right Wrong.

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The irrepressibly entertaining Jacki Weaver writes generously and wittily on her life, her loves and her passions.

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But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water

This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods.

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