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By: Vicky Jaggers

ISBN: 9780340976777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The first inspirational memoir by a victim of sibling rape - this is the harrowing account of a little girl who was sexually abused by the older brother she adored, and became pregnant with his baby at just twelve years old.


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By: Simon Weston

ISBN: 9780749950200
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 27th May 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In Moving On, Falklands hero Simon Weston continues his bestselling, inspirational story.


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By: Xinran

ISBN: 9780099461937
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2005
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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As a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her.


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By: Catherine Townsend

ISBN: 9780719563515
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: John Murray Press
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Threesomes, sorbet sex, drunk dialling, multiple orgasms, girly gossip-swaps, buying silk underwear - welcome to dating the modern girl's way.


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By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

ISBN: 9780330484053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2003
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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This revealing autobiography illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a personal insight into the life of the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.


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By: Simon Woolley

ISBN: 9781786581204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
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Can an outsider ever become a member of the establishment


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By: Jay Morton

ISBN: 9780008418182
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.


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By: Mike Jackson

ISBN: 9780552156028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 19th May 2008
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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General Sir Mike Jackson's illustrious career in the British Army has spanned almost 45 years and all that time he has shown loyalty, courage and commitment to the British army whilst also being an undeniable media attraction. This autobiography exhibits his professionalism, his honesty, his directness, his exuberance and his sense of humour.


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By: Robert Douglas

ISBN: 9780340898444
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2007
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2007
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The next chapter in Robert Douglas's remarkable life story picks up from the bestselling NIGHT SONG OF THE LAST TRAM but can be read on its own


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By: Sir John Lister-Kaye

ISBN: 9780349117614
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* A lyrical memoir from Highland naturalist John Lister-Kaye, founder of the famous Aigas Field Centre, this is old-fashioned nature writing at its very best.


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By: Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN: 9781857151886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
UK Publication Date: 29th March 1999
Publisher: Everyman
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An autobiographical volume which recounts the story of Nabokov's first forty years up to his departure from Europe for America at the outset of World War Two. Written in this writer's characteristically brilliant, mordant style, this book is also a tender record of lost childhood and youth in pre-Revolutionary Russia.


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By: Paul O'Grady

ISBN: 9780857501028
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 25th April 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

'Funny, forthright and sharp as a knife . I would expect nothing less from the fabulously honest Paul O'Grady.' *****

'He writes as he speaks, entirely from the heart .


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By: Jason Padgett

ISBN: 9780755364602
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th February 2015
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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The extraordinary story of how Jason Padgett was transformed from an aimless thirty-two-year old to a mathematical genius following a vicious mugging outside a karaoke bar.


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By: Laurie Lee

ISBN: 9781784872922
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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How do you remember the summers of your childhood For Laurie Lee they were flower-crested, heady, endless days. Here is an evocation of summer like no other - a remote valley filled with the scent of hay, jazzing wasps, blackberries plucked and gobbled, and games played until the last drop of dusk.


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By: Joseph O'Connor

ISBN: 9780099532453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Joseph O'Connor's love affair with all things American led to an extraordinary tour of the United States to visit the nine different towns called Dublin, as well as some of the great cities and tiny hamlets in between.


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By: Tim Parks

ISBN: 9780099548881
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th July 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A revelatory read with delightful cultural and literary references, Teach us to Sit Still by Booker-shortlisted author Tim Parks examines how the philosophy of 'sit still, relax and stop worrying' can be profoundly life-altering.

Teach us to Sit Still made me laugh;


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By: Frank McCourt

ISBN: 9780007173990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2007
UK Publication Date: 4th September 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A third memoir from the author of the huge international bestsellers Angelas Ashes and Tis. In Teacher Man, Frank McCourt details his illustrious, amusing, and sometimes rather bumpy long years as an English teacher in the public high schools of New York City


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By: Sunita Puri

ISBN: 9781472131331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The beautifully written, evocative memoir of a palliative care doctor.


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By: Ben Fogle

ISBN: 9780552165785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 24th May 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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He has encountered isolated tribes in deepest Papua New Guinea, caused a Boeing 747 to dump 100k of fuel before making an emergency landing in Sao Paolo, and frequently been mistaken for Prince William along the way.

So how did a cripplingly shy, geeky, perennially homesick boy end up doing all this


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By: Ben Fogle

ISBN: 9780552165808
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th February 2013
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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For as long as he can remember, Ben Fogle has been surrounded by creatures great and small. As a young boy his best friends were Liberty and Lexington, the family dogs. This title tells the true stories of his amazing encounters with animals and how they changed his life.


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By: Jim Bradford

ISBN: 9780785216209
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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The Awakening of HK Derryberry is the inspiring story of how one man was willing to step out of his upper middle-class world into the life of a young, disabled boy with a dismal future. Little did Jim Bradford know the transformational potential of that friendship---for HK and himself.


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By: Lee Sansum

ISBN: 9781841885407
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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The fascinating true story of the real bodyguard who has protected the most famous woman in the world, Princess Diana.


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By: William Kamkwamba

ISBN: 9780007316199
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURED DIRECTED BY AND STARRING CHIWETEL EJIOFOR AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX


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By: William Horwood

ISBN: 9780755313181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2005
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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By the author of the bestselling Duncton Wood chronicles, William Horwood's THE BOY WITH NO SHOES is an imaginative memoir of exceptional power, destined to make literary history

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