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Chronicles bureaucratic control over everything from the press to people's clothing in wartime Japan. This diary traces the gradual disintegration of Japan's war effort and the looming certainty of defeat.

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Bradlee offers this frank, funny, inspiring memoir of growing up with developmental and learning disabilities as well as his famously accomplished parents--a "Washington Post" editor and bestselling author. Illustrations throughout.

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Surprising Matron as well as herself, Evelyn Prentis managed to pass her Finals and become a staff-nurse. Encouraged, she took the brave leap of moving from Nottingham to London. This title offers an account of a nurse in action, that shows a nurse's life would always revolve around the comforting discomfort of porridge and rissoles, and bandages.

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'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me.' - Small ad in the New York Review of Books

Jane Juska placed her ad in the New York Times and the response was overwhelming.

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The rest is history - Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm - but a history that until now has been known only on the surface.

A Soldier's Way is the powerful story of a life well lived and well told.

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Explorer, novelist, writer and film-maker, Sir Laurens van der Post was one of the most influential figures of our era. Here, in conversation with Jean-Marc Pottiez, he records his ideas and insights into a wide range of issues and personalities, forged by a lifetime of vast experiences and challenges.

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An extraordinary, perceptive memoir of Spain and Mallorca by the daughter of the classic English poet, Robert Graves. As a child, Lucia Graves grew up near the beautiful mountain village of Deja on the island of Mallorca. Neither Spanish, Catallan nor Catholic by birth, she nevertheless absorbed the different myths and languages of her homeland.

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In her funny and disarmingly candid voice, Brisbane-born porn star Monica Mayhem reveals the ins and outs of making it big in Los Angeles, the pornography capital of the world. Absolute Mayhem lifts the lid on the sex, rock and mayhem of Monica's truly extraordinary professional life - and unveils the private person behind it all.

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Scottish aristocrat, rebellious youth, expert horseman, MP and poet - beneath the image of rake and hellraiser, Gordon remained a frustated conservative. A flawed hero, he was acclaimed as Australia's National Poet in 1933. Hutton examines him as a man and a poet against his culture and his times.

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He was our abusive father.
We were just children.
No one could know.

Heidi was 18 when she read her little sister Chloes diary, and discovered that they shared a terrible secret: they had both been abused by their father.

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The vivid and touching sequel to the bestselling memoir "Too Close to the Falls"--an irresistible account of one girl's coming of age during a tumultuous era and the moving tale of a rebellious spirit learning what it means to be a daughter.

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What is it about air travel that brings out the craziest, rudest and most ridiculous side of human nature

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Alek Wek, supermodel, campaigner, spokesperson and entrepreneur, tells her amazing story, from war-torn Sudan to the catwalks of London, Paris and New York

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A memoir of growing up Catholic in Northern Ireland.

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Growing up, Kelly Denley had dreamed of the perfect family, and of being a perfect mum. But as the mother of eight descovered, almost perfect was actually perfect enough. This is the story of how she turned her life around, and stopped her family from falling apart. Australian author.

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The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

No strangers to the demon booze, her parents were deeply involved in a passionate relationship that rose to exciting highs and plunged to terrible and often frightening lows.

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To his relief and surprise, however, Preece was fully acquitted by the court.

Amongst the Marines is an unflinching expos of the culture of the Marines, from foul practical jokes and rough justice to the off-duty orgies of drink, sex and violence.

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Previously published in hardcover by Dutton, 2013.

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More true stories from a Suffolk country estate

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Peter Somerville-Large grew up with his brother Phil in a nursery world at the top of a smart house in Dublin. This biography takes the reader back to the sensations and excitements of children, and paints a picture of a world at once so recent and yet now vanished.

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Picture the perfect family
Now forget it & read this.

An achingly funny novel on modern motherhood and married life, as told through the e-mail correspondence of two sisters.

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A heart-breaking, gripping, authentic, life-affirming true story for our times from the last survivor to be pulled out alive from under the wreckage of the North Tower of the World Trade Centre.