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By: Sally Brampton

ISBN: 9781408897911
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 8th February 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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: 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: Lorenzo Carcaterra

ISBN: 9780099628712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1996
UK Publication Date: 4th April 1996
Publisher: Cornerstone
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An unforgettable true story of friendship, loyalty and revenge, set against the unmistakable backdrop of New York City

They were four boys who shared everything - the laughter and bruises of an impoverished upbringing in New York's West Side.


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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: 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: 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: Andrew Crofts

ISBN: 9780099517726
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2007
Publisher: Cornerstone
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At just six years old Tom Wilson fell prey to a predator of the worst sort. David Murphy was supposed to be his carer, instead he lifted his victims from their beds in the dead of night, and Tom was powerless to stop it.

Tom endured years of horrific abuse which led to years of silence and self-torture.


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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: James Carnac

ISBN: 9780552165396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2012
UK Publication Date: 11th October 2012
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
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A memoir that appears to have been written in the 1920s by someone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper. Given the fact that the author also appear to have knowledge about aspects of the case not in the public arena at the time it could be that this actually is the autobiography of Jack the Ripper.


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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: 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: Jon Edwards

ISBN: 9780099558248
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2013
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Brought up as female for fifteen years, Jon can remember feeling different from other girls since he was only five years old.


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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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By: Juliet Barker

ISBN: 9780349122427
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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* Abacus reissue of Juliet Barker's unrivalled biography of the Bronte sisters, revised for this edition


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By: Lisa Lynch

ISBN: 9781784750473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Updated with new material, The C Word is the incredibly moving, darkly humorous account of one woman's fight against breast cancer.

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