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Bringing together author's speeches, thoughtful journalism and passionate advocacy of often unconventional causes, this book showcases his powers of original thinking and communication over the decades.

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At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait.

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Recently discovered among private papers and published here for the first time in any language, this extraordinary reminiscence is a deeply moving addition to the literature of the terrible war that defined the shape of the twentieth century.

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The true story of one British child's journey from Nazi-occupied Guernsey to a German prison camp.

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A moving testament of a decent if sometimes deluded man struggling to do the right thing in a depraved world.

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Evelyn was a scholar, a scientific amateur, a garden designer and architect, and a founder member of the Royal Society who published a magisterial book about trees, Sylva, and many pamphlets on assorted subjects. This work is a vivid portrait of the social, personal and political life of a society in ferment by one of its major players.

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On 11 September 2001, in a caf in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed.

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"Originally published in Japanese as Shirahata no shaojo by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, 1989"--Title page verso.

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For eight groundbreaking years, Xinran presented a radio programme in China during which she invited women to call in and talk about themselves.

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A riveting story of two families separated in culture and geography but bound together by a Russian-Scottish marriage.

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The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.

Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life.

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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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'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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He wined and dined in nightclubs as part of the generation that lived for each day because they might not see another.

This extraordinary true story, partly based on previously unpublished diaries, presents a different slant on that mighty war through the eyes of a restless young man eager for action and adventure.

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The Letters Project is about big history, the Holocaust, but it is also an extraordinarily intimate personal narrativea rare blend of informative, poignant, excruciating, startling, humorous, and ultimately inspiring storytelling.

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Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award, best memoir by a Parliamentarian, 2016

From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster, Alan Johnsons multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey, almost unimaginable in todays Britain.

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The ultimate story of human endurance, over 4,000 miles on foot escaping from a Soviet gulag in Siberia, across the Gobi Desert in China, over the Himalayas and through Tibet into India.

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At the age of only 36, Sir Mark Sykes was signatory to the Sykes-Picot agreement, one of the most reviled treaties of modern times. A century later, Christopher Sykes lively biography of his grandfather reassesses his life and work, and the political instability and violence in the Middle East attributed to it.

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During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax.

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Taking her cue from a challenge thrown to her at a reading, the author energetically responds to those who say fiction has nothing to teach us today. She tells the story of a country where the villains are conformity, and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.

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The Shoemaker and His Daughter is an epic story spanning the Second World War to the fall of the Soviet Union, taking in eighty years of Soviet and Russian history, from Stalin to Putin.

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'The People's War' comes to life in this wonderful diary of life on the Home Front during World War Two.

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It is the heartbreaking and hilarious confessions of someone who has been actively involved in helping the Labour party lose elections at every level: school candidate: door-to-door canvasser: working for a Labour MP in the House of Commons;