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Patriot of Persia
Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup

Author: Christopher de Bellaigue
Publication Date: 7 February 2013

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. His name was Muhammad Mossadegh, the Iranian prime minister. To Winston Churchill he was a lunatic, determined to humiliate Britain. To President Eisenhower he was delivering Iran to the Soviets. Mossadegh must go.

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Unreliable Memoirs
Autobiography

Author: Clive James
Publication Date: 11 September 1981

The first volume of Clive James's autobiography.

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Pitt the Elder
Man of War

Author: Edward Pearce
Publication Date: 6 January 2011

A book that opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke.

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The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

Author: Graham Farmelo
Publication Date: 24 December 2009

Paul Dirac was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in 20th-century science: quantum mechanics. Based on an archive of family papers, this title celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a portrait of his life and work.

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Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad
The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

Author: Bee Rowlatt
Publication Date: 4 February 2010

A London mum and Iraqi teacher should have nothing in common. Yet now, despite their differences, they're the firmest of friends. This title tells the story of two women who share laughter and tears, and swap their confidences, dreams and fears.

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Call The Midwife
A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Author: Jennifer Worth
Publication Date: 5 January 2012

Tie-in edition of Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.

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A Taste of My Life

Author: Raymond Blanc
Publication Date: 22 October 2009

Presenting the author's thoughts about where food is going and an appeal for sustainable cuisine, this book is suitable for those with an interest in food and cooking.

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Gordon Ramsay's Playing with Fire

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Publication Date: 3 May 2008

The bestselling follow-up to Humble Pie, now in paperback. When he was struggling to get his first restaurant in the black, Gordon Ramsay never imagined he'd be famous for a TV show about how to run profitable eateries, or that he'd be head of a business empire. But he is and he did. Here's how.

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Teach Us to Sit Still
A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing

Author: Tim Parks
Publication Date: 1 July 2010

Bedevilled by a crippling condition which nobody could explain or relieve, the author confronts hard truths about the relationship between the mind and the body, the hectic modern world and his life as a writer.

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The Oona King Diaries
House Music

Author: Oona King
Publication Date: 17 September 2007

The 1997 Labour victory changed British politics, ushering in a generation of women into parliament. Oona King, won a London constituency and became an MP at 29. Yet, after only 3 years, Oona considered resignation. This book reveals how she chose to abandon her ambition to become Prime Minister in favour of another ambition: to have a life.

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Sickened
The True Story of a Lost Childhood

Author: Julie Gregory
Publication Date: 30 September 2004

From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually X-rayed, medicated and operated on, in the vain pursuit of an illness that was created in her mother's mind. This title tells the story of how she survived Munchausen By Proxy (MBP), a form of child abuse forced on her by her mother's madness.

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Billy Connolly

Author: Pamela Stephenson
Publication Date: 29 June 2002

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years -- Pamela Stephenson.

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A Nurse in Action

Author: Evelyn Prentis
Publication Date: 4 August 2011

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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Four Meals for Fourpence
A Heartwarming Tale of Family Life in London's Old East End

Author: Grace Foakes
Publication Date: 12 May 2011

* A heartwarming memoir of working-class life in the East End in the early 1900s

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Nurse on Call
The True Story of a 1950s District Nurse

Author: Edith Cotterill
Publication Date: 15 April 2010

Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs. Although hospital life did have its compensations - it was there during the Second World War an injured sailor who became her husband.

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Promises to Keep
One Woman's Medical Nightmare and Her Husband's Search for the Truth

Author: John Gleeson
Publication Date: 6 February 2001

This is an account of John and Gerardine Gleeson's quest to conceive, of the serious physical damage Gerardine suffered as a result of in-vitro fertilization, and of her tragic death.

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Billy Connolly

Author: Pamela Stephenson
Publication Date: 29 June 2002

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years -- Pamela Stephenson.

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Angela's Ashes
A Memoir of a Childhood

Author: Frank McCourt
Publication Date: 19991115

In this memoir, Frank McCourt looks back with sadness and affection at his first 18 years growing up in New York and Ireland. The book combines stories of hunger, poverty and social deprivation with a celebration of the human spirit, laughter and human kindness.

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The Map That Changed the World
A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

Author: Simon Winchester
Publication Date: 4 July 2002

Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stairway in a house in London's Piccadilly is an enormous and beautiful hand-coloured map - the first geological map of anywhere in the world. Its maker was a farmer's son named William Smith. Born in 1769 his life was beset by troubles. This title tells his story.

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Seven Troop

Author: Andy McNab
Publication Date: 18 June 2009

In 1983 Andy McNab was assigned to B Squadron, one of the four Sabre Squadrons of the SAS, and within it to Air Troop, otherwise known as Seven Troop. The links they forged then bound them inextricably together, but the things they saw and did during that time would take them all to breaking point in the years that were to follow.

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Scarred
She Was a Slave to Her Father, Pain Was Her Only Escape

Author: Sophie Andrews
Publication Date: 22 January 2009

The shocking story of how exceptionally violent abuse turned one girl to desperate self-harm before turning her life around.

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Bad Blood
A Memoir

Author: Lorna Sage
Publication Date: 2 July 2001

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.

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Playing with Fire

Author: Nigel Havers
Publication Date: 26 July 2007

Memoir from a much-loved film and TV star that really is the new The Moon's a Balloon

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The Longest Climb
Back From the Abyss

Author: Paul Pritchard
Publication Date: 14 July 2005

For climber Paul Pritchard, the biggest challenge he ever faced wasn't a mountain but the long climb back to life. Not his former life of the 1990s, when he surfed many of the world's treacherous rock faces. The boulder that crushed him while he was climbing the Totem Pole in Tasmania put a stop to that. This work offers a view of this climber.

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Call the Midwife
A True Story of the East End in the 1950s

Author: Jennifer Worth
Publication Date: 6 March 2008

A fascinating slice of social history - Jennifer Worth's tales of being a midwife in 1950s London, now a major BBC TV series.

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The Devil Rides Out

Author: Paul O'Grady
Publication Date: 23 June 2011

Birkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans, looking good. As he bids farewell to his mum, who's on the phone to his auntie, and wanders off down the street in a cloud of aftershave, he hears her familiar cry: 'Oh, the devil rides out tonight.

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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed

Author: Alan Alda
Publication Date: 20 October 2006

A funny story of a boy growing into a man who then realizes he has only begun to grow. This book presents the story of turning points in his life, events that would make him what he is - if only he could survive them. It is filled with curiosity about nature, good humour and honesty.

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Tell Me Where it Hurts
A Day of Humour, Healing and Hope in My Life as a Vet

Author: Nick Trout
Publication Date: 2 April 2009

All Creatures Great and Small for the 21st Century.

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Committed
A Love Story

Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Publication Date: 4 January 2011

Presents a contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood.

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On the Edge
My Story

Author: Richard Hammond
Publication Date: 7 June 2008

Gripping account by Richard Hammond of life before and after his terrifying high-speed car crash.

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One Last Time
A Psychic Medium Speaks to Those We Have Loved and Lost

Author: John Edward
Publication Date: 11 March 1999

In this volume, John Edwards talks about how he first discovered and developed his ability to foretell events and communicate with those who have passed on. He shows readers how to tune in to the psychic abilities they possess, and to read and understand the subtle signs of spiritual contact.

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The the end of my world
The Shocking True Story of a Young Girl Forced to Become a Sex Slave

Author: Emma jackson
Publication Date: 4 February 2010

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Midwife on Call

Author: Agnes Light
Publication Date: 1 September 2011

A heart-warming memoir of a midwife who trained in the 1960s

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My Time in the War
From Belfast to Berlin

Author: Romie Lambkin
Publication Date: 18 May 1992

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Pwll, Pel a Phulpud

Author: Elwyn Jenkins
Publication Date: 27 March 2008

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In Pursuit of Glory
The Autobiography

Author: Bradley Wiggins
Publication Date: 24 September 2009

The controversial memoir from Britain's most successful cyclist - winner of two gold medals at the 2008 Olympics - updated for the paperback edition.

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Boy Racer

Author: Mark Cavendish
Publication Date: 4 June 2009

Highlighting behind the scenes of the Tour de France, this title reveals the exotic, contradictory, hysterical and brutal world of professional cycling from the viewpoint of someone right in the thick of it. It follows Britain's best cyclist Mark Cavendish through the mayhem of the Tour de France.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Author: Maya Angelou
Publication Date: 26 January 1984

* One of America's most important classics, the first and best loved volume of Maya Angelou's bestselling six-volume autobiography is reissued in a new look to coincide with the publication of Celebrations

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Lucky

Author: Alice Sebold
Publication Date: 1 December 2002

A hard-hitting and redemptive memoir from Alice Sebold, bestselling author of The Lovely Bones.

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Girl with a One-track Mind
Confessions of the Seductress Next Door

Author: Abby Lee
Publication Date: 3 August 2006

Abby Lee is smart, sassy, and perpetually single. Frustrated with her mediocre love-life, she's looking for the kind of sex she's always wanted. But as she revels in her sexual quest, Abby meets Blog Boy and begins to wonder: will she ever be able to give up the bed-hopping and finally settle down? This is the diary of her journey.

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goodbye to all that

Author: Robert robert graves
Publication Date: 1 Jan 1960

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Blindfold Horse
Memories of a Persian Childhood

Author: Shusha Guppy
Publication Date: 19920109

An evocation of a Persian childhood.

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Yes sister, no sister
My Life as a Trainee Nurse in 1950s Yorkshire

Author: Jennifer Craig
Publication Date: 30 September 2010

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Rudolf Steiner
Herald of a New Epoch

Author: Stewart C. Easton
Publication Date: 31 December 1980

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That's Another Story
The Autobiography

Author: Julie Walters
Publication Date: 23 July 2009

The warm, moving and utterly entertaining autobiography by the nation's best-loved actress.

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It's in the Blood
My Life

Author: Lawrence Dallaglio
Publication Date: 15 May 2008

The colossus of English rugby tells his story at last

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Heath Ledger
Hollywood's Dark Star

Author: Brian J. Robb
Publication Date: 24 May 2008

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John

Author: Cynthia Lennon
Publication Date: 10 April 2006

The international bestselling memoir of the most idolised Beatle, John Lennon - by his first wife Cynthia.

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The Lost Boy
A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family

Author: Dave Pelzer
Publication Date: 20000802

In this, the sequel to "A Child Called 'It'", the author describes his life in foster care. Dave moves through five different homes and describes his heart-rending encounters with other foster parents and children, some of whom resent his presence, some of whom help him.

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Prince of Pleasure

Author: Saul David
Publication Date: 7 October 1999

A wonderful portrait of George IV and his time - the first in 25 years.

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