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84 Charing Cross Road
£9.9984 Charing Cross Road
A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover’s ‘must read’ list. First published in 1971, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD has never been out of print.
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A Bloomsbury ingénue
£25.00A Bloomsbury ingénue
Euphemia Lamb was painted and sculpted by many renowned artists during the period before the First World War, such as Augustus John, Henry Lamb, Ambrose McEvoy, Jacob Epstein and James Dickson Innes. She was at the vanguard of modern British art. She was also a literary muse for many leading writers of the period, including Virginia Woolf, Henri-Pierre Roche and Aleister Crowley. Euphemia was the embodiment of the modern woman: sexually liberated, hard-working and ambitious. She used her connections in bohemian London and Paris to educate herself and advance the notion of what a woman could be in early twentieth-century British society. Euphemia was a pioneer who broke down barriers and her legacy survives in art and literature.
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A memoir of my former self
£12.99A memoir of my former self
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. ‘A Memoir of My Former Self’ collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel’s subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels – revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England – and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia.
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A tattoo on my brain
£9.99A tattoo on my brain
An engaging and optimistic account of a neurologist’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s disease, a condition he treated in many of his patients during his twenty-five year career. Combining his clinical knowledge and personal experience, Dr Daniel Gibbs convincingly advocates for further research into the often pre-symptomatic stages of Alzheimer’s.
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Being with cows
£10.99Being with cows
An intensely transformational story of how grief became gratitude in the presence of a humble herd of cows.
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Beyond chocolate
£25.00Beyond chocolate
Scion of the great Quaker chocolate dynasty, Adrian Cadbury (1929-2015) was educated at Eton and Cambridge, yet never quite fitted into the mould of the British establishment. As one of the most influential business personalities of the later 20th-century, he was a committed capitalist, but championed workers’ rights and backed numerous social causes. By his death, he had given most of his fortune away. To most people, however, his private life remained a closed book, overshadowed by a string of family tragedies and the eventual hostile take-over of his world famous family-owned business. The Cadbury Report, his pioneering work on corporate governance remains his greatest legacy, but Adrian Cadbury’s career ranged far wider. With 2024 marking Cadbury’s 200th anniversary, this is his first biography, and one drawn from interviews with the family and those who knew him.
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DöStäDning
£9.99DöStäDning
‘Döstädning’, or the art of death cleaning, is a Swedish phenomenon by which the elderly and their families set their affairs in order. Whether it’s sorting the family heirlooms from the junk, downsizing to a smaller place, or setting up a system to help you stop misplacing your keys, death cleaning gives us the chance to make the later years of our lives as comfortable and stress-free as possible. Whatever your age, Swedish death cleaning can be used to help you de-clutter your life, and take stock of what’s important. Radical and joyous, this book can help you or someone you love immeasurably, and offers the chance to celebrate and reflect on all the tiny joys that make up a long life along the way.
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First and lasting impressions
£20.00First and lasting impressions
These essays capture Frank Field’s personal reflections on influential figures in public life across his remarkable 40-year political journey which was spent campaigning against poverty and injustice. Lord Field’s candid observations provide a captivating record of his encounters with key public figures, and as such offers a unique and insightful perspective on those who have shaped our social and political landscape.
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Frank
£12.99Frank
Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, frank: sonnets is Diane Seuss’s most personal work to date, capturing the magnitude of a life lived honestly.
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History Hit story of England
£25.00History Hit story of England
From battlefields, cathedrals and museums to castles and stately homes, from the Lancastrians, Yorkists and Roundhead Royalists to an abundance of kings called George (and Henry!), the history of our island nation unravels its rich tapestry beneath our very feet – if only you know where to look. In their story of England, Dan Snow and the History Hit team take us on a journey through thousands of years of the never-ceasing drama that unfolded as invaders and immigrants and visitors reacted with what they found here. Our ancestors overcame, co-operated, shaped this country into what it is today – our landscape, our character, our language, industries, laws, religions and settlements.
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How the world made the West
£12.99How the world made the West
‘One of the most fascinating and important works of global history to appear for many years’ (William Dalrymple), this epic debut from Josephine Quinn rewrites the story of the Western world.
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I know why the caged bird sings
£10.99I know why the caged bird sings
In this, the first volume of her autobiography, writer and poet Maya Angelou reflects on her childhood spent growing up in the American South of the 1930s. There she learned the power of the white townsfolk and suffered the trauma of rape.
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Living with hearing loss and deafness
£12.99Living with hearing loss and deafness
A warm and down-to-earth exploration of hearing loss and deafness.
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Modern poetry
£12.99Modern poetry
The follow-up to Diane Suess’s Pulitzer Prize winning frank: sonnets, Modern Poetry writes an experimental-scholarly life in poems.
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My family
£22.00My family
‘One of the funniest books I have ever read’ HADLEY FREEMAN
‘A masterpiece‘ SATHNAM SANGHERA
‘The read of the summer’ THE SUNDAY TIMES
‘Brilliant ? funny and moving’ ADAM KAY
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Normal women
£10.99Normal women
A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
?’A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES
‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES
‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR
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