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    Forgers

    Roger Moorhouse
    €17.50

    **A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...

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    Until the Sea Shall Free Them

    Robert Frump
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    `A spellbinding and eloquent story of tragedy, courage, and the triumph of one man determined to see that his shipmates did not die in vain.’ –Mark...

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    Tri Again

    Chris Sheard
    €19.99

    Tri Again is a rip-roaring, wetsuit-struggling, pedal-pushing odyssey that charts one man's journey from a pneumonia-stricken heap to the starting ...

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    Paris

    Paris Hilton
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    Updated edition including new material Heiress. Party girl. Problem child. Model. Reality star. Self-created. Ico...

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    Adrift

    Susea McGearhart
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    THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EV...

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    Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens
    €11.99

    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Please, sir, I want some more.' An orphan b...

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    How Was It for You?

    Eve Smith
    €21.99

    The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker.Let’s call her Eve.Eve is someone’s daughter. Someone’s partner.Eve has worked across the sex ind...

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    Hope – How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life

    Niall Harbison
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    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison i...

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    It Happened Like This

    Vicky Foster
    €21.99

    A searing, inventive memoir that interrogates misogyny, heroism and women’s power in an often-unsafe world through the lens of Vicky’s Foster’s own...

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    Moby Dick

    Herman Melville
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    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying...

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    Greatest Escape

    Neil Churches
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    The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War – organized by an Australian bank clerk, a Britis...

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    Sophie Scholl and the White Rose

    Annette Dumbach
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      A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the grippin...

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    Way of the Hermit

    Ken Smith
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    The International Bestseller 'A love story to the mountains in the mist, the pulsating northern lights and the red deer at dawn. And to independenc...

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    Lili

    Anna Blasiak
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    This is the story of Lili Pohlmann's incredible childhood and survival. During the Second World War she was helped by many people, sometimes by si...

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    Why, Father?

    Tim Harford
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    From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. Gerry was only a young girl when she was first abused by h...

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    How To Say Babylon

    Safiya Sinclair
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    SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunn...

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    Mother's Courage

    Malka Levine
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    'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - Philippe Sands, author of Th...

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    Fearless

    Louise Minchin
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    WINNER OF THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SELECTED FOR THE BBC AND READING AGENCY'S BIG SPORTING READ 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SPORTS...

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    Seized!

    Max Hardberger
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    Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed exposé of the s...

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    Tunnel 29

    Helena Merriman
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    'Merriman excels at recreating the physicality of their experiences: the smell of dense clay, the click-clack of a woman walking down the street ab...

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    Piano Player of Budapest

    Roxanne de Bastion
    Current price €27.50
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    One man, his piano and their miraculous survival.'Extraordinary' Baroness Julia Neuberger'Powerful and gruelling ... an almost unimaginable story o...

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    Modern Slave

    Gaia Cooper
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    Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved – but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang ...

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    SAS: Sea King Down

    Mark Aston
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    The thrilling, edge-of-your-seat true story of one soldier's Special Forces operations in the Falklands War'BRILLIANT. A ROLLERCOASTER OF BLISTERIN...

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  • In My Time of Dying

    Sebastian Junger
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    'Mind blowingly brilliant' PHILIPPA PERRY 'Few other writers have such passion for granular detail, intellectual heft and bo...

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    SAS Great Escapes Three

    Damien Lewis
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    'Damien Lewis is both a meticulous historian and a born storyteller' Lee Child'Now that's a Great Escape! How 34 members of the SAS evaded 5,000 Na...

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    Rescue

    Andy McNab
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    The thrilling retelling of a real-life hostage rescue mission, by SAS hero and million-selling author, Andy McNab.It is 2012 and in Northern Afghan...

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    Traces of Memory

    Sandra Alfers
    €19.99

    The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of he...

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    My Journey Home

    Zsuzsanna Ozsvath
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    In the spring of 1944, nearly 500,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian countryside and killed in Auschwitz. In Budapest, only 150,000 Jews sur...

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    Wheat Songs

    Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos
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    Wheat Songs is a memoir of two interconnected Greek-American journeys—an actual physical journey for the grandfather, Pericles Rizopoulos, and a ph...

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    Defiant Dreams

    Malaina Kapoor
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    'I began to grow up the day my mother warned me to stop laughing''Stories like this inspire me. Seeing the way people like Sola Mahfouz think about...

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    Behind these Doors

    Alex South
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    *A Radio 4 Book of the Week*'Powerful' Observer 'Superb' Daily Mail 'Brilliant' Radio Times __________Few people leave prison unchanged. It's a pla...

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    Tale of a Wall

    Nasser Abu Srour
    €23.99

    LONGLISTED FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARDA Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and co...

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    Inseparable

    Faris Cassell
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    See the Holocaust through the Eyes of Children.Stefan and Marion Hess's happy childhood was shattered in 1943. Torn from their home in Amsterdam, t...

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    Bring Back Our Girls

    Drew Hinshaw
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    A 2021 Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 'Had me gripped from the outset' Fergal Keane 'Everyone should read the testimonies of the Chibok girls who...

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    Top of the World

    Fiona Duffy
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    Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Martin's teena...

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    Wavewalker

    Suzanne Heywood
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    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 ‘Grippingly vivid and ...

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    Forbidden Daughter

    Zipora Klein Jakob
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    The unforgettable true story of one Jewish orphan’s survival against impossible odds, and her lifelong quest for family, safety and a sense of belo...

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    Emerging Heroes

    Akira Kitade
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    Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the r...

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    Emerging Heroes

    Akira Kitade
    €104.99

    Inspired by seven photographs of WWII refugees in an old album, the author embarked on a quest to uncover the story behind each portrait. Had the r...

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    Brothers in Arms

    Geraint Jones
    €23.99

    Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every...

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    Memoirs of a Jewish Prisoner of the Gulag

    Zvi Preigerzon
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    Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on t...

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    Brothers in Arms

    Geraint Jones
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    Darkly funny, shockingly honest, Brothers in Arms is an unforgettable account of a soldier's tour of Afghanistan, the brutal reality of war – every...

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    Survival Guide for Life

    Bear Grylls
    Current price €14.55
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    Life in the wild teaches us invaluable lessons. Extreme situations force us to seize opportunities, face up to dangers and rely on our instinct...

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    White Fang

    Jack London
    €5.25

    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on…‘ ...

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    Inside Job

    Dr Rebecca Myers
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    And here I am. Totally alone in a cell with a convicted sex offender who is free to do what he wants. There is no officer. No handcuff...

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    Britain's Lost Tragedies Uncovered

    Richard M. Jones
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    Is any disaster really forgotten?It is never forgotten by the survivors who lived through the trauma. It is never forgotten by the emergency servic...

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    Challenger

    Adam Higginbotham
    Current price €31.99
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    From the New York Times-bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space ...

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