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Biography and Autobiography - Recently published biographies. (To keep this list from getting too long, we remove older titles from it every so often - but you'll still find them in other booklists according to their subject)
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There are 322 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838856670 | ISBN 10: 1838856676
A joyous and poignant book about the world of professional acting, the messiness of life and how every experience – good or bad – shapes who you are, from the New York Times bestselling author of Not My Father’s Son.
‘No one ever fully r ... more
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£25.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788735773 | ISBN 10: 1788735773
A coruscating portrait of Britain’s greatest imperialist.
The modern Churchill cult is out of control, closing down debate and encouraging support for twenty-first-century wars. The wartime leader has become a household god for many, prese ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781474614368 | ISBN 10: 1474614361
Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem ‘Jerusalem’, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781913183776 | ISBN 10: 1913183777
‘Silvia Vasquez-Lavado is a warrior. I’m in awe of her strength and courage.’ – Selena Gomez
‘an incredibly powerful story’ Sunday Independent
‘powerful’ – New York Times
In the In the Shadow of the Mounta ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781787635838 | ISBN 10: 178763583x
'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist
'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMES
You know how he died. This is how ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398505322 | ISBN 10: 1398505323
The number one bestselling autobiography by national treasure Bob Mortimer.
Bob Mortimer's life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529347555 | ISBN 10: 1529347556
* SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2021 COSTA BOOK AWARDS: BIOGRAPHY *
‘If her moving, engrossing, elegantly written memoir does not win prizes, there really is no justice in the literary world.’ Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times
All happy families are alik ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349011585 | ISBN 10: 0349011583
One of the most important untold stories of World War II, The Light of Days is a soaring landmark history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who inspired Poland’s Jewish youth groups to resist the Nazis.
... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398503731 | ISBN 10: 1398503738
This is Martha Wainwright’s heartfelt memoir about growing up in a bohemian musical family and her experiences with love, loss, motherhood, divorce, the music industry and more.
Born into music royalty, the daughter of folk legends Kate McGarr ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526614643 | ISBN 10: 1526614642
**WINNER OF A PALESTINE BOOK AWARD 2021**
Drawing on extensive archival sources and hundreds of interviews, Timothy Brennan's Places of Mind is the first comprehensive biography of Said, one of the most controversial and celebrated intellect ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781786893529 | ISBN 10: 1786893525
An enlightening memoir of living between worlds and learning how to find one’s own – from the artist and fashion designer.
A coming-of-age story set in Birmingham in the 1980s and 1990s, The Go-Between opens a window into a closed migrant co ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788164436 | ISBN 10: 1788164431
1910, Wellington, New Zealand. Lydia Harvey is sixteen, working long hours for low pay, when a glamorous couple invite her to Buenos Aires. She accepts - and disappears.
London, England. Amid a global panic about sex trafficking, detectives ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781909770690 | ISBN 10: 1909770698
"An incredibly moving, truly inspiring story of the power of determination. An absolutely stunning read."(Katharine Birbalsingh)
"Fascinating and poignant… an astoundingly honest and intimate memoir."(Angela Petch)
Perhaps it’s true that ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780349015682 | ISBN 10: 0349015686
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
‘Fascinating and intimate’ OBSERVER
‘Lucid, distilled, honest’ MAGGIE NELSON
‘Gorgeous, symphonic, tender’ CARMEN MARIA MACHADO
How do you tell the real story of someone misremember ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529108316 | ISBN 10: 1529108314
Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted.
They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them.
These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner - someone who shared their values, ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781844885428 | ISBN 10: 1844885429
THE LANDMARK MEMOIR OF A GLOBAL MUSIC ICON.
Sinead O'Connor's voice and trademark shaved head made her famous by the age of twenty-one. Her recording of Prince's Nothing Compares 2 U made her a global icon. She outraged millions when she tore up ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800181021 | ISBN 10: 1800181027
100 Voices is an anthology of writing by women across the country on what achievement means for them, and how they have come to find their own voice.
Featuring poetry, fiction and memoir, the pieces range from notes on making lemon curd, to tale ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781911630234 | ISBN 10: 1911630237
There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, Nanette
Multi-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with her show Nanette, even as she declared that she was quitting stand-up. Now, she takes us th ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529107784 | ISBN 10: 1529107784
Guardian Books to Watch 2022
Evening Standard Books to Watch 2022
Bookseller Editor's Choice
Climbing gives you the illusion of being in control, just for a while, the tantalising sense of being able to stay one move ahead of death.
... more
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£14.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529371819 | ISBN 10: 1529371813
“It became untenable for me to remain silent about a part of my life I had long kept secret. I had to follow the persistent, uncomfortable pull of truth, wherever it would lead me.”
From the outside looking in, the young life of Mia Dör ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529033793 | ISBN 10: 1529033799
One of Barack Obama’s Favorite Books of 2021
Goodreads Choice Awards 2021: Winner, Memoir & Autobiography
The New York Times bestseller from the Grammy-nominated indie rockstar Japanese Breakfast, an unflinching, deeply moving memoir abou ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529342895 | ISBN 10: 1529342899
*** ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S ‘BEST BOOKS OF 2021’ ***
I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation.
When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781838956585 | ISBN 10: 1838956581
‘If a bullet should enter my brain, let it destroy every closet door’
This is the definitive biography of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and cold-blooded assassination mirrored the dramatic emergence of the gay ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241977583 | ISBN 10: 0241977584
From one of the great thinkers and writers of our time, comes the unmissable final instalment in Deborah Levy's critically acclaimed 'Living Autobiography'.
'I began to wonder what myself and all unwritten and unseen women would possess in t ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781472274366 | ISBN 10: 1472274369
'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neither an affliction nor a superpower. It's just the blueprint for who I am. There is no cure, but that's absolutely fine by me.
To cure me of my autism ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780062936806 | ISBN 10: 0062936808
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing a lifetime of memories to paint a beautiful, nuanced portrait of a body that looks and moves differently than most.
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241401477 | ISBN 10: 024140147x
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The incredible follow-up to one of the most talked about books of the decade - the phenomenon, Waterstones Book of the Month and Costa Award shortlisted The Salt Path.
Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her ... more
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£25.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529318265 | ISBN 10: 1529318262
In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals the truth behind his windswept and interesting life.
Born in a tenement flat in Glasgow in 1942, orphaned by the age of 4, and a survivor of appa ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781908213921 | ISBN 10: 1908213922
Jeff Young takes us on a journey through haunted places of memory and loss, summoning the ghosts of loved ones and long-departed heroes who somehow still occupy the disappearing nooks and ruins of the city. Walking through the last remnants of ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241534991 | ISBN 10: 0241534992
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo.
In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revol ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781509896127 | ISBN 10: 1509896120
This is a memoir as wry, funny, moving and vivid as its inimitable subject himself. This book will be a joy for both lifelong fans and for a whole new generation. John Cooper Clarke is a phenomenon: Poet Laureate of Punk, rock star, fashion icon, TV ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141985060 | ISBN 10: 0141985062
The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero Toussaint Louverture.
The Haitian Revolution began in the French Caribbean colony of Saint-Domingue with a slave revolt in August 1791, and culmina ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780300260885 | ISBN 10: 0300260881
The first serious full-length biography of former Ugandan president Idi Amin, modern Africa's most famous dictator.
Idi Amin began his career in the British army in colonial Uganda, and worked his way up the ranks before seizing power in a B ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780008486976 | ISBN 10: 0008486972
The British comedian of Nigerian heritage and co-executive producer and writer of the CBS hit series Bob Hearts Abishola chronicles her odyssey to get to America and break into Hollywood in this lively and humorous memoir.
According to fami ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571367733 | ISBN 10: 0571367739
The rediscovered classic: a trailblazing Guyanese woman's memoir of post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('full of wit, perceptiveness, humour and compassion')
Denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529404449 | ISBN 10: 1529404444
*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'*
'Do you sometimes feel like the music you're hearing is explaining your life to you?'
When Pete's parents moved from Cyprus to Birmingham in the 1960s in the hope of a better life, they had no mon ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349144368 | ISBN 10: 0349144362
"A simply astonishing achievement. The quality, depth, emotional power and terrifying honesty of Alan Davies’s story-telling take the breath away."(Stephen Fry)
"This hugely affecting book is brave, insightful and, at times, funny about things i ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781527290242 | ISBN 10: 1527290247
DAD is a deeply moving and inspiring collection of stories that represent the diversity of modern fatherhood and seeks to start a conversation that challenges the traditions associated with masculinity.
Including 20 powerful and defiant stori ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780297871002 | ISBN 10: 0297871005
Ethel Rosenberg's story has been called America's Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being played out with different actors in the lead roles today.
O ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571342617 | ISBN 10: 0571342612
***BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week***
Sir Lenny Henry is one of the country's best-loved comedians with a career spanning over forty years. Here he writes about his youth for the first time.
You might think you know Lenny Henry. Think a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780141028590 | ISBN 10: 0141028599
"It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for exec ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913505066 | ISBN 10: 1913505065
As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs of the eternal human desire to communicate, even as face-to-face contact became impossible. When r ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571351459 | ISBN 10: 057135145x
A memorial collection of writings by the murdered young journalist Lyra McKee - from viral articles to unpublished material - that celebrates her life, work and creative legacy: one that will live on.
When Northern Irish writer Lyra McKee w ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781912681747 | ISBN 10: 1912681749
In this clear and absorbing memoir John Sam Jones writes of a life lived on the edge. It's a story of journeys and realisation, of acceptance and joy.
From a boyhood on the coast of Wales to a traumatic period as an undergraduate in Aberystwyth ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780857527820 | ISBN 10: 0857527827
An updated edition of Howard Sounes' classic, definitive biography to mark the legendary Bob Dylan's 80th birthday.
Bob Dylan was the first figure in the history of popular music to challenge the domination of the three-minute pop song and ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781787836822 | ISBN 10: 1787836827
Fearlessness has got nothing to do with being unafraid. It’s about doing things anyway, getting on with it, living, whether you’re afraid or not.
Fuzzy-haired, free-spirited, cello-playing Catrina is devastated when her lover, Jack, leav ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781780277158 | ISBN 10: 1780277156
In a life stranger than any fiction, Grace O'Malley, daughter of a clan chief in the far west of Ireland, went from marriage at fifteen to piracy on the high seas. She soon had a fleet of galleys under her commander, but her three decades of plunderi ... more
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£14.95 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781911036753 | ISBN 10: 1911036750
Doony, Ryder, Wyatt, Bodhi. The names of Kristin Hersh's sons are the only ones included in her new memoir, Seeing Sideways. As the book unfolds and her sons voices rise from its pages, it becomes clear why: these names tell the story of her life.
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781846276811 | ISBN 10: 1846276810
Kevin Maxwell was a dream candidate for the police force – he had a long-held desire to serve his community, a strong moral compass and a clear aptitude for both the strategic and practical aspects of policing. And, as a gay black man from a workin ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780224101905 | ISBN 10: 0224101900
*A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK*
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home.
All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. The secret to superhuman strength.
She has looked for ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529109603 | ISBN 10: 1529109604
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From spring and through a year in his home patch in Northern Ireland, Dara spent the seasons writing. These vivid, evocative and moving diary entries about his c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529106862 | ISBN 10: 1529106869
Born in the tough East End of Glasgow and married into one of the city's most notorious criminal families, Janey Godley's young life was far from ordinary. From the grim and far-from-swinging 60s, to the discos of the 70s, to the tidal wave of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781529102437 | ISBN 10: 152910243x
It was the spirit of our finest hour, the backbone of our post-war greatness, and it promoted some of the boldest and most brilliant schemes this isle has ever produced: it was the Welfare State, and it made you and I. But now it's under threat, and ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474609487 | ISBN 10: 1474609481
This is a story about birds and fathers.
About the young magpie that fell from its nest in a Bermondsey junkyard into Charlie Gilmour's life - and swiftly changed it. Demanding worms around the clock, riffling through his wallet, sharing hi ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913348229 | ISBN 10: 1913348229
"This remarkable meditation on beautiful, human bodies formed by the violence of slavery and by colonial shame resists categorisation, even as it shows up the ways in which categories of race and identity are no more than empty methods of social cont ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241982976 | ISBN 10: 0241982979
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, an intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First La ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781474610056 | ISBN 10: 1474610056
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide.
Malala’s experiences visiting refu ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349014814 | ISBN 10: 0349014817
***WINNER OF THE BARBELLION PRIZE***
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD***
In 1958, amongst the children born with spina bifida is Riva Lehrer. At the time, most such children are not expected to survive. Her parents ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780571362929 | ISBN 10: 0571362923
Bessie Smith: singer, icon, pioneer.
Scotland's National Poet Jackie Kay brings to life the tempestuous story of the greatest blues singer who ever lived.
Bessie Smith was born in Tennessee in 1894. Orphaned by the age of nine, sh ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529066333 | ISBN 10: 1529066336
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you.
Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second.
He was proud of his country. But all of that changed in November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141046402 | ISBN 10: 0141046406
"'Darkly angelic prose... a joy to read, with the final part in particular recalling David Foster Wallace at his best"(Alex Preston, Observer)
Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on th ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529109252 | ISBN 10: 1529109256
Updated to include the Premier League Victory 2020."It is the intensity of the football, of how the people live football in Liverpool, all the Liverpool fans around the world. It is not a normal club, it is a special club."(Jurgen Klopp)
Jürgen K ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781984899422 | ISBN 10: 1984899422
One in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some disabilities are visible, others less apparent — but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786892362 | ISBN 10: 1786892367
How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth c ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141977898 | ISBN 10: 0141977892
WINNER OF THE 2020 PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by the SPECTATOR, TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN and FINANCIAL TIMES
The definitive portrait of one of the twentieth century's most towering figures: her ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784742980 | ISBN 10: 1784742988
A vital and timely book about inspirational nurses, and the bravery of patients and families, from the bestselling author of The Language of Kindness.
Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and be ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781612198750 | ISBN 10: 1612198759
Frida Kahlo’s legacy continues to grow in the public imagination in the nearly fifty years since her ”discovery” in the 1970s. This collection of conversations over the course of her brief career allows a peek at the woman behind the hype. And ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780735225190 | ISBN 10: 0735225192
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco.
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529361360 | ISBN 10: 1529361362
In December 2018, after fifty years of belly-laughs, energy and outrage, Billy Connolly announced his retirement from live stand-up comedy. It had been an extraordinary career.
When he first started out in the late sixties, Billy played the banj ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781526614766 | ISBN 10: 1526614766
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year's concerts at ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787478664 | ISBN 10: 1787478661
The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home.
*LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE*
Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with fou ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781471176340 | ISBN 10: 1471176347
Be it as Nicky Hutchinson in Our Friends In The North, Maurice in The A Word, or his reinvention of Doctor Who, one man, in life and death, has accompanied Christopher Eccleston every step of the way – his father Ronnie. In I Love The Bones Of You, ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786893499 | ISBN 10: 1786893495
A timely, provocative and personal examination of the refugee experience.
What is it like to be a refugee? It is a question many of us do not give much thought, and yet there are more than 25 million refugees in the world. To be a refugee is to ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783783007 | ISBN 10: 1783783001
In an old wooden sloop, Philip Marsden plots a course north from his home in Cornwall. He is sailing for the Summer Isles, a small archipelago near the top of Scotland that holds for him a deep and personal significance. On the way, he must navigate ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780141990149 | ISBN 10: 0141990147
Even in our modern progressive world, it's not easy to be a gay man. While young men often come out more readily, even those from the most liberal of backgrounds still struggle to accept themselves and experience stigma, shame and difficulties with i ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781408889237 | ISBN 10: 1408889234
WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2020
Mudlark (/'mAdla;k/) noun A person who scavenges for usable debris in the mud of a river or harbour
Lara Maiklem has scoured the banks of the Thames for nearly twenty years, in pursuit of the objects t ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780753553732 | ISBN 10: 0753553732
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will b ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781982148201 | ISBN 10: 1982148209
Now a Netflix original series!
Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529105001 | ISBN 10: 1529105005
The autumn 2002 publication of Ruby Wax's memoirs was greeted with shock - and delighted acclaim. In the tradition of the best memoirs, such as The Moon's a Balloon and Billy, Ruby Wax revealed, surprised and captured the public more than was ever pr ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376
Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.
Charting her intersex discovery a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783964956 | ISBN 10: 1783964952
Shortlisted for Travel Memoir Book of the Year, Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2020 / Winner – GOLD in Personality of the Year, SILVER in The Extra Mile Award as well as SILVER in Book of the Year all in The Great Outdoor Awards 2019
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781781256671 | ISBN 10: 1781256675
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth rec ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783785445 | ISBN 10: 1783785446
In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the next twenty-five years. There, she began to come to terms with the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled h ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784162344 | ISBN 10: 1784162345
THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 2019
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529103380 | ISBN 10: 152910338x
“Everyone has their price. It’s just not always monetary. Mine is though. 20 quid.”
Single mum. ‘Stain on society’. Caught in a poverty trap.
It’s a luxury to afford morals and if you’re Cash Carraway, you do what you can to survi ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780198828754 | ISBN 10: 0198828756
'The moment I got my job at Virago in 1978 I knew it would be a long time before I would leave. I certainly wouldn't have had the brazen hope then - only twenty-five and very recently new to Britain - that I would ever become the Publisher, but I did ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781912854790 | ISBN 10: 1912854791
"From the frontlines of social justice comes one of the most urgent voices of our era. Bryan Stevenson is a real-life, modern-day Atticus Finch who, through his work in redeeming innocent people condemned to death, has sought to redeem the country it ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781529404869 | ISBN 10: 152940486x
Triumphant and uplifting – a queer Muslim memoir about forgiveness and freedom.
A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib’s story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority sect in Pakistan, and follows her arrival in Cana ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781473684058 | ISBN 10: 1473684056
28-year-old Zeba Talkhani charts her experiences growing up in Saudi Arabia amid patriarchal customs reminiscent of The Handmaid’s Tale, and her journey to find freedom in India, Germany and the UK.
Talkhani offers a fresh perspective on liv ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474614450 | ISBN 10: 1474614450
Edna O’Brien depicts James Joyce as a man hammered by Church, State and family, yet from such adversities he wrote works ‘to bestir the hearts of men and angels’.
The journey begins with Joyce the arrogant youth, his lofty courtship of No ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780300248555 | ISBN 10: 0300248555
A lively and engaging biography of the first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States, a man fiercely committed to protecting all minorities.
Harvey Milk — eloquent, charismatic, and a smart-aleck — was elected to the ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911617563 | ISBN 10: 1911617567
A wonderfully bittersweet, funnystrange account of living unwittingly with Asperger’s syndrome.
It is only after a crack-up, at the age of 55, that Tom Cutler gets the diagnosis that allows him to make sense of everything that’s come bef ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787331952 | ISBN 10: 1787331954
In his customary pose as the grumpiest of grumpy old men, Raymond Briggs contemplates old age and death... and doesn’t like them much. Illustrated with Briggs’s inimitable pencil drawings, Time for Lights Out is a collection of short pieces, some ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780807012628 | ISBN 10: 0807012629
A searingly honest memoir of one young woman’s journey toward self-acceptance as she comes to see her body as a symbol of rebellion and hope and chooses to live her life unapologetically.
Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to ... more
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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786076007 | ISBN 10: 1786076004
It was 11pm when I checked my email for the last time and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever.
No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio or light bu ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781623719142 | ISBN 10: 1623719143
Personal narratives by Forty Jewish activists and scholars.
Today Jews face a choice. We can be loyal to the ethical imperatives at the heart of Judaism—love the stranger, pursue justice, and repair the world. Or we can give our unconditio ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474606820 | ISBN 10: 1474606822
John Lennon was a rock star, a school clown, a writer, a wit, an iconoclast, a sometime peace activist and finally an eccentric millionaire. He was also a Beatle – his plain-speaking and impudent rejection of authority catching, and eloquently arti ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781846076176 | ISBN 10: 184607617x
There was life before the fall.
1989 was a year of astonishing and rapid change: the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. B ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784704131 | ISBN 10: 178470413x
*BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week*
'I needed to get to the stopping places, so I needed to get on the road. It was the road where I might at last find out where I belonged.'
Damian Le Bas grew up surrounded by Gypsy history. His great-grandmoth ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781784703950 | ISBN 10: 1784703958
The gripping life story of the great war correspondent Marie Colvin told by one of her closest friends.
Winner of the James Tait Black Award
Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a troubled and racket ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780349141893 | ISBN 10: 0349141894
If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's cheerfully misanthropic stories, you might think you know what you're getting with Calypso. You'd be wrong.
When he buys a beach house on the Carolina coast, Sedaris envisions long, rel ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781473687738 | ISBN 10: 147368773x
HOLD MY CHIPS, THE WOMEN ARE REVOLTING! A darkly funny guide to life as a woman from Britain's favourite comedian.
Sometimes it's hard to be a woman and sometimes it's time to be a hard woman... This is a book for all those times.
Once upon ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787472709 | ISBN 10: 1787472701
Why do we keep sheep? Alex Lindén ruminates as he watches his sheep ruminating. Naive and inexperienced, he has ditched his doctoral studies in order to move to a fully working farm in the country with his family, where he is tasked with the respons ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911231271 | ISBN 10: 1911231278
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement — in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana — all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woo ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408893333 | ISBN 10: 1408893339
THE RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES
SELECTED AS A SUMMER READ BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE TIMES AND THE MAIL ON ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780552173704 | ISBN 10: 0552173703
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Straight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan.
At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent c ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780750990950 | ISBN 10: 0750990953
The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever. They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781788163064 | ISBN 10: 1788163060
In Going Home, Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that w ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783527373 | ISBN 10: 1783527374
A biography of England's first professional black footballer, who represented Leyton Orient, West Bromwich Albion and became the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid.
Shortlisted for Biography of the Year at the British Sports Book Award ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781526614506 | ISBN 10: 1526614502
The moving, remarkable story of the relationship between Freddie Mercury and his longtime partner Jim Hutton, as explored in the major, Golden Globe-winning and Oscar-nominated film Bohemian Rhapsody.
The relationship between Freddie Mercury ... more
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£19.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781448217496 | ISBN 10: 1448217490
Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid-Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster
In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781908906380 | ISBN 10: 1908906383
THE BIOGRAPHY OF WALLY FUNK, AS SEEN IN THE ACCLAIMED MAJOR NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY MERCURY 13.
In 1961, Wally Funk was the youngest of thirteen American female pilots in the Woman in Space programme. Her mission was to become one of the first women a ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780753552988 | ISBN 10: 0753552981
In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality – proving there are many faces of feminism.
“Whenever anybody has asked me how Mala ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781786892553 | ISBN 10: 1786892553
“I'm not the only person to have grown up stifled and bored in suburbia, it's almost the law.”
A Sunday Times top ten bestseller. An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Bedsit ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781408889244 | ISBN 10: 1408889242
Kamal Ahmed's childhood was very 'British' in every way – except for the fact that he was brown. Half English, half Sudanese, he was raised at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to go home, even when you were born just down the road.
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781474610292 | ISBN 10: 1474610293
From the ingenious comic performer, founding member of Monty Python, and creator of Spamalot, comes an absurdly funny memoir of unparalleled wit and heartfelt candour.
We know him best for his unforgettable roles on Monty Python - from the Flyin ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781642730210 | ISBN 10: 1642730211
Billie Holiday, one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, had a troubled life: a childhood in poverty, brothels, jail, broken love, and a dependence on alcohol and heroin. Her first performances in the night clubs of prohibitionist America was wh ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781770463455 | ISBN 10: 1770463453
A profound and personal exploration of the intersections of womanhood, femininity and creativity.
This Woman’s Work is a powerfully raw autobiographical work that asks vital questions about femininity and the assumptions we make about gender. ... more
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