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HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2015
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From her acclaimed performances to her headline-making divorce from Eddie Fisher, raising a famous daughter to hitting the road with a successful one-woman show, Debbie Reynolds has been in the spotlight for decades. She?s met presidents, performed for the Queen of England, and partied with kings. A show business icon, she continues to sing and dance-and can drop more names than Andy Cohen. In this fabulous personal tour, she recalls wonderful moments...
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
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For three years the Goss twins, Luke and Matt, had the world at their feet. Their records ripped to the top of the charts, they filled concert halls and were mobbed wherever they went.Their fall was as fast and spectacular as their rise. From being pop?s golden boys they became the band that everyone loved to hate, amidst spectacular rumours of bankruptcy and media manipulation.What went wrong? In this compelling book Luke Goss tells the whole incredible...
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W. F. Howes Ltd
Pub. Date
2022
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You already know the stereotypes. The strong, independent woman who strips to support her own sumptuous lifestyle choices; the smart, sassy student who strips to pay her way through university; or the savvy immigrant who sends money to her family back home. Or what about the wayward party girl rebelling against her strict upbringing, or the single-mum raising her child with precious little in the way of resources? In this powerful book, Stacey Clare,...
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Harper Element
Pub. Date
2017
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Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother?s substance abuse during pregnancy, new-born Megan is taken into Rosie?s loving care. Rosie is supposed to help Megan find her new permanent home, but it turns out that Megan has already found her ?forever mummy? in Rosie. Rosie grows incredibly attached to Megan and applies to adopt her, but the system refuses her in favour of a young couple and Rosie is devastated. Against all her instincts, Rosie...
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Pub. Date
2018
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Benjamin Zephaniah, who has travelled the world for his art and his humanitarianism, now tells the one story that encompasses it all: the story of his life. In the early 1980s when punks and Rastas were on the streets protesting about unemployment, homelessness and the National Front, Benjamin's poetry could be heard at demonstrations, outside police stations and on the dance floor. His mission was to take poetry everywhere, and to popularise it by...
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Gill Books
Pub. Date
2020
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It?s a dark, rainy afternoon on Dublin?s jammed M50. The rain is hammering on the windscreen of Daniella Moyles? car. She is 29, a highly successful radio presenter, model and influencer, but she can?t stop the panic building in her head and chest. The internal state that she has been trying to ignore is finally spilling over into something undeniably physical. She is petrified. She looks to her boyfriend and says, ?I don?t know who or where I am.?...
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William Collins
Pub. Date
2021
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That is myeconomist training, which I combine with an assumptionthat things can be improved - and it is how I haveapproached my whole career.?As a young civil servant, Jeremy Heywood?s insightful questioning of the status quo pushed him to the centre of political power in this country for more than 25 years.He served directly four Prime Ministers in various roles including as the Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, as the first and...
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Where is the place your body is anchored? Which body of water is yours? Is it that I've anchored myself in too many places at once, or nowhere at all? The answer lies somewhere between. Nina Mingya Powles first learned to swim in Borneo - where her mother was born and her grandfather studied freshwater fish. There, the local swimming pool became her first body of water. Through...
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Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2019
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A week after her forty-first birthday, Anne Boyer was diagnosed with highly aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. For a single mother living payslip to payslip who had always been the caregiver rather than the one needing care, the catastrophic condition was both a crisis and an initiation into new ideas about mortality and the gendered politics of illness. A twenty-first-century Illness as Metaphor, as well as a harrowing memoir of survival,...
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Lagom
Pub. Date
2024
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With the death of her husband Greg as the catalyst, Stacey explores the full spectrum of our lives as women and all its complexities. Told through the lens of her life and experiences, she examines the messy and unexpected realities of love, desire, motherhood, death, grief and its aftermath, and the challenges and questions that our nuanced lives force upon us.
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Picador
Pub. Date
2022
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Clive James has been close to death for several years, and he has written about the experience in a series of deeply moving poems. In 'Sentenced to Life,' he was clear-sighted as he faced the end, honest about his regrets. In 'Injury Time,' he wrote about living well in the time remaining, focusing our attention on the joys of family and art, and celebrating the immediate beauty of the world. When 'The River in the Sky' opens, we find James in ill...
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Whether he likes it or not, John is getting older. His hair is greying, it's getting that much harder to stay fit, and the potential to become something of an embarrassment is ever increasing. But hope is not lost. 'How to Grow Old' is John's offering to the world. With sage advice on how to avoid the common pitfalls of age, intimate confessions and spit-your-dentures-out hilarious commentary on his own advancing years, this is his observational comic...
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Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2021
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The malodorous horrors of sports day. Bracing yourself for Parents' Evening. Refereeing teenage relationship dramas. This is not what you see in the adverts. From the age of eight, Ryan Wilson dreamt of being a teacher. This is the inside story of his time at the chalkface, from fresh-faced trainee with grand ideals to exhausted assistant head battling ever-changing government demands. It is a tribute to the colleagues who befriended him and to the...
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Virago
Pub. Date
2021
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When Joan Bakewell - Labour Peer, author and famous champion of the older people's right to a good and fruitful life - decided that she could no longer remain in her old home, she had to confront what she calls 'the next segment of life.' Disposing of things accumulated during a long life, saying goodbye to her home and the memories of more than fifty years, thinking about what is needed for downsizing - all suddenly became urgent and emotional tasks....
15) The best of me
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Abacus
Pub. Date
2021
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With sardonic wit and incisive social critiques, David Sedaris has become one of America's pre-eminent humour writers. This compendium of his best stories, selected by Sedaris himself, features an introduction by the author; two never-before-collected stories, 'Unbuttoned' and 'Undecided'; and a new interview.
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'No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritise it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something, anything - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to...
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Pub. Date
2023
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Khan looks back on his exhilarating boxing career that spanned 27 years from his first fight to his last. A role model for his Pakistani heritage, his Bolton upbringing and the best of British sport, Khan also reveals for the first time the full story of his life outside of the ring. Told with his trademark warmth, humour and honesty, Khan relives his highs and lows. He shares never-before-told stories about his greatest fights and rivalries. He reflects...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2021
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Every day we think about love, and every day love eludes us. Maybe you're hoping to begin a new relationship, or in a secret place in your heart, gathering the courage to leave one. Maybe you're in a long-term partnership, wondering how to sustain love through life's many storms. Maybe you're a parent and you want to be a better one; or you've lost a parent, and that loss suddenly dwarves everything else. After years of interviewing people about their...
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Fleet
Pub. Date
2024
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As people, we are capable of both love and hate; amazement and disgust; fun and misery. So why do we live in a world that is constantly telling us to hate, both ourselves and others? We are told constantly to be repulsed by our own bodies, bodies that let us laugh and sweat and eat toast, amongst other activities; to be ashamed of pleasure; to be embarrassed by fun. In this brand-new collection, Hollie McNish brings her inimitable style to the question...