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5) Hear me out
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'I can't rewrite history; all I can do is be honest and wear my heart on my sleeve. It's really the only way I know. I want to show people the real me. Or perhaps remind them. Because, somewhere - amongst the nightclubs, the frocks and hairdos, the big chart hits, and the glamour of being a popstar - the other Sarah Harding got utterly lost. She's the one who's been forgotten. And all I want is for you to hear her out.' Sarah Harding is best known...
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At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. Here Sissay recounts his life story. It is a story of neglect and determination. Misfortune and hope. Cruelty and...
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Canongate Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Previously published as Guantanamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion picture The first and only diary written by a Guantanamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored. Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay in 2002. There he suffered the worst of what the prison had to offer, including months of sensory deprivation, torture and sexual assault....
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Profile Books
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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'Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country. Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesn't have to leave a part of themselves behind to achieve it.' David Lammy MP What does it take to make it in modern Britain? Ask a politician, and they'll tell you it's hard work. Ask a millionaire, and they'll tell you...
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Jammer Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Katie tells the remarkable story of what's happened in the years since she bravely left the safety of her parents' home. She reveals the genuine fears she continues to overcome behind closed doors, and the realities, both physical and emotional, of her ongoing, painful recovery. Her story is still dark at times, but it will also delight and surprise; she has found her Prince Charming, and Katie reveals both the wonder and anxiety of becoming a mother....
10) The librarian
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I know my community well. And they know me. The library is a sanctuary for some, a place for warmth for others and, on many occassions, an internet cafe. It's not always the books that bring us together. That's why you might be surprised to hear that I've been...
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2021
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Fizzing with energy, hilarity and charm, The Right Sort of Girl is the incredible first memoir from Countryfile's Anita Rani. 'Warm, honest and funny, filled with hope and inspiration' Nikesh Shukla 'Funny, touching, occasionally veering into beautifully controlled, quiet rage... a must-read' Viv Groskop 'Like a bloody good natter with your down-to-earth friend' Shappi Khorsandi 'A joy from start to finish' Emma Kennedy 'Empowering... I will be recommending...
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Victoria Whitworth began swimming in the cold waters of Orkney as a means of temporary escape from a failing marriage, a stifling religious environment and a series of health problems. Over four years, her encounters with the sea and all its weathers, the friendships she made, the wild creatures she encountered, combined to transform her life. This book is a love letter, to the beach where she swims regularly and its microcosmic world, to the ever-changing...
13) Romany and Tom
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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Ben Watt's father, Tommy, was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician, a politicised left-wing bandleader and a composer. His heyday in the late fifties took him into the glittering heart of Londons West End, where he broadcast live with his own orchestra from the Paris Theatre and played nightly with his quintet at the the glamorous Quaglino's. Ben's mother, Romany, the daughter of a Methodist parson, schooled at Cheltenham Ladies' College,...
14) Ali: a life
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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The man who had once been reviled for his refusal to fight for his country and for his fast-talking denunciation of his opponents was now almost universally adored, the true cost of his astonishing boxing career clear to see. In Jonathan Eig's ground-breaking and definitive biography, we get a comprehensive portrait of one of the most significant personalities of the second half of the twentieth century. We are not only taken inside the ring for some...
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Profile Books
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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'It's a gift. Not a gift I want, but it is a gift' Days before the birth of his first son, writer and academic John M. Hull started to go blind. He would lose his sight entirely, plunged into darkness, unable to distinguish any sense of light or shadow. Isolated and claustrophobic, he sank into a deep depression. Soon, he had forgotten what his wife and daughter looked like. In Notes on Blindness, John reveals his profound sense of loss, his altered...
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Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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Addicted broke new ground in sports books back in 1998 with its searing honesty about life as Arsenal and England captain alongside his struggles with alcoholism. Almost 20 years on, Sober tells of what happened once Tony gave up the drink and how he won his life back. His story will include his thoughts and feelings on six more years of playing for Arsenal, during which he would help the team win another League and Cup Double, and his subsequent...
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Gill Books
Pub. Date
2020
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English
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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.?...
19) And away
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Here is the long-awaited first 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 an upcoming tour. The episode unnerved him, but forced him to reflect on his life so far. This is the framework for this hilarious and moving memoir.
20) Hunting killers
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AS SEEN ON ITV'S THIS MORNING Death has a unique smell. I've been in the presence of people who have killed; I've been in rooms where people have been killed. I've seen the unspeakable things human beings are capable of. None of that puts me off my aim; I want to see those people caught, convicted and sent to jail. Mark Williams-Thomas is a former police detective and multi-award-winning investigative journalist. He has been at the centre of some...
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