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Biographies
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Hope: How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life (Paperback)€17.99Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across.
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Nothing Ever Just Disappears : Seven Hidden Histories€29.99At the turn of the century, in the shade of Cambridge's cloisters, a young E. M. Forster conceals his passion for other men, even as he daydreams about the sun-warmed bodies of ancient Greece.
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Hope: How Street Dogs Taught Me the Meaning of Life : Featuring Rodney, Mcmuffin and King Whacker€22.99Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me. Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days feeding, caring for and rescuing the many street dogs he comes across.
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The Chief : The Life of Lord Northcliffe Britain's Greatest Press Baron€15.99A definitive and compelling biography of Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe (1865-1922), the greatest press magnate in history, the genius who invented modern popular journalism, and against whom all the other great newspaper proprietors must be measured.
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Wifedom : Mrs Orwell's Invisible Life€23.99Looking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder slips into the pages of her hero George Orwell. As she watches him create his writing self, she tries to remember her own.
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Diana - Remembering the Princess : Reflections on her life, twenty-five years on from her death€12.99'Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity. All over the world, a standard bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a very British girl who transcended nationality.
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The Secret History of the Mongols€15.99A new translation of a great historical epic, recounting the turbulent life and times of Chinggis Khan.
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The KLF : Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds€27.99They were the bestselling singles band in the world.
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Jan Ullrich : The Best There Never Was€15.99Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most naturally talented cyclist of his generation, and also one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France. In 1997, Jan Ullrich announced himself to the world by obliterating his rivals at the Tour de France and becoming Germany's first ever winner.
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American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer€15.99Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most famous scientist of his generation.