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Memoirs
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The Tidal Year : a memoir on grief, swimming and sisterhood€20.99For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her brother's death left behind.
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A Flat Place€20.99Noreen Masud has always loved flatlands. Her earliest memory is of a wide, flat field glimpsed from the back seat of her father's car in Lahore.
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Leitrim Observed : A Biography of John McGahern (Hardback)€24.99This is the first full length biography of one of Ireland’s most loved writers. A man who was able to go from a plain to a heightened prose style with deceptive ease, John McGahern was as scrupulous as he was pure in the manner in which he crafted his books.
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Surviving to Drive (Hardback)€23.99People talk about football managers being under pressure. Trust me, that's nothing. Pressure is watching one of your drivers hit a barrier at 190mph and exploding before your eyes.
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Free Spirit : A Memoir of an Extraordinary Life€23.99Free Spirit tells the extraordinary life story of Tanya Sarne and her triumphs, setbacks and survival. Hers is a tale of resilience, of second and third chances and of global fashion success as the founder of Ghost, with a fanbase described by Marie Claire in the Nineties as 'bigger than the Spice Girls'.
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Friendaholic : Confessions of a Friendship Addict€20.99As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as - if not more - important?
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Taking Sides : a memoir about love, war, and changing the world€22.99The deeply moving memoir of an award-winning war correspondent turned activist - and her rousing defence of human rights in times of resurgent authoritarianism. As a broadcast journalist for Sky News and Al Jazeera, Sherine Tadros was trained to tell only the facts, as dispassionately as possible.
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A Love That Kills : Stories of Forensic Psychology and Female Violence€23.99Female violence is a truth too uncomfortable for most to consider. We treat those who kill, abuse and commit terrible acts as outcasts - they are monsters, angels of death, manifestations of pure evil and a threat to the ideals of womanhood.
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In Ordinary Time : Fragments of a Family History€21.99In 1993, aged twenty, Carmel Mc Mahon left Ireland for New York, carrying $500, two suitcases and a ton of unseen baggage. It took years, and a bitter struggle with alcohol addiction, to unpick the intricate traumas of her past and present.
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Bardskull€22.99Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles.