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Ghost Stories: A Memoir (Signed Edition)
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The Path More Travelled: The Secret History of Britain's Footpaths (Signed Edition)
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Famesick
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The Great Good Places (Signed Edition)
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Keegan: The Man Who Was King
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The Brothers Grimm: A Biography
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Don't Forget We're Here Forever
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Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand
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Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women
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Letters to Sophia: The Afterlives of Hester Thrale
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Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono and the Avant Garde Diaspora (Signed Edition)
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Learning from Silence: Finding clarity and calm in a world of mounting uncertainty
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Fearless and Free: A Memoir
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The Writing Life
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The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder
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Letter to My Younger Self: Inspirational Women
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Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World
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Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour
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Making the Cut: An Unorthodox Love Story
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Love in Exile (Signed Edition)
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Picasso: A Biography (50th Anniversary Edition)
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Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams and Distortions
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The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir
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The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Father of Modern Fantasy
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Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time
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Powsels and Thrums
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My Dear Kabul
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The Natural History of Crime: Case studies in death and the clues nature leaves behind
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Why I Write
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The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things
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The Worst Journey in the World: Volume 1
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The Crystal Vase
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Two Women Living Together
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Went to London, Took the Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway
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The Worlds of Jane Austen: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Novels
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