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Biography & Autobiography: Memoir

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Bigger Deal: A Year on the 'New' Poker Circuit

Bigger Deal: A Year on the 'New' Poker Circuit

Anthony Holden

Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden’s undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants...

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Available 07/08/2008

Touch Wood: Confessions of an Accidental Porn Director

Touch Wood: Confessions of an Accidental Porn Director

Anonymous

What would inspire a man to give up his job? Lie to his friends? Avoid his parents? Con his girlfriend? And shell out tens of thousands of his own cash? Only to spend months in a darkened room in...

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Available 07/08/2008

Foster Kid

Foster Kid

Paul Barber

After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of children’s and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of...

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Available 07/08/2008

Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond

Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond

Michele Roberts

Rebellion, revolution, experimental living, feminist communes, street theatre, radical magazines, love affairs – gay and straight – sex, drugs and rock and roll.

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Available 03/07/2008

Lopsided: How having breast cancer can be really distracting

Lopsided: How having breast cancer can be really distracting

Meredith Norton

‘As far as I'm concerned, Lance Armstrong and I are close to exact opposites, both physically and mentally … If surviving this particularly deadly form of breast cancer required any of the...

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Available 03/07/2008

In the Name of Honour

In the Name of Honour

Mukhtar Mai

Mukhtar Mai came to prominence in June 2002, when journalists in Pakistan first learned of her gang rape, punishment for an ‘honour crime’ allegedly committed by her brother, an offence for which...

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Available 05/06/2008

The Diary of 'Helena Morley'

The Diary of 'Helena Morley'

Elizabeth Bishop

From Elizabeth Bishop's introduction:

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Available 05/06/2008

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The Afterlife

The Afterlife

Donald Antrim

Donald Antrim’s mother Louanne was a difficult woman: an operatically suicidal, chainsmoking, delusional alcoholic who even when sober believed that her cat Merlin was a descendant of the Arthurian...

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Available 29/05/2008

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84 Charing Cross Road

84 Charing Cross Road

Helene Hanff Introduced by Juliet Stevenson

Cover design by Marion Dorn

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Wasted

Wasted

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson’s father had ‘LOVE’ tattooed across his left hand, but that didn’t stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one...

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Who Was Sophie?: The Two Lives of My Grandmother: Poet and Stranger

Who Was Sophie?: The Two Lives of My Grandmother: Poet and Stranger

Celia Robertson

'By the end of her life, Sophie Curly was essentially a bag lady you might have walked past on a park bench, or ignored, as she looked for something over and over again in her handbag. She was...

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The Making of Mr Hai's Daughter: Becoming British

The Making of Mr Hai's Daughter: Becoming British

Yasmin Hai

Mr Hai arrived in London in 1964. But, while becoming British via a passport had been relatively easy, becoming English was something to be studied - and then passed on, first to his wife, newly...

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