Keith Urban

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Four Grammys. 20 US Number Ones. A Hollywood marriage. Who wouldn’t want to be Keith Urban?Keith Urban came from humble origins. His father worked at the local tip and Keith was a high school dropout. …

Politics: A Survivor’s Guide

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A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICS BOOK OF 2023 ‘Passionate, clever, and often very funny’ Marina Hyde’A wonderful meditation on populism, nationalism, politics and truth’ Rory StewartWe live in an age of fu …

The Bookseller at the End of the World

Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about favourite books, and bittersweet stories from her full and varied life.She’s sailed through the Pacific for y …

How to Think Like a Woman

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As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college she discovere …

The Collaborators

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‘A multiple biography with overlapping chronology is a tricky feat and Buruma pulls it off magnificently.’ Ben Macintyre, The TimesOn the face of it, the three characters here seem to have little in c …

The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

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*A New York Times bestseller!*An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ intense and often fraught emotional lives – and how to support them through this critical development …

Why We Sing

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‘A must-read for anyone moved by the power of song’ – Lesley Garrett, CBESinging has always been there for us, at the root of what it is to be a human being. Through personal anecdote and scientific f …

Masters of the Lost Land

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‘Powerful’ Financial Times’More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller’ Spectator’A story we all need to hear’ New Statesman’Gripping… Araujo’s accretion of detail has a powerful effect’ New …

How to Fake Being Tidy

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My mother wasn’t much of a housekeeper. She wasn’t much of a cook either, although she tried. She longed to live a more unconventional life. Admirably high-minded, but it meant I never learnt to fold …

The Countess from Kirribilli

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She was ‘amused, cynical, ironic, loving, gay, ferocious, cold, ardent but never gentle’. She was a whirlwind. She created around her the atmosphere of a Court at which her friends were either in disg …

The Commanders

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A fascinating biography of Patton, Montgomery and Rommel which reveals how these three unique personalities rose to the highest ranks.

Freeman's Animals

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Over a century ago, Rilke went to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he watched a pair of flamingos. A flock of other birds screeched by, and, as he describes in a poem, the great red-pink birds s …

Bibliomaniac

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***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***’A unique, funny picture of Britain… A love letter to bookshops and the vagaries of public transport.’ Richard Osman’Ince’s love of books is infectious.’ ‘ …

If Walls Could Speak

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable structures – from the 1967 modular housing scheme in Montreal known as Habita …

Mary Lou McDonald

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Mary Lou McDonald is the bookies’ favourite to be Ireland’s next Taoiseach. She would be the first woman to reach the office, and the first Sinn Féin leader ever to enter government in the Republic of …

The Joy of Gardening

Gardens teach us to live in the moment. They nourish us, provide solace in grief and offer sanctuary from the stresses of modern life.In a celebration of the healing power of nature, New Zealand garde …