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  • Kicking the Habit

    From Convent to Casualty in 60s Liverpool

    If you loved the TV series 'Call the Midwife', this real life account of a young woman's journey from convent to casualty is just for you. Kicking the Habit is the story of Eleanor Stewart's transition from carefree young woman of the Beatles generation through to a reclusive life in a French convent and on to serving as an inner city midwife.Beginning among the parties and nightclubs of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and remarkable scientists of our age and author of the scientific bestseller "A Brief History of Time", which sold over 25 million copies across the world and will be adapted as a children's book in the Autumn of next year. In this compelling memoir his first wife, Jane Hawking, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen ... Read more

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  • Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

    A Memoir

    A heart-warming and hilarious family memoir of growing up as one of eleven siblings raised by a single dad in Northern Ireland at the end of the Troubles.Séamas O’Reilly’s mother died when he was five, leaving him, his ten (!) brothers and sisters, and their beloved father in their sprawling bungalow in rural Derry. It was the 1990s; the Troubles were a background rumble, but Séamas was more ... Read more

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  • And Then There Were Nuns

    "The best kind of memoir, revealing, refreshing, and reflective enough to make readers turn many of the questions on themselves." — Booklist (starred review)With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun.Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is "nun material," her long-term partner Colin ... Read more

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  • The Madness of Grief

    A Memoir of Love and Loss

    The No. 2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER from the author of the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling Canon Clement Series'Immensely moving and disarmingly witty' Nigella Lawson'Such a moving, tough, funny, raw, honest read' Matt Haig'Beautifully written, moving and gut-wrenching, but also at times very funny' Ian Rankin'Captures brilliantly, beautifully, bravely the comedy as well as th... ... Read more

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  • Wheels Within Wheels

    The Making of a Traveller

    by Dervla Murphy ...
    What is it that makes us who we are? In this beautifully written and searingly honest autobiography, the intrepid cyclist and traveller Dervla Murphy remembers her richly unconventional first thirty years. She describes her determined childhood self - strong-willed and beguiled by books from the first - her intermittent formal education and the intense relationship of an only child with her ... Read more

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  • Giving Up the Ghost

    A Memoir

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsThe New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her ... Read more

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  • The Stranger in the Mirror

    A Memoir of Middle Age

    by Jane Shilling ...
    Middle age took Jane Shilling by surprise. She hadn't seen it coming, and she certainly wasn't ready for it. Living a flawed, bittersweet version of the idyll she dreamed of in her twenties, in a tumbledown urban cottage by the Thames, with a son, a cat and a horse in a livery fifty miles away, she wondered whether middle age was the beginning of the end. Or was there one last great adventure to ... Read more

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  • Sisters of the East End

    by Helen Batten ...
    'A second's silence and then an almighty scream. It was the most moving thing I had ever seen . A baby, a real live baby, another human life had entered the world. It didn't seem possible and yet I had witnessed it with my very own eyes.'Born into a happy working-class North London family in the mid-twentieth century, Katie is determined to 'do something' with her life. Working in the impoverished ... Read more

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  • Fludd

    A Novel

    by Hilary Mantel ...
    From the double Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, a novel that Knits together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous. Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the ... Read more

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  • A Load of Old Bones

    by Suzette Hill ...
    All the Reverend Francis Oughterard had ever wanted was some peace and quiet, instead he becomes entangled in a nightmare world of accidental murder, predatory female parishioners, officious policemen and a drunken bishop. As the vicar's life spirals out of control it is his supercilious cat, Maurice, and bone obsessed hound, Bouncer, who save the day.A Load of Old Bones is a charming and farcical ... Read more

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  • Bright Hair About the Bone

    Series Book 2 - Laetitia Talbot
    In Burgundy, France, in 1926, a famed archaeologist dies a terrible death in a country not his own.*…*Thus begins CWA Historical Dagger Award winner Barbara Cleverly’s dazzling new mystery novel. And soon aspiring archaeologist Laetitia Talbot will find herself embroiled in a murderous conspiracy centuries in the making.Letty’s joy at snaring a place in the excavation of an ancient church in ... Read more

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