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Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg

Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by New York Times bestselling author Emily Rapp Black is an amputee’s personal examination of how the experiences, art, and disabilities of Frida Kahlo shaped her life....

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Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe

Sauntering features sixty writers - classic and contemporary - who travel Europe by foot. We join Henriette D'Angeville climbing Mont Blanc; Nellie Bly roaming the trenches of war-torn Poland; Werner ...

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Happy Half-Hours

A delightful selection of writing from non-fiction books and articles by the ever-popular A.A. Milne, many of which haven't been in print for decades. Introduced by the prize-winning children’s auth...

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Brazil That Never Was

This unique travel book on Brazil by AJ Lees tells the true Colonel Fawcett story. Colonel Percy Fawcett was a British explorer, who in 1925 had gone in search of the lost city of Z in the Amazon, but...

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On Dogs: An Anthology

Signed copies available The writers and poets collected within this delectable anthology reflect on the joys and pitfalls of dog ownership with wit and affection. From Roald Amundsen’s account of u...

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What Time Is It?

Visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel came together came together for the last time to create this precious little volume about time.

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A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing

The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. The perfect gift book on fishing...

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Beneath My Feet: Writers on Walking

Walking and writing have always gone together. Think of the poets who walk out a rhythm for their lines and the novelists who put their characters on a path. But the best insights, the deepest and mos...

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Denial: The Unspeakable Truth

The Holocaust never happened. The planet isn’t warming. Vaccines cause autism. There is no such thing as AIDS. The Earth is flat. Kahn-Harris sets out not just to unpick denialists’ arguments, bu...

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Break A Leg: A Dictionary of theatrical quotations

'The book is a joy, to be kept near at hand and to dip into at random. A must for any lover of the theatre.' - Breakaway Reviewers

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Notting Hill: A Walking Guide

A walking guide to this historic London neighbourhood, uncovering its countercultural roots.

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How Shostakovich Changed My Mind

BBC music broadcaster Stephen Johnson (who has Bipolar Disorder himself) explores the power of Shostakovich’s music during Stalin’s reign of terror, and writes of the extraordinary healing effect ...

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