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At the age of 15, Cat Marnell unknowingly set out to murder her life. After a privileged yet emotionally-starved childhood in Washington, she became hooked on ADHD medication provided by her psychiatrist father. This led to a dependence on Xanax and other prescription drugs at boarding school, and she experimented with cocaine, ecstasy. whatever came her way. By 26 she was a talented ‘doctor shopper’ who manipulated Upper East Side psychiatrists into giving her never-ending prescriptions; her life had become a twisted merry-go-round of parties and pills at night, and trying to hold down a high profile job at Condé Naste during the day. With a complete lack of self-pity and an honesty that is almost painful, Cat describes the crazed euphoria, terrifying comedowns and the horrendous guilt she feels lying to those who try to help her.
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‘You Will Not Have My Hate’ is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Antoine, and his baby son Melvil, endured after Hélène’s murder. With courage, moral acuity, and absolute emotional honesty, he finds a way to answer the question, how can I go on?
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From Hannah Kent, the bestselling author of Burial Rites, comes The Good People, set in nineteenth-century Ireland and based on newspaper reports and a court case from the time.
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This is a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. ‘All These Wonders’ features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include the writers Marlon James and Christina Lamb, as well as a hip hop ‘one hit wonder’, an astronomer gazing at the surface of Pluto for the first time, and a young female spy risking everything as part of Churchill’s secret army during World War II. They share their ventures into uncharted territory – and how their lives were changed forever by what they found there.
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More extraordinary but true stories from London’s history.
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‘You Will Not Have My Hate’ is an extraordinary and heartbreaking memoir about how Antoine, and his baby son Melvil, endured after Hélène’s murder. With courage, moral acuity, and absolute emotional honesty, he finds a way to answer the question, how can I go on?
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A quirky collection of stories from London’s stranger side, featuring a tiny prison cell in Trafalgar Square, a train disguised as a ship, and a church that’s completely the wrong way round.
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The gripping first-hand account of the events that inspired the major film ‘Bridge of Spies’, starring Tom Hanks, by the man at the centre of them all – James B. Donovan. The capture and trial of Colonel Abel, the Soviet’s most capable and effective spy, revealed the chilling depths of the KGB’s penetration of the West. But when American U2 spy plane pilot Gary Powers was shot down over Russia, both men’s fate hung in the balance. The stakes couldn’t have been higher.
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A nostalgic look at what it was really like to be a 1950s mother and how the baby-boom generation was made.
