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Unlovable
Darren Hayes

Darren Hayes – singer, songwriter, producer, performer and former frontman of the iconic pop duo Savage Garden – takes control of his life story in this candid, unfiltered memoir.

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The Whole Truth
Jackie O
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PATRIOT
Alexei Navalny

AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: The powerful and moving memoir of a fearless political opposition leader who paid the ultimate price for his beliefs

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The Lives of the Caesars
Suetonius
The Taylor Swift Book
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The Tell
Amy Griffin
Knife
Salman Rushdie
Alive
Gabriel Weston
Stasiland
Anna Funder
There's Always This Year
Hanif Abdurraqib
The Drowned Places
Damian Le Bas
The In-Between
Hadley Vlahos
Chopping Onions on My Heart
Samantha Ellis
The Golden Throne
Christopher de Bellaigue
Ask Me How It Works
Deepa Paul
I've Been Thinking
Daniel C. Dennett
Friends in Youth
Minoo Dinshaw
BIG DUNC
Duncan Ferguson
Dianaworld
Edward White
Poets Square
Courtney Gustafson
My Family and Other Spies
Alistair Wood
Natural Connection
Joycelyn Longdon

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