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  A Saga of the Seas - From their...

  Kenneth Grahame

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  Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. 
  At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever.  His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire. Here the children lived in large open grounds next to the river.  These early experiences would in later years, be retold in his writing through a myriad of characters. 
  Grahame loved being a pupil at St Edward's School, Oxford and wanted to enroll at the university there but his guardian demurred on account of the cost. 
  Instead, a banking career was chosen for him, starting in 1879 at the Bank of England, where he rose steadily to the rank of its Secretary until retiring, with a pension, in 1908 due to ill health. 
  Alongside his commercial career Grahame had written and published various stories and essays in several periodicals. Some were anthologized as ‘Pagan Papers’ in 1893, and two years later ‘The Golden Age’ and later still ‘Dream Days’ and its masterpiece ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ became part of many home libraries.  His ability to view life through the lens of a young and curious child was superb, enabling the reader to easily identify with the character.   
  Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 and they had one child; Alastair, born semi-blind and plagued by health problems.  In a heart-rending tragedy he would later take his own life whilst attending Oxford University in 1920.   
  In 1908 Grahame reworked many of the bedtime stories he had fashioned for his son into the enduring favourite; ‘The Wind in the Willows’, describing the heart-warming adventures of Mr Toad and his friends.   
  Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6th July 1932.

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  Turn Toward the Storm - How I...

  Bevan Cox

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  He almost pulled the trigger. Not because he wanted to die—but because he couldn’t find a reason to keep surviving. 
  On the outside, Bevan Cox looked like a man who had it all: career success, physical strength, social admiration. But on the inside, he was drowning in a storm of childhood trauma, betrayal, codependent relationships, and a justice system weaponized against him. When the noise became too loud to silence, and his final goodbye was moments away from being uploaded, one divine interruption stopped it. 
  This book is that story. 
  Told with gut-wrenching honesty and zero sugarcoating, Bevan pulls back the curtain on what it means to rebuild your life from rock bottom. Through false arrests, trauma bonds, narcissistic abuse, and suicidal ideation, he doesn’t just survive—he heals. And in doing so, he offers a roadmap for anyone carrying invisible scars they’ve been taught to ignore. 
  You’ll walk with him through jail cells, therapy rooms, fitness competitions, and the quiet moments when he sits with family becomes real. You’ll learn how to set boundaries, rewire beliefs, dismantle the ego, and reclaim the version of yourself that’s too afraid to reach. And most of all, you’ll learn that peace is not a reward for the favored—it’s a decision for the free. 
  If your pain has ever whispered that your story is over, this book is here to tell you: it’s just beginning.

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  Carl Jung - The Psychoanalyst...

  Lily Yuan

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  This fascinating biography follows the life of one of the most extraordinary psychologists of modern times, Carl Jung, and the incredible impact he made on our understanding of the human mind. 
   
  Author Lily Yuan takes us on a journey through Jung's life, beginning with the formative years of his childhood through his tumultuous relationship with fellow psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud to his travels across the world in his later years. Jung developed such innovative ideas as extraversion and introversion, the shadow, and synchronicity; created a range of stunning works of art, and his legacy can be seen all around us in the music we listen to, the stories we read and the movies we watch. 
   
  With clear explanations of his groundbreaking ideas and insights into Jung's unique personality, this is a compelling introduction to one of the great minds of the 20th century.

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  How did we get here - A girl's...

  Mpoomy Ledwaba

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  'When women heal, generations heal.'
  To her thousands of fans, Wisdom & Wellness founder, speaker and influencer Mpoomy Ledwaba is a symbol of strength and women empowerment. But going from university dropout to Forbes magazine's list of 30 Under 30 wasn't always easy – it took courage and a commitment to personal growth.
  How Did We Get Here? is her coming-of-age story. Looking back on her upbringing, major milestones and the challenges she's faced, Mpoomy takes us on her journey of self-discovery. Behind the Instagram likes and millions of views on YouTube is a driven woman who sometimes bit o¬ more than she could chew. This mother of two, who is married to an award-winning musician, didn't always have a plan and rarely fitted the mould of 'the good wife'.
  Mpoomy writes openly not only about the mistakes she's made, the hurt she's experienced and some of the hard truths she's had to learn about life, but also about how her faith has been a guiding light. As a firm believer in the power of stories, she uses her personal history to show how to live a purposeful life on all levels.
  'I share to normalise talking about those shameful, hurtful things we keep hidden. I share because shame loses its power when we find safe spaces to share our truth …'

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  Ghosted: Dating & Other...

  Jana Eisenstein

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  Fueled by cheap vodka and low standards in her twenties, Jana naively assumes that “happily ever after” is just a dark, sweaty nightclub away. 
    
  In this memoir, Jana meets men. A lot of men — at bars, online, on New York rooftops. But with every face-licker, toe-sucker, and internet creep who just wants to bathe with her, it becomes clearer that hers is a ghost story, not the fairy tale she expected. Still single in her thirties, with the specter of loneliness looming, she realizes she’ll need to adjust her approach to dating and her relationship with herself, or risk being haunted by the mistakes of her dating past, and a future of shirtless bathroom selfies. 
    
  Though Ghosted by Jana Eisenstein depicts the struggle to find lasting love in a world where romantic connections are ephemeral and difficult to conjure, at its heart, it’s a story about learning to accept that when it comes to dating, there are scarier fates than ending up alone.

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  Three Weeks in July: 7 7 The...

  Adam Wishart, James Nally

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  'A superb book’ – Observer 
  ‘Gripping, vivid and compelling’ – The Critic 
  ‘Humane, absorbing and meticulous’ – New Statesman 
  ‘An extraordinary book’ James O’Brien, TLS 
  Three Weeks in July is the extraordinary and definitive account of the events of the 7/7 London bombings, publishing on the 20th anniversary of the event. 
  Three Weeks in July delivers the definitive narrative of the 7 July 2005 London bombings and the chaos, confusion and terror that followed. 
  A true-crime investigation interwoven with high-stakes politics and history, it reveals untold accounts of the response to 7/7 by the government and the Metropolitan Police, as well as their efforts to prevent a second wave of attacks. Drawing on insights from key figures like Tony Blair, Peter Clarke (head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch at the Metropolitan Police) and Sir Ian Blair (Metropolitan Police commissioner), as well as victims and first responders, the book chronicles the frenzy of the first hours after the attack and the pivotal three weeks of police work, forensics and political machinations whose repercussions are still being felt to this day. 
  Three Weeks in July is the definitive account of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern British history, and a visceral and propulsive narrative that examines the vulnerabilities of the state and the ethical dilemmas of national security. 
  Three Weeks in July by Adam Wishart is a definitive narrative of the 2005 London bombings, offering a detailed account of the national and international response to the terror attacks. The book, a top choice in non-fiction, explores the social and political challenges of dealing with terrorism in 21st century Britain, shedding light on the ethical dilemmas of national security. 
  For fans of Douglas Thompson (Inside Out), Caroline Fraser (Prairie Fires), John L. Williams (CLR James), David Collins (Saffie), and Adam Higginbotham (Challenger). 
  HarperCollins 2025

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