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Victoria Pendleton

**'This book blew me away. It's brilliant' – Chris Evans'Brilliant and inspiring' – Ben Fogle**Do you want to increase your confidence, feel less anxious and get more out of life?In this clear, practical book, Olympic gold medallist Victoria Pendleton shows how much you stand to gain by doing small things that scare you and reframing your relationship with fear.This philosophy didn’t just drive her to gold medals; it powered her through huge challenges from ...

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Victoria Pendleton

The Golden Girl of British cycling opens up, for the first time, in searingly honest detail about what drives her to compete in a sport she no longer loves. Written with Donald McRae, 2 time winner of the William Hill Award, “Between the Lines” is THE Olympic autobiography.Victoria Pendleton MBE is not your typical female athlete.Admired as much by the weekly glossies as she is the newspaper back pages, she transcends her sport.In 2005 she became first British femal...

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Victoria Pendleton

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Victoria Pendleton

**Read by the author, Olympic Champion Victoria PendletonIncrease your confidence, feel less anxious and get more out of life by taking small steps outside your comfort zone.**In The Fear Opportunity, Olympic Gold medallist Victoria Pendleton shows just how much you stand to gain by reframing your relationship with fear. This clear and practical audiobook sets out how doing small, everyday things that scare you is the key to building self-confidence, handling anxie...

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Mike Soutar

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Mike Soutar

***Features an exclusive interview with Simon Squibb, bestselling author of What's Your Dream?*'The real deal' – Alan Sugar***This audiobook is read by the author, and the Apprentice's most feared interviewer, Mike Soutar.Everything you know about leadership is about to expire.The rulebook most leaders rely on was written for a slower world that no longer exists.Next Gen CEO is not a book ab...

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Hazel Sheffield

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Hazel Sheffield

Brought to you by Penguin.The inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places, the opportunities they present for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change.'Frontierlands' are Britain's forgotten places. Silt-filled harbours, overgrown forests, sunken railway tracks and empty buildings. All once economic engines, now abandoned by investors and the state.But they are ho...

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Neil Shea

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Neil Shea

**Read by the author, Neil Shea'Magnificent and moving. Shea writes with the magic of an aurora illuminating how life is rapidly changing across the cold expanses of the Arctic**' - Steve Brusatte, Sunday Times bestselling author of *The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs'*Enchanting and fascinating, full of wonder and wildlife . . . An extraordinary and necessary read' - Annie Worsley author of WindsweptA breathtaking and epic...

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Aya Koda

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Ela Lee

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Charlotte Goff

Brought to you by Penguin.An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda – now available in English for the first time‘Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them…’Ezo spruce, hinoki, cherry blossoms. Persimmon, maple, cypress. The trees of Japan cast a spell on those who visit its landscape. But as a child, writer Aya Koda realized they were...

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Fred Mills

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Fred Mills

Brought to you by Penguin.Construction is the most important industry in the world. The homes we wake up to, the schools we raise our children in, the transport infrastructure we all use, the hospitals we rely on – all of it was built and enabled by construction.In Mega Builds, YouTube sensation Fred Mills charts the story of how ten colossal megaprojects are reshaping our modern world. Fred gives us a front row seat to a fascinati...

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James Holland

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Al Murray

Brought to you by Penguin.Although the Second World War was still a long way from being won, even by early 1941, US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was already planning for peace. America’s entry of the war may still have been almost a year away, but he could already see the new world order that needed to emerge from the smouldering ashes of Europe. The business of war was very quickly going to have to become the business of peace.Three years later, und...

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Megha Mohan

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Megha Mohan

Brought to you by Penguin.A landmark exploration of women-led communities worldwide and what they can teach us about new ways to live, think and govern, from BBC global correspondent Megha Mohan.Society isn’t working for women - or any of us.But what if the rules were different?Imagine a world in which women have all the power. A world in which they work together to shape their societies and...

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Sinclair McKay

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Sinclair McKay

Brought to you by Penguin.The remarkable story of the Real 'Dad's Army', from the bestselling historian of The Secret Life of Bletchley ParkWith the threat of invasion from Hitler's forces looming large in 1940, men of all ages and backgrounds assembled under the banner of the Home Guard. A voluntary force much later nicknamed ‘Dad’s Army’, at its height there were almost two million volunteers prepared to defend every corner of th...

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Meena Kandasamy

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Mandeep Kapoor, Meena Kandasamy

THE WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED POET AND PROVOCATEURAn iconic, must-read novel of incels, influencers and AK-47s'Best book of the year' NUSSAIBAH YOUNIS'I'm a fan' NICOLA STURGEON'Fearless and brilliant' LEMN SISSAY'One of the greats' NIKITA GILL'A tour de force' NIKESH SHUKLAI mute the audio. I replay the video four times.It is not me. It is my fucking face.