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Victoria Pendleton

Increase 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 medalist Victoria Pendleton shows just how much you stand to gain by reframing your relationship with fear. This clear and practical book sets out how doing small, everyday things that scare you is the key to building self-confidence, handling anxiety, and coping when life gets bumpy.The theory i...

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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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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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Turi Munthe

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Turi Munthe

Brought to you by Penguin.An eye-opening journey through the secret forces shaping our opinions, this book reveals why we think what we think – and why disagreement mattersOur opinions – whether we believe in God or in ghosts, our views on sex or animal rights or immigration, our basic sense of what’s good or fair – are shaped by a breathtaking web of hidden forces. The age-old idea that our views are forged by reason and evidence alone is ...

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Simone Stolzoff

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Simone Stolzoff

"Spectacular." ―Daniel PinkA guide to dealing with uncertainty at a time when our lives have never felt less certain.From our careers to our politics to our personal lives, the future is unknown. And yet, our capacity to tolerate this uncertainty is in decline. How to Not Know will help you prepare for and even appreciate the uncertainty that surrounds us.Through gripping stories of people grappling with big problems withou...

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Justin Marozzi

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Richard Trinder

Slavery in the Islamic world has a complex and controversial history. In the earliest days of Islam, Arab Muslims enslaved men, women, and children as the spoils of war. In the following centuries, young boys were imported to imperial Islamic courts in enormous numbers. Some were castrated to serve as guardians of sacred spaces, while others were "harvested" by the Ottomans to serve in the sultan's elite infantry unit. Some even rose to the highest levels of political and military command,...

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Paul Coulter

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Paul Coulter

Brought to you by Penguin.From breakups that ended empires to naps that sank ships, 10 Mistakes That Changed History reveals how overlooked historical errors are responsible for some of the most era-defining events of the past.Featuring many of the most recognisable characters and episodes in history, from Cleopatra to the sinking of the Titanic, comedian and historian Paul Coulter reframes our understanding of the...

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Johanna Swanberg

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Florence Howard

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Agnes Broomé

Brought to you by Penguin.There’s no health guru in Sweden better than Cassi. Couple’s therapy? Puppy yoga? Full moon rituals? She’s got everyone in the remote village of Bäcken covered. The locals don’t really know who Cassi is or how she managed to turn a derelict cottage into a successful self help retreat, but one thing is clear: they’re all willing to pay good money for her services.There’s only one problem: Cassi is a fraud. A great one at that, who h...

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Tom Chesshyre

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David Thorpe

In a small market town in the northeast of England in 1825, something momentous happened: ticket-bearing human beings started moving along wrought-iron tracks on a contraption with engine-powered wheels. The contraption was called a 'train'. What happened in Darlington, along a 26-mile line to Stockton, would kickstart the worldwide railway revolution. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of this groundbreaking event, Tom Chesshyre embarks on a journey around the country that invented trains...

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Ellie Bruce, Lucie Gray

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Ellie Bruce, Lucie Gray

When you search for the past, you just might find yourselfCousins Ellie and Lucie set out to find buried treasure. Instead, they stumble into an unexpected journey—one that uncovers forgotten histories, rekindles family bonds, and digs deep into who they are becoming.Reuniting for the first time in over twenty years at their grandfather’s home, the two quickly discover a shared fascination with hunting for the past. What begins as a tentative hobby soon bec...

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Colin Bell

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Colin Bell, James Warrior

A thrilling memoir from one of the last living WW2 pilots, published to mark his 105th birthday'Colin Bell DFC is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' JAMES HOLLAND'A terrific read, combining laugh-out-loud reminiscences with jaw-dropping accounts of aerial warfare' JOHN NICHOL'Stirring' The Times'Brimming with quiet courage and patriotism' Daily Mail