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With less than a month until Christmas Day, let us help you find those exceptional books for the ones you love. The collectable signed first editions below will not be around for much longer, so make sure you snap up a perfect present today.

On Days Like These: My Life in Football

by Martin O'Neill

With a career spanning over fifty years, Martin tells of his exhilarating highs and painful lows; from the joys of winning trophies, promotion and fighting for World Cups to being harangued by fans, boardroom drama, relegation scraps and being fired.

Martin O’Neill is one of the most fascinating and respected figures in football. On Days Like These tells the story of his remarkable career.

Too Much

by Tom Allen

'An extraordinary portrait of a son navigating his way through grief and loss in real time. Funny, candid, and measured' -Graham Norton

With moving honesty and wit, Tom writes beautifully about those days, weeks and months following his family's loss, and about how bewildering the practicalities of life can be in the wake of an upheaval - those moments, really, when everything can start to feel a bit too much...

The Game

by Micah Richards

Ever wondered what really goes on inside a Premier League dressing room, what it’s like to train under Roy Hodgson, Roberto Mancini and Fabio Capello – and what happens when you kick a sandwich at one of them?

Full of Micah’s signature cheeky wit, this intimate, unmissable memoir goes behind the scenes of the beautiful game and a remarkable life and career.

The Satsuma Complex

by Bob Mortimer

‘The much loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apart’ – Observer

A page-turning story with a cast of unforgettable characters, The Satsuma Complex is the brilliantly funny first novel by bestselling author and comedian Bob Mortimer.

Act of Oblivion

by Robert Harris

'From what is it they flee?'

He took a while to reply. By the time he spoke the men had gone inside.

He said quietly, 'They killed the King.'

Act of Oblivion is an epic journey across continents, and a chase like no other. It is the thrilling new novel by Robert Harris.

The Bullet That Missed

by Richard Osman

It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.

Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart.

No Plan B

by Lee Child & Andrew Child

Gerrardsville, Colorado. One tragic event. Two witnesses. Two conflicting accounts.

The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the No.1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

Soft Lad

by Nick Grimshaw

These are Grimmy's stories of things gone right and wrong across his life and career so far, with all the highs and lows and everything in-between.

Nostalgic and heartfelt, it will shine a humorous and captivating lens on the ever-evolving cultural obsessions we live by.

The Empire

by Michael Ball

Welcome to The Empire theatre

1922. When Jack Treadwell arrives at The Empire, in the middle of a rehearsal, he is instantly mesmerised.



Musical theatre legend Michael Ball brings his trademark warmth, wit and glamour to this, his debut novel.

An Emotional Dictionary

by Susie Dent

Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel and Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them.

How to be an Ex-Footballer

by Peter Crouch

Peter Crouch goes in search of the answer to what his second career might be and encounters stories far more bizarre than anything you'll find on the pitch. Peter talks to entrepreneurs, men of the cloth, eco warriors, artists, private detectives and budding actors, as well as those who've lost their way in addiction, crime and NFTs.

When the final whistle blows, it's still all to play for.

Superspy Science

by Kathryn Harkup

Could our favourite Bond villains actually achieve world domination? Were the huge variety of weapons and technology in Bond's arsenal from both the films and books ever actually developed in real life? And would 007 actually escape all those close shaves intact? From the plots to the gadgets to the ludicrous ways that his life is threatened, Superspy Science takes an in-depth look at the scientific world of James Bond.

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