30-Day Bestsellers

Author: Kate Kennedy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A group of notable writers - including UK poet laureate Simon Armitage, Julian Barnes, Margaret MacMillan, and Jenny Uglow - celebrate...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A lasting work of social history' THE TIMES'A genuinely new history of our nation' DAN JONES'This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history' SPECTATOR...

A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...

'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . ....

Author: Eddie Betts Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 It's a long, hard road from the Nullarbor to the MCG. Winner of the Australian Book Industry Awards, Social Impact Book...

The all new, must-read memoir by legendary Kinks guitarist Dave Davies'BOOK OF THE DAY' - Guardian'This powerful tell-all from the Kinks guitarist puts the spotlight on his own bad behaviour,...

Author: Michael Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of detail, context and narrative structure... the results are impressively claustrophobic.'...

Author: Zing Tsjeng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 592 'To say this [book] is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces...

**Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we...

Balanchine's radical approach to choreography reinvented the art of dance and his richly evocative ballets made him a lasting legend. Today, nearly thirty years after his death, the man is...

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'Shocking and moving' Guardian'A tour-de-force' Washington PostAt eight years of age, Charles Spencer was sent away to one of England's most exclusive boarding schools. In this...

For the Love of My Mother is the tragic and uplifting story of one Irish mother and her son. Born into a life of poverty and detained at the tender...

If you were enthralled by Capote's In Cold Blood, read The Executioner's Song WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW O'HAGAN In the summer of 1976 Gary Gilmore robbed two men. Then...

The definitive biography of author Ian FlemingIan Fleming's life was just as dramatic as that of his fictional creation, James Bond 007. Andrew Lycett's direct access to Fleming's family, friends...

A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects- "the first is Talleyrand,...

INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER - The Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book This deeply personal perspective from a human rights lawyer--whose work on the front lines of the fight...

The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover the truth behind the terrifying reputation of these marauding biker gangs, Hunter S. Thompson spent...

Simon Winchester's The Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the...

Author: Alicia Roth WeigelFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 203mm, 454g, 256 pagesPublished: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, United States, 2023 "One of the most brilliant thought leaders I have been able to share...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning...

'More than just a mantra, "cook, eat, repeat" is the story of my life'- A brilliant new book from Nigella Lawson featuring narrative essays about food, over 150 new recipes...

Winner of the 2014 National Biography Award 'An engrossing biography of a fascinating and fearless modern woman.' - Professor Marilyn Lake, La Trobe University In a period when most ladies...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MARGARET AND COLIN RODERICK LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LESLIE AND SOPHIE CAPLAN AWARD FOR JEWISH NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 AGE NON-FICTION BOOK OF...

Fox News war correspondent Trey Yingst shares his gripping, firsthand account of the events of October 7, 2023, and the ensuing war, offering riveting insight and fresh facts that clarify...

A guidebook to melancholia or depression, and a masterly, all-encompassing examination of the human condition The Anatomy of Melancholy is the vast and only work by Robert Burton, the seventeenth-century...

Foreword by Steve Doocy Turn up the heat and crack open a cold one with this smokin' hot, flavor-packed cookbook from Fox News' favorite father-son duo, packed with more than...

A beautiful new jacket treatment, part of Penguin's reissue programme of Dahl's adult titles 'An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually...

Diesel: The Greg Williams Story is a biography detailing the career of Australian rules footballer Greg "Diesel" Williams, covering his journey from being rejected by Carlton to becoming a dual...

The bestselling, heartfelt memoir from Sophie Cachia, who reveals never-before-shared details of her marriage breakdown, and how delving into her feminine intuition and falling in love with a woman transformed...

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist,...

The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics creator Stan Lee, an artist and entrepreneur who reshaped global pop culture--at a steep personal cost. The definitive, revelatory biography of Marvel Comics...

'SUCH AN INCREDIBLE READ' ZOE BALL'ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST INSPIRING BOOKS' HOLLY WILLOUGHBYWith a foreword by 2021 Strictly Come Dancing winner Rose Ayling-Ellis, and including chapters on Rose and...

'A high-spirited, richly informed, and original portrait, a cross between biography, literary analysis and a study in modern canonisation: Karolina Watroba is an inspired guide and her book a pleasure...

In her memoirs, Simone de Beavoir created a remarkable portrait of a twentieth-century woman's struggle for independence A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth...

By day, Faith Jenkins is the host of the nationally syndicated TV show Divorce Court; by night, she's a happily married newlywed who navigated these dating streets for years before...

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...

Hemingway's journal of a month on safari in East Africa. This is Hemingway's East African safari journal. 'All I wanted to do was get back to Africa' Green Hills of...

Charles Wheeler, the BBC's longest-serving foreign correspondent, was one of Britain's greatest news reporters. For more than four decades, he reported for radio and television from most of the world's...

The great modern biography of Augustus, founder of the Roman Empire Octavian was a young soldier training abroad when he heard news of Julius Caesar's brutal assassination - and discovered...

* A Guardian Audiobook of the Week * 'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often...

Two chance encounters during one beautiful summer led New Zealander Allan Parker into a lifestyle that many of us can only dream about: he was offered a house-sit of a...

Across history, women were told to sit down, smile and stay quiet. Spoiler alert- they didn't. They spoke out, stood tall - and ruined the patriarchy's day. Because of them,...

WINNER OF THE 2025 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR DISTINGUISHED NATURAL HISTORY WRITING 'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR 'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN Rocks are the record...

The book titled Star Man: The Right Hand Man of Rock 'n' Roll by the author Michael Francis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Busst. Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, moved to tropical Bedarra Island in...

Henri Peyre (1901-1988), a giant figure in French studies, did more to introduce Americans to the modern literature and culture of French than any other person. Sterling Professor and chair...

Collective Wisdom is a compilation of interviews undertaken face-to-face in 1998 with 34 Australian achievers including former Prime Ministers, Peter Brock, Gerry Harvey, Poppy King, Ray Martin, Imelda Roche and...

Sunday Times bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is the man who talks to serial killers. A world-renowned investigative criminologist, he has gained the trust of murderers across the world, entered their...