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The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years
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Author: Nelson Mandela Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The long-awaited second volume of Nelson Mandela's memoirs, left unfinished at his death and never before available, are here...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
Love Warrior (Oprah's Book Club): from the #1 bestselling author of UNTAMED
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE NEWEST OPRAH BOOK CLUB 2016 SELECTION! 'A TESTAMENT TO THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY . . . IT'S AS...
Fathomless Riches: Or How I Went From Pop to Pulpit
Author: Reverend Richard Coles Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'I love @RevRichardColes SO MUCH' Caitlin Moran FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles's warm, witty and wise...
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...
The Cancer Journals
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Originally published in 1933 George Orwell's first work is a memoir of working in grimy restaurant kitchens in Paris,...
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
Author: Robert A Caro Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 'One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer' (Sunday Times) offers a riveting...
American Scoundrel
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
The Life of a Spy; An Education in Truth, Lies and Power
Author: Rod Barton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 The remarkable true story of an extraordinary Australian intelligence officer, whose work took him across the world ... and...
We Of The Never-Never
Author: Aeneas Gunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The 100th year anniversary of this well loved Australian Classic. In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and...
The Very Busy Spider
Author: Eric Carle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 24 A book to feel as well as to read, this bestselling companion title to The Very Hungry Caterpillar appears...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape
Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Personal Writings
Author: Albert Camus Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 A collection that includes three of Camus's most personal and lyrical books- The Right Side and the Wrong Side,...
Unnatural Causes: 'An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that' Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2
Author: Dr Richard Shepherd Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A REAL-LIFE SILENT WITNESS FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S FOREMOST FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS The dead do not hide the truth...
Daisy Jones and The Six: The must-read bestselling novel
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I devoured this in a day, falling head over heels for Daisy and the band.' Reese Witherspoon THE...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Island Home
Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 'This country leans in on you. Like family. To my way of thinking, it is family.' The natural world,...
How to Make Gravy
Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed...
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies
Author: Stephanie Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in...
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living: THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Who were you before the world told you who to be? When women learn to please they forget who...
The Trauma Cleaner
Author: Sarah Krasnostein Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 261 A poignant and powerful celebration of one remarkable woman's unrelenting drive to make order from chaos. Before she was...
Attila The Hun
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
Author: Ashlee Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man...
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living...
One Way Road: The Autobiography of Robbie McEwen
Author: Ed Pickering Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The autobiography of three time Tour de France Green Jersey winner. The autobiography of three time Tour de France...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse
Author: Gregory Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Gregory Smith was homeless for much of his adult life and lived for many years as a recluse in...
The Life And Times Of The Thunderbolt Kid: Travels Through my Childhood
Author: Bill Bryson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Bill Bryson on his most personal journey yet- into his own childhood in America's Mid-West. Bill Bryson's first travel...
In Order To Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
Author: Yeonmi Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The incredible autobiography of Yeonmi Park- a North Korean defector who escaped across the Gobi desert and is now...
Throwim Way Leg: An Adventure
Author: Tim Flannery Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 'An enthralling introduction to the mountain people of New Guinea - unimaginably remote, charming, cunning, cruel, subtle and appealing...
Are you there little Owl?
Author: Sam Taplin Format: Board book Number of Pages: 12 Little owl is hiding! Children will love peeping through the holes in this charming book to try and find the...
Let Me Go: Abused and Afraid, She Has Nothing to Live for
Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling author Casey Watson. Harley...
Everything That Makes Us Human: Case Notes of a Children's Brain Surgeon
Author: Jay Jayamohan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 'There are two ways to open a child's head. The pretty way and the quick way. Usually I shave the hair,...
Philip and Alexander: Kings and Conquerors
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 A joint biography that investigates how, during their lifetimes, Philip and Alexander of Macedon transformed a weak kingdom in northern Greece...
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Author: Sujatha Gidla Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Like one in six people in India, Sujatha Gidla was born an untouchable. While most untouchables are illiterate, her family was...
Women I've Undressed: The Fabulous Life and Times of a Legendary Hollywood Designer
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Author: Orry-Kelly Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 Orry-Kelly created magic on screen, from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon to Some Like It Hot. He won three Oscars for costume...