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Freedom
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears...
Cicero: Selected Letters
Author: D. Bailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life,...
Two Sisters
Author: Blake Morrison Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 'A book at once bold, magnanimous, heart-breaking and riveting' HOWARD JACOBSON 'Beautiful. Affecting. Erudite.' SUSIE ORBACH TWO SISTERS publishes...
Happy-Go-Lucky: 'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
Author: David Sedaris Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 The latest installment from always funny, sometimes bizarre comic David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
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Author: Ben Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 384 An epic quest exposes hidden truths about Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the recently discovered masterpiece that sold for $450 million-and...
Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey Into Space
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Author: Stephen Walker Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high...
The Hard Road Out: One Woman's Escape From North Korea
Author: Jihyun Park Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 The harrowing story of a woman who escaped famine and terror in North Korea, not once but twice. 'A...
Places I've Taken My Body
Author: Molly McCully Brown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Brown constellates the subjects that define her inside and out: a disabled and conspicuous body, a religious conversion, a missing...
You Are Beautiful and You Are Alone: The Biography of Nico
Author: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 'What I have in common with Nico is the understanding of her furious frustration at not being recognised.' - Marianne...
A Long Way from Home
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage. Elaine...
Collective Wisdom: Lessons, Inspiration, and Advice from Women over 50
Author: Grace Bonney Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 POWERFUL WISDOM FROM THE ELDERS OF OUR COMMUNITIES In this rich and multilayered collection of interviews, conversations, and intimate photographs, over...
American Sniper The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
Author: Chris Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
My Dream Time: The #1 bestselling memoir from global tennis superstar Ash Barty
Author: Ash Barty Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 It's a tennis story. It's a family story. It's a teamwork story. It's the story of how I got to where...
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...
Will She Do?: Act One of a Life on Stage
Author: Eileen Atkins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Will She Do? is the story of a girl from a council estate in Tottenham, born in 1934 to an electric-meter...
Mama's Boy: A Memoir
Author: Dustin Lance Black Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A magnificent achievement . . . I cannot remember a book where I cried so often. Brave, insightful, unflinching, funny,...
Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA
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Author: Amaryllis Fox Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Fast and thrilling . . . Life Undercover reads as if a John le Carre character...
Corrupt Bodies Death and Dirty Dealing at the Morgue Shortlisted for CWA ALCS Dagger for Non-Fiction 2020
Author: Peter Everett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 In 1985, Peter Everett landed the job as Superintendent of Southwark Mortuary. In just six years he'd gone from...
Gone: A Girl, a Violin, a Life Unstrung
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Author: Min Kym Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 The spellbinding memoir of a violin virtuoso who loses the instrument that had defined her both on stage and off --...
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties
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Author: Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from...
The Life Scientific: Inventors
Author: Anna Buckley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 704 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
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...
The Pilgrimage
Author: Paulo Coelho Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The Pilgrimage paved the way to Paulo Coehlo's international bestselling novel The Alchemist. In many ways, these two volumes...
Love, Life, and Elephants: An African Love Story
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Author: Daphne Sheldrick Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Astonishing...You may be tempted after the last page to sell all your possessions and join [Sheldrick's] cause.--The Boston Globe The first...
Finding Stevie: A dark secret. A child in crisis.
Author: Cathy Glass Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online. When Stevie's social worker...
Art is a Tyrant: The Unconventional Life of Rosa Bonheur
Author: Catherine Hewitt Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 Rosa Bonheur was the very antithesis of the feminine ideal of 19th-century society. She was educated, she shunned traditional 'womanly' pursuits,...
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...
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...
Open Book
Author: Jessica Simpson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The #1 New York Times Bestseller Jessica reveals for the first time her inner monologue and most intimate struggles....
Killing Time: Extraordinary short stories from the long road home from Australian music icon and author of bestselling memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man
Author: Jimmy Barnes Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend...
Waylon: Tales of My Outlaw Dad
Author: Terry Jennings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 In a signed copy of his autobiography, Waylon Jennings penned a personal note to his son, Terry Jennings, ending it with...
Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet
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Author: Lyndal Roper (University of London) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 From "one of the best of the new [Martin Luther] biographers" (The New Yorker), a portrait of the...
The Changi Camera George Aspinalls Photographs and Memories
Author: Tim Bowden Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In THE CHANGI CAMERA, acclaimed author Tim Bowden presents a unique record of one Australian soldier's experience of the fall of...
My Squirrel Days
Author: Ellie Kemper Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 Comedian and star of The Office and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Ellie Kemper delivers a hilarious and uplifting collection of...
One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General
Author: William P Barr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 608 INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The former attorney general provides a candid account of his historic tenures...
House of Glass: The story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family
Author: Hadley Freeman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Sunday Times bestseller 'An utterly engrossing book' Nigella Lawson 'Remarkable and gripping' Edmund de Waal 'A near-perfect study...
Freedom
Author: Sebastian Junger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the bestselling author of The Perfect Storm 'Sebastian Junger bears witness to...
Fracture: Stories of How Great Lives Take Root in Trauma
Author: Matthew Parris Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Ada Lovelace. Frederick Douglass. Vladimir Lenin. Marie Curie. Frieda Kahlo. Carl Jung. Tupac Shakur. All geniuses who changed the world in...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are
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Author: John Kaag Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection. --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by...
Mozart: The Reign of Love
Author: Jan Swafford Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 832 From his celebrated early childhood, Mozart has been caught up in myths: the superhuman prodigy, the adult who was still a...
A Certain Idea of France: The Life of Charles de Gaulle
Author: Julian Jackson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 944 'Masterly ... awesome reading ... an outstanding biography' Max Hastings, Sunday Times In six weeks in 1940, France was...
My Lucky Stroke
Author: Sarah Brooker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: Sarah Brooker was an ambitious young woman studying to be a neuroscientist. She had the world at her feet. On...
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
Author: Alec Nevala-Lee Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New...
Napoleon the Great
Author: Andrew Roberts Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 976 The definitive modern biography of Napoleon - now in paperback Napoleon Bonaparte lived one of the most extraordinary of...
Slowhand: The Life and Music of Eric Clapton
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Author: Philip Norman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 From the bestselling author of Shout!, comes the definitive biography of Eric Clapton, a Rock legend whose life story is as...