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How to Be Australian
When Ashley persuades her new husband Steve to leave snowy Canada and join her for a year Down Under, she looks forward to an easy transition. After all, Australia's just...
Chameleon: A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love
Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes...
Small Acts of Disappearance
Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of ten essays that describes the author's affliction with an eating disorder which begins in high school, and escalates into life-threatening anorexia over...
Pai Naa: The True Story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's Survival in the
Nona Baker stayed behind in the Malayan jungle during WWII and was adopted by Chinese guerrillas. Against all odds, this remarkable, brave young woman, known as Pai Naa (White Nona),...
On Kate Jennings: Writers on Writers
Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows...
On John Marsden: Writers on Writers
An original and moving look by award-winning writer Alice Pung at one of her biggest influences - the much-loved and hugely successful writer John Marsden. An original and moving look...
Death of a Soldier: A Mother's Story
On 12 May 2009 Margaret Evison's son Lieutenant Mark Evison of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, died of wounds sustained whilst leading a patrol in Helmand Province. Hailed a hero, Mark's...
A Year at the Chateau: As seen on the hit Channel 4 show
THE ENTERTAINING AND HEARTWARMING SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in...
There Will Be Headwinds: Kayaking the Northwest Passage
Mark Agnew was part of the first team to ever kayak the north-west passage - spending 103 days in the Arctic. The infamous route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans...
Odyssey Moscow: One American's Journey from Russia Optimist to
Michael Calvey's story starts with a dawn raid on his Moscow apartment by armed FSB agents, following accusations of embezzlement relating to a commercial deal turned sour. In truth, no...
A Gypsy In Auschwitz: How I Survived the Horrors of the 'Forgotten
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma families are being...
Sniper on the Eastern Front
Josef "Sepp" Allerberger was the second most successful sniper of the German Wehrmacht and one of the few private soldiers to be honoured with the award of the Knight's Cross....
The Desert Swimmer: From severe depression on an outback sheep station
Brendan Cullen manages Kars Station, a 10,000-head sheep property 65 kilometres outside Broken Hill, New South Wales. In 2022, despite his nearest beach being more than 600 kilometres away, he...
Defiance: Stories from Nature and Its Defenders
Stories of courage and conviction from the environmental frontline With a foreword by Geraldine Brooks. For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who...
Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and finding myself
Combining the nostalgic writing of Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died with the urgency of Emily Ratajkowski's My Body, this gripping memoir from Hugh Hefner's widow lays bare the...
Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age
A New York Times Editor's Pick "It is a blunt observation, reflective of the potent message she delivers to her readers, a skillful unraveling of the myth of the submissive...
At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler's Army Adjutant
Vivid, personal and fascinating.' - Simon Sebag Montefiore Gerhard Engel was Hitler's Army Adjutant from March 1938 to March 1943. During this time he kept a diary, and after the...
Jo Cox: More in common
'Today is the beginning of a new chapter in our lives. More difficult, more painful, less joyful, less full of love. I and Jo's friends and family are going to...
Beyond the Thirty-Nine Steps: A Life of John Buchan
John Buchan's name is known across the world for The Thirty-Nine Steps . In the past hundred years the classic thriller has never been out of print and has inspired...
Take Nothing For Granted: Tales from an Unexpected Life
'Jaw-dropping experiences' - THE SUN *** Readers are also LOVING Take Nothing For Granted . . . 'So so good! Am listening to the audio book and your stories are...
Resolute: To War with Bomber Command
The Second World War biography of Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H and flight engineer Ferris Newton DFM. Bomber Command pilot George Dunn DFC L d'H completed forty-four...
Blessed: Meditations on a Life of Small Wonders
This is a book that asks you to pause and ponder. It's a miscellany of musings, ranging from the serious to the whimsical and the spiritual to the serendipitous. They...
So This Is Life: Scenes from a Country Childhood
So This Is Life is a wonderfully evocative account of youth that will surely take its place among the classics of Australian childhood. At age seven, after her parents' marriage...
Childhood, Youth, Dependency: The Copenhagen Trilogy
The classic Danish trilogy hailed as a masterpiece on publication in English last year - now in a single volume in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a working-class neighbourhood...
Unreliable Sources: How the Twentieth Century Was Reported
One of the greatest reporters of his day writes a brilliant and typically opinionated account of how the British press has reported key moments in our history. Through many decades...
Life's Too Short: A Memoir
"Darius has always been one of my favorite people to sing with and to call a friend in this industry and yet even knowing him well for as long as...
Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in
A heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author's fight to be true to themself WINNER OF THE POLARI FIRST BOOK PRIZE 2020WINNER OF A SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD Amrou knew they...
Invited to a War
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Family circumstances dictated that Alan Reed leave school before his sixteenth birthday. He was employed in a Chartered Accountants office until "called up" for National Service Training in the RAAF....
The Traitor of Arnhem: WWII's Greatest Betrayal and the Moment That
NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL - the first book to analyse government documents released in January 2025. 'Sensational' Daily Express 'A bombshell book' Daily Mail 'A breath-taking review of WWII's greatest...
Far Horizons: A Journey from War to Peace
In the hours after September 11, 2001, Aaron Tait deployed to the Persian Gulf as a seventeen-year-old military officer. This is the story of what happened next. Far Horizons is...
Flight to Fame: Victory in the 1919 Great Air Race, England to
Flight to Fame , a classic adventure story, tells the hair-raising tale of the world-first flight from England to Australia, in the words of the pilot, (Sir) Ross Smith. In...
Broken Greek: A Story of Chip Shops and Pop Songs
*AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'* 'Lip-lickingly, dance-around-the-living-room good... A smash hit' Observer 'Unflinching and heartwarming' - Adam Kay 'Tender, clever and as funny as it...
How To Build A Boat: A Father, his Daughter, and the Unsailed Sea
'The passages he addresses directly to Phoebe are as tender as the father-daughter letters in Karl Ove Knausgaard's Seasons Quartet' Times Literary Supplement 'This book tells the inspiring story of...
Confessions of a Learner Parent: Parenting like a boss. (An
'I always wanted kids - but then again, I always wanted a loft conversion. Both are pretty easy to put off as they're very expensive and tend to wreck your...
Mountain: A Life on the Rocks
Steve Backshall's love affair with the mountains has taken him to some of the world's wildest places, environments that have the power to make a human being feel very small,...
Jasmine and Fire: A Bittersweet Year in Beirut
In the mouth-watering tradition of POMEGRANATE SOUP, a food writer finds her way back home to that most hauntingly beautiful, tragic and dynamic of cities, Beirut, through the dishes of...
Verse, Chorus, Monster!
Among the noise and clamour of the Britpop era, Blur co-founder Graham Coxon managed to carve out a niche to become one of the most innovative and respected guitarists of...
Matriarch: Beyonce's mother tells her story for the first time ever
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A must-read memoir that you'll want to share with all the women in your life' MICHELLE OBAMA 'A work...
My Child, the Algorithm: An alternatively intelligent book of love
Writer and performer Hannah Silva interrogates her life with the input of two unreliable narrators - an algorithm and a toddler. Her living exploration of undoing and redoing love and...
Finding Sisu: THE FINNISH WAY
Finnish-born writer Katja Pantzar was raised and educated in Canada, where the consumerist and materially obsessed culture left her feeling empty and unhappy. When she received treatment for depression in...
Fawlty Towers: Fawlts and All: The Sunday Times bestselling 50th
At last, here is the u ltimate celebration of the nation's beloved sitcom from its legendary creator, John Cleese. Enjoy the behind-the-scenes magic, with stunning on-set photographs from the archives...
Ambivalence
When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music,...
STYLE: Photographs for Vogue
'Norman Parkinson will never go out of style' VOGUE Meet the man who invented style. Through his beautiful photographs for British, American, French and Australian Vogue magazines, Norman Parkinson defined...
Kersten's Lists: A Saviour in the Depths of Hell
The astonishing true story of Heinrich Himmler's masseur who used his influence over the S.S. commander to save the lives of over a hundred thousand people, including sixty thousand Jews....
A Slice of Fried Gold: Taste my Memories
'I want to eat everything in this book every single day for the rest of my life.' James Acaster From Spaced and Hot Fuzz to Paul and Truth Seekers ,...
Strange Labyrinth: Outlaws, Poets, Mystics, Murderers and a Coward in
In litter-strewn Epping Forest on the edge of London, might a writer find that magical moment of transcendence? He will certainly discover filthy graffiti and frightening dogs, as well as...
Exile on Front Street: My Life as a Hells Angel
After forty years in the Hells Angels, George Christie was ready to retire. As the president of the notorious Ventura chapter for the club, he had been the yin to...
My Fishing Life: A Story of the Sea
'A beautiful, heartfelt love letter to the sea, and a cherished industry. Ash is a force of nature, she's a testament to working hard and dreaming big' Dermot O'Leary 'A...