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The Sisters Antipodes: A Memoir
'(Alison's) haunting story is one that truly compels telling . Pointed and poignant, sprinkled with breathtaking intuitions . an act of bravery.' - Elle When Jane Alison was a child,...
The Full Catastrophe
At the age of twenty, Tracey Leonard went to Calcutta to work as a volunteer in Mother Teresa's home for a the dying and destitute. This story endeavors to bring...
Like Father, Like Son: A family story
'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks the truth and, more often than not, finds it.' - THE MAIL A look at...
We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon
'Nemonte's writing is as provocative as it is inspiring' EMMA THOMPSON ' One of the most effective leaders for indigenous rights and environmental justice' LAURENE POWELL JOBS 'I'm here to...
FEH: A Memoir
ONE OF THE TIMES' BEST LITERARY NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2024 'Hurrah for one of our most merciless humorists. Auslander's prose isn't just laudable, it's frightening' David Sedaris From the acclaimed...
Romany and Tom: A Memoir
______________________ A moving, funny and beautifully written memoir by musician, DJ and writer Ben Watt which carefully chronicles his parents' lives, their marriage and their decline into old age Longlisted...
The Royal Insider: My Life with the Queen, the King and Princess Diana
THE BRAND NEW REVELATORY ROYAL MEMOIR FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR PAUL BURRELL. 'A moving and at times jaw-dropping account - not just of his...
Seven Letters from Paris: A Memoir
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With a quick Google search, she finds him, and both are quick to realize that the passion they felt 20 years prior hasn't faded with time and distance. Samantha knows...
What I Was Made For: The Little Guide to Billie Eilish
Dark, bold, and unapologetically original - Billie Eilish has redefined what it means to be a modern music icon. From her whisper-soft vocals to her powerful, soul-shaking belts, she has...
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis: The long-awaited memoir
'This intimate new book will change the way we think about the King of Rock 'n' Roll' Telegraph 'A rollercoaster of love and loss' Washington Post The long-awaited, candid memoir...
Dark Squares: A cult leader, a child prodigy and the chess revolution
Educated meets The Queen's Gambit in this extraordinary memoir by International Master and Chess.com co-founder Danny Rensch, who describes his upbringing in an abusive cult - and how chess ended...
Turbulence: A True Story of Survival
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"If you think that surviving an airplane crash will get you a free pass for the rest of your life, think again." When young Annette Herfkens, one of the few...
Half a Life: A Memoir
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In this powerful, unforgettable memoir, acclaimed novelist Darin Strauss examines the far-reaching consequences of the tragic moment that has shadowed his whole life. In his last month of high school,...
Lessons From A Cult Survivor
Growing up in the southern Australian countryside in Lal Lal, Claire Ashman knew there was something different about her strict Catholic upbringing. Largely isolated from the outside world, Claire and...
A Taste of My Life
Raymond Blanc knows more about food and cooking than pretty much anyone else. His cooking has been described as 'an extraordinary process of creativity, passion, subtlety, indeed genius'. His life...
Just a mum - On the Camino de Santiago: Put down that peeler and have
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I am just a mum, who desperately needs an adventure. I have mothered children for most of my life, and as the kids get older, I'm left wondering who I...
My Family and Other Rock Stars: 'Gloriously tender and funny . . . a
A book of the year for the Times , the Sunday Times, the Independent , the Guardian and the Daily Mail 'Charming . . . heartbreaking, sometimes both funny and...
All in My Head: A memoir of life, love and patient power
All In My Head is a memoir by a woman who in her early fifties received a life-shattering diagnosis. It is about her determined search for effective treatment, the birth...
The Uptown Local: a memoir of Joy, Death, and Joan Didion
'Leadbeater makes us see there was so much more to Joan Didion (to all of us) than just one thing' GUARDIAN 'A persuasive case for the argument that writers should...
On Living: Dancing More, Working Less and Other Last Thoughts
This isn't a book about dying - it's a book about living. Each of Egan's patients taught her something; in this moving and beautiful book, she imparts their poignant and...
The C-Word
The frustrating, life-altering, sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28' laid bare. What do you do when you discover you have advanced breast cancer in your twenties?...
Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison-Solitary Confinement, a
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The Inspiration for the New Podcast Featuring Jason Rezaian. "544 Days" is a Spotify original podcast, produced by Gimlet, Crooked Media and A24. The dramatic memoir of the journalist who...
The Hour of the Wolf
Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered, shot outside their home by his political opponents, as an adult, Fatima Bhutto longed for a happy family life. And so...
This Is the Door: Notes from a Body in Pain
'This Is the Door is a work of piercing grace, philosophical wisdom and rare emotional power. By tracing the history of her own body and spirit, as well as studying...
My Father's Fortune: A Life
A delightful and uncommonly honest memoir of Michael Frayn's father and of his own childhood, written in the spirit of enquiry that so characterises one of our most distinguished and...
A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling
Over the course of his astonishing fifty-year career, V.S. Naipaul's writing has been characterized by a commitment to truth that gives his work a unique luminosity and brilliance. In "A...
Bush Doctor: A memoir from the beautiful, rugged heart of outback
Damien is convinced that this is the best job anywhere: beautiful skies, red earth, dramatic landings, treating families in remote communities. At a tiny, isolated hospital in central Australia, a...
This Year: 365 songs annotated
Collected and annotated lyrics from one of music's most visionary bards, John Darnielle. A work of rapturous beauty, This Year- 365 songs annotated celebrates the creative life and the musical...
Trials of Hope: An Ethiopian memoir of heritage and heartache
Winner of the 2024 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award, Trials of Hope tells the story of a shepherd boy turned human-rights academic set against the backdrop of the author's beloved...
Mornings With My Cat Mii
The perfect gift for cat lovers- a beloved Japanese modern classic about our special connection with cats, and how they can change our lives over the course of a lifetime...
Himmler's Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment
A moving and personal memoir telling the story of a family grappling with trauma and identity in the wake of the Holocaust. For the first eighteen years of Simon Weisz's...
Highways and Byways: From Australian rock legend & bestselling author
The new book from Jimmy Barnes, the award-winning author of the number-one bestsellers Working Class Boy, Working Class Man and Killing Time From larger-than-life adventures to vivid and poignant tales...
Myself and Other Animals
A final posthumous work of autobiography from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth A final posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and...
Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from
The remarkable conservation story of one of the world's most iconic animals Deep in the forests of Northeast Asia roams the majestic and revered Amur tigers, more popularly known as...
The Women
Imaginative, brilliant and daring- Hilton Als's now-classic meditation on gender, race and personal identity in America What are the forces that shape us? In The Women, Hilton Als explores-with breath...
Days in the Caucasus
We all know families that are poor but 'respectable'. Mine, in contrast, was extremely rich but not 'respectable' at all... This is the extraordinary memoir of an 'odd, rich, exotic'...
For Love or Money
'Jonathan Raban is the only person I listen to in matters of travel and books and writing in general. Reading him, talking to him as I have over fifty years,...
Coasting
'A valuable book and a necessary one. One of the funniest and cleverest voyages on record.' Christopher Hitchens, New Statesman 'The finest writer afloat since Conrad.' Geoffrey Moorhouse, The Guardian...
Dogs and Their Humans: Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet's
'A beautiful book' Greg James There's no love quite like that between a dog and their human. When people come to see Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick at his referral hospital, they...
The Music Room
From the bestselling author of "The Snow Geese" comes a mesmerizing tribute to an adored older brother. When William Fiennes was a small boy, his parents inherited an extraordinary home:...
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2016)
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From bestselling author David Sedaris, for the first time in print: selections from the diaries that are the source of his remarkable autobiographical essays. For nearly four decades, David Sedaris...
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
As President Trump's National Security Advisor, John Bolton spent many of his 453 days in the room where it happened, and the facts speak for themselves. The result is a...
A Mother's Promise: My true story of surviving Auschwitz and the
'Mama, it's me.' I held her hand in mine, hoping it would give her the strength to hold on. Finally, she spoke, her voice barely above a whisper. ' Do...
Periodic Bitch
Every twenty-nine days, Emma Hardy becomes angry, monstrous and out of control. Then it passes, and she forgets about it. Until it cycles around again, of course. When a doctor...
Conversations With Myself
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Conversations With Myself is a moving collection of letters, diary entries and other writing that provides a rare chance to see the other side of Nelson Mandela's life, in his...
How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to
New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when a room we're in is no longer a room where...
Menopause: The True Story: A Life-changing Approach to the Change of
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'The final step to equality has to be turning the menopause into a topic we can happily discuss, and even celebrate. In these pages, Christa D'Souza puts us firmly on...
Unlikely: The surprising personal story behind the garage startup that
Delve into the captivating human story behind the Back In Motion Health Group, revealing the exhilaration and heartache of an entrepreneur's quest from humble start up to a $100m ASX...