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From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives -winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award-is a "moving, bracingly honest memoir" ( The New York...

***Shortlisted for the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness*** ***Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction*** 'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN 'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological...

Jane and Jimmy Barnes invite you to enjoy family recipes and stories from their new cookbook, Where the River Bends . Jane and Jimmy Barnes invite you to their kitchen...

A deliciously witty and inspiring memoir by One Tree Hill star Bethany Joy Lenz about her decade in a cult and her quest to break free. In the early 2000s,...

'With disarming candour and courage, Martha tells us of finding her own voice and peace as a working artist and mother. Her story is made more unique because of the...

Don't Miss the Apple TV+ Docuseries Streaming Now! "This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen King, and reported with a...

Gaia was groomed, abused and enslaved - but then she fought back Gaia Cooper is just 14 years old when she is groomed by a criminal gang and forced to...

The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' ( New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her...

Why We Travel asks why humans yearn to travel, what motivates us and what we can gain from venturing out into the world. INDEPENDENT BEST TRAVEL BOOK OF 2024 Good...

"A gentle, warm, vulnerable book that buzzes and sings and blossoms... Donaldson shows that it is not just nature that benefits from working with the earth - the human soul...

Fashion rules supreme in Korea with Seoul fast gaining its reputation as East Asia's leading style capital. From hanbok to hallyu, understated to experimental, and streetwear to high-end couture, Little...

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family that captivated the nation on TLC's hit show 19 Kids and Counting . Jill Duggar...

Alysia Vasey's earliest memories are of walking alongside her grandfather as they explored the West Yorkshire moors that they called home. As an adult, this love for wild things stayed...

A memoir by the highest-ranking covert warrior to lift the veil of secrecy and offer a glimpse into the shadow wars that America has fought since the Vietnam Era. Enrique...

From the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1 and The New York Trilogy, an updated collection of Paul Auster's nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude. Paul...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY 2023 A Times Best Literary Non-Fiction Book of the Year Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with...

SHORTLISTED, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED, AUSTRALIAN BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS SOCIAL IMPACT BOOK OF THE YEAR A dedicated doctor. A devastating diagnosis. A chance for a...

'Far and away the most profound, beautiful, and inspiring nonfiction book published in New Zealand in 2024.' - Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'Extraordinary ... enthralling' - The Daily Telegraph (UK) 'Brilliant'...

Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many...

'[Sumayya Usmani is] the go-to expert in Pakistani cuisine' - BBC Good Food Magazine 'Sumayya Usmani is a brilliant storyteller. She transports us with her delicious descriptions of the smells...

Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books -...

In A Girl's Story , her latest book, Annie Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she...

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attache to the...

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux's attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer's disease, and then, when that proves futile,...

A luminously original exploration of the deep roots of diet culture by an award-winning historian'A courageous and beautifully written exploration of a vitally important subject' The Herald'Fascinating' Katherine May'These books...

A gripping portrait of the man considered the last universal genius that takes us on a mind-expanding journey through the history of ideas 'The Leibniz biography for our time. It...

The Use of Photographyrecounts a passionate love affair between Annie Ernaux and the journalist and author Marc Marie, after the two met in January 2003. Ernaux had been receiving intensive...

On 7 April 1986, Annie Ernaux's mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimer's disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite...

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's I Remember and Edouard...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 'I will write to avenge my people.' It was as a young woman that Annie Ernaux first wrote these words in her...

'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June,in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame , the probingstory of the twelve-year-old girl who will become AnnieErnaux, and the...

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir's masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother's death 'shows the power of compassion when it...

'Extraordinary ... one of the most moving and uplifting stories of the war' Keith Lowe 'A remarkable book' - The Telegraph A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and...

The trial of Dominique Pelicot, which began on 2 September 2024, has captured the world's attention. Behind the haunting details of Pelicot's unthinkable crimes are a mother and daughter who...

'Delving into the pages of Maggie is rather like straying into her boudoir.' -Jane Fraser, Weekend Australian 'She has been role model, taste guru, and surrogate media guardian for many...

'Prepare to be riveted by this extraordinary account from one of Australia's elite warriors. His firsthand experiences vividly recounted offer an unparalleled glimpse into the courage, strategy, and sacrifice required...

Winner of the Canberra Critics' Circle Memoir/History Award 2024 As children, we'd sneak into Grandma's bedroom on secret missions. Her cupboard was filled with old fur coats, strange woven folk...

'[Karnazes'] spirited memoir . . . can help mere mortals who want to push past their perceived limits or simply jump-start their sedentary lives.' - Chicago Tribune In this updated...

I want this book to end marriages. But more importantly, I want it to prevent marriages. Women are allowed to aspire to more than what we've been told we should...

There was a bed, a timber floor, thin tar paper on one side for privacy from the nearby road but nothing else. The flimsiest of 'walls', no pegs or nails...

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...

Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits--funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic--of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and trusty stock horses....

He was the gentleman bushranger . she was the woman who rode with him. This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. 'Bail up!' demanded Captain Thunderbolt...

**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'There is a warmth and a humanity in Aciman's prose that enraptures with its slow, easy embrace.' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Aciman's evocation...

'To read [ Birthday Letters ] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends'. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance...