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On 13 March 1996 Thomas Hamilton walked into the gym hall of a primary school in Dunblane armed with four legally owned handguns and in less than four minutes fired...

Featuring beautifully illustrated portraits and profiles, 50 Queers Who Changed the World is a tribute to some of the most inspirational people of all time. LGBTQ people are some of...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while Amy sat with him and held his...

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time. _______________ 'This is the book...

A remarkable first-hand account of one tank commander's experiences during the Allied invasion from D-Day to VE Day. 'An arresting chronicle of the life of an ordinary soldier during the...

In the early hours of Valentine's Day 2013, Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius killed his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, shooting her multiple times while she cowered behind the locked door of their...

Saltwater tells the compelling story of one lawyer's fight for justice amongst the beauty and the violence of this tropical paradise. 'Everyone knows that some of those kids are innocent...

One inspirational teacher. One extraordinary year. Hope and heartbreak on the front lines of an inner city school A third of teachers leave within their first term on the job....

'Magical' MINDY KALING 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see...

As a 19-year old Black Watch conscript Tom Renouf's war began with some of the most vicious fighting of the conflict - against Himmler's fanatical 'Hitler Youth' SS Division. It...

An extraordinary, uncompromising and consoling celebration of a life - through childhood, faith, family, love, friendship, pain and loss - written as its author was facing her own mortality Gillian...

'As a sniper, I've killed more than a few Nazis. I have a passion for observing enemy behaviour. You watch a Nazi officer come out of a bunker, acting all...

From a bee-sting to a childhood re-visited. A chance visit in the doctor's waiting room saw Australian artist Anna Glynn read and apply to an advertisement for an Artist in...

Early in 1863 General Grant was under a cloud, blamed for heavy Union losses at Shiloh, called an undependable drunkard by his detractors. As Grant moved toward Vicksburg, the Lincoln...

WITNESS TO WAR is an eye-opening retelling of the war experience through the private diaries kept by people from all walks of life and from many countries. The twentieth century's...

This powerful and incisive account of the events of 1940, told through the voices, diaries, letters and memoirs of the men and women who survived it - and those who...

A Mail on Sunday Best Memoir 2024 'Truly compelling.' Cathy Rentzenbrink 'Breathtaking ... I loved it.' Fern Britton 'Courageous. Inspiring. Hopeful.' Alastair Campbell 'Gripping' Observer 'Brave and raw' Daily Mail...

John Ratcliffe is a quiet man, not the type of person who stands out in a crowd or draws attention to himself. But scratch the surface and you will find...

The sequel to Mao's Last Dancer - the highly anticipated follow up to one of the world's most beloved books. Li Cunxin captivated the world with his unforgettable memoir, Mao's...

Magazine entrepreneur Randall Lane had a prime seat at Wall Street's biggest greed fest. The Zeroes is a memoir of the excesses and bad behavior from an outsider who got...

In Voltaire In Exile, Ian Davidson has recreated this period in the life of one of the giant figures of the Enlightenment. By painstakingly translating the rich correspondence between Voltaire...

Out of this emotional turbulence came the poem "The Waste Land". Carole Seymour-Jones seeks to show that the poem cannot be understood without reference to the marriage. Based on papers...

In May 2014, the mountaineer and scientist John All fell into a crevasse near Everest and took a series of videos as he struggled to climb out 70 feet of...

Captain Cook s Three Voyages Round The World: With A Sketch Of His Life is a historical non-fiction book written by James Cook, a renowned British explorer and navigator. The...

Beatrix Potter, the twentieth century's most beloved children's writer and illustrator, created books that will forever conjure nature for millions. Yet though she is a household name around the world,...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * "Sublime . . . The definitive study of Pilate."- The Washington Post Book World "A masterwork . . . one of the most...

"My heart has reshaped a thousand broken pieces, and for every moment I still want to heal him there are a thousand when I know he's perfect, exactly as he...

The book titled Cider with Rosie And As I Walked out One Midsummer Morning Omnibus by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Journalist Dominic Dunne's travels have rarely been ordinary, despite his best intentions. He has been travelling all his life, from the time his parents started their annual pilgrimage to the...

A raunchy laugh-a-minute romp through the dating mistakes we all make before finding Mr Just Right and settling down in the 'burbs. Written with Mandy's customary wit and punch, BOYFRIENDS...

The bestselling biography of cricketing icon Shane Warne, by one of Australia's finest writers. The bestselling biography of cricketing icon Shane Warne, by one of Australia's finest writers. 'He is...

In a recent Sydney Morning Herald cover story, Mahboba Rawi was featured as one of the 50 leading Australians who matter to the rest of the world. When you read...

A cruise was once the trip of a lifetime- a byword for refinement, luxury, romance, the millionaire lifestyle but no longer. Boats are bigger and brasher, and every year more...

This is the age of addiction, a condition so epidemic, so all encompassing and ubiquitous that unless you are fortunate enough to be an extreme case, you probably don't know...

The compulsively readable memoir of a woman at war-with herself, with her body, and with food-while working her way through the underbelly of New York City's glamorous culinary scene. Hannah...

Fendi, Christian Louboutin, Alex Perry, Jimmy Choo: with friends like these, who needs fidelity?When Jade Jaeger vowed "for richer or poorer" to her millionaire entrepreneur boyfriend, she was swept away...

From the legendary special operations sniper and New York Times bestselling author of The Reaper comes a rare and powerful book on the art of being a sniper. Way of...

The book titled Who Was Marshall Mcluhan?: Exploring a Mosaic of Impressions by the author Barrington Nevitt. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

You've eaten too much chocolate at Christmas...but have you ever eaten the face off a six-foot-tall-stuffed Santa? You ve seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cleo , a warm, wistful coming-of-age true story about the transition from childhood to adolescence, and the small stray cat who helped...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ' He's like an American Alan Bennett , in that his own fastidiousness becomes the joke, as per the taxi encounter, or his diary entry...

A wonderful new book - part travelogue, part memoir - from author of the bestselling BEYOND THE BLUE HORIZON and CHASING THE MONSOON. Part memoir, part travelogue, Tales From the...

Jeremy Clarkson takes us into the pitfalls (and pratfalls) of his new life as gentleman farmer in this thigh-slapping collection of stories from lockdown on Clarkson's Farm Welcome to Clarkson's...

In this highly amusing collection of anecdotes, Chris Wallace-Crabbe brings together 270 tales of Australian literary life from penal times to the present day.

Just a few months short of her 18th birthday, Melanie, a talented student and aspiring writer, commits suicide. Through her writing, she captures the thoughts and feelings of a teenager...

New York Times Bestseller "On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the...

Filled with romance, danger, and scandal, Mistress of the Elgin Marbles is the intriguing story of Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin -- one of the most influential women of...

The star of Marvel's first Asian superhero film, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, tells his own origin story of being a Chinese immigrant, his battles with cultural...