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Your guide to finding your inner power and living a life you LOVE Finding light in the dark can be hard when life takes you on a rollercoaster of highs...

'Fearsome wit' Elle 'Charming' Buzzfeed 'Ridiculously entertaining' Associated Press 'Endearingly honest' Guardian A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of Pitch Perfect , Twilight...

With "virtuosic vulnerability" (The Atlantic), the iconic bassist and Red Hot Chili peppers co-founder pens a New York Times bestselling love letter to his wild Los Angeles youth in his...

'Captivating' Manchan Magan 'Sublime' Eoghan Daltun 'An earnest and uplifting blend of biography, almanac, travelogue and conservation call-to-arms' The Irish Times Sean Ronayne always knew he was different. Nicknamed 'nature...

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn't commit - and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though...

Politics: The three vowels and five consonants which control our world. 'But what has politics got to do with me?' I hear you ask. Well, quite a lot really. Whether...

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...

The book titled Immersed in God by the author Cesare Cavalleri. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The name of John Wilmot, second earl of Rochester, is synonymous with excess. In this biography, Jeremy Lamb examines time the nature of Rochesters alcoholism and its implications for the...

This is the sixth edition of Greville Janner's guide to speechmaking, which provides advice on preparation, delivery, handling an audience, chairing a meeting, and introducing new speakers, as well as...

Anthony Macris and his wife were, for an all-too-brief period, the happiest of parents when their son Alex was born. Until autism descended, in a swift and brutal wave, sweeping...

Being denied teaching jobs due to the colour bar. Working in an office amidst the East End's bombsites. Serving as a lady's maid to an Empire-loving aristocrat. R aising two...

An intimate portrait of Stephen Hawking -- the man, the friend, and the physicist An icon of the last fifty years, Stephen Hawking seems to encapsulate genius- not since Albert...

A fresh, hilarious, and relatable collection of essays about everything from motherhood and marriage to sobriety and work-life balance (or imbalance) from the nationally bestselling author of the "honest, complicated"...

'Few people have shown more commitment to investigative journalism than Patrick Alley. His latest book is a vivid, compelling testament to the importance of revealing corruption and wrong-doing and shining...

The chart-topping singer/songwriter's powerful story, told for the first time, in her own words.

Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What...

The long-awaited memoir by movie and theatre legend, Brian Cox. *Featuring a foreword by the executive producer of Succession , Frank Rich* From Titus Andronicus with the RSC to media...

Find hope when you see that it is never too late for a new beginning. This book is for... Every person who has experienced struggle and hardship Every person who...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A RUPAUL'S BOOK CLUB PICK A Town & Country Must-Read Book of Summer 2024! One of Vulture 's Best New Audiobooks of 2024. "A...

The inspirational memoir from Paralympian and disability advocate Anne Wafula Strike, updated for 2024 Left partially paralysed below the rib cage by polio, Anne Wafula Strike was forced to flee...

The long-awaited memoir by Cameron Crowe-one of America's most iconic journalists and filmmakers-revealing his formative years in rock and roll and bringing to life stories that shaped a generation, in...

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years of epistolary exchanges and intellectual sparring. The strangely enduring and occasionally fractious...

My father, political activist Samuel Mark Goldbloom, was my hero and my nemesis all the days of his life. Sandra Goldbloom Zurbo grew up in thrall to her father, a...

Chequered Lives is the fascinating story of a Quaker family from England who camped on the beach in 1837 before the city of Adelaide was created, but rose to owning...

The book titled An Interrupted Life by the author Donald Horne. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An instant New York Times bestseller, in a sweeping narrative the author of the esteemed A Beautiful Mind takes us on a journey through modern history with the men and...

The second book from acclaimed writer and journalist Joel Golby 'There's no one funnier than Joel Golby' GREG JAMES 'I love this book' DOLLY ALDERTON How much of your life...

G.M.Trevelyan, as well as being a best-selling historian, was Regius Professor of History and Master of Trinity College Cambridge and Chancellor of the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the...

A book you won't want to put down. When Ian and Heather leave Australia to teach in Samoa they expect hardship. They don't expect a devastating cyclone followed by the...

When Benjamin Mee decided to uproot his family and move them to an unlikely new home-a dilapidated zoo where more than 200 exotic animals would be their new neighbors-his friends...

Would you have the courage to remove your breasts before you had breast cancer? T That's the choice Veronica must make when she discovers that she has the BRCA2 gene...

A Second Wind, the basis for the major motion picture The Intouchables, is the inspiring true story of two men who refused to ask for help and then wound up...

On January 4, 2011 Eric Alexander appeared on the internationally broadcast television program, The 700 Club. The 700 Club provided Eric the opportunity to greatly extend his message of teamwork,...

A heartbreakingly moving memoir proves that it is better to have loved and lost than never have loved at all. '... all I had ever felt about love's ability to...

The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis. The wish of Pope Francis was for HOPE, on which he has been working for six years, to be published posthumously....

The book titled Mare's Milk and Wild Honey: Shropshire Boyhood by the author Peter Davies. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery, from someone who lived through the Whakaari White Island volcanic eruption. "I heard...

In this literary memoir, writer and critic Helen Elliott observes her younger years via these letters to eleven influential people in her life. 'Remarkable...an account of the friendship, truthfulness, decency...

England has been at peace for as long as most people can remember - but there are still battles being waged in its towns and villages. Nearly 400 years ago...

However their stories differ in the details, all of the women in this book speak about their time in prison with eloquence and admirable candor. Some have spent most of...

From the author of the much-acclaimed novels Sorrow and Bliss and You Be Mother, Meg Mason , comes a hilarious and endearing memoir about first-time parenting. 'Achingly funny.' Better Homes...

The book titled Mary Martin: a Double Life: Australia - India 1915-1973 by the author Julie Lewis. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

The Tibetans refer to Moso country as 'The Country of Daughters' because of their unique matrilineal society. In Moso culture, daughters are favoured children. There is no word for father,...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the...