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The Fry Chronicles
Author: Stephen Fry Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 National Treasure- noun - someone or something regarded as emblematic of a nation's cultural heritage, such as Stephen Fry...
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Jeremy Dronfield Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 432 The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and to survive the Holocaust In...
Carry On, Warrior: From Glennon Doyle, the #1 bestselling author of Untamed
Author: Glennon Doyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The inspiring and universal true story of the transformative power of a mother's love. On Mother's Day, 2002, Glennon...
Life on Air
Author: David Attenborough Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 448 "The memoirs of the world's leading Natural History programme maker, updated and revised for 2009" "Sir David Attenborough is...
The Messenger
Author: Shiv Malik Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The Messenger tells the story of an unlikely friendship between two men looking to change the world - a...
Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found
Author: Cheryl Strayed (Author) Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's rapid death from...
Scenes and Apparitions: The Roy Strong Diaries 1988-2003
Author: Sir Roy Strong Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 'Viper wit from the gardener, writer and Knight of exquisite taste' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Funny, barbed and moving ......
Of Fortunes and War: Clare Hollingworth, first of the female war correspondents
Author: Patrick Garrett Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 496 'Unputdownable' Alexander McCall Smith 'One of the most unforgettable journalists I have ever met' Chris Patten 'She was a...
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters
Author: Andrew Morton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate,...
The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
Author: Frank Langfitt Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 As any traveller knows, the best and most honest conversations take place during car rides. So when journalist Frank...
How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - The short essay that helped change the Covid-19 debate
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Author: Paolo Giordano Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 80 'The literature of the time after begins here' EVENING STANDARD 'A jolt of brevity and simplicity' THE TIMES 'In...
Unspeakable: The Things We Cannot Say
Author: Harriet Shawcross Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 As a teenager, Harriet Shawcross stopped speaking at school for almost a year. As an adult, she became fascinated...
Alfred the Great
Author: Justin Pollard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Alfred is the only English king ever to be called 'Great'. It was not a title given by political...
It Is What It Is
Author: David Coulthard Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 From his quiet beginnings in rural Scotland to his multi-millionaire lifestyle in Monte Carlo, where he owns one of...
The Lost Imperialist: Lord Dufferin, Memory and Mythmaking in an Age of Celebrity
Author: Andrew Gailey Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed...
Augustus: From Revolutionary to Emperor
Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 Caesar Augustus schemed and fought his way to absolute power. He became Rome's first emperor and ruled for forty-four...
We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of REDDIT, the Internet's Culture Laboratory
Author: Christine Lagorio-Chafkin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 'A gripping read' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Originals Reddit hails itself as 'the front page of the Internet'....
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
Author: Paul Brannigan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's...
The Life of Samuel Johnson
Author: James Boswell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 1312 A landmark in Boswell and Johnson studies In Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of...
American Spirit: Profiles in Resilience, Courage, and Faith
Author: Taya Kyle Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The "American Sniper" legacy continues: Taya Kyle celebrates the American Spirit in her inspiring new book Life leads us...
Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey
Author: Frances Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'...
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District
Author: James Rebanks Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 In evocative and lucid prose, James Rebanks takes us through a shepherd's year, offering a unique account of rural...
The Cancer Journals
Author: Audre Lorde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie...
Homage to Catalonia
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism...
Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
Author: Simone de Beauvoir Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Memoirs of a Dutiful...
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz - Costa Book of the Year 2019
Author: Jack Fairweather Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The first account of one of the greatest heroes of WWII, and a gripping story of defiance, rebellion, sabotage...
Orwell in Spain
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 An exhilarating collection of Orwell's writing on the Spanish Civil War The volume collects together Orwell's writings on his...
American Scoundrel
Author: Tom Keneally Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. Murder, Love and politics in Civil War America. On the last,...
The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City
Author: Iris Origo Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant. In...
We Of The Never-Never
Author: Aeneas Gunn Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The 100th year anniversary of this well loved Australian Classic. In 1902, newly-married Jeannie Gunn (Mrs Aeneas Gunn) left...
Hitler: Volume II: Downfall 1939-45
Author: Volker Ullrich Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The long-awaited second volume of Volker Ullrich's acclaimed biography of the F hrer, taking us through the war years...
The Boy Behind the Curtain
Author: Tim Winton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 This highly acclaimed collection of memoirs is Winton's most intimate and revealing work yet. Along with Island Home and...
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 From the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao- The Unknown Story, the extraordinary story of the woman who...
Down in the Valley: A Writer's Landscape
Author: Laurie Lee Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 From the author of Cider With Rosie, this is a moving, lyrical portrait of the landscape of Laurie Lee's...
Down and Out in Paris and London
Author: George Orwell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 224 Orwell's vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute, in a stunning new cover look for...
Growing Up Aboriginal in Australia
Author: Anita Heiss Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 What is it like to grow up Aboriginal in Australia? This anthology, compiled by award-winning author Anita Heiss, attempts...
How to Make Gravy
Author: Paul Kelly Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 576 A memoir in a hundred songs - classy storytelling from Australia's most prodigious singer-songwriter. Paul Kelly is a uniquely...
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance
Author: Edmund de Waal Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 The history of a family through 264 objects - set against a turbulent century - from an acclaimed...
Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies
Author: Stephanie Wood Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Aren't we all just a little bit afraid that we, or someone we care about, will be duped in...
Attila The Hun
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 The first popular biography of the great warlord, Attila the Hun. The name Attila the Hun has become a...
The Choice: A true story of hope
Author: Edith Eger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The incredible, bestselling memoir of survival, hope and empowerment THE AWARD-WINNING SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Even...
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future
Author: Ashlee Vance Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 'I would like to die on Mars, just not on impact.' - Elon Musk South African born Elon Musk...
Saladin: The Life, the Legend and the Islamic Empire
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The definitive biography of Saladin. Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man...
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia
Author: David Hill Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living...
One Way Road: The Autobiography of Robbie McEwen
Author: Ed Pickering Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 The autobiography of three time Tour de France Green Jersey winner. The autobiography of three time Tour de France...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
Author: Jung Chang Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A major new biography from the internationally bestselling author of Wild Swans, Mao and Empress Dowager Cixi- a gripping...
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World
Author: Michelle Scott Tucker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A groundbreaking portrait of an ordinary English gentlewoman who would go on to become one of Australia's most...
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse
Author: Gregory Smith Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 Gregory Smith was homeless for much of his adult life and lived for many years as a recluse in...