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Vernon Can Read!: A Memoir
Author: Annette Gordon-Reed Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 As a young college student in Atlanta, Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. had a summer job driving a white banker around town....
Dogfella: How an Abandoned Dog Named Bruno Turned This Mobster's Life Around--A Memoir
Author: Charlie Stella Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 How did a former mob enforcer become a compassionate advocate for animals in need of loving homes? How did his hardened...
The Brazilians
Author: Joseph Page Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor,these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians,...
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion
Author: Robert Coles Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 206 Robert Coles first met Dorothy Day over thirty-five years ago when, as a medical student, he worked in one of her...
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Real Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
Author: Toby Harnden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their bloody...
Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa
Author: Robert Harms Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 In January 1885, the powers of Europe gathered in Berlin to set ground rules for dividing Africa and its lucrative natural...
An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler
Author: Peter Fritzsche Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 376 World War II reached into the homes and lives of ordinary people in an unprecedented way. Civilian men, women, and children...
Fatal Mission: The Life and Death of the Crew of the Naughty Nan 467 SQN RAAF
Author: Mal Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Fatal Mission is the story of Australian navigator Oscar Furniss, just one of 55,000 young men who perished while flying for...
Pathfinder, 'Kriegie' and Gumboot Governor
Author: Sir James Rowland Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 520 A descendant of early pioneers of New South Wales, James Rowland combined a thirst for adventure with a strong sense...
Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April-May 1945
Author: Lee Eric Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 232 In the final days of World War II in Europe, Georgians serving in the Wehrmacht on Texel island off the Dutch...
Courage and Compassion: A Stretcher-bearer's Journey from No-man's Land and Beyond
Author: Don Farrands QC Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 This is the true story of a young Australian soldier whose life of opportunity was challenged by trauma and salvaged...
Letters from the Veldt: The imperial advance to Pretoria through the eyes of Edward Hutton and his brigade of colonials.
Author: Craig Stockings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 286 The South African War - or Boer War - running from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 -was the largest...
Bombs and Barbed Wire: One Man's Great Escape
Author: Jeff Steel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 His hatred of Nazism made him leave his six-month marriage to Miranda on hold. Over Germany his Halifax bomber is shot...
Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War
Author: Matthew Avery Sutton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 What makes a good missionary makes a good American spy, or so thought Office of Special Services (OSS) founder "Wild"...
The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles' Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
Author: Leslie Cavendish Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set...
The Korean Kid: A Young Australian Pilot's Baptism of Fire in the Jet Fighter Age
Author: Rochelle Nicholls Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 340 A vicious civil conflict erupted on the Korean peninsula in 1950 and sucked 24 nations into a new round of fighting....
The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion with the Mob
Author: Tim Newark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Mafia is the most powerful criminal organisation the world has ever known. This book tells the epic story of how...
Soldiers' Tales: Volumes 1 and 2
Author: Denny Neave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A collection of stories that are entertaining, emotional and humorous, Soldiers' Tale is a wonderful tribute to the Aussie digger. Australian...
A Short History of the World in 50 Books
Author: Daniel Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 The book has a unique status as an emblem of human culture and civilisation. It is a vessel for sharing stories,...
Caroline's Dilemma: A colonial inheritance saga
Author: Bettina Bradbury Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma. Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of...
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean
Author: Peter Burness Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 644 Australia's official First World War correspondent, Charles Bean, saw more of the Australian Imperial Force's actions and battles on the Western...
Law in War: Freedom and restriction in Australia during the Great War
Author: Dr Catherine Bond Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 During the Great War law was used in everyday life as a tool to discriminate, oppress, censor and deprive many...
Out of the Box
Author: Julie McSorley Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 The crazy true story of the Australian champion athlete who posted himself home, became a drug smuggler and found himself on...
Anaximander: And the Nature of Science
Author: Carlo Rovelli Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Over two millennia ago, a Greek philosopher had a number of wondrous insights that paved the way to cosmology, physics, geography,...
The Times The Queen and the Commonwealth: Celebrating seven decades of royal state visits
Author: James Owen Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Our most travelled monarch covered well over 1,000,000 miles and visited 117 countries during her reign. From New Zealand to Barbados,...
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial: The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Author: Deborah Cohen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far 'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of Summer...
Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak
Author: Rosie Lewis Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it's too...
Murder: The Biography
Author: Kate Morgan Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW 'Fascinating' - Sunday Times 'Masterful' - Judith Flanders 'A page-turning read' - Prof....
Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
Author: Vitalik Buterin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 At only nineteen years old Vitalik Buterin published a visionary paper outlining the ideas behind what would become Ethereum....
Sultan: A Memoir
Author: Wasim Akram Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history...
Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink
Author: Veronique Hyland Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 A New Yorker Magazine Best Book of 2022 * An Esquire Best Nonfiction Book of 2022 * A Town...
A History of Royal Britain in 100 Objects
Author: Gill Knappett Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 126 From the glory of coronation regalia to coins, from imposing statues to stamps, from distinguished medals to monuments, and from beautiful...
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family's Story of Slavery
Author: Alex Renton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'An incredible work of scholarship' - Sathnam Sanghera Through the story of his own family's...
The Black Book: The Britons on the Nazi Hit List
Author: Sybil Oldfield Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 'Oldfield's thoroughly researched and fascinating historical biography explores the lives of many of the 2,600 citizens who attracted Hitler's ire, ranging...
Brittle with Relics: A History of Wales, 1962-97 ('Oral history at its revelatory best' DAVID KYNASTON)
Author: Mr Richard King Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 There is no present in Wales, / And no future; / There is only the past, / Brittle with relics...
Second-hand Time
Author: Svetlana Alexievich Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 704 When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing 'a new kind of literary genre,'...
Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain
Author: Matthew Green Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the forgotten history of Britain's lost cities, ghost...
Elton John at 75
Author: Gillian G. Gaar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 200 A unique and beautifully produced celebration of the iconic and beloved rock star, Elton John at 75 examines Sir Elton's...
Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room
Author: Jonathan Bate Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLEN From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how...
I Just Want to Be Loved
Author: Casey Watson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 After taking a few weeks off work, Casey is presented with a new foster child: 14-year-old Elise, whose Mum left her...
The Go-Between: A Portrait of Growing Up Between Different Worlds
Author: Osman Yousefzada Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 The adult world is seen through Osman's eyes as a child: his own devout Pashtun patriarchal community, with its divide between...
Vintage Knitwear: Collecting and wearing designer classics
Author: Marnie Fogg Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 Foreword by Kaffe Fassett A visual journey through the decades, Vintage Knitwear takes a close look at the key periods, significant...
The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Author: Masha Gessen Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 In The Future is History Masha Gessen follows the lives of four Russians, born as the Soviet Union crumbled,...
The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Author: Joan Didion Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that...
The Dead Are Arising: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography
Author: Les Payne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 640 The definitive biography of Malcolm X- "fascinating and essential" (Washington Post), this is a new portrait which vividly rewrites...
The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win
Author: Mark 'Billy' Billingham Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 272 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. 'The SAS and all it stands for is exemplified in men such as Mark...
The Warrior and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation
Author: Peter Cozzens Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 'Marvellous... One of the best pieces of Native American history I have read.' - S.C. Gwynne, bestselling author of Empire of...
Kew - Rare Plants: Forty of the world's rarest and most endangered plants
Author: Ed Ikin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 264 Rare Plants explores what makes the world's rarest plants so exceptional, and by what means they have become so...