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Author: Robyn Davidson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Australian...
Three Women: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick
Author: Lisa Taddeo Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The International No. 1 Bestseller 'Cuts to the heart of who we are' Sunday Times 'A book that begs discussion' Vanity...
The Vanished Collection: Stolen masterpieces, family secrets and one woman's quest for the truth
Author: Pauline Baer de Perignon Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 A charming and heartfelt story about war, art, and the lengths a woman will go to find the truth...
The Queen
Author: Matthew Dennison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Matthew Dennison's elegant and magisterial biography of Her late Majesty, updated following the death of Elizabeth II and the accession of...
The Magicians: Great Minds and the Central Miracle of Science
Author: Marcus Chown Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Marcus Chown rocks!' - Brian May How does it feel to know something about the universe that no one has ever...
The Lives of Lucian Freud: FAME 1968 - 2011
Author: William Feaver Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY...
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
Author: Max Chafkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial and hugely influential power broker who sits at the...
Tell Me Good Things: On Love, Death and Marriage
Author: Mr James Runcie Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 'A tender memoir of the challenges of bereavement ... I closed this book wishing I'd met her - but feeling...
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan
Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (University of Notre Dame, USA) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE 2022 A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2022 _______________...
Solito
Author: Javier Zamora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Javier is nine years old, can't tie his shoes, and dreams of eating orange sherbet ice cream with his parents in...
Soldier: Respect Is Earned
Author: Jay Morton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one...
So Far, So Good: On connection, loss, laughter and the Torres Strait
Author: Aaron Fa'Aoso Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 360 'I am a descendant of the Samu and Koedal clans of Sabai Island. My people are warriors, but we are storytellers...
Sins of My Father: A Daughter, a Cult, a Wild Unravelling
Author: Lily Dunn Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 When Lily Dunn was just six years old, her father left the family home to follow his guru to India, trading...
Robert Peel: A Biography
Author: Douglas Hurd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Robert Peel, as much as any man in the nineteenth century, transformed Great Britain into a modern nation. He invented our...
Reckoning
Author: V (formerly Eve Ensler) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Memoir of the Season The work of a lifetime from the Tony Award-winning, bestselling...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald
Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
Peter the Great
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 1056 The Pulitzer prizewinning biography of Peter the Great, the ruler who brought Russia from darkness into light. Against the monumental...
Paul McCartney: The Biography
Author: Philip Norman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 864 The first biography written with Paul McCartney's approval and with access to family members and friends closest to him. Superbly evoking...
Oscar: A Life
Author: Matthew Sturgis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 912 The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to...
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family
Author: Robert K. Massie Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 720 A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs - Nicholas II of Russia and...
Mary Poppins She Wrote: The extraordinary life of Australian writer P.L. Travers
Author: Valerie Lawson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Discover the true story behind the creation of the world's most beloved nanny, now appearing in Disney's Mary Poppins Returns. Mary...
Just Kids: the National Book Award-winning memoir
Author: Patti Smith Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Winner of the 2010 Non-Fiction National Book Award Patti Smith's definitive memoir is an evocative, honest and moving coming-of-age story of...
In My Mother's Shoes
Author: Alison Walsh Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 'Honest, funny, heartfelt ...I loved it' Cathy Kelly Clear-eyed, touching, forthright and funny, In My Mother's Shoes is Alison Walsh's delightful...
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic
Author: Bill Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Winner of the New York City Book Award From the beloved author of Insomniac City, a poignant and profound tribute in...
Frida: The Biography of Frida Kahlo
Author: Hayden Herrera Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The beautifully illustrated and utterly absorbing biography of one of the twentieth century's most transfixing artists Frida is the story of...
Faith, Hope and Carnage
Author: Nick Cave Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 The Sunday Times Music Book of the Year A Daily Telegraph Best Music Book of the Year The Big Issue Book...
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration
Author: Levison Wood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 864 100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by...
Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life
Author: Alex Christofi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A daring and mesmerizing twist on the art of biography' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin: The Biography 'Anyone who loves...
Don't Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet
Author: Alice Robb Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Ballet is woman' said George Balanchine, the founder of New York City Ballet. For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous...
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional
Author: Isaac Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER USA TODAY BESTSELLER Winner of the New England Book Award for Nonfiction Winner of the New Atlantic...
Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith
Author: Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts,...
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises
Author: A. N. Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 Here at last is the story of one of the leading contemporary critics, literary and otherwise, who has become celebrated...
Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen
Author: Jane Draycott Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 The first modern biography of one of the most fascinating, and unjustly neglected, female rulers of the ancient world: Cleopatra Selene....
Bedtime Story
Author: Chloe Hooper Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Shortlisted for the 2023 NSW Premier's Literary Award for Non-Fiction Longlisted for the 2023 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award From...
A Spy Among Friends: Now a major ITV series starring Damian Lewis and Guy Pearce
Author: Ben Macintyre Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 **NOW A MAJOR SIX-PART SERIES ON ITVX, STARRING DAMIAN LEWIS AND GUY PEARCE** A SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN...
Secret Voices: A Year of Women's Diaries
Author: Sarah Gristwood Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 A captivating collection of extracts from women's diaries, looking back over four centuries to discover how women's experience - of men...
Angela's Ashes
Author: Frank McCourt Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Stunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the...
Long Hard Road Out Of Hell
Author: M Manson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The best-selling autobiography of America's most controversial celebrity icon, Marilyn Manson (with a bonus chapter not in the hardcover). In his...
The Girl with Seven Names: Escape from North Korea
Author: Hyeonseo Lee Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world's most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and...
How to Fail: Everything I've Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things...
Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands
Author: Annie Worsley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'Windswept is a wonderful work, prose painted in bold, bright strokes like a Scottish Colourist's canvas' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'An instant classic...
Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Author: Mark Dery Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler,...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Author: Jean-Dominique Bauby Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a remarkable...
Solito: The New York Times Bestseller
Author: Javier Zamora Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 400 A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Solito is my travel book of the year.' Telegraph 'Heartbreaking... A rare, eye-opening rendition of...
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome
Author: Harry Sidebottom Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 On 8 June AD218 a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Rallying his retreating...
Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire
Author: Nandini Das Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE A SPECTATOR, WATERSTONES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, PROSPECT AND HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR...
The Shape of Dust: A father wrongly imprisoned. A daughter's quest to free him
Author: Lamisse Hamouda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is...
Eve Bites Back: An Alternative History of English Literature
Author: Anna Beer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 'Essential reading.' Claire Tomalin Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper...