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It's Not Yet Dark
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Author: Simon Fitzmaurice Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 In 2008, Simon Fitzmaurice was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease (mnd). He was given four years to live. In 2010, in...
Wavewalker: Breaking Free
Author: Suzanne Heywood Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A TIMES BEST MEMOIR OF 2023 'Grippingly vivid and pacey' THE TIMES 'A seven-year old girl on a...
A Class Act
Author: Rob Beckett Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Pacy, witty and affectionate' Guardian Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television and...
Living Brave: Lessons from Hurt, Lighting the Way to Hope
Author: Shannon Dingle Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 "Shannon's struggle, defiance, strength, and power emanate from every page. That kind of brave can be trusted." - Glennon Doyle, #1...
English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (Excluding Drama)
Author: C. S. Lewis Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 752 C. S. Lewis offers a magisterial take on the literature and poetry of one of the most consequential periods in...
The Remarkable Mrs Reibey: The fascinating true story about the life of colonial Australia's most powerful woman from the bestselling award winning author of Mrs Kelly, Banks and Hudson Fysh
Author: Grantlee Kieza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 The extraordinary story of Mary Reibey - immortalised on the Australian $20 note, Australia's first female entrepreneur and the most powerful...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta Olubas Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 576 The authorised biography of Shirley Hazzard, one of the greatest writers in the English language, author of The Transit of Venus...
Code Name Blue Wren
Author: Jim Popkin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The incredible true story of Ana Montes, the most damaging female spy in US history, drawing upon never-before-seen material and to...
One Medicine: How understanding animals can save our lives
Author: Dr Matt Morgan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 It all started with a Hob Nob. As Dr Matt Morgan, an intensive care consultant, examined a patient who had...
Downton Shabby: One American's Ultimate DIY Adventure Restoring His Family's English Castle
Author: Hopwood DePree Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 HGTV meets Downton Abbey! A ready-for-TV story-with charm and humor in abundance-about a Los Angeles producer who moves to England to...
Under My Skin: Volume One of My Autobiography, to 1949
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Author: Doris Lessing Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 "I was born with skins too few. Or they were scrubbed off me by...robust and efficient hands." The experiences absorbed through...
To the Manner Born: Wm. H.T. Walker
Author: Russell K. Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 436 Making use of personal correspondence official documents, contemporary newspaper articles and eye witness narratives, the book includes details of Walker's...
Billy the Kid: The Best Writings On The Infamous Outlaw
Author: Harold Dellinger Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 In movies, stage plays, short stories, novels, newspaper articles, poems, and songs, literally hundreds of accomplished authors have been drawn toward...
The Beauty of Living: E. E. Cummings in the Great War
Author: J. Alison Rosenblitt (Regent's Park College, University of Oxford) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 Renowned for his formally fractured, gleefully alive poetry, E. E. Cummings is not often...
Josiah Wedgwood: A New Biography
Author: Anthony Burton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Wedgwood was born in the Staffordshire Potteries in 1739 and lived in the area all his life. His family were all...
The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us about Being Human and Living Well
Author: Julian Baggini Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 328 Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from one of the Enlightenment's greatest philosophers David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin
Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Napoleon's Shield and Guardian
Author: Edward Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 424 This outstanding biography is a story of courage. It charts the career of a superbly brave cavalryman against the rise and...
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders
Author: Kahlil G. Gibran Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil...
Maximinus Thrax
Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography
Author: Dale Jacquette Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 680 Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language,...
The President's Man: The Memoirs of Nixon's Trusted Aide
Author: Dwight Chapin Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 In time for the 50th anniversary of President Nixon's epic trips to China and Russia, as well as his incredible Watergate...
This Book Could Save Your Life: Breaking the silence around the mental health emergency
Author: Ben West Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 'What's sort of funny when something horrific happens is that nothing happens to the rest of the world. The cars still...
You Made Me This Way: A powerful personal investigation into trauma, hope and healing from the author of the memoir Fourteen
Author: Shannon Molloy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames, from Shannon Molloy, the author of...
Phosphorescence: Winner of the Australian Book Industry BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021
Author: Julia Baird Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The national bestseller, Phosphorescence is a beautiful, intimate and inspiring investigation into how we can find and nurture within ourselves that...
Silenced: The shocking true story of a young girl too afraid to speak
Author: Rosie Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A family with a dark secret. A child who refuses to speak. Rosie must help her before it's too late. Nine-year-old...
Down The Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures And Cautionary Tales Of A Former Playboy Bunny
Author: Holly Madison Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 A spontaneous decision at age 21 transformed small-town Oregon girl Holly Cullen into Holly Madison, Hugh Hefner's number-one girlfriend. But like...
Limitless: The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance
Author: Mallory Weggemann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you...
Becoming Forrest: One man's epic run across America
Author: Rob Pope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 The remarkable true story of an unrivalled journey to recreate the greatest run in film history: 15,621 miles, five-times across the...
Saved from the Waves: Animal Rescues of the RNLI
Author: The RNLI Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 She has to be OK, I pleaded silently to myself. She has to be. 'We've alerted the RNLI and they're sending...
Splendours and Miseries: The Roy Strong Diaries, 1967-87
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 800 'The Alan Clark diaries of cultural politics' Sunday Times 'At every word a reputation dies' A. N. Wilson Roy Strong is...
Coronation: A History of the British Monarchy
Author: Roy Strong Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 The definitive history of coronations and the Royal Family, from acclaimed writer Roy Strong. 'What is the finest sight in the...
The Fear Bubble: Harness Fear and Live Without Limits
Author: Ant Middleton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 The brilliant, inspirational next book by the author of the incredible No. 1 bestseller FIRST MAN IN. Without fear, there's no...
Cold-Water Eden
Author: Richie Fitzgerald Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An immersive memoir about a groundbreaking surfing career, and a stunning portrait of Ireland as one of the world's most captivating...
A Love Letter Life: Pursue Creatively. Date Intentionally. Love Faithfully.
Author: Jeremy Roloff Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 Are you living the kind of love story you want to read about More than 2.3 million people watched as Jeremy...
Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet
Author: Elaine Feinstein Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 Ted Hughes is one of the greatest English poets of this century, yet his life was dogged by tragedy and controversy....
The Adventurer's Son: A Memoir
Author: Roman Dial Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Destined to become an adventure classic." -Anchorage Daily News Hailed as "gripping" (New York Times) and "beautiful" (Washington Post),...
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Author: Philip Eade Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'Brisk, lively and wonderfully entertaining' John Banville 'Excellent ... read this book' Literary Review 'The best single-volume life of the author...
Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London
Author: Jennifer Worth, SRN, SCM Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 n this follow up to CALL THE MIDWIFE, Jennifer Worth, a midwife working in the docklands area of East...
Going to Sea in a Sieve: The Autobiography
Author: Danny Baker Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Danny Baker was born in Deptford, South East London in June 1957, and from an early age was involved in magazine...
The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars
Author: Meghan Daum Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 "[A]ffectingly personal, achingly earnest, and something close to necessary." -Vogue "Personal, convincing, unflinching." -Tablet From an author who's been called "one...
God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life's Best (and Worst) Moments
Author: Hannah Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 A New York Times bestseller. "My life was a complete mess, and God bless all of it. Because it's in the...
My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir
Author: Katherine Johnson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 The remarkable woman at heart of the smash New York Times bestseller and Oscar-winning film Hidden Figures tells the full story...
Unbought and Unbossed
Author: Shirley Chisholm Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 "A tremendously impressive book."-Washington Post "Her motto and title of her autobiography-Unbought and Unbossed-illustrates her outspoken advocacy for women and minorities...
Hands: An Anxious Mind Unpicked
Author: Lauren Brown Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'Raw, intense and absorbing.' MATT HAIG 'As tender and funny as it is painful.' TLS 'I didn't give my hands much...
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
Author: Fred Kaplan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 672 As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy Adams, award-winning biographer Fred Kaplan offers a fresh, illuminating look at the...
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon
Author: Kate Andersen Brower Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 512 The first authorised biography of eternal legend Elizabeth Taylor. Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen...