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Obsessive, Intrusive, Magical Thinking
Obsessive was, still is, my natural state, and I never wondered why. I didn't mind, didn't know that other people could feel at peace. I always felt like a raw...
No Filters: a mother and teenage daughter love story
Honest, funny, moving conversations about mental health, identity and contemporary issues between bestselling author and her teenage daughter 'Fascinating... a much needed conversation between generations' THE TIMES How can we...
A Different Kind of Power: The internationally bestselling memoir
#1 New Zealand bestseller #1 Amazon bestseller #2 Audible bestseller #3 New York Times bestseller #3 Sunday Times bestseller #4 Australian bestseller From the former prime minister of New Zealand,...
A Doctor's Dream: A Story of Hope from the Top End
When Dr Buddhi moved to Arnhem Land to run a health program for Aboriginal children, he had no idea he would face the challenge of his life. Six months into...
Come the Revolution: A Memoir
In Come the Revolution , journalist Alex Mitchell gives a rollicking account of life in newspapers and his radical past as a Trotskyist. From the cut-throat era of Sydney tabloids,...
The Reluctant Carer: Dispatches from the Edge of Life
'Hilarious, bitter, poignant and profound, this is the human condition laid brilliantly bare, like an existential soap opera - only with more laughs.' - Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan It...
Coronet Among the Weeds: The internationally bestselling, deliciously
The deliciously funny confessions of a debutante which became an international bestseller It is the early 1960s, and eighteen-year-old Charlotte Bingham, fresh from convent school, has been catapulted into the...
The Power Of Hope
A powerful, inspiring memoir from Kon Karapanagiotidis, founder of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which argues that by putting community, love and compassion at the centre of our lives, we...
Tiger Woman: A Wild Life
Dancer, singer, gang member, cocaine addict and artist's favourite: Betty May - aka the Tiger Woman - was a woman like no other. Born into abject poverty in Limehouse, Betty...
Girl To City: A Memoir
GIRL TO CITY follows one young woman's progression from Elton John fan in the Pittsburgh suburbs to Manhattan art student; from punk show habitue to fledgling musician to cult singer-songwriter...
Paris France
90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All Frenchmen know you have to become civilised between eighteen and twenty-three and that civilisation comes upon you by contact with...
Crooked
In a music and publishing industry first, acclaimed musician Kristin Hersh releases her new studio album, CROOKED, as a book. Kristin Hersh, lead singer of Throwing Muses and successful solo...
The Boatman: An Indian Love Story
The six years John Burbidge spent in India as a community development worker changed him in many ways, but one stands out from all the rest. It led him to...
What Happened
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A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK "In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I've often felt I had to be careful...
A WWII Soldier in the Pacific: During and After 1943-1945
Anyone familiar with WWII studies in the Pacific will recognize the name Eugene B. Sledge. The author, who corresponded with Sledge 30 years ago, shared the experience of serving on...
Sisters First: Stories from Our Wild and Wonderful Life
Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just twelve years later they stood...
The Sty's the Limit: When Middle Age Gets Mucky
Following a drunken misunderstanding Simon Dawson gave up his job in the city, moved to the wilds of Exmoor and became an accidental self-sufficient smallholder with an array of animals....
Marrying Anita
You are a single woman in your thirties, fed up with the singles scene. You are tired of singles dinner parties, and exhausted by phone calls, e-profiles, and forced dinner...
Broken Dreams: First Nations Classics
Now included in UQP's First Nations Classics series with an introduction from Gayle Kennedy, Broken Dreams is a moving and inspiring story of a life transformed in an accident, told...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
A raw, explicit memoir as high-intensity and riveting as any of Ellroy's novels. The theme- the author's obsessive pursuit of women. America's greatest living crime writer gives us a raw,...
Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
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Leap of Faith is the story of a young American woman who became wife and partner to an Arab monarch. Queen Noor of Jordan provides a compelling portrait of her...
The Alchemy of Loss: A Young Widow's Transformation
Like A YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING this powerful and touching book is both an inspirational read and a comfort to those who are looking for help in overcoming loss. The...
The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women
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The legendary crime writer gives us a raw, brutally candid memoir--as high intensity and as riveting as any of his novels--about his obsessive search for "atonement in women." The year...
India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nation's Remaking
Reversing his parents' immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to...
When Death Takes Something From You Give It Back
'Extraordinary. It is about death, but I can think of few books which have such life. It shows us what love is.' Max Porter, author of GRIEF IS THE THING...
Free: A Life in Images and Words
The early life path of Ukraine-born Sergei Polunin was akin to a dancer's fairytale. A precocious talent. Ballet training in Kiev. Admission to the Royal Ballet School in London at...
Motherland
' Motherland had me feeling angry, then sobbing, then laughing, then cheering and finally left me so inspired. These true stories, captured so beautifully by Stephanie Trethewey, reveal the guts,...
Jennifer's Way: My Journey with Celiac Disease--What Doctors Don't
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness estimates that as many as one in 133 Americans has celiac disease. Unfortunately, 83 percent of people who have this terrible disease are undiagnosed...
Trapped: A Couple's Five Years of Hell in Dubai
How Australian Marcus Lee and his wife, Julie, survived wrongful imprisonment, house arrest and five years of trials and tribulations in Dubai. In 2006 Marcus Lee moved to Dubai with...
Border Crossings: My Journey as an Outsider
Whether negotiating the mind-games of border security services or performing ablutions in a London bathroom, Mohammad Chowdhury's life travelling the world brings daily challenges. Border Crossings is a thrilling ride...
The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for Your Life of Epic Adventure
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of You Are Mighty, a real-life derring-do woman, a collection of exhilarating stories, activities, and tips to inspire girls to pursue a life...
Girlvert: A Porno Memoir
Proclaimed "girl-pervert" Oriana Small, AKA Ashley Blue, a veritable artist at heart, weaves through the intricacies of a decade in and out of the adult film industry, love, drugs, and...
Our Country in Crisis: Britain's Housing Emergency and How We Rebuild
'Kwajo's voice is leading the call for change on behalf of a generation who have been seriously failed by Westminster.' Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester 'A brilliant thinker and...
Nowhere but Up: The Story of Justin Bieber's Mom
Most people only know her as Justin Bieber's mom, but Pattie Mallette has had an incredible journey of her own. Many people have heard of her son's rags to riches...
Do Let's Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of
A Times Best Book on the Royal Family of the Year 2022 This is a biography of the Queen Mother with all the dull bits stripped out. When told that...
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The...
Pixie:Inside A World Of Drugs, Sex And Violence
Andrea Mohr's CV is an eye-opening read: drug runner, hostess, money launderer, drug dealer and importer amongst other things. Alongside this was a glamorous life filled with travel, movie stars...
Lockdown: Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison
The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of Sao Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also...
Gang of One: One Man's Incredible Battle to Find his Missing Daughter:
Imagine you're a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America's most notorious prisons. You've been told that if get...
First Fly, Last Fly
Storytellers and bards have always been with us from the mists of deepest antiquity to the present. Alistair Brooks is one of the more recent in this long line of...
Asylum: A Survivor's Flight from Nazi-Occupied Vienna Through Wartime
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A recently discovered account of an Austrian Jewish writer's flight, persecution, and clandestine life in wartime France. As arts editor for one of Vienna's principal newspapers, Moriz Scheyer knew many...
No Place to Lay One's Head: with a preface from Patrick Modiano
An extraordinary story of one woman's attempt to survive the horrors of Vichy France. A bitter, beautiful and important book Robert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENT The French sensation, now in English...
My Booky Wook
"A child's garden of vices, My Booky Wook is also a relentless ride with a comic mind clearly at the wheel.... The bloke can write. He rhapsodizes about heroin better...
Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography
The follow-up to the 2 million-copy-selling autobiography Losing My Virginity, documenting the incredible truth of the last twenty years in Sir Richard Branson's life. 50 years ago, Sir Richard Branson...
Kissing Frogs
Less Venus in Furs, more Derek in Buxton. Interested? Write to Derek in Buxton. Box 977. RU4ME? Contemplating internet dating? Wondering why anyone would? Fantasising about what you'd find? Fretting...
Hating God, Loving God: How a Young Man Born Into Suffering and Driven
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Hating God, Loving God presents the author's graphic and painful memories of being raised in a secretive, abusive, and manipulative cult, and how his childhood sufferings spilled over into a...
Cheetah's Tale, A
This charming autobiographical tale from Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals. In the early 1960s,...