Havel
Michael ZantovskyRRP: £20.00
This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …
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High Altitude
Mike AllsopRRP: £9.99
Having survived an almost unsurvivable plane crash, most people would be tempted to sit back, take a good hard look at life and take things a little bit easier. Mike Allsop is not most people. Almost …
Himmler's Cook
Franz-Olivier GiesbertRRP: £8.99
Aged 105, Rose has endured more than her fair share of hardships: the Armenian genocide, the Nazi regime, and the delirium of Maoism. Yet somehow, despite all the suffering, Rose never loses her joie …
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Jesse AndrewsRRP: £9.99
**Soon to be a major motion picture**It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the first day of his senior year, Greg Gaines thinks he’s figured it out. The answer to the b …
Rod Laver
Rod LaverRRP: £14.99
‘From my earliest tennis memories, Rod Laver stood above all others as the greatest champion our sport has known.’ Roger FedererRod Laver’s autobiography tells the inspiring story of how a diminutive, …
The Abolition Of Liberty
Peter HitchensRRP: £10.99
‘It’s fair to say that Peter Hitchens remains one of the most misrepresented figures in the British media… Hitchens is in reality one of the most thought-provoking and intelligent commentators on li …
Victoria
A. N. WilsonRRP: £14.99
The first comprehensively researched biography of Queen Victoria ever, by one of Britain’s best biographers. This magnificent biography sheds new light on Victoria not just as a queen, but as a woman.
Waterloo
Gordon CorriganRRP: £27.00
Fought on Sunday, 18 June 1815, by some 220,000 men over rain-sodden ground in what is now Belgium, the Battle of Waterloo brought an end to twenty-three years of almost continual war between revoluti …
Altruism
Matthieu RicardRRP: £14.99
The concern for the well-being of others could be the saving grace of the 21st century. Matthieu Ricard’s Altruism, an erudite, brilliantly ranging synthesis of philosophy, psychology and ages old wis …
Fat Wars
Ellen Ruppel ShellRRP: £8.99
We are facing a gathering health crisis of epic proportions. The crisis is obesity and the diseases linked to it – hypertension, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. While multinational drug companies …
The Unravelling
Emma SkyRRP: £12.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015Emma Sky was working for the British Council during the invasion of Iraq, when the ad went around calling for voluntee …
Countrymen
Bo LidegaardRRP: £28.00
The rescue of the Danish Jews from Nazi persecution in October 1943 is a unique exception to the tragic history of the Holocaust. Over fourteen harrowing days, as they were helped, hidden and protecte …
Cricket As I See It
Allan BorderRRP: £12.99
Allan Border is an elder statesman of Australian cricket. In the twenty years since he retired as captain he’s been one of the game’s closest and most astute observers. His views on cricket – based on …
Fighter Pilot
Mac 'Serge' TuckerRRP: £9.99
Mac Tucker, or ‘Serge’ to use his callsign, is one of an elite group of men trained to fly F-18 jets. Now, for the first time, Serge takes you behind the scenes of the fighter pilot world to reveal wh …
Heaven Forbid
Christopher HopeRRP: £9.99
In the sunny jacaranda-leafed garden of his Johannesburg home, six year old Martin Donally is king of a small and perfect world. It is 1948 and life is full of childish rhymes and his colourful extend …
I, Migrant
Sami ShahRRP: £12.99
Despite being nearly killed by a kangaroo and almost lynched and run out of town after his comedy was taken far too seriously, Sami Shah is very happy to be living in Australia. He had fronted his own …
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