The Looking Glass House
Vanessa TaitRRP: £8.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN AWARDOxford, 1862. Poor, plain Mary Prickett takes up her post as governess to the daughters of the Dean of Christ Church. When Mary meets Charles Dodgson, a friend …
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The Prophets of Eternal Fjord
Kim LeineRRP: £6.99
A gorgeous, strange, dark-edged novel that has garlanded critical acclaim throughout Europe and won the prestigious Nordic Council’s Literature Prize.Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly orda …
The Stalking of Julia Gillard
Kerry-Anne WalshRRP: £8.99
‘Don’t write crap. Can’t be that hard. And when you have written complete crap, then I think you should correct it.’ Julia GillardWhen Julia Gillard took the reins of the Australian Labor Party on 24 …
Walking Free
Dr Munjed Al MuderisRRP: £12.99
Dr Munjed Al Muderis grew up in Iraq during Saddam Hussein’s reign. He went to school with Saddam’s sons, then started his medical training at Basra University just as the Iran-Iraq War began. One day …
The Book of Speculation
Erika SwylerRRP: £8.99
For fans of The Night Circus, comes a sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse.Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Isl …
Confessions of a Millionaire's Mistress
Ava ReillyRRP: £10.99
The morning after meeting Hugh, I was heading out the door when I saw I had a new message. I opened it cautiously and saw six words that made my heart skip a beat.’I need to see you again.’Ava Reilly …
An Outback Nurse
Thea HayesRRP: £12.99
Thea Hayes trained as a nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to …
Dress, Memory
Lorelei VashtiRRP: £9.99
As we grow older, how do we know what to let go of and what to keep?Lorelei started collecting dresses in her twenties and found that every time she wore one it became more significant to her. From fa …
Great Australian Horse Stories
Anne CrawfordRRP: £12.99
Great Australian Horse Stories brings to life the exploits–funny, poignant and sometimes dramatic–of horses from all over the nation. Outback legends, loyal carthorses, spectacular high jumpers and …
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 …
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: £29.00
‘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, …
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 …
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