Star-Craving Mad

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Fred Watson knows all about the madness that drives people to understand the Universe and unlock its secrets.Now you can join Australia’s best-known astronomer on a unique tour to unravel the mysterie …

Stringer

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Written with startling beauty and acuity, Stringer is an account of a year and a half that Anjan Sundaram spent in the Congo working on the bottom rung of the Associated Press. It was an intense perio …

The Bird Skinner

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It is 1973. Jim Kennoway, a distinguished ornithologist and Second World War veteran, has just left his work at the Natural History Museum in New York, turned his back on his family and retreated to a …

The Headmaster's Wife

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Arthur Winthrop is a middle-aged headmaster at an elite prep school in Vermont. When he is arrested for an act that is incredibly out of character, the strait-laced, married headmaster confesses to a …

The Longshoreman: A Life at the Water's Edge

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‘When I first urged Richard Shelton to write his naturalist’s memoir, I never expected him to produce a classic. But he has.’ Redmond O’Hanlon, author of Trawler Fish have been a lifelong obsession fo …

Veni, Vidi, Vici

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The Romans left a long-lasting legacy and their influence can still be seen all around us – from our calendar and coins, to our language and laws – but how much do we really know about them? Help is a …

We Won't Back Down

With major wins in the bag from its first year of racing, Orica-GreenEDGE, Australia’s first professional men and women’s international road cycling team, has already made its mark at the highest leve …

A Conversation About Happiness

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When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in Suffolk, and abandoned there. The set …

A Higher Call

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This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during the Second World War became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly da …

A Smile For My Parents

Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edit …

Cluetopia

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Crosswords are not as old as you think. The first one appeared a century ago, the little square keeping in remarkable shape. Cluetopia is here to toast the centenary, whizzing you through 100 years of …

Gallowglass

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Douglas Brodie is dead. The Glasgow Gazette announced the tragic death on 26 June 1947 of their chief crime reporter. Just three weeks before, life was rosy. After a tumultuous winter chasing war crim …

Language!

In this richly entertaining book, Jonathon Green traces the development of slang and its trajectory through society, and offers an impassioned argument for its defence. Beginning, at least in recorded …

My Crazy Century

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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

My Crazy Century

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More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

The Assistant

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Time magazine’s ‘All-Time list of 100 Novels’Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank be …