Esther
Jessica NorthRRP: £14.99
Esther only just escaped the hangman in London. She was aged 16 when she stood trial for stealing twenty-four yards of black silk lace, worth fifty shillings, from Harrops’ Drapery. Her sentence was ‘ …
Genre: BG
Barefoot Surgeon
Ali GripperRRP: £14.99
Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world’s medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundr …
Rocky Road
Robert WainwrightRRP: £14.99
In the early 1930s, the Australian family confectionery company Darrell Lea was a sensation, its shops stacked with delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more in line with the company’s …
The House
Helen PittRRP: £14.99
The best-loved building in Australia nearly didn’t get off the drawing board. When it did, the lives of everyone involved in its construction were utterly changed: some for the better, many for the wo …
The Lost War Horses of Cairo
Grant Hayter-MenziesRRP: £8.99
In 1930 wealthy Scottish socialite Dorothy Brooke followed her new husband to Cairo, where she discovered thousands of suffering former British war horses leading lives of toil and misery.Brought to t …
Miss Muriel Matters
Robert WainwrightRRP: £9.99
In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as ‘that daring Australian girl’, chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in t …
The Last Crocodile Hunter
Amanda FrenchRRP: £16.99
‘When the world lost Steve, the animals lost the best friend they ever had, and so did I. But he’s still here with me and knowing that means that I am able to gain strength from him, and harness the s …
Their Promised Land
Ian BurumaRRP: £9.99
Ian Buruma’s maternal grandparents, Bernard and Winifred (Bun & Win), wrote to each other regularly throughout their life together. The first letters were written in 1915, when Bun was still at school …
Finding Sanity
Greg de MooreRRP: £14.99
In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives – if they survived – in and out of asylums accumulating life’s wreckage around them. But late in …
The Amazing Mrs Livesey
Freda Marnie NichollsRRP: £14.99
An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, Ethel Livesey had over forty aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces at a time when divorce w …
Call of the Outback
Marianne van VelzenRRP: £14.99
Long before Robyn Davidson wrote Tracks, the extraordinary Ernestine Hill was renowned for her intrepid travels across Australia’s vast outback.After the birth of her illegitimate son, Ernestine Hill …
Wolf Boys
Dan SlaterRRP: £11.99
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona is an exemplary American teenager: athletic, bright, handsome and charismatic. But his Texas town is poor and dangerous, and it isn’t long before Gabriel abandons his …
The Maverick Mountaineer
Robert WainwrightRRP: £9.99
WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR PRIZE AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS AWARDS 2017In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape and …
The Voyeur's Motel
Gay TaleseRRP: £14.99
On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. ‘Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coas …
The Three Battles of Wanat
Mark BowdenRRP: £17.99
Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the impending impact of supercomputers on the practice of medicine, this collection is …
A Double Shot of Happiness
Judy SharpRRP: £16.99
Tim Sharp and his magnificent creation, Laser Beak Man, are now major names in the world of international art. But the journey to this point has been an extraordinary one. When Judy Sharp took her thr …
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