Four Weeks in May
David Hart-DykeRRP: £10.99
Reissued for the 40th anniversary of the Falklands War.A Sunday Times Bestseller’Electric… Outstanding.’ GuardianIn March 1982 the guided-missile destroyer HMS Coventry was one of a small squadron o …
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Gun to the Head
Keith BanksRRP: £14.99
Keith Banks was a member of the Queensland Police Force when not everyone with a badge could be trusted. Raw and confronting, Gun to the Head reveals what it was really like to be a tactical police of …
Nellie
Robert WainwrightRRP: £10.99
‘In this highly readable biography of Nellie Melba…Robert Wainwright tells the story of the girl with the incredible voice who, by sheer force of her personality and power of her decibels, took the …
A Dominant Character
Samanth SubramanianRRP: £10.99
Book of the Year in The Economist, Guardian, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal and New York Times.Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize, the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and the …
Enid
Robert WainwrightRRP: £10.99
Enid Lindeman stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park on a diamond collar. In early twentieth-century society, where women were expe …
Daddy Cool
Darleen BungeyRRP: £14.99
‘Every family has secrets. Ours also has an award-winning biographer. My sister’s discoveries astonished me.’ Geraldine BrooksWho can ever truly know their parents?He was a glamorous heart-throb, a fa …
Truganini
Cassandra PybusRRP: £14.99
*Winner of the 2021 National Biography Award and shortlisted for the 2020 Queensland Literary Awards*Cassandra Pybus’s ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their f …
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 ‘ …
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 …
Wolf Boys
Dan SlaterRRP: £8.99
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 Voyeur's Motel
Gay TaleseRRP: £9.99
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 …
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