How to Be a Rock Star

As lead singer of Happy Mondays and Black Grape, Shaun Ryder was the Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of his generation. A true rebel, who formed and led not one but two seminal bands, he’s had number-o …

Black and Blue

‘Parm Sandhu’s story is an inspiration to anyone who has found themselves struggling against adversity. It’s also a page-turner which everyone who cares about policing and justice in Britain should re …

The Last Lighthouse Keeper

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In Tasmania, John Cook is known as ‘The Keeper of the Flame’. As one of Australia’s longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania’s well-known kerosene ‘lights’ at Tasman Is …

Last Chance Texaco

This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song.Last Chance Texaco is the first-ever …

The Beauty of Living Twice

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER’A glorious, rogue, raw account … It is funny; it is shocking; it is good.’ The Times’Dangerous, alluring and misunderstood: Sharon Stone remains one of our best …

Mackenzie's Mission

Rachael and Jonathan were thrilled to welcome their baby Mackenzie into the world and to start their new lives as parents. Little did they know that in a few months that they would be tested to endura …

Alice to Prague

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In 1994, with a battered copy of Let’s Go Europe stuffed in her backpack, Tanya Heaslip left her safe life as a lawyer in outback Australia and travelled to the post-communist Czech Republic.Dismissin …

The Travelling Vet

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Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside treating cows, dogs, pigs and cats, he’s also worked with an astonishing range of species around the …

Small Fry

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Vogue’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Sunday Times’ Best Memoirs of the Year, 2018A New York Times Book of the YearNew Yorker Book of the YearA frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of App …

The Last Snake Man

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Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann’s family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse in Sydney – an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 …

For a Girl

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I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface o …

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

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The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan’s ori …

Surviving Execution

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“Compelling… This is a captivating account of Glossip’s fight for truth.” — Sir Richard BransonA tense mix of Dead Man Walking and Making a Murderer, Surviving Execution combines the very best in t …

All This in 60 Minutes

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For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia’s most-respected and most-watched current affairs program.All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilar …

Desert Vet

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When Sydney-born vet Alex Tinson was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President’s racing camels, he was given one mission: to mak …

How (Not) To Start an Orphanage

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Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, which had a huge impact on Tara. She determined to c …