Ten Steps To Nanette
Hannah GadsbyThe memoir from Australia’s much-loved comedian, Hannah Gadsby, whose stand-up show and self-described swan-song, NANETTE, won the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2017 before transferring to New York, where …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
The Borgias
Paul StrathernRRP: £10.99
‘A wickedly entertaining read’ The TimesA Daily Mail Book of the WeekThe sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici.The Borgia …
A Dominant Character
Samanth SubramanianJ.B.S. Haldane’s life was rich and strange, never short on genius, never lacking for drama. He is best remembered as a geneticist who revolutionized our understanding of evolution, but his peers thoug …
Lady Killmore
Robert WainwrightAs Enid Lindeman gallivanted through life she accumulated four husbands, numerous lovers, and during the inter-war years her high-jinks dominated British gossip columns. Born into the Lindeman wine dy …
Anzac and Aviator
Michael MolkentinRRP: £14.99
In November 1919, a year after the Great War, four Australian servicemen made a unique and epoch-making journey home. In the open cockpit of a twin-engine Vickers Vimy bi-plane, brothers Ross and Keit …
Original Spin
Vic MarksRRP: £9.99
The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket for the first time.In April 1974 new recruits Viv Richards, Ian Botham, …
Prince Albert
A. N. WilsonRRP: £10.99
Chosen as a Book of the Year in The Times and the Daily Mail’Highly entertaining’ Sunday Times’Enthralling’ Daily TelegraphFor more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height …
Smart Mothering
Dr Natalie FlynnRRP: £16.99
‘Natalie has a wealth of knowledge on so many topics and provides great bite-sized pieces of advice.’ Nadia Lim’Finally a book that deals with the things that really matter, based on the actual scienc …
Survive. Drive. Win.
Nick FryRRP: £9.99
‘The story of Brawn GP is legendary… Exciting and magical.’ Damon Hill’Nick Fry and Ed Gorman take us behind the mysterious and tightly closed doors of F1 to tell the remarkable story of the 2009 se …
The Mystery of Charles Dickens
A. N. WilsonCharles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much o …
Under Pressure
Lisa DamourRRP: £9.99
Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of the century – so what’s to blame? And how can we help our girls?In the sa …
Lawless
Kimberley MotleyRRP: £9.99
In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afghanistan. She was thirty-two at the time, a mother of t …
The Golden Era
Rod LaverBetween the 1950s and 1970s Australia was the world’s tennis superpower, producing players who dominated the grand slam events and the tour in both the amateur and professional eras. Of all of our pla …
Life Sentence
Carl WilliamsRRP: £14.99
In 2007 Carl Williams was convicted of three murders and sentenced to 35 years’ jail. Yet his role in the Melbourne Gangland Wars went far beyond a handful of killings, however brutal, and had made hi …
Shot Down
Marianne van VelzenRRP: £14.99
On 17 July 2014, Malaysian Airlines MH17 was shot out of the sky above Ukraine. Aboard were 298 people, 38 of whom were Australians. No one survived.Subsequently it was shown that the airliner was alm …
All the Lives We Ever Lived
Katharine SmythRRP: £9.99
‘Deeply moving… This is a beautiful book.’ TLS______________________________Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford University when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Light …
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