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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Prison Break

Arthur Taylor

RRP: £14.99

New Zealander career criminal Arthur Taylor was paroled from prison after more than 38 years behind bars and Prison Break tells his story in a warts-and-all look at prison life, offering a unique insi …

The Platinum Queen

Jennie Bond

***Published in honour of our late Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee, The Platinum Queen presents seven decades of world history through the words of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch: over 256 e …

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Rebecca Mead

RRP: £9.99

When the New Yorker writer Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her so …

A Runner's High

Dean Karnazes

RRP: £10.99

Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and competed across th …

Sunshine

Samantha C. Ross

RRP: £12.99

There are a lot of Ambers in the stripping world. And Aprils and Summers, and Skys and Rains. There are quite a few gems: Sapphires, Diamonds, Rubies and even an Amethyst. And exotic creatures: Tigers …

The Florentines

Paul Strathern

RRP: £14.99

Between the birth of Dante in 1265 and the death of Galileo in 1642 something happened which completely revolutionized Western civilization. Painting, sculpture and architecture would all visibly chan …

The Girl from Revolution Road

Ghazaleh Golbakhsh

RRP: £14.99

Based on Ghazaleh Golbakhsh’s experience as an Iranian immigrant growing up in New Zealand, these essays range from a childhood in war-torn Iran, including the trauma of a night spent in prison as a s …

Ten Steps to Nanette

Hannah Gadsby

RRP: £10.99

‘There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.’ Hannah Gadsby, NanetteMulti-awardwinning Hannah Gadsby transformed comedy with their show Nanette, even as they declared that t …

Boy on Fire

Mark Mordue

RRP: £12.99

An intensely beautiful, profound and poetic biography of the formative years of the dark prince of rock ‘n’ roll, Boy on Fire is Nick Cave’s creation story, a portrait of the artist first as a boy, th …

Elizabeth and Elizabeth

Sue Williams

RRP: £12.99

‘I’ve waited for this moment so long, dreamed of it, prepared for it, I can barely believe it’s finally here. But it is. And it is nothing like I expected.’There was a short time in Australia’s Europe …

Semi-Gloss

Justine Cullen

RRP: £12.99

In her collection of autobiographical essays, fashion magazine editor Justine Cullen takes us on a hilariously candid exploration of her life so far – and all the mistakes she’s made along the way.Sem …

The Beauty of Living Twice

Sharon Stone

RRP: £12.99

THE TIMES #1 BESTSELLERTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Vogue’s Best Books to Read in 2021One of O Magazine’s 55 Most Anticipated Books of 2021One of Marie Claire’s 25 Best 2021 Memoirs’Ele …

Dalvi

Laura Galloway

RRP: £12.99

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sámi people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped into Laura Galloway’s wanderlust; an affair with a Sámi reindeer herder ul …

Pain

Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

RRP: £24.00

‘Combines a career’s worth of expertise with a long history of pain treatment. For anyone concerned with pain treatment, or anyone who has struggled to manage pain of any kind, it’s an important read. …

Steamy Romance Three-Book Collection

Helen Hoang

Helen Hoang’s three deliciously steamy romances in one convenient set.The Kiss QuotientIt’s high time for Stella Lane to settle down and find a husband – or so her mother tells her. But that’s not suc …

The 52 Week Project

Laura Keenan

RRP: £12.99

It was winter. Lauren Keenan was separated from her husband, lonely, and miserable. Then came the night of Twenty-Seven Rejections of Doom: she asked twenty-seven people to hang out one Friday night, …

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