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Genre: Biography & Memoir

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 …

Endpapers

Alexander Wolff

RRP: £10.99

‘Remarkable lives in extraordinary times – a gripping and exceptional literary journey.’ Philippe Sands’Alexander Wolff is keen, after a generation of silence, to follow the untold stories wherever th …

Husna's Story

Farid Ahmed

RRP: £14.99

The couple had been praying when a gunman burst into the mosque. He shot and killed 51 people that day and injured many others. In this book Husna’s husband, Farid Ahmed, tells Husna’s story, includin …

Facing the Haka

Andy Burt

This brilliant selection of photographs and stories describes what it means to stare down the most famous ritual in sport, from the perspective of those who have been there. Facing the Haka examines t …

The Favour

Laura Vaughan

RRP: £8.99

‘Absorbing, intelligent and atmospheric… Genius’ Elizabeth Haynes_________________________Fortune favours the fraud…When she was thirteen years old, Ada Howell lost not just her father, but the li …

The Rome Plague Diaries

Matthew Kneale

RRP: £9.99

On the first morning of Rome’s Covid-19 lockdown Matthew Kneale felt an urge to connect with friends and acquaintances and began writing an email, describing where he was, what was happening and what …

The Warrior and the Prophet

Peter Cozzens

RRP: £10.99

A History Book of the Year in The Times ‘Cozzens is a master storyteller; his books weave a wealth of intricate detail into gripping historical narrative.’ The Times’Marvellous… One of the best piec …

Pain

Abdul-Ghaaliq Lalkhen

RRP: £9.99

‘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. …

Michael

Tina Hutchence

RRP: £9.99

He died at only 37 but his fans are legion. INXS singer/songwriter Michael Hutchence was the celebrated frontman of a band that was the biggest in the world. Michael’s big sister, Tina, adored him fro …

The Wine O'Clock Myth

Lotta Dann

RRP: £12.99

Women around the globe are buying and consuming alcohol at alarming rates never seen before. But is it doing us any favours? Is it really that treat or reward that we deserve? Lotta Dann thinks not. I …

Victoria Park

Gemma Reeves

RRP: £8.99

‘Original, thought-provoking’ – Elizabeth Macneal’a delightful read . . . beautifully observed’ – Daily MailMona and Wolfie have lived on Victoria Park for over fifty years. Now, on the eve of their s …

Daddy Cool

Darleen Bungey

RRP: £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 …

Mackenzie's Mission

Rachael Casella

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 …

Truganini

Cassandra Pybus

RRP: £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 …

Vox Populi

Peter Jones

RRP: £10.99

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancient Greeks and Romans so important and influential toda …

In Bed with the Blueshirts

Shane Ross

RRP: £14.99

The definitive inside account of the 2016-20 coalition government.Cabinet minister Shane Ross reveals the bitter internal battles fought with the old Blueshirts, the crises when the coalition came clo …

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