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Genre: Biography & Memoir

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 …

Freeman's Love

John Freeman

RRP: £12.99

Day by day, tweet by tweet, it often feels like our world is run on hate. Invective. Cruelty and sadism. But is it possible the greatest and most powerful force is love? In the newest issue of this ac …

Alice to Prague

Tanya Heaslip

RRP: £14.99

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 Book of Bitch

Ailie Banks

Writer and artist Ailie Banks is a self-proclaimed bitch. The word has been thrown at her, and the women around her, Ailie’s entire life. A bitch is stereotypically thought to be unkind, uncaring and …

The Borgias

Paul Strathern

RRP: £12.99

· · A Daily Mail Book of the Week · ·The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history.____________________ ‘A wickedly entertaining read’ The Times__________ …

A Dominant Character

Samanth Subramanian

RRP: £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 Wainwright

RRP: £10.99

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan, silenced gamblers in Monte Carlo and walked her pet cheetah through Hyde Park …

High Adventure

Mike Allsop

RRP: £14.99

Mike Allsop is a dynamo, an airline pilot and mountaineer who ran seven peaks in seven days on seven continents. He’s also a motivational speaker, author of bestseller High Altitude, a husband and the …

Jacinda Ardern

Michelle Duff

RRP: £14.99

Michelle Duff delves into Ardern’s beginnings in small-town New Zealand, discovering a nose-ringed teen fighting for equality and her own identity in a devout Mormon family.Duff tracks Ardern’s politi …

Original Spin

Vic Marks

RRP: £9.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CRICKET SOCIETY AND MCC BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2020The much-loved former England player, Guardian cricket correspondent and TMS broadcaster tells the story of his life in cricket f …

Anzac and Aviator

Michael Molkentin

RRP: £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 …

Smart Mothering

Dr Natalie Flynn

RRP: £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 …

A Sharp Left Turn

Mike Chunn

This is a gripping read that works on several levels. It’s the sliding-door story of someone who might have become a world-famous pop star had he not suffered from a severe phobic disorder.It’s the st …

The Golden Era

Rod Laver

Between 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 …

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