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A Dominant Character

Samanth Subramanian

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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

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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

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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 …

Fifty Years On

Malachi O'Doherty

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In 1969, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decades of paramilitary warfare by republicans and loyalists. In t …

Jacinda Ardern

Michelle Duff

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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

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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

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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 …

Life Sentence

Carl Williams

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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 Velzen

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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 Smyth

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‘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 …

Going Back

Dr Munjed Al Muderis

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In Munjed Al Muderis’s bestselling memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia and the brutal mandatory detenti …

The Home Stretch

Sally Howard

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Forty years of feminism and still women do the majority of the housework. Why?In fact, while women are making slow but steady gains on gender disparities in the workplace, at home the gap is widening …

A Bit of a Stretch

Chris Atkins

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‘Shocking, scathing, entertaining.’ Guardian ‘Incredibly compelling.’ The Times’Heart-breaking.’ Sunday TimesWhere can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than parac …

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