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Survive. Drive. Win.

Nick Fry

RRP: £12.99

‘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 …

Good Living Street

Tim Bonyhady

RRP: £10.99

In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for th …

Lawless

Kimberley Motley

RRP: £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 …

Prince Albert

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £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 …

Unfettered and Alive

Anne Summers

RRP: £16.99

‘I was born into a world that expected very little of women like me. We were meant to tread lightly on the earth, influencing events through our husbands and children, if at all. We were meant to fade …

Barefoot Surgeon

Ali Gripper

RRP: £14.99

Inspiring and uplifting, this is the extraordinary story of Dr Sanduk Ruit who, like his mentor Fred Hollows, took on the world’s medical establishment to give the life-changing gift of sight to hundr …

Fifty Years On

Malachi O'Doherty

RRP: £12.99

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 …

Manson in His Own Words

Nuel Emmons

RRP: £11.99

We called him a devil and quarantined him behind such labels as ‘the most dangerous man alive.’ But Charles Manson remains a shocking reminder of our own humanity gone awry. This astonishing book lays …

For All Mankind

Harry Hurt

RRP: £10.99

Updated with a new introduction by the author for the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, For All Mankind is both an extraordinary adventure story and an important historical document.Betw …

Headstrong Daughters

Nadia Jamal

RRP: £14.99

How would you feel, as a guest, about sitting in a suburban living room that is for women only? What if you wanted a baby but as a single woman could not have one outside of a marriage? Could you stay …

How Death Becomes Life

Joshua Mezrich

RRP: £10.99

Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be all …

The Forgotten Sister

Caroline Bond

RRP: £8.99

“Caroline Bond has a gift for weaving heart-rending tales of impossible decisions” Amanda Brooke, author of The Bad MotherTo lose your family is heart-breaking. To be forgotten by them is unforgivable …

The Ginger Child

Patrick Flanery

RRP: £9.99

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple’s attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? A social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their …

Under Pressure

Lisa Damour

RRP: £10.99

Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent research studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of the century. So what’s to blame? And how can we help these girls …

Ajax the Kea Dog

Corey Mosen

RRP: £14.99

Together, Corey and Ajax traverse the steep high country throughout the South Island searching out kea nests. Their part in the kea conservation effort is essential and both Ajax and Corey can rightly …

Emergencies Only

Amanda McClelland

RRP: £14.99

In 2015, Amanda McClelland was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, in recognition of an extraordinary career dedicated to making a difference. As a nurse and a humanitarian aid worker she has batt …

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