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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Impossible Climb

Mark Synnott

RRP: £12.99

If you loved watching Free Solo, you’ll be enthralled by Mark Synnott’s deeply reported, insider perspective on Alex Honnold’s impossible climb.One slip, one false move, one missed toehold and you’re …

A Certain Light

Cynthia Banham

RRP: £14.99

‘Life is not defined by the bad things that happen to us. It certainly isn’t for me.’Written for her young son so that he would know what had happened to his mother, Cynthia Banham’s inspiring family …

Danger Music

Eddie Ayres

RRP: £9.99

Eddie Ayres has a lifetime of musical experience — from learning the viola as a child, to playing with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and moving to Australia to present an extremely successful ABC Class …

Spearhead

Adam Makos

RRP: £12.99

The New York Times Bestseller’Brilliant… Gripping’ Wall Street JournalFrom the Sunday Times bestselling author of A Higher Call comes the riveting World War II story of an American tank gunner’s jou …

The Narrow Land

Christine Dwyer Hickey

RRP: £9.99

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL PRIZE FOR FICTION, 2020WINNER OF THE DALKEY LITERARY AWARD FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR, 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS, 2019An Irish Independent and Irish Ti …

All the Lives We Ever Lived

Katharine Smyth

RRP: £9.99

Katharine Smyth was a student at Oxford when she first read Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse in the comfort of an English sitting room, and in the companionable silence she sha …

Equal Power

Jo Swinson

RRP: £8.99

Shortlisted for the 2018 Parliamentary Book Awards (Best Memoir by a Parliamentarian)Why does power remain concentrated in the hands of men?And why do the problems of sexism sometimes feel just too bi …

In A Time Of Monsters

Emma Sky

RRP: £11.99

Returning to the UK in September 2010 after serving in Iraq as the political adviser to the top American general, Emma Sky felt no sense of homecoming. She soon found herself back in the Middle East t …

Rocky Road

Robert Wainwright

RRP: £14.99

In the early 1930s, the Australian family confectionery company Darrell Lea was a sensation, its shops stacked with delicious chocolates, marshmallows, nougat and much more in line with the company’s …

The Attachment

Ailsa Piper

RRP: £14.99

Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both – a most unlikely friendship I must confess – might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy h …

The Face Pressed Against a Window

Tim Waterstone

RRP: £9.99

Chosen as one of the Daily Mail’s Memoirs of the YearTim Waterstone is one of Britain’s most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstone’s empire that started with one small bookshop in 1982. …

Freedom Fighter

Joanna Palani

RRP: £9.99

The gripping story of one woman’s war against ISIS on the frontlines of Syria.Joanna Palani made headlines across the world when her role fighting ISIS in the Syrian conflict was revealed. She is one …

Journey to Health

Simone Anderson

RRP: £14.99

Social-media sensation Simone Anderson’s weight peaked at 169 kg. When she finally faced up to how overweight she was, she knew something had to change.Simone shared her progress on Facebook, to keep …

Slow

Brooke McAlary

‘Dear Mr & Mrs Jones, I am writing to inform you of my withdrawal from the race to keep up with you . . .’Once upon a time, Brooke McAlary thought she was close to having it all. Married to a wonderfu …

The Destiny Thief

Richard Russo

RRP: £9.99

A master of the novel, short story and memoir, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Everybody’s Foolnow gives us his very first collection of personal essays, thoughts on writing, reading and living.I …

Letters of Intent

Cynthia Ozick

RRP: £16.99

‘What we ought to do, as writers, is seize freedom now, immediately, by recognizing that we already have it.’Cynthia Ozick, one of ‘the greatest living American writers’, has, over a lifetime of obser …

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