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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Charles Ulm

Rick Searle

RRP: £16.99

Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the original pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking flights that made them instant celebrities in Australi …

Freeman's Power

John Freeman

RRP: £10.99

From the voices of protesters to the encroachment of a new fascism, everywhere we look power is revealed. Spouse to spouse, soldier to citizen, looker to gazed upon, power is never static: it is eithe …

Daughter of Gloriavale

Lilia Tarawa

RRP: £14.99

In this personal account, Lilia Tarawa exposes the shocking secrets of the Gloriavale Christian Community cult, with its rigid rules and oppressive control of women. She describes her fear when her fa …

I'm a Joke and So Are You

Robin Ince

RRP: £10.99

‘Joyfully entertaining. Full of warmth, wisdom and affectionate delight in the wonder and absurdity of being human.’ Observer’Funny, honest and heart-warming.’ Matt HaigWhat better way to understand o …

The Last Snake Man

John Cann

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Every Sunday for almost a century John Cann’s family ran the famous snake show in a pit at La Perouse in Sydney – an area once alive with tiger, brown and black snakes. After growing up with over 300 …

Up Until Now

Petrea King

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As a child Petrea King was dogged by health issues, spending months in hospital over many years. After leaving school, her desire to help others impelled her to become a nurse, then later to qualify a …

Small Fry

Lisa Brennan-Jobs

RRP: £10.99

Vogue’s Best Books of the Year, 2018Sunday Times’ Best Memoirs of the Year, 2018A New York Times Book of the YearNew Yorker Book of the YearA frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of App …

A Mother's Choice

Elle Halliwell

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On May 1st 2016 Elle Halliwell, an Australian fashion editor, was diagnosed with leukaemia. Two weeks later just as she was telling friends and family about the grim diagnosis she found out she was 4 …

The Baby Bible

Bec Judd

RRP: £16.99

What you’re not expecting, when you’re expecting …Bec Judd has been pregnant quite a lot: three pregnancies, three deliveries and four gorgeous newborn babies. From carrying a baby, delivering it, f …

Autumn in Venice

Andrea di Robilant

RRP: £12.99

National Geographic Traveller’s the best books on European cities, 2019In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway was approaching fifty and hadn’t published a novel in nearly a decade. He travelled for the first …

For a Girl

Mary-Rose MacColl

RRP: £12.99

I am by nature a private person. Secrets are different from privacy. They are things you are forced to keep to yourself, by family, friends, by your own shame. Secrets like these come to the surface o …

Not That Bad

Roxane Gay

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Edited and with an introduction by Roxane Gay, the New York Times bestselling and deeply beloved author of Bad Feminist and Hunger, this anthology of first-person essays tackles rape, assault, and har …

Drawn Out

Tom Scott

Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott’s tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his …

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far On Foot

John Callahan

RRP: £7.99

The memoir of legendary cartoonist John Callahan, now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and Rooney Mara.Featuring more than 60 of Callahan’s ori …

Only

Caroline Baum

RRP: £14.99

Three barely felt like a family. It felt like it did not count. Like we were unfinished. Incomplete. There was always a gap at the table, room to set places for others. Visitors were few and far betwe …

Grace After Henry

Eithne Shortall

RRP: £7.99

Winner of The Big Book Awards: The Best Page TurnersShortlisted for the Popular Fiction Book of the Year: The Irish Book AwardsAn Irish Independent Book of the Year_______________________________Grace …

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