The Din in the Head
Cynthia OzickOne of America’s foremost novelists and critics, Cynthia Ozick has won praise and provoked debate for taking on challenging literary, historical, and moral issues. In her spirited essay collection The …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
The Shipwreck Hunter
David L. MearnsRRP: £14.99
Winner of the Mountbatten Award for Best Book, 2018David Mearns has discovered some of the world’s most fascinating and elusive shipwrecks. From the mighty battlecruiser HMS Hood to the crumbling wood …
Martin Sharp
Joyce MorganRRP: £16.99
Martin Sharp’s art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent …
Smuggler
Richard StrattonRRP: £8.99
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of kingpins. A clean-cut college boy who entered outlaw culture on a university trip to Mexico, he saw his search for a joint morph into a thrill-filled dope run s …
The Last Crocodile Hunter
Amanda FrenchRRP: £16.99
‘When the world lost Steve, the animals lost the best friend they ever had, and so did I. But he’s still here with me and knowing that means that I am able to gain strength from him, and harness the s …
What She Left
Rosie FioreRRP: £12.99
What would make you walk away from your life, your family and friends, in search of a completel fresh start?Helen Cooper has a charmed life. She’s beautiful, accomplished, organised – the star parent …
In Sickness, In Health… and In Jail
Mel JacobRRP: £14.99
The funny, insightful and moving account of what happens to a close, loving middle-class family when the father is unexpectedly thrown in jail.After fourteen years of marriage, Mel Jacob’s life looked …
Miss Muriel Matters
Robert WainwrightRRP: £9.99
In 1908 Muriel Matters, known as ‘that daring Australian girl’, chained herself to an iron grille in the House of Commons to demand votes for women, thus becoming the first woman to make a speech in t …
D.A.A.S.
Paul LivingstoneRRP: £14.99
Under the guise of his alter ego Flacco, Paul Livingston once basked in the reflected glory of Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler, and their anarchic comedy incarnation, the Doug Anthony …
Small Pieces
Joanne LimburgRRP: £8.99
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JQ WINGATE, 2017My mother, my family and Judaism are nested inside each other. I am Jewish and always Jewish; it’s analogous with family, however hard it is, and however strained, …
The Forgotten Children
David HillRRP: £8.99
In 1959 David Hill’s mother – a poor single parent living in Sussex – reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was led to believe, they would have a good …
Cartel Wives
Mia FloresRRP: £8.99
An astonishing and revelatory memoir by two women who escaped the glamorous yet deadly international drug trade.Mia Flores and Olivia Flores live under assumed names. To their neighbours, they are typ …
Cork Dork
Bianca BoskerRRP: £10.99
The Independent’s 2017 Book of the Year and a 2020 London Eater recommended read for lockdown’If Malcolm Gladwell were to write a book about wine, the results wouldn’t linger much more pleasurably on …
A Forger's Tale
Shaun GreenhalghRRP: £10.99
Observer’s Best Art Book of the Year, 2018In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing artistic forgeries. Working out of …
Daughter of the Territory
Jacqueline HammarRRP: £9.99
Daughter of the Territory is the amazing life story of Jacqueline Hammar. Born in Darwin in 1929, Jacqueline’s childhood was spent in a succession of bush towns before she was sent to school in Darwin …
Elephant Dawn
Sharon PincottRRP: £14.99
In 2001, Sharon Pincott traded her privileged life as a high-flying corporate executive to start a new one with the Presidential Elephants of Zimbabwe. She was unpaid, untrained, self-funded and arriv …
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