What She Left

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 …

A Beautiful Game

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WINNER OF THE CRICKET BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017WINNER OF THE MCC/CRICKET SOCIETY’S BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017Mark Nicholas, the face of Channel 5’s Cricket o …

Not Right in the Head

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Michelle Wyatt’s mum always joked with the family that if she ever developed Alzheimer’s like her own mother-Michelle’s grandmother-they should put her in a home and throw away the key. When she did u …

The Convict's Daughter

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One wet autumn evening in 1848, fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Gill stole out of a bedroom window in her father’s Sydney hotel and took a coach to a local racecourse. There she was to elope with James Butl …

The Horse Whisperer

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Andrew Froggatt has special skills as a horse whisperer: He can train the wildest horse and he’s worked with thousands of horses over the years, from wild, untouched horses, pony club ponies, riding f …

The Sound of Summer

For more than four decades Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC. Since 1973 he has covered over 250 Test matches, including six tours to the West Indies, seven to the subcontinent, over fift …