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Genre: Biography & Memoir

D.A.A.S.

Paul Livingstone

RRP: £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 Limburg

RRP: £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 Hill

RRP: £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 Flores

RRP: £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 Bosker

RRP: £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 …

Daughter of the Territory

Jacqueline Hammar

RRP: £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 Pincott

RRP: £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 …

A Beautiful Game

Mark Nicholas

RRP: £15.99

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

Michelle Wyatt

RRP: £14.99

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

Kiera Lindsey

RRP: £14.99

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

Andrew Froggatt

RRP: £14.99

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

Jim Maxwell

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 …

When I Hit You

Meena Kandasamy

RRP: £9.99

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018Guardian’s Best Books of 2017 Daily Telegraph’s Best Books of 2017 Obse …

Cooking for Busy Mums

Amanda Voisey

RRP: £14.99

As a busy new mum, Amanda Voisey was struggling to juggle life and cooking for her family. It wasn’t as if she didn’t know how to cook – she’d started her first job in the food industry at 14, and gon …

Freeman's Home

John Freeman

RRP: £10.99

The third literary anthology in the series that has been called ‘ambitious’ (O Magazine) and ‘strikingly international’ (Boston Globe), Freeman’s: Home, continues to push boundaries in diversity and s …

Our Boys

Richard Aston

RRP: £14.99

Our Boys is a positive, practical, down-to-earth guide that outlines what makes boys tick, describes their development from babyhood to childhood to manhood, and is full of great ideas and suggestions …

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