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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 …

Ultramarathon Man

Dean Karnazes

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Ultrarunning legend Dean Karnazes has run 262 miles – the equivalent of ten marathons – without rest. He has run over mountains, across Death Valley, to the South Pole, and is probably the first perso …

Cooking for Busy Mums

Amanda Voisey

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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

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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

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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 …

Primary School Confidential

Mrs Woog

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Primary school, that special place where little kids turn into big kids, where letters turn into words, numbers turn into more confusing numbers and lunchboxes turn into bacterial breeding grounds. Wh …

All This in 60 Minutes

Nicholas Lee

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For more than thirty years Nicholas Lee worked as a cameraman on 60 Minutes, Australia’s most-respected and most-watched current affairs program.All This in 60 Minutes is the revealing and often hilar …

Prick With a Fork

Larissa Dubecki

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Before she was one of Australia’s top restaurant critics, Larissa Dubecki was one of its worst waitresses. A loving homage to her ten-year reign of dining-room terror, Prick With a Fork takes you wher …

Desert Vet

Alex Tinson

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When Sydney-born vet Alex Tinson was literally plucked from the Australian outback to become chief vet in charge of the United Arab Emirates President’s racing camels, he was given one mission: to mak …

Finding Sanity

Greg de Moore

RRP: £14.99

In 1948, there was no medication for bipolar illness. Sufferers from the illness would live their lives – if they survived – in and out of asylums accumulating life’s wreckage around them. But late in …

Paris Undressed

Kathryn Kemp-Griffin

French women seem inherently more confident in their bodies, able to embrace the sensuality of life and love. What’s their secret? Lingerie.Yet, despite an insatiable curiosity for all things French, …

Behind the Tape

Lance Burdett

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Lance Burdett was in the police force for twenty-two years, in a variety of high-level roles: head of negotiation team; running 111 centre; intelligence management; protection squad and emergency resp …

Smuggler

Richard Stratton

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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 Ambitions of Jane Franklin

Alison Alexander

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In a period when most ladies sat at home with their embroidery, Jane Franklin achieved fame throughout the western world.Alison Alexander traces the life of this inimitable woman, from her birth in la …

The First Six Weeks

Midwife Cath

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Highly experienced midwife Cathryn Curtin has delivered and looked after babies for forty years. Over those four decades she’s come to understand how the first six weeks after birth are vital in setti …

Band-Aid for a Broken Leg

Damien Brown

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Damien Brown thinks he’s ready when he arrives for his first posting with Medecins Sans Frontieres in Africa. But the town he’s sent to is an isolated outpost of mud huts, surrounded by landmines; the …

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