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Vitamin N

Richard Louv

RRP: £12.99

From the bestselling authority on connecting children with nature, a one-of-a-kind guide chock-full of practical ideas, advice and inspiration for creating a nature-rich life – for kids and grown-ups. …

The Voyeur's Motel

Gay Talese

RRP: £14.99

From Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous l …

Straight to Hell

John LeFevre

RRP: £12.99

Over the past three years, the notorious @GSElevator Twitter feed has offered a hilarious, shamelessly voyeuristic look into the real world of international finance. Hundreds of thousands followed the …

Critics, Monsters, Fanatics and Other Literary Essays

Cynthia Ozick

If every outlet for book criticism suddenly disappeared – if all we had were reviews that treated books like any other commodity – could the novel survive? In a gauntlet-throwing essay at the start of …

Dangerous Games

Larry Writer

RRP: £14.99

Shortlisted for the 2015 William Hill Australian Sports Book of the Year AwardThis is a tale of innocents abroad. Thirty-three athletes left Australia in May 1936 to compete in the Hitler Olympics in …

Look at You Now

Liz Pryor

RRP: £8.99

In 1979, Liz Pryor, a good girl from a privileged Chicago family, discovered that she was pregnant. At only 17 years old, her parents were determined to keep this shameful event secret from everyone, …

Snowball in a Blizzard

Steven Hatch

RRP: £9.99

LONGLISTED FOR THE THE BMA MEDICAL BOOK AWARDS According to a wry saying among radiologists, finding a tumour in a mammogram is like finding a snowball in a blizzard. Up to thirty percent of breast-ca …

Test of Will

Glenn McGrath

RRP: £14.99

Glenn McGrath is an Australian cricket great – a fast bowler both feared and admired by top-level cricketers around the world. Off the field, his life was touched by tragedy with the death of his firs …

The Queen

A. N. Wilson

RRP: £8.99

In this original and vibrant examination of the life and times of Queen Elizabeth II, biographer and novelist A.N. Wilson paints a vivid portrait of ‘Lilibet’ the woman, and of her reign. He also cons …

Disrupted

Dan Lyons

RRP: £12.99

Dan Lyons was Technology Editor at Newsweek Magazine for years, a magazine writer at the top of his profession. One Friday morning he received a phone call: his job no longer existed. Fifty years old …

Beyond the High Blue Air

Lu Spinney

RRP: £8.99

Aged 29, Lu Spinney’s son Miles suffered a devastating head injury and was left in a coma. With unflinching honesty, Lu Spinney has written a passionate, urgent account of the years following her son …

The Three Battles of Wanat

Mark Bowden

RRP: £17.99

Ranging from war journalism to crime stories to profiles on influential leaders to pieces on sports, gambling and the impending impact of supercomputers on the practice of medicine, this collection is …

Live Wire

Gabby Darcy

RRP: £14.99

The world knows Bon Scott as the wild rocker, the frontman for AC/DC who tragically died of alcohol poisoning on the eve of the band’s rise to superstardom.We know the legend, now meet the man.Live Wi …

Untangled

Lisa Damour

RRP: £10.99

Leading clinical psychologist Lisa Damour identifies the seven key phases marking the journey from girlhood to womanhood, and offers practical advice for those raising teenage girls.We expect an enorm …

A Double Shot of Happiness

Judy Sharp

RRP: £16.99

Tim Sharp and his magnificent creation, Laser Beak Man, are now major names in the world of international art. But the journey to this point has been an extraordinary one. When Judy Sharp took her thr …

Tamil Tigress

Niromi de Soyza

RRP: £10.99

How was it that this well-educated, mixed-race, middle-class girl from a respectable family came to be fighting with the Tamil Tigers? Two days before Christmas in 1987, at the age of seventeen, Nirom …

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