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Stone Cold

Andrew Faulkner

RRP: £14.99

‘If I’d have been a Vietcong you’d be dead.’ Len OpieThrough three wars across thirty years, Len Opie carved a reputation as one of Australia’s greatest infantrymen. A cold-eyed killer who drank nothi …

Raising the Perfectly Imperfect Child

Boris Vujicic

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Nick Vujicic, who was born with no arms or legs, has overcome steep challenges to now live what he describes as a ‘ridiculously good life’. Nick, who travels worldwide and inspires millions via speaki …

How (Not) To Start an Orphanage

Tara Winkler

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Tara Winkler first arrived in Cambodia in 2005 and was taken to visit a small orphanage in Battambang. The children were living in extreme poverty, which had a huge impact on Tara. She determined to c …

Freeman's Family

John Freeman

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Freeman’s: Family is the second literary anthology in the series reviewers are calling ‘illuminating’ (National Public Radio) and ‘sure to become a classic in years to come’ (San Francisco Chronicle). …

God's Wolf

Jeffrey Lee

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In 2010, a parcel bomb was sent from Yemen by an al-Qaeda operative with the intention of blowing up a plane over America. The device was intercepted before the plan could be put into action, but what …

How I Met Your Father

Arminah Hart

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Born in London to an Australian mother and West Indian father, Aminah Hart was brought up in Melbourne by her gutsy single mum, Helen, and devoted grandparents. Despite their loving embrace, she grew …

Message to My Girl

Dr Jared Noel

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With only six weeks to live, Dr Jared Noel took on the most ambitious project of his short but significant life – to document what it was like to die, and to record his final reflections on where a yo …

The ISIS Hostage

Puk Damsgård

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In May 2013, freelance photographer Daniel Rye was captured in Syria and held prisoner by Islamic State for thirteen months, along with eighteen other hostages. The ISIS Hostage tells the dramatic and …

The ISIS Hostage

Puk Damsgård

RRP: £14.99

The Number One International BestsellerThe dramatic story of freelance photographer Daniel Rye, who was held hostage for 13 months by ISIS, as told by an award-winning writer.In May 2013, freelance ph …

The Maverick Mountaineer

Robert Wainwright

RRP: £14.99

WINNER OF THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR PRIZE AT THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2017In the spring of 1901 a teenager stood on top of a hill, gazed out in wonderment at the Australian landscape …

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

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. ‘Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coas …

Straight to Hell

John LeFevre

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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

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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

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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, …

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