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Flight Command

John Oddie

RRP: £14.99

As a farm boy in western Victoria, John Oddie would watch RAAF jets pass overhead as he ploughed hay fields, wondering what it would be like to fly such a machine. Thirty-five years later – having flo …

The Interior Circuit

Francisco Goldman

RRP: £9.99

The Interior Circuit is Goldman’s story of his emergence from grief five years after his wife’s death, symbolized by his attempt to overcome his fear of driving in the city. Embracing the DF (Mexico C …

Wisdom For Your Life

Katrina Cavanough

RRP: £8.99

As a therapist and frontline social worker in a busy emergency department, Katrina faces psychological trauma, death and grief every day of her working life. What makes her story so powerful is that K …

Starting With Max

Ying Ying

RRP: £8.99

My dog has demonstrated a grand theory about life’s simplest activities. He acts out the meaning of life by actively living it. Do not think so much about yourself, he tells me. Know where you’re goin …

The Forgotten General

Jock Vennell

RRP: £9.99

The Forgotten General highlights the courage, intelligence and determination of an exceptional New Zealander. Major-General Sir Andrew Russell was a distinguished soldier and a dedicated leader of men …

The Nullarbor Kid

Ray Gilleland

RRP: £9.99

‘If you had worked with them, if you had driven with them, if you had had a drink with them, if you had helped them when broken down, you would have been proud to be one of them and called them mates. …

Mozart in the Jungle

Blair Tindall

RRP: £10.99

Now a major Amazon.com TV series starring Gabriel Garcia Bernal.From her debut recital at Carnegie Hall to performing with the orchestras of Les Miserables and Miss Saigon, oboist Blair Tindall has be …

Making Soapies in Kabul

Trudi-Ann Tierney

RRP: £12.99

On an impulse, Trudi-Ann Tierney, Sydney producer and former actress, goes to Kabul to manage a bar. She quickly falls into the local TV industry, where she becomes responsible for producing a highly …

Chase Your Shadow

John Carlin

RRP: £8.99

Guardian’s Best Sports Books SHORTLISTED FOR THE CROSS BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2015LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2015In Chase Your Shadow, journalist and author John …

Frank Zappa

Barry Miles

RRP: £12.99

Barry Miles knew Frank Zappa intimately and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. This sparkling biography brings the Zappa the musician and composer, Zappa the controvers …

Havel

Michael Zantovsky

RRP: £20.00

This startling biography explores the remarkable life of an iconic figure of the twentieth century, Václav Havel, author and dissident, who became the first president of the Czech Republic.Vaclav Have …

The Magic Lantern

Timothy Garton Ash

RRP: £12.99

The Magic Lantern is one of those rare books that capture history in the making, written by an author who was witness to some of the most remarkable moments that marked the collapse of Communism in Ea …

The Truth About Hormones

Vivienne Parry

RRP: £8.99

Shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis PrizeHormones rule our internal world: they control our growth, our metabolism, weight, water-balance, body clocks, fertility, muscle bulk, mood, speed of ageing, whet …

Twins

Katrina Bowman

RRP: £12.99

When Louise and Katrina discovered they were having twins, both had the same thought once they recovered from the shock: buy a book that explains what to expect in order to get organised and to prepar …

Tsunami and the Single Girl

Krissy Nicholson

RRP: £9.99

As a free-spirited traveller, Krissy–now almost thirty–needs her life to start taking shape. So how does a wild night on a dance floor in Vietnam land her a sought-after role in Oxfam working in eme …

The Good Soldier

Gary Mead

RRP: £20.00

Posterity has not been kind to Douglas Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front for much of the First World War. Haig has frequently been presented as a commander wh …

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