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Genre: Biography & Memoir

Arthur Boyd

Darleen Bungey

RRP: £18.99

Arthur Boyd’s legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself – enigmatic, inarticulate, modest – has remained in the shadows …

Wallaby Warrior

Greg Growden

RRP: £12.99

When the Australian team won the Gold Medal for rugby at the 1908 Olympic Games The Times pronounced: ‘If ever the Earth had to select a Rugby Football team to play against Mars, Tom Richards would be …

Son of a Gun

Justin St Germain

RRP: £8.99

In Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001, Debbie St. Germain is found dead in her trailer, apparently murdered by her fifth husband. For her twenty-year-old son, Justin, the tragedy marks the line that s …

Vulnerable in Hearts

Sandy Balfour

RRP: £8.99

Sandy Balfour’s father and the game of contract bridge were both conceived in 1925. Vulnerable in Hearts spans the eight decades of Tom Balfour’s life and the same period in the epic story of bridge’s …

Last Child in the Woods

Richard Louv

RRP: £12.99

This huge international bestseller, fully revised for non-American readers, is now in ebook. Last Child in the Woods shows how our children have become increasingly alienated and distant from nature, …

The Exotic Booze Club

Brian Armstrong

RRP: £12.99

At seven years old, the young Brian Armstrong was captivated by the pages of an old, yellow-bordered magazine. Twenty-five years later, the boy from Bendigo found himself travelling from one death-def …

The Garments of Court and Palace

Philip Bobbitt

RRP: £20.00

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the p …

The Good Nurse

Charles Graeber

RRP: £9.99

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND JESSICA CHASTAIN’A stunning book… should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood’ New York TimesAfter his arrest in 2003, registered nurse Charlie Cullen …

The Liberty Tree

Suzanne Harrington

RRP: £8.99

Suzanne Harrington did all the things that adults do, long before she’d grown up: met Leo, married, had babies. She also partied, was homeless for a while, and drank – and drank. She headed towards di …

Anyone Who Had a Heart

Burt Bacharach

RRP: £12.99

Burt Bacharach is one of the most celebrated and legendary song-writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his sixty year career he has worked with artists from Dionne Warwick to Dr Dre, Marlene Die …

Every Parent's Nightmare

Belinda Hawkins

RRP: £12.99

Jock Palfreeman is a young Australian in jail in Sofia, Bulgaria, found guilty of the murder of Andrei Monov, the only son of two people well connected in Sofia’s legal fraternity. Jock claims he went …

The Pedant In The Kitchen

Julian Barnes

RRP: £9.99

The Pedant’s ambition is simple. He wants to cook tasty, nutritious food; he wants not to poison his friends; and he wants to expand, slowly and with pleasure, his culinary repertoire. A stern critic …

A Story of Seven Summers

Hilary Burden

RRP: £12.99

‘Looking back over seven summers, I know that who I am is where I am. It might not be the secret to life, but it is the secret to this life … I’ll tell you how that came to be and that will be the s …

Here I Am

Alan Huffman

RRP: £14.99

Tim Hetherington (1970-2011) was one of the world’s most distinguished and dedicated photojournalists, whose career was tragically cut short when he died in a mortar blast while covering the Libyan Ci …

Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean

RRP: £16.99

Rin Tin Tin was born on a battlefield in France towards the end of WW1. He died in 1932, supposedly in the arms of Jean Harlow, the original ‘blonde bombshell’, epic in death as he was in life. In his …

A Higher Call

Adam Makos

RRP: £12.99

This instant Sunday Times bestseller tells the story of two fighter pilots whose remarkable encounter during World War II became the stuff of legend.Five days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged Am …

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