My Crazy Century
Ivan KlímaRRP: £16.99
Spanning six decades that included war, totalitarianism, censorship, and the fight for democracy, My Crazy Century reflects on Ivan Klíma’s remarkable life while also looking at this critical period o …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
The Baby Boom
P. J. O'RourkeRRP: £9.99
A hilarious look at the aging baby boomer generation from the author the Spectator labelled ‘what happens when America does Grumpy Old Men’.The Baby Boom – over-sized, overwrought, overbearing, and al …
Four Meditations on Happiness
Michael HampeIn this original and thought-provoking book philosopher Michael Hampe sets out to help us understand happiness. The right and proper path to a happy life is a topic that has been debated for millennia …
The Bone Woman
Clea KoffRRP: £20.00
In the Spring of 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since the Second World War to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist, …
Knowing Mandela
John CarlinRRP: £14.99
As Nelson Mandela was released from prison and the ensuing years saw the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid regime, John Carlin (‘one of the great post-apartheid chroniclers’ Financial Times) was th …
Empty Mansions
Paul Clark Newell JrRRP: £20.00
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 SPEARS BOOK AWARDS – FAMILY HISTORY CATEGORYEmpty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of nineteenth-century America with a twenty …
Pretty Girl In Crimson Rose
Sandy BalfourRRP: £10.99
A little gem of a memoir… The book adds up to more than a sum of its parts and lingers in the memory long after the final page. — Sunday TelegraphHalf a million people a day do it in the Telegraph. …
Tolstoy
A. N. WilsonRRP: £35.00
A. N. Wilson’s Tolstoy is a highly intelligent and accessible biography of the most famous writer in the Russian canon.In this biography of Count Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy, A.N. Wilson narrates the comp …
Gaddafi's Harem
Annick CojeanRRP: £12.99
Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making the following week. Thi …
Waging Peace
Anne DevesonRRP: £12.99
Looking back on a long and active life, Anne Deveson draws on a rich vein of public and private experiences to reflect on what made her the bold social commentator she became. Central among her lifelo …
Arthur Boyd
Darleen BungeyRRP: £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 GrowdenRRP: £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 GermainRRP: £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 BalfourRRP: £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 LouvRRP: £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 ArmstrongRRP: £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 …
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