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 …
Genre: Biography & Memoir
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 …
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 …
The Good Nurse
Charles GraeberRRP: £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 HarringtonRRP: £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 BacharachRRP: £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 HawkinsRRP: £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 BarnesRRP: £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 BurdenRRP: £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 HuffmanRRP: £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 …
Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £17.99
The stories of the Trojan war and Helen of Troy, Patroclus and Achilles, the Sirens and the Cyclops are embedded in western culture, yet readers often fail to recognise that they were made famous by t …
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