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Genre: Biography & Memoir

The Boy Who Wouldn't Die

David Nyuol Vincent

RRP: £9.99

David Nyuol Vincent was a little boy when he fled southern Sudan with his father, as war raged in their country. He left behind his distraught mother and sisters, his village and his childhood. For mo …

The Baby Boom

P. J. O'Rourke

RRP: £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 Hampe

In 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 Koff

RRP: £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, …

Empty Mansions

Paul Clark Newell Jr

RRP: £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 Balfour

RRP: £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. Wilson

RRP: £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 Cojean

RRP: £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 Deveson

RRP: £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 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 …

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 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 …

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