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A Higher Call

Adam Makos

RRP: £12.99

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

A Smile For My Parents

Heather Henderson

Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. Father and daughter were very close, and in 2011 Heather edit …

My Crazy Century

Ivan Klíma

RRP: £16.99

More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

My Crazy Century

Ivan Klíma

RRP: £16.99

More than a memoir, My Crazy Century explores the ways in which the epoch and its dominating totalitarian ideologies impacted the lives, character, and morality of Klíma’s generation. Klíma’s story be …

Lawrence in Arabia

Scott Anderson

RRP: £16.99

The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller 2014New York Times top ten bestseller 2014Amazon.com’s Top Ten History Books of the Year 2014New York Times Book of the Year 2014The Arab Revolt against the Turks i …

The Baby Farmers

Annie Cossins

RRP: £12.99

‘The book’s power stems from its devastating details; Cossins establishes a tone so vivid it’s reminiscent of Dickens.’ Publishers Weekly starred reviewIn October 1892, a one-month-old baby boy was fo …

Cataract City

Craig Davidson

RRP: £12.99

Cataract City, a dead-end border town overlooking Niagara Falls. Owen Stuckey and Duncan Diggs are fast friends as kids – united by wrestling, go-karts, and metal bands – but as they grow into young m …

Running to Extremes

Lisa Tamati

RRP: £8.99

Lisa Tamati gets asked one question more than any other: ‘Why do you do it?’ In Running to Extremes, she attempts to answer that question and many more about ultramarathon running.In the past few year …

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, …

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 …

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