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Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey

Alberto Manguel

RRP: £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 …

The First Muslim

Lesley Hazleton

RRP: £12.99

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited – and remade.Muhammad’s was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his nam …

Tiny Beautiful Things

Cheryl Strayed

RRP: £9.99

Rich with humour, insight, compassion – and absolute honesty – Tiny Beautiful Things is a balm for everything life throws our way, administered by the author of the New York Times-bestselling memoir, …

Deception

Charles Miranda

RRP: £9.99

He was a ‘crooked hat’, a bent copper, and he was working with a notorious Dutch crime cartel to flood Australia with millions of dollars’ worth of drugs. To those who knew him, Mark Standen was a sta …

Marx's Das Kapital

Francis Wheen

RRP: £7.99

‘The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point is to change it,’ wrote Karl Marx in 1845. This is the essence of Das Kapital, a blazing expose of the new capitalist worl …

Uncommon Soldier

Chris Masters

In this new book from Australia’s foremost investigative journalist, Chris Masters turns his attention to the modern Australian soldier. Moving away from the ongoing fascination with the Anzac story, …

If Wishes Were Horses

Susanna Forrest

RRP: £20.00

Susanna Forrest grew up in the 1980s near Norwich and, like many a girl, she yearned for a pony. She never did get one of her own, but this didn’t stop her becoming obsessed with all things equine.If …

Life After Death

Damien Echols

RRP: £20.00

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 CWA NON-FICTION DAGGERAn instant New York Times bestseller, Life After Death is an agonizing first-hand account of an innocent man living on Death Row. It is destined to be an …

Listening to Country

Ros Moriarty

RRP: £9.99

‘This big land, Australia. It’s big enough for everyone!’ calls Annie Karrakayn across the pre-dawn campfire to the other Law women stirring from the perfect quiet of a still, desert night. ‘Strong Dr …

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make

Mark Connelly

RRP: £8.99

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make is a wedding survival guide written by a man for other men. There are no references to ‘your special day’ and no floral motifs-this book offers sensible and realisti …

The Last Decision You'll Ever Make

Mark Connelly

RRP: £8.99

The Last Decision You’ll Ever Make is a wedding survival guide written by a man for other men. There are no references to ‘your special day’ and no floral motifs-this book offers sensible and realisti …

Long Live Hitch

Christopher Hitchens

Three of the most provocative and thought-provoking works of the great Christopher Hitchens, now available in one volume.*EBook Only Offer*

Keep Your Head Down

Nathan Mullins

RRP: £10.99

Nathan Mullins deployed to Afghanistan as a Special Forces Commando. Spearheading Australia’s Special Operations troops, he and other Australians like him sought the Taliban in the valleys and hills o …

Soffritto

Lucio Galletto

RRP: £8.99

Every Italian cook has a soffritto – the ‘starter kit’ of olive oil, garlic and herbs from which a great dish is built. Lucio Galletto was in search of the soffritto of his life.He’d grown up between …

The Aquariums of Pyongyang

Kang Chol-Hwan

RRP: £10.99

‘I beseech you to read this account’ – Christopher HitchensA magnificent, harrowing testimony to the voiceless victims of North Korea.Kang Chol-Hwan is the first survivor of a North Korean concentrati …

Untouchable

Randall Sullivan

RRP: £14.99

Drawing on never-before-seen material, this definitive biography exposes the true extent of the Jackson family’s dysfunctionality — evidence of which is still in the public eye as they dispute the st …

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