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The Garments of Court and Palace

Philip Bobbitt

RRP: £20.00

The Prince, a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli, is widely regarded as the most important exploration of politics – and in particular the p …

The Good Nurse

Charles Graeber

RRP: £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 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 …

Every Parent's Nightmare

Belinda Hawkins

RRP: £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 Barnes

RRP: £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 Burden

RRP: £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 Huffman

RRP: £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 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 …

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, …

Full Service

Lionel Friedberg

RRP: £12.99

Full Service is the ultimate guilty pleasure, revealing for the first time the shadow lives of the people who created popular culture, told by the man who was so central to fulfilling their desires.Sc …

If Wishes Were Horses

Susanna Forrest

RRP: £26.00

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 …

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