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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 …

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 …

The Twelve Caesars

Matthew Dennison

RRP: £12.99

One of them was a military genius; one murdered his mother and fiddled while Rome burned. Six of their number were assassinated, two committed suicide, and five of them were elevated to the status of …

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: £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 …

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 …

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