Jack Fingleton
Greg GrowdenA life marked by a feud with Australia’s greatest batsman, bravery in the face of Bodyline and relationships in the corridors of Parliament.Jack Fingleton was a formidable Australian opener during the …
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Rimbaud
Edmund WhiteRRP: £14.99
Poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) died young but his extraordinary poetry continues to influence and inspire – fans include Dylan, Jim Morrison, Patti Smith. His long poem Un Saison en Enfer …
The Dancer from Khiva
BibishIn a narrative that flows like a late-night confession, Bibish recounts her story… Born into an impoverished family in a deeply religious village, Bibish was named ‘Hadjarbibi’ in honour of her gran …
The File
Timothy Garton AshRRP: £12.99
In 1978 Timothy Garton Ash went to live in Berlin to see what that divided city could teach him about tyranny and freedom. Fifteen years later, by then internationally famous for his reportage of the …
Confessions of a Mullah Warrior
Masood FarivarMasood Farivar was ten years old when his childhood in a then peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan was shattered by the Soviet invasion of 1979. Fleeing across the border to Pakistan, Masood entered a …
Too Many Mothers
Roberta TaylorRRP: £7.99
‘I was born in a sideboard.’ So begins Roberta Taylor’s bittersweet memoir of her early years, a book that proves beyond doubt that real life is stranger than any soap opera.It’s Boxing Day, 1956 in E …
A Fighter's Heart
Sam SheridanRRP: £8.99
After a series of adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, cash-rich and with time on his hands to spend it. It occurred to him that he could finally explore a long- …
One of a Kind
Ashley MallettRRP: £12.99
From the moment he first stepped onto a test pitch, cricket fans around the world were dazzled by Doug Walters’ red-blooded strokes, his immaculate timing and his great enjoyment of the game. But they …
The View from Here
Joan BakewellRRP: £8.99
Built loosely on her much-loved Guardian column – Just 70The View from Here is Bakewell’s discerning and heartwarming account of life at 70 and beyond. A household name and a popular radio and TV broa …
Inside Steve’s Brain
Leander KahneyRRP: £9.99
It is hard to believe that the same man revolutionized computers in the 1970s and ’80s (with the Apple II and the Mac), animated movies in the 1990s (with Pixar), and put digital music on the map in t …
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John Stuart Mill
Richard ReevesRRP: £30.00
A young activist and highly-educated Cambridge Union debater, Mill would become in time the highest-ranked English thinker of the nineteenth century, the author of the landmark essay On Liberty and on …
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Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey
Alberto ManguelRRP: £8.99
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 …
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City of Laughter
Vic GatrellRRP: £19.99
Between 1770 and 1830, London was the world’s largest and richest city, the centre of hectic social ferment and of spectacular sexual liberation. It prompted revolutionary modes of thought, novel sens …
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Clever Girl
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
Brian Thompson groped his way to being a grown up. He excelled at school and met a girl – the girl of the title – who recognised his ambition to escape the miserable lives his parents had made for eac …
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44 Things
Kirsty GunnA distinguished literary novelist celebrates marriage, friendship and motherhood in this rich and breathtakingly intimate treasury of stories, essays, poems and letters.In 44 Things, Kirsty Gunn celeb …
Keeping Mum
Brian ThompsonRRP: £7.99
‘The prefect antidote to the ‘misery memior’.’ — The Judges, Costa Book Award 2006 for BiographyMum and Dad – Squibs and Bert – were a complete mystery to Brian Thompson, as he grew up in Cambridge a …
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