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Where Men Win Glory

Jon Krakauer

RRP: £12.99

Pat Tillman was well-known to American sports fans: a chisel-jawed and talented young professional football star, he was on the brink of signing a million dollar contract when, in 2001, al-Qaeda launc …

Free Radical

Vince Cable

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Today Vincent Cable is best known as ‘the undisputed heavyweight champion of the credit crunch in Parliament’ (Robert Peston), revered for his prescience and authority on the world economic crisis. Bu …

A Stout Pair of Boots

Peter Stanley

RRP: £8.99

More and more Australians are visiting battlefields around the world, from Gallipoli and France to Vietnam. But what do you do when you get there? This essential guide to the Australian battlefields t …

American Gangster

Mark Jacobson

RRP: £8.99

The untold story of Frank Lucas, New York’s most notorious drugs lord during the 1970s. Now a blockbuster movie, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe.In 1970s New …

Killing Pablo

Mark Bowden

RRP: £10.99

The bestselling blockbusting story of how American Special Forces hunted down and assassinated the head of the world’s biggest cocaine cartel. Now the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos.

Jack Fingleton

Greg Growden

A 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 …

Rimbaud

Edmund White

RRP: £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

Bibish

In 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 Ash

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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 Farivar

Masood 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 Taylor

RRP: £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 Sheridan

RRP: £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 Mallett

RRP: £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 Bakewell

RRP: £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 Kahney

RRP: £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 Reeves

RRP: £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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